Durango semi-weekly herald., 1906-01-25

| as a blacksmith, shoeius horses on
the Pennington stage line, Wright Is
the inquirevs father. VINO knows
anything about hm?
Joe Andrias, who was sexton for
Greenmount cemetery for six years,
announces that ne alone dug d6G-od,.
graves during that time in that burial
plot and the one east of Animas CITY
He reckons that this is not half the
total number for the time, and csti-
mates that 200 bodies have been
shipped away during that time This
makes the death rate In Durango only
about 200 per annum for nearly 1000
people; rather small compared to that
of other cities of like population.
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Christian Hansen. who has had mar
ital infelicities, has recently been try
ing to get his two sons. Willie and
Johnnie. TO desist from playing in pool
rooms. and yesterday he went To one
OF the houses and told the proprietor
not 10 allow them to play pool. when
The proprietor told him that the boys
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Ing them permission shown the or
der MIR. Hansen said IT was forgery.
uttered by the Oldest boy. Willie. Mr..
Hansen says he viii see what the law
can do to prevent the boys from play.
ing in the pool rooms.
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Commissioner OF Watcr Works Ed
Schnlles returned Monday evening
from a tour of inspection of the Flor
ida water system. having gone out 27
miles. He says he made the trip
for precautlon investigation, to learn
If the Florida was being in any man.
ner polluted and says there is not a
sick person above the headgutc lie
| investigated the various promises of
the people living above and found that
none of them were polluting the water
used by Durango.
Commissioners Logan. Thompson
and Charlton are trying to get through
with the business OF the present ses.
sion this afternoon.
They sold another piece of property
for taxes today; the old Puett resi-
dence property on the North side. to
Chas. Il. stil@ell, for $500. enough
TO cover the back taxes. There are
three unprobated claims by heirs to
the property,
Acting under advice of Attorney Blu
chanan the board passed a resolution
restricting the number of deputy sher-
IFS of La Plata county to fifty, unless
otherwise ordered at any time by the
board.
| An inspection of the rooms of the
court house structure was under way
this afternoon, with view of plan
ming for repainting and repaperlng
and making number of interior al
teratlons for better convenience.
| The commissioners said they had
made road levy OF three mills. which
VIII give them. about $4,000 for the
3ear for road work.
| The Silverton branch of the Rio
irande viii probably remain closed
~ slide blockndes for ten days yet,
,r until the first days of February
g. w. Deuel., roadmaster of that divi-
sion. was In the city this morning
md returned tnis afternoon with o
work train 10 20 to Elk Park He
,ays there IL six miles of slide be
tween Elk Park and Silverton; that
me of the features of a continued
mass of snow which has come down
n slides Is $50 feet long and rs feet
leep.
They now have 1870 men at work to
shovel and open the road, and this af-
ternoon about forty more viii be add
ed. With all these men ana every fa-
cility possible to avail, II Is calculated
that they will do well to get train
through the canon within ten days.
Mr.. Deuel. says he does not think
there Is more than one hundred yards
along the canon anywhere between
Elk Park and silverton which is not
covered with slides.
Silverton was shy on coal when the
blockade begun. the light plant rnere
being almost ont, and IT Is likely that
half the city as well as most of the
mines Will suffer from a coal famine.
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After a four-days blockade at OsIer
and Cumbres the eastern train arriv.
ed In Durango at 1920 this morning.
carrying a crowd of passengers and
our-days' mail. The trainmen who
came through. leaving Alamosa at
2;45 yesterda yafternoon. say they ex-
perienced no difficulty In crossing the
range. which they reached at 6 O'Clock
Yesterday evening Their only delay
was in waiting for the outgoing train
rom Durango. which they waited for
FIRST at Osier and later at Cumbres
losing an hour and half. They fl
nally met the train at Crcsco. -four
miles west OF Cumbres. The wind was
not blowing yesterday evening on the
range. so the crew is not anticipating
my trouble from drifts today. The
eastern left on time and 1t ls expect
ed will reach Alamosa close to sched
Ile time. The deepest cuts through
snow In the open are from ten tc
, twelve feet deep, on the range. Should