Semi-weekly herald., 1907-10-07

]. l.. Mcneil was Denver pas
| senger on this mornings eastern.
The stores are filed today with peo-
| pie taking advantage of fair bargains.
! Miss Virginia Graham returned to
| silverton last evening after spending
a few days. the guest of Miss Cloa
Steineger.
| Miss Marion Harwood of Ignacio is
the guest of Miss Nina Balster dur
| ing the fair Miss Harwood will sing
at the morning service at the Pres
| byterian church tomorrow.
| A. X. Ferguson came in last even
ing from Denver by way of Montrose
and Silverton. He was accompanied
by ]. e Caldwell. father of Harry and
Art. They will be in the city few
days.
Prof. and Mrs. OliD of the agricul-
tural college, we're here Judging the
agricultural exhibits at the fair. de-
parted this morning for home at Fort
Collins. They were Immediately
pleased with the exhibit and had a
most enjoyable time.
w. P. Vale returned last evening
from attendance at the Grand Army
encampment at Saratoga. After the
work of the encampment was finished
he took pleasure trip through
Maine, Massachusetts and Vermont.
He enjoyed the trip immensely and
shows it.
Hon. Warren A. Haggott returned
from Pennington yesterday afternoon
In time to put in an hour at the fair
and witness the street amusements In
the evening. He left this morning via
the Rio Grande Southern.
Chas. Nichols, who plead guilty to
the charge of cattle stealing, was this
morning sentenced by County Judge
Clements to the state reformatory for
n term of not less nor more than ten
years. The sheriff will take him out
next week.
James Ashcroft, aged II years, died
in this city yesterday from strangu-
lated hernia, caused by injuries re-
ceived In a runaway, while working
on the irrigation canal in the Monte
yuma valley. The remains were pre-
pared for shipment to Pennington the
home of his parents. by the Durango
Undertaking company, and went down
this morning.
The hotels, rooming houses and eat
ing houses were for once taxed to
their utmost capacity and many were
unable to find sleeping accommoda.
tions. 1t Is safe to say that several
hundred were compelled to return
home for lack of accommodations.
Next year Durango will make can
vass Of private homes to provide sleep
ing accommodations for all who come
Mrs. ]. W. Walker and Rev. ]. C.
Carman of Denver state Sunday
school workers, will speak in the Pres
byterian church next Monday even
ing. October 7 at s o'clock. Mrs,
Walker who has recently returned
from the worlds Sunday school con.
vention held at Rome, italy. will give
an illustrated lecture on her trip
abroad. Everyone interested is most
cordially invited.
In chambers yesterday Judge Pike
heard arguments on the application
of the May Day Gold Mining company.
for an injunction restraining the coun-
try treasurer from collecting the taxes
on that property for the year 1906.
The application stated the company
had returned value of $4,000 and
the assessor had arbitrarily raised 1t
to $176,000. Reese & Russell appear
ed for the complainant and Ritter and
Buchanan for the defendant. The case
} was taken under advisement.
o.
The people of Durango feel grateful
to both Jack Slattery and Manager
Carter of the Telluride ball team for
getting together splendid bunch of
ball players to entertain the people
, taking In the fair. 1t is safe to say
that Slattery spent one thousand dol
lars in securing men for the fair
games and while he probably more
than played even on Thursdays game,
ne stood to lose $4,000 at least on the
, series of games. Mr.. Slattery never
quibbles however. He is in for the
best money will secure and the peo-
pie of Durango appreciate his effort in
this direction. And Mr.. Carter is GER
tainly good loser. He loves the
game and he is probably out s2.500
IN the Durango series with the ex-
Denses attached and wagers lost. The
Herald hopes to see both Telluride
md Silverton cross bats at next wears