Durango semi-weekly herald., 1906-06-11

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| Ordinance No 431, extending tn,
fire limit area was then read anc
adopted. 1t is understood that the
passage of this ordinance will legal
lie all the shacks that have been built
in violation of the fire ordinance.
| From Saturdays Daily
| William Mack OF Denver. travelling
agent for the Anheuser-Bnsch Brew
ing company, went through to Silver
ton last evening He viii return tc
Durango today.
Durango cannot be made too at
tractiye for the visiting members OF
the State Commercial Association
Clean streets and well kept lawns and
gardens will help
Dave Jones, night marshal at Sill
yerton, who has been visiting rela
ives on Lightner creek and meeting
old friends in Durango, returned 10
mis- nome yesterday evening
D.
Misses Mabel and Aimee Herman
nieces OF Mrs. |. Kruschke, came
down from Denver yesterday evening
to visit their aunt and uncle for
awhile, and they will be given good
time.
A. X. Stewart OF Pennington came
In yesterday TO meet mis- mother-in.
law, Mrs. John Frank and his brother
in-law. c. d. Barnes, who hail from
Northampton, Nd. The party is at
the Savoy.
Warm weather has considerably re-
duced the number of coal miners
which had been employed In the Du.
range coal fields, but the demand for
metal miners is little better, and
will improve.
Rev. o. B. Sarber is slated TO
preach for his old church In Chicago
next Sunday morning and will give
his Navajo" lecture there the 18th.
He thinks by that time he viii be
able to work little to replenish the
exchequer.
Miss Maud Sand came In from Lay
fayette, Ind, yesterday evening and
said she was going to Silverton to re.
side. Miss Sand is tall, 1.-THE and at.
tractive, and is wise in selecting one
OF the prettiest mountain towns in
the world as her place OF residence.
Miss Callie Benson who mas lived
for the past two years wiln her
grandmother. Mrs. Ray of North Du.
range, left this morning for Louis.
vile. KY, where she Will reside here.
after with her mother. The little
Miss leaves many warm friends in
Durango
Since Telluride mas abandoned the
Fourth of July celebration for this
year, the Journal suggests that the
home ball nine will get better support
and advises the boys to get out and
ask for help. Probably they can be
brought to Durango, with a hundred
or so OF their friends.
Miss Lila Folsom came in yester.
day evening from Eskridge, Kan,
where she had been attending college.
Her friend. Miss Dennison, came out
with her and will spend the summer
In Durango. Miss Folsom is ...e
younger daughter of DIR. w. II. e. Fol
som. and bright little lady.
O.
Since the hordes of investors, spec
ulators and sure-thing men who made
Cripple Greek lively find that camp
down to a strict business proposition
confined TO legitimate mining, with
little opportunity TO do anything with
less than $4,000 to start, the La Pla.
Ia district will have better chance
to reach the attention OF the investor
o.
Miss Annie NJ. Pickering of the
Park school, left this morning for a
well-earned vacation in the East. She
intends to spend most of ner time
with her mother at Princeton, KY.
but will find time to stop over al
Louisville and other places, where
she mas friends and will incidentally
run over to Frankfort to see them lay
the corner stone for the new state
house.
General Engley, attorney-general Of
Colorado under Populistic regime, aft
er spending few days among friends
of nearly 90 years acquaintance, re
turned TO his home in Cripple Creel
this morning. While here he recall
ed many Incidents Of the frontie
days at Animas City and Durango
and was SO daring as to say that tn,
Populist party while 1t lived had don,
some good, urging only, tnat It ha'
taught the voter a degree OF indie
pendence. He said nothing abou
Congressman Pence and Coxey's ar
my; both had been forgotten.