Durango semi-weekly herald., 1907-01-28
From Thursdays Daily.

Durango has been kind to many.
among them Tom LOTUS. Trade a
silver dollar with Tom and you will
De lucky.
y
Elsewhere appears a dispatch an
nouncing the death of Russell Al.
ger. Old-timers will recall that his
brother was mixed in mining at On
ray several years ago.
Ihe attempt to oust Mayor McClel-
Ian of New York from office probably
VIII be renewed this week, and the
mayor will seek to have Attorney
General Jackson committed to jail
Miss Gertrude Higgins, who is
hello girl at Silverton. is visiting her
sister, Mrs. T. G. Edwards of Durango.
Might We ask Miss Gertrude If she.
too, always tells you the line is busy.
1t has remained for Missouri nsr-
chant to advertise collins and mo-
lasses, candles, axle grease and mil.
linery under one roof Were he
for alderman in Durango
he would go through
An automobile highway forty-fve
miles long will be constructed in
northern New Jersey and so arranged
that access to it will be impossible
except by way of gates. at which
keepers are stationed
James A. Laughren came up yester-
day from New Mexico to visit his
wife. Jim has been in the contracting
business for the government in con-
struction since leaving Durango, the
greater part of the time in New Mex
leo.
Shorty Franklin is in town today.
He says the less said the better. but
he don't keep very close to his text
when he starts out to sell you bill
of paper. Everybody is glad to see
Shorty back on the road, because it
is jollier that way.
There will be more money used in
Durango's back country, known as the
southwest. during the present year
than during any two former years
since civilization put up it's guide
board. Cheaper money will be needed
in the borrowing and there are many
propositions that are entitled to it.
1t is coming Durangoway.
Philander K. Fitzgerald, a wealthy
attorney Of Indianapolis who was in
dicted on the charge of using the
mails with intent to defraud, pleaded
guilty, and was fined $1,000 and costs.
Mr.. Fitzgerald colonized the town of
st. George. Ga and sold large num-
Der of lots. From the sales it was
alleged he received about $4,000 of
which $4,000 was not accounted for
In the contempt case of ShefS =
Shipp and others charged with com
plicity in the lynching of the negro
Ed Johnson at Chattanooga, Tenn, the
supreme court of the United States
entered an order directing each of
the twenty-edght defendants to ap-
pear before the federal district court
and give personal recognizance for his
appearance for trial.
The electric railway enterprise will
be incorporated and bunch of good
ones will go out to dig up the money
to build it. Durango will have this
better touch with its neighbors on the
east, and this will not be the only
one. There are other communities
that will be glad to get in closer
touch with the town that smelts the
ores OF the San Juan and gives all the
world coal, the best coal for the least4
money.
Rasmus Hansen came down this
morning from Silverton enroute to
Denver and the east, first to rejoin
his wife at Denver. Mr.. Hansen is ,
always doing. He has shown that
man may concentrate his thought on
single purpose and succeed, and in
doing this he has done much good for
San Juan county without injuring any
body. He brought the prospector and
capitalist together and helped both
OF them and Rasmus made money in
doing this. And success attracts bet
ter than anything else we might have.
The Utah Fuel company and the
Pleasant Valley Fuel company, Gould
against which the fed
eral government recently instsituted
suits to annul the title to certain coal
lands Ia Utah and to force an account
ing for coal already mined from these
lands must dafend tbaua ,,ttc L. tho