Durango semi-weekly herald., 1906-01-18

oA iuttiiiScHt tHoEt, bnpulu secure
hundreds of new settlers during tho
coming year who win engage in farm
ing aud stock raising.
All the railways doing business in
the Southwest will hcl, TO advertise
the country for tine asking and II is
not too early TO ask.
From Wednesdays Daily.
Mrs. Allen Moore daughter OF Mr..
and Mrs. John Grady Of tie Edelman.
came down from Rico yesterday to
visit her parents and sisters.
Dale Scboheld will he buried tomor-
row afternoon. Funeral services will
be conducted by the Eagles at the
parlors of the Durango Undertaking
company
Mrs. VIM. Butler and son OF Farm
| ington, wife and son of Editor But
Ter OF the Timcs-H Hustler, came up yes
terday evening to visit the city day
or two
Ed II. Menefee came In from Man
cos last night in response to tele-
gram that his wife Is sick at Denver,
| and continued on to the capital this
| morning
Mrs. NJ Zednker. the girl wife OF
Mr.. Zedaker, who Is engaged In coal
mining at Monero. came In last even
ing from Mancos and continued to
| Monero this morning.
Rasmus Hanson, the princely min
ing operator of the Silverton coun-
| try. who has made many big sales and
\ we trust viii make many more. came
down this morning 10 go to Pagosa
Junction on business connected with
his mining afraIrs.
Grant clifford IL down from Silver
ton to study the new conditions since
the lid is on. Grant has been famil-
lar with the old conditions and while
he has nothing else to do he will
| study the change. as he says he may
have n town some time himself and
he wants to- learn how to run II.
| %
Thos. NJ Snyder, wife and little
girl, who think they have lived long
enough in one place. came up from
| Aztec and continued on their journey
| this morning to Arkansas. where they
will locate near the town OF Hlggin-
| son, country where one may hunt
the raccoon, 'possum and rabbit, and
shoot the quail and prairie chicken.
| Mrs. e. G.. Stoiber, formerly OF the
great Silver Lake mines at Silverton,
who, with her husband. sold the big
property few years ago to make
home In Denver and another in
France. returned this morning from
Silverton, having procured special
train. bringing some of her friends
along. She goes TO Pagosa, where her
husband is enjoying the restorative
properties OF the world famed hot
springs.
Miss Kitty Porter. who had the mis-
fortune to lose her right arm In the
wreck on the Rio Grande few weeks
ago, Is regainlng her strength and
coming back to her usual happy com
posure, dividing her time between her
mothers home and that OF her sister,
| Mrs. F'leck. at the Inter-Ocean. A
portion of the arm below the elbow
is saved and Miss Kittie can wear An
artificial arm very gracefully; no. be-
ing pretty and amisble, her loss will
Il ms a nj try - har paf aftrr
attractiveness.
A dining room that seats $50 people
at one meal. with waiter for each
| table Of fourteen persons. or sixty
waters working at the FIRST table"
the second and third tables. sounds
like big institution, but there Is
such a place In California. the Ma
tional Soldiers home. west of Los
Angeles. and three miles from the
Pacific ocean beach. To this big din
ing room there are Ave entrances. and
Mt meal time there are at each en-
trance crowds waiting for the bell to
tap and the doors To open. This, too,
Is only the main dining room. There
are others about the grounds and In
the different apartments OF the hospi-
tai buildings In which there are gen
lerally from 500 to 400 patients. The
home has mammoth and electric
power and lighting plant All cook.
Ing is done by steam furnished from
the steam heating plant that warns
every building OH the grounds. They
have well organized fire department
and hose running through every build
ing. with innumerable fire extinguIsh-
ers. They have four large reservoirs
to furnish water for domestic use and
for 6res - 9th r purposes. they
have gsDd pressure. one OF the res
ervoirs being as much higher than the