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The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-07-28
ASSAULT TO MURDER.
That Is Charge Made Against Whit
 

That Is Charge Made Against White
 COntractor.
 W. w. Mccullough. c white contrac- tor. was yesterday arrested by Ofa- cers smith and LaPrade on charge of assault with intept to murder, the charge being preferred by J. G. Hos kinson whom he Is alleged to have assaulted
 It is said that the contractor, who has been at work on building on North Perry Street, struck the affiant with hatchet. In the Recorders Court yesterday the case against the defendant was postponed until July 30.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-07-28

of commission they arc entitled to receive more than $4 . day and at least they have the right to decline to serve at pay of $4 . day.
 So each member of the committee except Representative King. has serv- ed notice on the chairman that if the committee is made a commission ufi- der the pending act with pay ct a q day. they will not care to continue longer in the work of iuvestigaticn.
 The Senate members of the commit, tee are Senator Hayes and Spragins and the House members are Repre-. sentatives King. Gunter and Arneld.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-07-28
HEAD.Oy COLLISION,
Fireman filed and Number ef Passen
 gers Hurt.

Petersburg. Va. July 27.--A head on collision occurred tonight short dist ance north of Stony Creek. Va, be- tween Atlantic Coast Line trains No :. S5. the Florida special and the second section of No. 80, northbound. Both engines were badly damaged Engi- need Bradshaw on No4 S5 assumes the blame. saying he forgot his orders.
 Harry Dorian. fireman, was killed and a number of passengers slightly injured.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-07-28
Medal shoot.

Medal shoot.
 Milwaukee, Wis. July 27.-The third day of Central sharpshooters tourna- ment was spent in allowing late mem- bers to shoot for point medals and those who took medals were: J. Sweifel. J. M. Schmidt. H. N Achely and 4. Sutherlander of New Orleans.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-07-28
ADVOCATES DEATH.
Killing Of Husbands Who Beat Wives
 E.uInPseA

Chicago. July 27-The killing of hus- bands who beat their wives was ad- vocated by Judge Tuthill in the circuit court today in the course of divorce case being tried before him.
 Indignant at 8 woman's description
The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-07-28

MONDAY SPECIAL. 10 Pounds standard granulated su- Sar, Monday only e1.OO
 BROCK GROCERY, 15 N. Court 7O6 Highland.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-07-28

The trouble about a poor devils Keeping wife is he has also to keep up appearances.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-07-28

MONDAY SPECIAL. 10 Pounds standard granulated su. gar, Monday only Ql.0o
 BROCK GROCERY. 15 N. Court. 7O8 Hlxhlsnd.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-07-28

To those about to marry we'd simply murmur Dough"
Durango semi-weekly herald., 1907-03-11
DURANGO LAND OFFICE

The Dolores News at Rico begun
the fight to create the Durango land
office in the fall of 1880. and in M
same issue to create Dolores county.
Lake City was then the only land
office in the southwest. west of Del
Norte. The Durango office was ere
ated in the winter of 1882 but was
not open for business until October
2, 1882, the opening being delayed by
a spirited fight over the appointments
of officers to conduct it. Major D.
l.. Sheets was appointed register and
Major w. S. Hickox receiver. The dis
trict as created embraced La Plata,
nine-tenths of Dolores, all of Archu-
leta. three-fourths of Hinsdals and
one-fifth of Mineral, all of San Juan,
one-sixth of San Miguel and onetenth
of Ouray counties. Since its creation
this Office has been one of the most
important In the history of settlement
of the west. Briefly the following fig
nres will give an idea of the business
done since the office was established:
Cash entries, 2,261: homestead en-
tries. 3,55S; final homestead cert&-
Gates issued. 1.101; mineral applica-
tions filed. 2,O36; desert land entries,
ZIG. While the personnel of the Off
| GERS has changed from time to time,
Major Sheets Is found there today as
receiver, while F. C. Perkins is rpg
ister. Much valuable and interesting
detail regarding the history OF the
office must be omitted for for lack of
| space.
Durango semi-weekly herald., 1907-03-11
First Water Jacket smeIter.

In 1875 the first water jacket smelt-
ing furnace built in Colorado was com
pleted In Silverton by Greene & Co.
with j. A. Porter metallurgist and t.
g. Bowman assayer. That year sew
eral silver-lead producing mines be-
gun to ship to the smelter which found
it necessary to burn pine-spruce trees
to produce charcoal for fuel, because
of the fact that the Durango coal fields
had not been opened and had they
been open, transportation would have
made coal cost more than charcoal at
40 cents bushel Smelling was con-
tinued at Silverton until 1880 when
the Greene plant was torn down to
haul the machinery to Durango be
fore the railroad had been construct
ed At that time $35 to s45 was the
charge for smelling and ores worth
500 per ton would not pay, If they
had to be packed a considerable dis
tance. Ores worth from 81 to 81, by
concentration, have been made to pay
since that time. Nature In linking Sill
verton and Durango together made
them inseparable by carving out the
Animas canon, through which a rail
way could haul ore to the Durango
coal fields.
Durango semi-weekly herald., 1907-03-11
THE womAN,s cLUs OF DURANGO

In 1899 the Chautauqua, Fortnightly,
Century, Parliamentary and Sorosis
clubs united and formed the Woman's
club with a membership of seventy
five.
The first officers were: Lillian
Hartman Johnson. president; Eliza
beth Harper. first vice president;
Jeanette Scoville, secind vice presi-
dent; Ella Steineger, recording sec
retary; Evadne McHolland, corre-
spending secretary; Grace Scoville
Bishop. treasurer; Mary Franklin,
auditor.
For convenience the club is divided
into six departments, viz: Historical,
lrt. music, literature, parliamentary
md philanthropic.
The chief purpose of the first FIVE
departments is social, literary and
scientific culture. The department of
philanthropy has accomplished much
n the direction of relief, truancy and
reform. 1t has been in charge of
tary B. Franklin, Elizabeth Harper
nj F'la Eudora White.
In 1905 the Woman's club donated
5000 to the public library of Durango.
The present year the CLUB is en-
gagged In studying the great religions
IF the world.
Durango semi-weekly herald., 1907-03-11
A Hiah Line New,paper.

The first and only newspaper ever
published at Animas Forks, being
printed at higher altitude than any
other paper ever published, was es-
tablished by Geo. N. Raymond, pres
ent editor OF the Durango Herald, in
1882. He first established in 1884
The San Juan Herald at Silver
ton. In the fall Of 1887 he and
his brother, S. W.. purchased The
Durango Daily Herald. While talking
OF first newspapers Henry and viii
Ripley established the Ouray Times
in the spring of 1887. That fall the
Solid Muldoon was established by D.
F. Day. In the winter OF 1880 F. E.
Curry established the San Miguel
journal at the town Of that name,
later moving up to Telluride.
The first paper established in Man
cos was by Henry Kelley in 1894. The
first paper printed at Dolores was by
Fred Holt In 1895. and the first pa
per at La Plata mining camp was
by Henry Kelley the same year.
Durango semi-weekly herald., 1907-03-11
READING CLUB.

In the year 1882, when Durango was
still in its infancy and advantages for
mental improvements few, a number
IF progressive women conceived the
'dea of forming a club, the object to
be the mental culture and social inter
course of its members.
This resulted In the organization of
The Reading club of Durango" with
the following as charter members:
Mesdames. o. F. Boyle, A. P. Camp,
NJ. NJ. Chamberlain, G. D. Jackson, F.
C. Jackson, G. w. Melville, G. A. SEQ
vile, C. d Wright; Misses Maggie
krumpantzky, Laura A. Marsh, Grace
X. Scoville, Lounette e. Jackson. The
first president was Mrs M. M. ChanN
berlain. The first meeting place was
with Mrs. o. F. Boyle in a little frame
cottage where now stands the W. c.
Chapman store.
This club enjoys the distinction of
being second in the state, in point of
age. The Oldest club. the Denver
Fortnightly club, being its senior by
one year only. The club Joined the
General Federation in 1894 and the
State Federation in 1896. 1.-THE use
ful with the pleasant" was adopted
as the club motto. Pink and green
have been chosen as club colors and
the carnation as the club flower
For nearly twenty-five years this
club, with its membership limited to
twenty-four. has always occupied a
prominent position In the literary and
social life Of Durango.
A record Of its literary afternoons
and evenings, musicales, banquets and
various entertainments and its repre-
at tha tol
Federation meetings would be far too
lengthy for this brief sketch.
The club year is from October to
June, and from the first the meetings
have been held regularly on Thursday
afternoon of each week. Since 1894
year books have been issued annual
ly. For the past two years the club
mas arranged Its program to include
the Bay View reading course.
The following comprise list of the
present officers, members and honor
ary members: President, Mrs. s. e.
Herr; vice president, Mrs. F. j. Egan;
recording secretary, Mrs. F. Eldredge;
corresponding secretary. Mrs. C. 4.
Mcconnell: treasurer, Mrs. l.. G. Jak-
way. historian. Miss Eva Weightman;
poet, Mrs. F. Balster Mesdames Leon
Ashback, o. F. Boyle, e. Buchanan, ].
A Clark. w. H. Ferguson. John Hag-
gert, M. II. Kaufman, l. Kruschke, r.
McCloskey, r. McCloud, C. c. Perkins,
J. b. Pulford, w. s. Pickerill, B. w.
Ritter. 0. B. Sarber, G. w. Spangler,
G. e. West. Honorary members: 8.
w. Raymond, A. P. Camp, H. McCan-
ma, |. B. Melville, G. A. Scoville, T. F.
Barbour, J. w. Hayden, P. S. Rider,
J. l. Mcneil, G. c. Sroufe. s. c. Nc
Curdy, G. M. Kerr.
Durango semi-weekly herald., 1907-03-11
Returnino to Modern Affairs.

Returning to times made modern by
forty years of effort by civilized and
semicivilized people, the first post
office established in the San Juan
mountains was at Arastra gulch, two
miles above Silverton, In 1873, John
l.. Ufford being postmaster. The first
newspaper printed in the mountains
was the La Plata Miner, established
by John R. Curry. coming from Sioux
City. Ia. in the spring Of 1875. Curry
also established the first newspaper
in Rico. Dolores county. in July, 1879,
and the first newspaper in Montezuma
county the Journal. in the fall Of 1887.
Durango semi-weekly herald., 1907-03-11

among the things that people tried to
preserve. These are lost mine" spec
ulators.
The things which have been found,
and which the general government fin
ally found necessary to protect from
vandals and destructionists OF the
commercial and curious classes are
briefly summarized as petrifed or
mummifed people, In the cliff dwell
ings Of the Mancos and Colorado can
ons. These were found in caves nat
ural and wrought by the hands of hu-
man beings People living in climates
and atmospheric conditions widely diff
ferent from the peculiar and extreme
ly dry climates OF the sections along
the canons of the two rivers named
would naturally ask how the flesh and
bone OF a human could be so perfect
ly mummified. Corn grown by these
people has been found In the ruin,
the cave and the grave. Cloth made
| Of feathers has been found and fab
RIGS made OF sea weed or something
of the same character. also. Stone
axes and skinning knives are found
| Pumpkin and squash seed and various
other seeds not known to the people
OF today are among the relics. Pottery
| which the cleverest people OF today
cannot match, carrying innumerabls
designs in colors burned In, Is found
about every former habitation ant
the graves, but there is no evidence
that they knew Of metal.
There is no other history as wei
and safely based as that borne out b!
practical geology. Its study Is no
as old as the granite or archaian be'
rock OF the world, but its basis is a
certain and logical as the worlds gran
itic core. Students of future genera
tions will find more in the logica
deductions Of the present age than il
Idle tradition, born of superstition.
Speculative histories of today,
preserved will give people as yet IN
born. the romance of present da,
thought.
Durango semi-weekly herald., 1907-03-11
A Word About Rico.

Part OF Bakers party was In Do
lores county and at Trout lakes in
1861. In 1869 the next visitors were
Colonel Nash, McLain and Ratteck.
r. C. Darling and party, surveying for
the government. went there in the fall
OF '79, finding the ruins of an adobe
smelter built by Mexicans at some
time. That year Sheldon Shaeffer and
Joe Fearheiler passed through on their
way to Montana. Darling located
claims In 1872 which he worked In
'73. He returned when the camp was
rediscovered In 1879. Rico has since
produced millions. but declined when
silver was demonetized In 1898.
Durango semi-weekly herald., 1907-03-11
How to Remain Youno.

To continue young in hssl>h end
strength. do as MrA- N. r. RnMan, Ne
Donough. Ca, did. She Aays: Qlnsss
bottles Of Electric Bittsrs ous1d NJ Of
chronic liver and stomach Ngo,ible.
complicated with such an Al1lulthy
condition OF the blood that ~ A1in
turned red a. flannel. I m AoW
practically twenty years youpDsr HAan
before I took Electric Bitters. 4 ean
now do all my work with saee and
assist In my husbands store" Guar.
autssd By q. =. Tiffany. Jr, drug
store rSaea ~
Durango semi-weekly herald., 1907-03-11
The La Plata District.

Mining In the La Plata group Of
mountains since the first discovery Of
mineral there. has seen ups and
downs, but today is one of the most
progressive gold camps in the west,
having among the mines the richest
gold producers known to history.
Could the district be given full credit
for its production, the amount would
be from three to five millions.
Durango semi-weekly herald., 1907-03-11
Forests and Lumberinu.

For more than quarter of a cen
tury the Durango country has been
drawn upon for pine lumber, both at
home and abroad, and during the past
two years the general government has
been studiously trying to restrain the
onslaught by declaring forest reserves,
both to save the forests ard preserve
moisture in the higher attitudes. Two
years ago stockgrowers begun to pay
the government per head for stock
ranging about the forests.
Durango semi-weekly herald., 1907-03-11
puranao,s First smeIter.

In 1881 when the San Juan Mining
& Smelling company had nearly com
pleted the construction Of its smelling
plant at Durango and the Rio Grande
railway had been completed to Du-
range and was building on to Silver
ton, Animas City saw that 1t must
walt to sometime, be part of Du-
range, and since building an electric
road from Durango to that place more
than ten years ago, this is consum-
nation being realized. The railroad
had changed the Industrial situation
from a little ranching and stockgrow-
ing to the more important coal min
ing and smelling industries, and the
progress OF farming had driven the
herds farther away each year.
Durango semi-weekly herald., 1907-03-11
SleepIessness.

nervous condition and often prevent
sleep. Chamberlain's Stomach and
organs, restore the system to q
healthy condition and make sleep pos-
sible. For sale by all druggists.
Durango semi-weekly herald., 1907-03-11

Use the Hesperus coal because 1t
the best in the market and thereby
avoid many troubles. Turman will
also cart on your ashes and trash.
Special attention to moving and bag
gage. Office at ODriscoll store. Of
flee phone Black 251.
Durango semi-weekly herald., 1907-03-11
The Majestic Needles.

The earliest white pioneer known
to have entered the Needles noun
tains, thirty-eight miles north Of Du-
range. was first there in 1874, after
ward interesting eastern capital there.
Large companies were organized be-
tween 1876 and 1888. but none of them
did much In producing mineral. A
half million dollars was expended in
various kinds Of development and sew
eral hundred mining claims were pat
ented and allowed to lie idle, there be-
ing only desultory development since.
The cost OF coal there today is the
chief handicap.
Durango semi-weekly herald., 1907-03-11
FREE.
AQils' !

Buy a pair Of boys or girls ehoes
at The Fair and get pair of Humpty
Dumpty stockings free.
Durango semi-weekly herald., 1907-03-11
Coal Made Durango.

Little was known, OF the coal re-
sources lying on three sides of Du-
range when the first smelte1 was built
but 1t was evident then that there
would be enough to operate the
smelter. Since 1881 much has been
done in the exploration of the coal
area, which has been proven to be
one of the most extensive in the
world, extending on into New Mexico
100 miles. The Durango coking coal
is admitted TO be the most valuable
known to the history OF production.
The present daily production of the
Durango fields is estimated at 700
tons. With the further development
of new area now in progress, 1t is
expected that in few years the pro-
duction will be 5000 tons daily. as the
requirements of growing industries
will probably reach that amount by
1910. The known coal area of the Du.
range fields is now twenty miles north
and south to the Mexican line thirty
miles east and west. Coal sells for
domestic use today at $3.50 per ton
delivered. Industries requiring great
er quantitieJ pay from half to two
thirds that price.
Durango semi-weekly herald., 1907-03-11
Extending Rio orands to Rico.

In the fall OF 1891 branch OF the
Rio Grande was completed to Rico
and little later connection was made
at Ridgway, completing the railway
circle to Denver. that the passenger
might go east or west to the capital
city. Durango, with one railway sys-
TEN, dealing with one corporation.
paying high passenger and traffic
rates, continued to grow and prosper
as NO other western town had done,
until the present day. In the spring
OF 1905 Q nifty mile standard gauge
branch Of the Rio 0rande was CON-
pletsd to Tarmington, In the New Mex
" fruit bs,t \ survey had been
Durango semi-weekly herald., 1907-03-11

Come and see the large and well ~
lected stock Of the latest In side and
back combs at I. zeller's Jewelry
Store.
Durango semi-weekly herald., 1907-03-11

made by the Southern Pacific railway
for a north and south feeder from
Tuscon, Ariz.. to the Durango coal
fields. and the Rio Grande built over
this survey from Durango to Farm
ington, precipitating litigation in the
United States courts which is still
pending at this day. without the rail-
way the vast and resourceful San Juan
would still be land OF unproductive
exploration. Reference is made to
the mineral and coal production alone
elsewhere.
Brief Story Of Lost Race.
Future generations. while eternity
lasts. viii become more interested In
cliff dweller legendry which chal-
lenges the historians and scientists Of
the twentieth century. Prescott and
Bancroft and tradition have failed to
satisfy the interest OF the people Of
this day.
AS far back as the memory Of civil
| lied man extends what is known as
the ruins OF Aztec houses and clif
dwellings have been known. but until
the building of Durango had attract
ed world wide attention. bringing to
this prehistoric field the best students
Of history, had the world known much
of the situation. The day we lay the
corner stone OF the Durango Public
Library. reference to which will ap-
pear elsewhere, no civilized country
in the world is ignorant OF the fact
that Durango Is built on the north
border land Of lost people.
The Inference must be drawn from
ruins extant that Rio de La Animas
(river of spirts) was the center oi
population for the lost people. Theii
skulls and bones have been found ir
excavating for building at Durango
though this had been the extreme
north line OF their territory. Below
thirty y-eight miles, near the New Mex
lean town of Aztec, is one of the bes
preserved courts they had. and on tht
San Juan river, twelve miles east o
the junction of the Animas with tht
San Juan river. is another court, no
so extensive, but quite as well pre-
served Further to the southeast arr
the most extensive ruins, near Canor
Chaco, where the population has beer
variously estimated at from 10000 tt
100000 people. In the Mancos canon
thirty miles west of Durango ant
twenty-five miles south. are the cliff
dwellings in the walls of the canon
: which have excited more interest II
the minds OF historians than any othe
subject left for students to fathom.
1t would be unfair to say that any
body had first discovered these evl
dences of a lost people, but 1t is mos
; likely that Moqui Indians Of Arizon'
: were the first. The first white maj
to see them was no doubt killed b.
, savage people, and how many white
had been killed since any one ma.
conjecture. but their discussion
In the worlds thought begun littl'
more than a quarter of century age
Durango semi-weekly herald., 1907-03-11
Inspired Building Railway.

II 1t has not been given to history
already 1t should be said that A.
Chubbuck and A. C. Hunt had been
school boys together, and that 1t was
the former who did more than all
other Influences to induce the latter
to promote the building OF the Rio
Grande west to Durango. Hunts chief
object, induced by Chubbuck, was to
build to the La Plata river (town oil
Parrott) little realizing the greater
need at the time for railway through
the canon to Silverton. Silverton, in
the spring of 1880 sent committee
to the directors of the Rio Grande at
Denver, urging the building OF the
road to that point and In June of that
year a committee sent by the railway
went to Silverton to verify state
ment of the amount OF ores which
could be shipped by rail to Durango
coal fields or elsewhere. 1t was at
this time that Ernest J. H. Amy and
John A. Porter were promoting the
establishment Of smelter at Durango
and interesting English. Chinese and
Japanese capital in the mines OF San
Juan and San Miguel counties. The
railway committee made a good find
ing at Silverton and urged the build
ing of the road to that point. After
Governor Hunt had turned the Del
Norte people down and changed his
road seventy-five miles south ne. was
foiled by the action OF this commit
tee in building to Parrot and Club
buck left the country without hope OF
accommodating his enterprises in the
La Plata for quarter Of century
and died in few years. Hunt died
at Laredo, Texas, ten or twelve years
later.
It is fact which has never been given
to history that Colonel Irving who
was chief In charge of the extension
OF the Rio Grande railway west, that
when he had run his preliminary
lines over the Conejos range, he rec
commended the abandonment of the
road to La Plata river, and the ex-
tension, instead. of the road from Ala
mosa via Ojo Caliente. New Mexico,
on to California. But the directors
told Colonel Irving that II he could
not And practicable route over Cone
Jos to the La Plata, they would find
a man who would and Governor Hunt
had thus shown the power of his pull.
There would not have been Durango
so soon had Colonel Irving prevailed,
and 1t is left for us to speculate on
which was the best at that time.
Through Hunt, who was foiled In
building to La Plata, Silverton prob
ably got railroad ten to twenty
years sooner.
Durango semi-weekly herald., 1907-03-11

Toilet and fancy articles. DuzaaSo
Drug O..
Durango semi-weekly herald., 1907-03-11
u.,a.r,. M.tchI,se Work.

Hsydsn's Mstehlese Work.
In the spring OF 1875 Prof. Hayden
and party, constituting . division Of
the government geological survey
corps, came to the Ia Plata ssctaon
and opsut considerable tine N ex-
plesa&iea, ~ yaoagts ~ uADs -
Durango semi-weekly herald., 1907-03-11
eIrth Of Nevv AnImas civ,

The town Of Animas City was es-
tablished two miles north Of Durango
In 1875, Ar. Ankenny. Dr.. Marsh. Ira
shith, John aAav. =. ], WIZ aAA d
Durango semi-weekly herald., 1907-03-11
closely Follow Baker.

TSndff4on has left many stories as
10 ~ wsre the next adventurers.
but tnogo II nothing authentic until
1s7e, wlusn Miles T. johnson. Dempsey
Resaek Abna French. Thomas Blair
aaA e1n9rs lsfi Santa Fs. travelling
eveg - same route ~ the Baker
psrtS, eessr reaching the lower end
e ~ ~ 4Lais valley. reaching the
pspen6ptlng resion Of the san Juan
1eeanlno carry that summer. whore
thsv rsspsotsd, fsturning TO Santa
- - - ~ ~ ODing back 70 tht
ull,u1us - 3egl ~ asse ssh