Durango semi-weekly herald., 1906-05-24

OF the most modern industrial or econ.
omlc institutions In the West The
wiring bunch this afternoon were
singing In the Good Old Summer
Time" between turns In twisting
wires.
c. h. Place who has been looking
after lands on the New Mexico fruit
belt went out this morning to Kansas
City, where he resides.
Mrs. Gus Jones of Pennington who
was operated on at Ochsner hospital
| last Saturday for some irregularity
of the liver is reported as getting
along all right.
II Is said j. w. Buckley who was
operated on at Ochsner hospital re-
Gently for n complication of troubles
s getting SO well now that he com.
plains that they are starving him.
Jack Travers was relating this
| morning how he made the last steam.
boat trip down the Animas. He said
| Hughey Owens was at the pilot; tn,
| river was turbulent and the waves
threatening; she struck a huge boul
der now and anon, until he told
| Hnghey TO heave to shore across from
the slaughter house, and then the
| or alsxAI 4
| get his feet wet, but he said he would
like to know what became OF Hughey
| Then Charlie Bowman came along
| and told Jack to go out to the NIL,
and make some calculations on low
much lumber a given number of logs
would make
NJ Kennedy, the Animas City mer-
chant, is always interesting. He said
| this morning: What do you expect
would be going on In Animas City In
the day time when all our people
come down here to work and help to
run Durango and Its Institutions, and
then come back home to pay tax.
| The people of Durango ought to re
| ciprocate little more and come out
to see MS and take a boat ride, or set
in front of my store in the evening
and help the boys to whittle up the
chairs"
Charlie Dramer. who has been but
semi-conscious for several days, ap-
pcared in possession OF mis- faculties
this morning again, and inquired
about several of his friends. OF one
he said poor fellow" of another
The must be busy" and to mis- part
rer of quarter OF century he then
said, relapsing, What did you do
with the fish; left them In the
spring" Being assured that the fish
were all right ne was quiet again
| His life has been one of the condi.
items that men have fled from, and ae
has been willing for several days, but
he could find no other means than
the time he must give to both pnysi
cal and mental pain. His friends
could not help him.
Surveyor Burwell brings an inter
estlng story which he heard on Pine
river. Two different owners of cows
having COW each with calf, lived
there last winter. when one OF the
owners calves died. Discovering this
he hastened TO take the dead calf to
the place OF abode OF his neighbor' 4
COW and calf where ne traded the
dead calf for the live one. The COW
that lost her calf readily made
friends with the substitute and nour.
ished It. All went well, the cheated
COW owner imagining that he had lost
mis- calf by death. until third party
who knew something OF the occur.
renee felt that he had kept the secret
long enough. when he informed the
calf loser OF the detail 1t is now up
to him.
Water was reported yesterday IN
the Animas valley above Animas City
: by railway employees. as being within
5 nine inches Of the tracks OF the Ric
Grande. J. J. Mccormick. road over
: seer of the Durango district, said yes
r terdny evening six-incli rise in this
! river now would mean more than Z
foot under ordinary conditions; ex
planning that the river has carried
nigh flow for so long that the All
I sorbcnt banks and grounds near have
e been thoroughly soaked. no that I'll.
channel must carry added volume
.
e Animas City. on tae big rock. Shove,