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

Mrs. Perkins. mother of Clayton C
Perkins, arrived yesterday evenin,
from the east where she had beer
visiting several weeks.
Mrs. j. r. Jones OF Chicago, step
daughter of Mrs. F. l.. Chase, arriv
ed yesterday evening and will visit
with Mrs. Chase and Mrs. VIC Chap
man for an indefinite period
The Herald is pleased That Pagosa
Springs people have decided TO have
the meeting of the San Juan Pioneers
the day following that of the Ma
sonic gathering in June. as vide an
extract from a Pagosa paper in an.
other part OF this sheet Now let Du.
range run special train and with
Silverton at least 200 should be Sc
cured to take the trip. The last OF
June is a fine time to visit Pagosa
Springs and the good people of that
place will treat visitors right
Silverton commencement exercises
| for the graduating class will be held
| there on the evening of the 25th
| Edgar j. Dyson, former pupil in
the Durango schools. sends Mrs. Pu
ford an invitation. The class colors
are lavender and white; the class
flower. Columbine; class motto: RE
solved to Win
Field day was a rousing day for the
visiting Indian students from Fort
Lewis. In the track meet the High
school scored so and the Fort Lewis
students 32. In the ball game the In
dians won in score of 16 to L.
Failure to get the events early
enough Saturday afternoon for pub
licalion and lack of space today must
preclude the Herald going further into
the detail of the days sports.
Miss Mary Mitchell went ont to
Bayfield, this morning to visit friends,
saying that when excursion rates
were announced she would go to the
land of Dixie once more.
o.
Chris Sheedy came In Saturday
evening from Chico N. NJ, where he
has been handling trading place for
Dick Simpson for four months. He
is going into the hills for awhile to
prospect
Mrs. G. H. Stoiber was a passenger
returning from Silverton TO Denver
this morning. Mrs. Stoiber and
daughter are residing at Denver
where the latter Is In school. They
will go to Philadelphia this fall TO
remain for the winter
Max Peyer came in direct from
Germany last night and continued
on west this morning over tae South.
ern. Mr.. Peyer was not very com
| municative. but 1t may be inferred
| that he is German count, In close
touch with the emperor. Whether his
visit has any significance with reIa
ton to any of the industries of tnis
country. or relates to some state af
fair he would not say.
James Sategna went down to the
state line yesterday to look at n
ranch he supposed he had, the one
he bought from Dooley. He says
Dooley told MIN the people in this
country too awfully slow and
he has concluded that many of them
are too slow for Dooley. Dooley sold
Jim ranch that belonged to some
body else, and then wintered in Cali
| fornia. remaining there ever since.
| Elsewhere In these columns 1t will
be seen that three of the most promi
nent captains of industry and ad.
vancement in the Silverton distric,
complain of exaggerated reports sent
out from Silverton. and they appear
to be well founded In their criticism
Of published reports in the newspa
pers. The several sections of the
| Silverton district are opening to traf
fc two weeks earlier In spring than
usual
Rasmus Hansen was Silverton
passenger this morning to attend tnc
funeral of f. G. Stoiber who died sew
eral days ago in France, at Paris. and
who will be buried at Denver next
Wednesday, day after tomorrow. Had
Mr.. Stoiber been brought to the San
Juan for burial there could have been
5000 people who knew him, at hi;
funeral, as there are still that many
who knew him, and realize that hf
was the only man in America who
could meet and conquer the condi
tions presented in the fall of 1898
1t was then with the price of sivei
cut in two that he was handling
low grade proposition and neede.
100000 more to equip for handlinl
such ores; 1t was then he mad TO en-
large his concentrating mills an,
build aerial tramways, construct Ions
water lines for initial power for elec
tricity to reduce the need of coal
and he met all these things and cam,