Durango semi-weekly herald. (Durango, Colo.) 1899-1907, 1906-09-24

y. h SlltmAn, the North. Durang |
grocer, who lives In Animas City. lodt
60 chickens Thursday night by theft. |
Persons who have chickens world
well to take warning and secur
them against depreciation.
Mrs. John Grogan. In response tol
advices from Cripple Creek. left this
morning to be at the bedside of he
daughter, Mrs. l. D. Watson. who ID
critically i'll 1t Is hardly expecte
that Mrs .Grogan will arrive at Grip
pie Creek before death supervenes.
Mrs. D. F. Day has taken a leas
of the Hermosa house at Trimble
Springs, for Ave years, 1t is said, and
she and the Colonel went up Their
last evening. The premises will b
thoroughly renovated and put In fine
order for the reception of guests.
j. r. Smith left for Denver thi.
morning, there to remain until he be
gins to long to come back. There Is
strong attraction In Durango for
Mr.. Smith and he found 1t quite
wrench to leave, II observation
counts for anything.
s. r. Coon of the public schools at
Aztec and ]. 8. Thurston. also OF
Aztec, came up last evening to meet
friends and relatives from Missouri
who are to settle In the vicinity of
Aztec. They are F. M. Crow or Han
nibal, B. L. Coon and l.. j. Slavens
OF Hermitage
Telluride had q Are this morning.
The White House dance hail was de
$4,000. Fully insured. Business was
run by Sattiva & Perino and ;ne
building owned by Catherine Matter
Fire caught from defective fiue.
The body OF John Brosman, who
died of tuberculosis night before last
will be buried tomorrow afternoon
The funeral procession will leave the
Goodman undertaking rooms at 2
o'clock and go to the Methodist
church, where service will be held at
2:30. A sister in Chicago has been
communicated with.
There will be no special to Silver
ton for the ball game tomorrow. In
stead the regular morning train will
be held until 7:45 o'clock to take up
all who may wish to go. Returning
IL will leave Silverton at o'clock p
NJ. $500 for the round trip. This
will be the last ball excursion Of the
season.
The Colorado-New Mexico fair,
which begins on Wednesday next and
continues three days, win be one of
the best, II not the very best. eve
held. A stronger feature is to b
made of the agricultural and horticul
tural exhibits than has been done be
fore. and the nne stock show prom
ises to be revelation to those VIII
have entertained the idea that Their
IL no fine stock In this country.
James Pheney has resumed his run
on the Pennington branch after a
couple of weeks az examiner of train
and enginemen on board Of rule
Eddie Hurley is with him. Jas. Nc
Holland will take the run on the Sill.
yerton branch which will be put on
Monday next an extra crew havin.
been designated to relieve the crea
on the through train from Denver.
Durango won the ball game a
Pennington yesterday by a score of
10 to s. 1t was an interesting game
from start to finish, Durango starting
in with good stick work, getting in
four runs the first inning. Silverton
scored three Of their five runs in the
third. Harden was In the box for Du
ango and Schoneld for Silverton for
Silverton. The game Thursday.
which was won by Silverton by a
score OF 10 to 9. should have been
won easily by Durango. the Silver
ton boys admitting the game was
given to them by the umpire, who
was doing his best to deal fairly by
both sides Silverton has two new
men. Hamilton and Schoneid, two
professionals from the Pacific coast
league. Both are good batters and