Durango semi-weekly herald., 1907-06-03

Denver this morning. where she will
visit relatives for couple of weeks
before returning TO her California
home.
The general opinion is that the
heavy frost last night means the
breaking of the wet weather season
and that pleasant weather is in store
for this section. The only way to
find out Is to wait and see what the
weather clerk hands out
Steve Elliins came in yesterday
from a successful bear hunt with DR..
Cochem of Salida and party of east
ern men in the mountains Of the Sa-
guache range. The hunt was fail
ure, not single being being flushed
Steve is spending the day in Durango.
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Deputy United States Marshal j.
II. Smith of Albuquerque, N. NJ. who
has been down in the Pennington
country several days serving sub
poenas on witnesses wanted in the
government land Investigation cases,
came up yesterday and left this morn.
ing for home.
Aztec camp. w. o. w, is moving
its furniture and fixtures today from
the building on second avenue to the
old Red Men hall on First avenue
The other organizations occupying the
old quarters with the Woodmen will
hereafter meet with them in the new
quarters.
The dance at Red Men hall this ev
enlng is going to be small affair ant
all fortunate enough to have an in
vltation should attend. The higl
school alumni never does anything b!
halves and the committee in charge
this year is bent on making the dance
this year the best of all.
The question arises: Can the gov
ernor set aside laws on the statute
book. The proclamation permitting
| fishing on the last two days of Ma.
brings this question to the front.
the governor can do so In this cas-,
why not the power to set aside an!
other law on the statute books?
County Superintendent Mrs. Pulfor,
has received notice that Mr.. Emo
Mills, lecturer for the United Statei
Forest Reserve association, will b'
In Durango some time this fall, exac
time not yet determined and will lee
| ture on Birds" Efforts are bein,
neighboring towns and giving all VIII,
wish an opportunity to hear him.
Weather bureau officials at Wash
ington do not give very encouraging
forecast. They say there is no i'm
meiate prospect of summer weathe
| anywhere. The people of the south
west think they are having tougl
weather, and while it is more sever
than usual it isn't n patching to tn
kind of weather in the staid an
sturdy eastern states. There ar
times when the weather bureau /
| away off on its forecast and this ma
be one of them.
b. r. Cunningham of the Western
Union line service came in from Der
yer last night and is fixing up tn
| clock Service recently knocked ont b.
the crossing with the light wires. II
says the line will be fixed so that
recurrence of the accident of the othe
night will he impossible. He is think
ing of insulating Edelman and Ii
fever so that live wires will have III
effect on them should they be attacke
by another hot circuit.
1t Is reported petitions will be pre-
sented to Judge Pike asking him t
issue an order enforcing the laws a
they appear on the statute book il
his district. Such petition, it 1
said. will be presented to Judge Shack
elford of Grand Junction, who pre-
sides over the district court of Sal
Miguel county. These men were elect
ed last fall and should such order
be issued would remove the last hop,
of gamblers as each has six years t,
serve while city and county admin
istrations change every two years.
Word had been received that tn,
$4,000 appropriation of the govern
ment for improvements at the For
Lewis Indian school, which for a tim,
1t was thought, would be diverted t,
other channels will soon be available
for purpose for which it was original
ly intended. The final settlement o
the question Is directly due to the
efforts of the Durango board of trade
This will be good news to those VIII,
wish to see the school improved ant
placed on n solid basis. The expendi
ture of that amount will mean in
creased capacity and better facilities
for making useful citizens of the un
tutored sons of the forest.
GENERAL NEWS.