Durango semi-weekly herald. (Durango, Colo.) 1899-1907, 1906-08-20

| 81 or 81 years. j. w. Fowler ant
George Patton drove in this mornins
and got casket, returning at once
Funeral arrangements cannot be an
nounced at this time.
There died In Massachusetts re
Gently a man who accumulated a for
tune of $30.0O0,000 from the manu-
facture and sale of revolvers. II
would be Interesting to know how
many of the people who bought the
100000 worth of weapons had any
business to carry them or benefited
society by reason OF their possession,
A. p. Frederlcks, postofiice inspect.
or, having wound up his business in
this neck OF the woods, departed this
morning on the eastern train to work
at Ignacio, Bayfield, and vallecito to-
day and thence along the line to Ala.
mosa.
L. ID. Burns, Jr.. Miss Margaret
Burns. Miss May Horen' and Miss
Margaret Tuohy. who have been Wis
iting the past several days between
Trimble Springs and Durango. depart
ed this morning for Chama, where
they will take an outing.
Barney Cornelius and father were
in over night from their sheep camp
near the head of the Hermosa. They
are on the forest range and pay the
government a nickel head for all
sheep they have. They report the
range excellent, plenty of grass and
plenty of room. One of the herders
freed a bear the other day that was
trying to catch sheep. They say
the Heather brothers, their nearest
neighbors on the range, have lost a
few sheep from the depredations of
bears and one of the herders tackled
up bear skin the other day.
Sawmill No. of w. II. Endner,
north of Mancos and four miles from
the railroad. was destroyed by fire
yesterday, the loss being about So
900. No lumber was destroyed. Mr..
Endner, who is in town today says
he does not know how the fire caught.
The wind was blowing and it was
smoky around the mill all day, and
all at once before anybody knew 1t,
the fire broke ont. There was no in
surance. 1t Is understood that Mr..
Endner will replace the mill at once.
his trip here being for the purpose of
getting machinery.
Elmer Hatcher, sheriff of Archu-
leta county, came in last evening to
get orla Weir, the prisoner whom La
Plata county has been keeping the
past few months, and left with him
this morning for Pagosa Springs. He
had been brought here for safe keep.
ing. Court commences Monday,
when the young mans trial comes
up. Weir is accused of numbering
his uncle for his money Two other
criminal cases come up at this
term-one is against d. L. Egger, for
mer clerk of the district court, charg-
ed with defaulting. The other is
against Chris Laurenson, charged
with attempting to kill his step SON
in-law, named Cooper He took
few shots at him, but the target still
lives.
Sheriff Elmer Hatcher Of Pagosa
Springs noticed a number of pictures
OF his town stuck up in hotels and
other places in Durango and said that
while they all looked good, the next
ones taken, after the new hotel was
finished, would look a great deal bet
ter. Speaking of rain. he said 1t com
menced raining over there the 9TH of
August and rained every day since.
He had never seen 80 much rain. He
did not take any stock in the theory,
however. that the seasons were
changing and that in a few more
years no irrigating in this country
would have to be done. He recalled
that several years ago 1t rained
great deal for several seasons and
then the rivers almost went dry In
1890, 81 and '92. He has the stu
ton sized up about this way: 1t
rains when it rains and it is dry
when 1t is dry; you can tell all about
1t after 1t has been, but you can't tell
anything about it before it happens.
DR.. X. c. sAPERo,
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