Durango semi-weekly herald., 1906-03-05

Nathan's.
Crossett shoes make life's walk
easy at Nathans.
From Fridays Daily.
Fred Eustis is laid out with n
sprained back.
The March term docket of the La
Plata county court will be called next
Monday morning.
Durango shipments to Allison are
growing In Importance. Yesterday
one big rar was filled with food. hay
and implements to use on the ranch
marked Allison"
Editor Wright of the Banner, as
an officer of the Colorado Society for
protection of Animals and Children,
is advertising in his paper today for
somebody to give boy a home.
Operations in Burnt Timber gulch
which have continued through the
winter months viii be considerably
enlarged in the near future. as there
Will be one If not two shippers there.
The construction of the Gina
branch of railway from the Southern
TO the May Day mine will begin as
quickly as the frost is ont Of the
ground and be rusned TO completion
Thomas II. Wigglesworth. the veter.
an pathfinder for western railways.
returned yesterday evening from
tour of the southern country, Califor-
MIA and the peninsula and Old Mex
leo.
Max Copeland is reported TO he i'm
proving with an abundance of sleep
n blessing he could not enjoy In Cali
fornia, country that people madly
rush to every fall--to follow a fad
or fancy.
Johnnie Farrell appears in recent
transfers for two nice lunches OF
money for timber on his lands, re
sDectiyely $1,000 and sl,5O0. Good
timber is nice asset at present. and
Johnnie and Curly Mcbride nave the
goods in large quantities.
Harry Jackson and daughter Mar
suerite returned last night from a
trip to eastern cities, where Mr.. Jack
son was buying stock for the trade
They took in the national capital
while absent. Mr.. Jackson says
things look bright for the West
which is attracting attention all
through the East.
If half of his dying statement is
true New Mexico committed a legal
murder few days ago in hanging an
old soldier for defending his life
against the attack Of couple OF fel-
lows who should have been in jail
to keep from getting killed. There
nave been too many Americans In
New Mexico who have found 1t ex.
pedient to stand in with almost any.
thing to hold political touch, and II
any of them figured in hanging an in
nocent man they should be driven
down to the Yaqui reservation.
Durango will raise the $4,000 for
a Y, NJ. c. A. building Ia a galiop, as
soon as the work starts out right, for
Durango is just ready to double her
population If she can get enough new
buildings TO house as many more. Du.
range is going TO be the greatest west
ern town ever before next Christmas
Lands and lots galore will be sold and
resold. and there will be new busi-
ness and residence structures for .peo-
pie are coming with the money to put
into things that will pay Plenty OF
fourroom houses and bigger: all
sizes to suit the desire or expedient
o.
An elderly lady was in the court
house at 3 O'Clock this afternoon,
hunting the proper officer to interview
her daughters husband. who had re
fused to support her and three cnil.
dren. saying the mother would have
TO support them. The mother said
1t was difficult for her to support her
self and that If there was ans law to
make ner son-in-law take care of his
wife and children she wanted 1t
brought into requisition. There ap.
pears to be a sort of non-support cpl
demic fastening its tentacles onto
Durango.
Thomas Dunno, aged 33 years, a
cousin of Tom and Jack Mccormick