Durango semi-weekly herald., 1906-05-21

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the stream on board where the wa
ter was swift, and after he was seen
TO iail in the water his body has moi
been located. although every effort
has been made for recovery. Watches
nave been kept over the stream eve,
since. II is feared that the child he.
came lodged between rocks or in
brush under the deep and swift cur.
rent The mother was at home and
inc iatner working GU mine when
the accident occurred. Both became
PROSTATE. The father worked super.
hnman strength 10 find the body un.
III exhausted. The mother probably
VIII never rally from the shock and
the father may lose his mind
| NEW YORK. May 19-It develops
mere today that the Rothchild. RYAN
interests are buying out the Mormon
enterprises in Utah. they acquiring
the street railways and electric light
enterprises In salt Lake and Ogden
and putting up s30.O00,00D to the
Mormon church for payment.
| CLEVELAND, o.. May l9.-Mrs
Martha Tultle, private secretary to
'ohn ID, Rockefeller. is i'll with merry
'us prostration, supposedly due to The
strain caused by the efforts of the
Missouri authorities to subpoena her
employer.
BUFFALO, N, Y. May l9.-The
convention OF Amnlgamated Meat
cntters, Butchers and Workmen, re.
elected Michael Donnelly of Chicago
PRESIDENT and Homer Call of Syra.
;use, secretary.
BOSTON, MAY 19.-The conldep
.iai clerk, Thomas II. Blake of the
wealthy house of Hornbower &
Weeks, disappeared from his nome
lust as lie was about to be married
o his old schoolmate. Miss Bessie
rowle. On examination of Blake's
books 1t was found he was short In
his accounts Blake was indicted and
inally arrested under the name of
/. A. Richards, the name of the fair
diyorcee with whom ne had been
connected In his past life and who 1t
present escapade
TELLURIDE. MAY i9.-Nate Mat.
news popular student of the Tellu-
ride High school is dispaired of
with pneumonia. His father and
mother live at Rico. the father hav-
ing been prominent for years In his
association with mining affairs. Nate
|probably will not live through the
,iay. His mother is a daughter OF
Judge Evans who lived at Ames 20
years ago, having many mining in-
ierests. ,.,.i..s -,.:.,..I.ss
TELLURIDE May 19--There was
one double funeral here yesterday aft
ernoon besides that Of Colonel j. X.
Mccoy. the late mine manager. Two
Italians were buried from the Cath
lie church and a very large number
of their countrymen gathered with
brass band. During the sermon
Father Gallagher said that few OF
them ever came to church unless for
baptism or burial. and at the conclu-
sion of hiDseryices he declined to go
TO the cemetery with the body. The
Incident has caused a good deal of
feeling and there is much plain talk
about IT,
A meeting of the landowners OF
Bloomfield and adjacent country was
held Saturday last at 1870 o'clock for
the purpose OF organizing themselves
into a ditch company. The meeting
was called to order by Chairman C..
| Il. Spath. r. +. Dalton acted as sec
retary.
The feasibility of building the ditch
from an extension of the Jaquez ditch
was the first to be discussed. This
route having been surveyed and pro-
nounced practical and cheap by a
number of competent engineers, 1t
was decided to build the ditch.
| The new company was soon organ
| ized under the name Of the Citizens
Ditch company. Charles L. Spath
was elected president, 7. f. Dalton.
secretary and Fred w Townsend.
FIJI Green, Walker Mcclure, George
Salmon, G. II. Spain and w. A. Ep-
| person.
| Committees for business that de
manded immediate attention were
appointed and an assessment made tc
defray any immediate demand. This
amount was promptly paid 10 Treas
urer Townsend.
Nearly 5000 shares or sufficient wa
ter to irrigate 1900 acres of land
were taken. about 500 additiona
shares or acres being assured. The
people interested in this undertaking
are landowners under the proposed
ditch and are very enthusiastic ant
determined. They have been thor
oughly convinced that 1t is the cheap
est and most practical way of get
ting a ditcn. It Is not the lnteltlol
OF this company to interfere or in an.
way knock" any other legitimat
ditch enterprise. In fact. II Will b
: their policy to encourage the same.
The building OF the Citizens dltc
will be of great value to the Sa
Juan country. 1t will cover some c
F. the finest lands In San Juan count,