Durango semi-weekly herald., 1906-05-28

j. p. Gardner of Slverton is a guest
at the Palace.
The American Carpet company COW
ers the trains going out as closely as
any newspaper in the city. The com
| pany sells many coats and frocks to
| the fair sex. on the installment plan,
and 1t keeps one man busy to keen
the girls from going away without
paying for these various and sundry
articles of raiment.
| j. w. Buckley who underwent an
heroic surgical operation al Ochsner
hospital n month ago. came down this !
morning for the first time and while
a little pale. looks pretty good. All
the doctor had to do was the carving:
Mrs. Buckley did the rest by being
ever present to see that he was all
right.
! W. |. Gilbreath of Aztec went out
this morning to spend few days
watching the winds shift the sands oi
the San Luis valley, and look after
other matters. He says the reason
w. A. Reese did not get fire built
in the Windsor MOTEL at Del Norte
last fall. was probably because he
did not ask for it; that the hotel al
ways has plenty of cedar aud pinion
wood.
| VIII Becker says he has made
considerable study of attitudes. tenn
perature, moisture and the various in.
gradients of what our predecessors
had chosen to term climate. and he
now figures that If the signs do not
fail. he viii be able. TO get to the
Jenny Lind mine about next fall. II
not sooner. For next years explura-
ton of Walls gulca he will employ
an airship
Dan Meuser who started out the
early part of the week with a burro,
to tour Europe in the interest of on
pressed humanity, got as far as Cha
ma, where some of the Mexicans stole
the animal and put MIN afoot In
order to reach Durango in a reason
able time and carry 200 pounds of
baggage he bought a ticket and came
back on the train. Dan says he new
er did believe much In travelling In
the spring, but in a moment of idle
thought was induced to tour Europe.
D
w. N. Babgy received a telegram
from Denver this morning stating
that Thomas Mason was very low and
asking for his son to leave at once
Mr.. and Mrs. Mason arrived in Den
yer few days ago from California.
He is not expected to live long and
it may be his son win not arrive In
Denver in time to see him alive
Many friends of Honest Tom" Ma
son will be panied to know the end
| Is SO near.
George II. Derby, the transformations
elderly gentleman who came from
Boston year os 50 ago to look aft
er investments which he and his
| friends have in the Little Chief prop.
erty in the La Plata district, went out
10 Denver tbs morniig for few days
Mr. Derby is very conservative
man he says he does not believe in
bonanzas until they are quite well
established through profit earning
| production.
| Joseph Courtet, the Hesperus mer-
chant and philosopher. who makes
keen study of affairs in that section.
was in yesterday evening. He says
he learned that carrying about 25 per
cent of the stock he carried few
years ago supplies the trade; he hauls
all the trade demands with his own
| team which has to be fed, anyway; ,,
| by moving a smaller stock and keep.
| ing 1t turning he is enabled to give
the people fresh new goods all the
time. He finds Durango good enough
a market to buy in.
w. s. McGinnis, mention of whose
arrival was made yesterday, his title /
being given as railway mail inspector, |
but whose real position is assistant
| superintendent of the Railway Mail
Service, returned from Pennington /
last evening and after visiting the To-
cal postofIlce push pulled out for Den
yer this morning. having concluded |
his Colorado business. Mr. McGinnis |
has been in the service for great
many years and is on the go most OF /,
the time as ne personally investigates
railway mail service and reports di-
rect to the head of the department.
| E. A. Hillman. wife and baby were
passengers yesterday evening for Sill !
verton. They had been down In
bleedln Kansas, the ginsang districts
of Arkansas and the tarantula lnfest ,
ed domain of Arizona. Ed. is one of
the old-time prints of Durango. hay
ing turned out" here. He was as
coy as maiden when he first enter
ed the printing business. but he went
out to drive a milk wagon on Light .
ner creek for q couple of weeks and /
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