Semi-weekly herald., 1908-02-17


led by his wife. Continued home thi.
morning.
Just think of the manager of the
School of Mines football team being
suspended for kissing widow. Sim
ply awful.
John Kellenberger is taking In the
towns along the Rio Grande Southern
expecting to spend the Sabbath at his
ranch in y 1ntezuma county.
Queer how thermometer ranges, be.
ing Z below at Telluride Tuesday
morning. In Durango it lacked as
many or more degrees of reaching
(, zero.
A remarkable feat has been per
formed by Nine. Kiss Arbeau. who in
tea afternoons played by heart 365
plano compositions which compose
Chopins works.
Thirty years ago 740 faro banks
were doing business in the Black
Hills. Now those that are running
are doing so under cover. The tiger
is pushed to the wall all over the
country.
George, when was that note
paid? Before or after the receiv-
er's report?-Democrat
When due, and some four or five
days before the report was made.
Come again.
Miss Fern Phillips of Kansas City
is visiting her sister. Mrs. NJ. H.
Kaufman. Miss Phillips spent some
time in Durango a few years ago and
is therefore well known in society cir
cles.
The widow and family of the late
Patsy Gillian. who died at Silverton a
few weeks ago came down last eve.
ming, leaving this morning for Pitts
burg, where they will make their fu-
ture home.
Secretary Root looks after all the
Americas so diligently that he has no
time left for presidential booms. He
has done so much to bring the nations
of the Western Hemisphere together
that a niche in history for him is Sc
cure.
Joseph Whiscomb and his wife of
Winsted, Conn, have swapped posi-
tions, Mrs Whiscomb going into al
local factory to work and Whiscomb
doing the housework, washing, cook
ing and attending their infant. They
had tired of their former vocations.
Notwithstanding the stormy night |
there was a good turnout at the Grand
Army exercises at the Presbyterian |
church last evening in commemora-
tion of Lincoln's birthday The old |
veterans can always be relied on to
pay due homage' to such occasions, |
even If the young and hardy fail to
respond.
In its quarterly bulletin the state |
department of labor reports that there
was a high percentage of idieness
omang organized labor in New York |
state at the end of September-higt-l
er than has been shown in any other |
year since 1900, it being 107 as com
pared with 81 in 1906 and 40 in 1905. |
The number of unemployed union men
in the state at that time was 42,25S. |
The situation in New oltk City is |
brought up to Jan. in the bulletin. |
covering the period during the dis
turbed financial conditions. showing
that 34.2 per cent of union workmen
were out of employment
The advisory committee was ap-
pointed by the depositors to secure a
settlement of the Colorado State
banks affairs. At the second meeting |
of the depositors, when conditions
looked pretty blue, the committee was
importuned TO try and secure condi- |
tions that would secure them their
money. The committee spent daysI
and days working out a scheme that
would do this and after accomplishing
the work naturally want depositors to
stand with them. The committee has
accomplished a commendable work
and should be sustained by every de-
posltor, Bunco work should not be
permitted to prevail.
r. l.. Vinyard came down from Sill
verton last evening. leaving this morn-
ing for Tampico, Old Mexico. Mr..
Vinyard and a number OF others are
interesting themselves in land propo-
sitions in that section and his trip is
one OF inspection, joining another
member OF the party who writes that
he is well nleaSed but having several