Durango semi-weekly herald., 1906-01-22
she. too. will bid for everybody to
come To school,

she. too. will bid for everybody TO
come to school.
Ten or fifteen people waited last
night about the depot to get out east
on an extra train which 1t was intend
ed to send out II the Silverton train
backed in from the snowslides. but
they finally had to give 1t up and re-
train from the canon.
Hilma Skirfrars. who started OIL,
Thursday evening to accept posi-
tion as menial at Silverton. was among
the snowbound passengers between
the slides at Elk Park. and she made
hit with the passengers. They TOOK
their meals at the Elk Park station
house. which, fortunately, had been
well provided with food. Hilma went
in and helped the ladies' wash the
dishes and take care OF the table and
the snowbound crew Jared as well as
II they had been at the Brown Palace
in Denver, Hilma comes from Del
Norte.
The Shiprock buildings will be mod
ern in structure. to the last detail
The radiators which are to warm the
buildings were shipped from Durango
yesterday. The thought of such an
enterprise by the government 2S years
AGO would have boon scnHad. tho Nav
ajoes and Utes we're then visiting each
other, the former stealing as they
went, going and coming, and the Utes
l were raising the devil all the time.
4 Some of the cowboys helped to keep 1t
stirring. In the last quarter OF cen
| tury no other country could have been
| more completely transformed than
| Juan rivers. Twenty-eight years ago
! there We're about thirty white faces
\ in the entire area.
A tall Mexican, looking more like a
Castiliun, probably six feet four inch
I rs. weighing about 80 pounds. was
/ coughing at the depot this morning
md lighting cigarette. His cough
was faint and his face pallid. As he
opened five-cent package of Dukes
Mixture he said: This Is destined
10 rule the world; It has ruled me
for 10, these many years Its infiu.
ences on the mind and body are SO
powerful as to hold the habitue In a
vise-like grip. One little sack of this
/ will produce innumerable suicides and
crimes. |, myself, have raided as
high as five chicken coops while smok.
ing one of these packages. and on one
occasion, driven by desperation.
stole my neighbor's dog"
O.
The Gfrard family at Animas City
| Is still under quarantine for diphtheria
but is reported to be recovering, only
one OF the children having died. A
member OF the Animas council says
\ the county has furnished flour. pota
l toes, bacon and baking powders and
that the local council with outside
/ help has tried to find such other foot
4 as sick people desire. Animas Cit,
is congratulating itself that the stu
alton is no worse, and gives its counci
much credit for having taken heroic
measures In restricting II when 4
did, by closing the schools and taking
rigid measures to secure proper treat
ment Of the cases they had.
| Anton Chiglirione and wife depart
ed this morning for Trinidad to 10
cate, where he viii secure work II
1.-THE coal fields. He says he can ge
yteadier work there and that there II
no danger of being displaced by cheap
err Labor, as that method has beei
tried there and failed. He says hi
| has worked In California and is ia
miliar with the customs OF the South
ern Pacific, which he predicts will EN-
DEoy Japanese labor In the coal mine
purchased at Durango. He predicte
| that when the big railway compan
gets to work for production 1t vii
ha we from 500 to 1000 Japs employe
in the Durango fields. He says
TT inidad better living quarters ar
pr, ,vided for the coal miners than
the Durango fields and that those hay
Ing families fnd 1t more deslrabl
there for that reason.
| H. A Masters, who departed I'M
morning FOR Rocky Ford. is an obser'
ing man. who studies at least the col
dit'ions That affect him. He lives O
Rocky F,UnI when he can, but hnds
ne cessary 10 go into the mountain
TO earn enough wages to have an
money during the year. Mr.. Master
says it costs as much to buy groce
les in Rocky Ford as in Silyerton
Animas Ft,rkH. or the same anywher
in the state; oranges are cheaper
c alifornia than AT Rocky Ford, an
canteIoupes are rtseaper In the latt'
place than at the Pacific He says
II find the people complaining hei
about wages, but II they will 30
Rocky Ford or to the east part OF u
state, or down in Kansas. they VI
find wages from One-rbird TO Nv
thirds lower than in tive. mo'nta
countries. come to the mountain
every year. where I can SAKE I'LL