Durango semi-weekly herald., 1907-01-28

Mr.. Cooke may retire from the wool
and hide business.
Durango will now have three big
cold storage plants, all making ice.
J. w. Rice proved up in the Durango
land ofiice today on one of the best
160-acre tracts In the Allison section.
Attorney Barney O'Driscoll OF Sill
verton Ia visiting his son, Thomas F.,
and family for few days, waiting
for the Silverton weather to get strung
out right.
A man named Van Barklin died
at Mercy hospital this morning. He
is a stranger who had been sick but
few days. Nothing is known of his
relatives.
The Patterson papers are creating q
more popular sentiment in favor of
the election of Mr.. Guggenheim to the
senate. all over the state. They have
long been the guide boards of reversal
in shaping public opinion.
Eva Pierce Finch, in the Silverton
Miner, doles out few ungloved facts
to parents about the responsibility for
the waywardness of the 'chics." She
might KEEP telling them while she
lives without hope of much change.
1t is probable that Durango will get
this year a modern office building OF
four to five stories with elevator and
Independent II not city sewage. lights,
heat and ventilation. 1t is the big
investment of today.
Jeff T1bbetts who was buried yes
terday afternoon at Durango is a
OF Otis and Walter and Mrs, Al Newn-
ham. Mr.. Tlbbetts died at the Nc
Kinley home in Cortez where he had
been sick for some time.
The Kempton Komedy Kompany
will open Monday evening at Red Men
hall with strong company of artists
in comedy and tragedy. Twenty-Five
years on the road, the Kemptons, have
learned the avenues of success in the
theatrical business, learned how to
win the show going people.
Tickets for the first performance OF
the Kempton Komedy Ko. will be or
sale Monday morning at Parsons drug
store, and every day during the week.
The new drop curtain just finished by
George Goodman for the Red Men
hall is beauty and may be seen for
the first time next Monday evening.
Nicholas Jehu, foreman of the Ham
let gold mine, near the Old Hundred
came down this morning and will 60
to Denver tomorrow for a little rest
He has been on the Hamlet for eigh-
teen months without coming down the
hill. The Hamlet gold quartz, which
Is very rich, is contemporaneous with
that of the Esmeralda in Minnie gulch
and while the veins do not have the
same course they have to be con
poropaoua in tho traud
Early this morning another snow
fall began In Durango and just after
daylight 1t was going good; at the
depot when the eastern train left peo
pie were lodging blizzard shafts and
those going were glad to get into the
cars. But the sun had been perturbed
more or less for a month or so and
told Mr. Storm to cut 1t out and at 10
o'clock we had resumed the Italian
zephyr. and people like Cal Copeland
who are always kicking. relapsed into
innocuous desuetude.
The sale OF the New Williams
block yesterday evening. through the
Local Security company, to H. T. Hen
derson and Thomas L. Lotus is one
of the most important deals consum-
mated In the city for sometime, and
is practically suggestive of the value
of some of the best paying property.
The price paid yesterday was $3s,00O
and 1t is said the property has been
earning per cent net on this valua-
ton. The property has seventy-five
feet front on Main avenue, three 25'
foot store rooms below and offices
above. In the postoffice block, 1t has
been a desirable corner rent Garner.