Durango semi-weekly herald., 1907-04-25

John Mueser, the newly appointed
district clerk. took charge Of the office
this morning. J. G. Price, the retiring
clerk. will go to his ranch near Man
cos about the LIST OF May and expects
to remain there during the summer.
f. II. Hudson. superintendent of the
Silverton & Northern railroad, was a
Silverton bound passenger on yester-
days eastern. accompanied by his wife
and children, who he met in Denver
on their return from a winters So
journ in California.
w. y. Kinney passed through to
Silverton last evening from Denver,
being accompanied by Messrs. Dsyis
and Soule, the principal stockholders
in the Gold King and the Gold King
Co coal mines of which George Lo-
gan is manager.
County Clerk Conray has secured a
communication from John T. Burns
of the committee on Greater Colorado
asking for an estimate of the popula-
tion OF La Plata county for the years
1902 to 1907 Mr.. Conroy's estimate
is placed at II, 900 for 1907, and is Il
very conservative one.
| Prof. H. NJ. Allen has arranged to
spend couple of months in Durango
and will be located at the Sultana
| bath parlors. Mr.. Allen Is a profes-
sional masseur and chiropodist and
| gives special attention to muscular or
infammatory rheumatism. Call and
see him.
T. d. Burns left for his home at
TERRA Amarillo this morning. expect
| ing to return in the near future, be-
ing anxious to have the improvements
now under headway at Trimble
Springs pushed to completion. Mr..
| Burns says he hopes the time will not
be far distant when Durango and
Trimble will be connected by electric
railway.
| Ex-Commissioner S. n. Thompson
came to town this morning and about
| O'Clock one of his boys drove in
| from the ranch with the information
that fire had destroyed two large
sheds along with sixty tons of fine
| timothy hay and some alfalfa. The
| loss will be in the neighborhood of
81, 500 to $1,000 with only $500 insur-
| ance.
No efforts should be spared to get
| George Gould to visit Durango and
| then to impress upon him the neces-
| sity of broadguaging the line between
| Durango and the San Luis valley. We
| believe with the proper presentation
of the matter Mr.. Gould will see the
benefits to be derived by his people
as well as of this southwestern sec
ton.
| Some merchants are complaining
of dull times, but l can't understand
why it should be-" said railroad Off
cial this morning. There is more
| freight coming into Durango right now
than for years before" This was a
! rather surprising piece of informa-
+, tion for the reporter, but the man
| who made the statement is in posi-
tion to know what he was talking
about.
| Richard Ewing, whose back was
broken last February in an accident
at the Glencoe saw mill, died late
Saturday afternoon at Mercy hospital.
| The remains were taken to the Du-
range Undertaking parlors, where they
await advices from Halleck and How
ard of Denver. for whom Mr.. Ewing
was working at the time of the ac-
cident, before the date of the funeral
will be made.
Blair Burwell came up from the Az
tee country last evening where he Is
engaged in making the Eden ditch
survey. Mr.. Burwell says the out
look for acreage Is much better than
at first anticipated and believes the
enterprise is sure go and that hun
dreds Of additional families will soon
locate along the line. Mr.. Burwell
is here to look after some business
anairS and VIII return TO the survey
Wednesday morning.
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Although the storm caused heavy
track at the fair grounds yesterday,
two of the races scheduled were pull
ed OFF. In the pacing race Pat won
the first heat, but was not strong
enough TO stand the other heats and
Polar Wilkes had a walk-away. In
the running race between Andy Chit
banners to impress their grievances
Haller's Jim Brown, Springer's colt
won in canter. The ball game did
not come Off. Weather permitting
next Sunday the program scheduled
for yesterday will be given.
c. s. Smith OF Grand Junction ar
rived over the Southern Saturday and
is looking over the country tributary
to Durango. Accompanied by ]. NJ
Kinsley he went out to Grommet
this morning. He states that the re
cent freeze almost totally destroyed