Semi-weekly herald., 1908-02-24

William Sells, the noted circus man.
is dead.
b. F. Thomas, the hustlins mef-
| chant of Allison, is transactilg bus
mess in town today.
c. II. Wood OF the Cedar Hill dis
trict, was in the city over night. Mr.
Wood is looking forward to good
crop year.
Jack Gouldilg.w no returned few
Iornia. was a passenger this morning
for his ranch at Flora Vista.
John Olbert, accompanied by his
little boy. Will spend some time in
Pennington. hoping to be benefited
by the warmer climate. They left
this morning
w. X. Davis of Otto. n. NJ. is one of
the land hunters who left this morn
ing to look over parts of San Juan
county, New Mexico. NJ r. Davis was
a guest over night at the Palace.
HenryS couton departed this morn
ing for his ranch at Allison. Mr..
Scouton feels that ra1ching is about
the only true system these days and
is bent on improving his property as
rapidly as possible.
The Herald's Telluride correspond
ent reports that Charles Persoal was
brought down to the Telluride hospital
from the Liberty Bell mine this morn
ing where he was injured by an ex-
plosiol caused by missed hole. The
man will recover.
w. w. McAlpine has sold half in
terest in his sawmill above lockwood
to H. j. Stephens of Denver and j. s.
Carney OF Durango. Mr.. Stephens is
a prominent real estate man of Den
yer. Mr.. Carney will devote his per
sonal attention to the mill.
Charles Kiel who has been doing
civil engineering for the past year in
Durango. having been with w. H. Wig
ellsworth most of the time, departed
cured a lucrative position there on
city work.
j. j. Fusselman and wife of Colo
| RADIO Springs are looking over land in
vestments around Pennington and Az
tee. Mr.. Fusselman is paymaster of
the Cripple Creek Short line. He has
| expressed no intention of quitting the
| railroad business, but is merely look
| ing for investment.
II is getting to be quite a fad for
| the school children of Durango, either
by classes or rooms, to go on little
excursions. The past week all the
rooms of the Whittier school have
taken sleigh rides, most of them going
| to TriInble Springs. The carryall is
pretty busy these days. Durango
| children may be thankful for this di-
| version, which is in vogue in few
| other places.
| The bridge building firms of the
country are keeping pretty close tab
on this section, as is evidenced by the
fact that representatives of six firms
/! visited Aztec to bid on the cable
bridge which is soon to be built there
The six men were w. II. Bosier OF
Fort Worth, Texas; NJ. F.'Levy oil
Denver; NJ. ]. Patterson of Denver; j
V. jenkins of Wichita, Kan; NJ. j. I'm
derwood of Wichita; Edwin B. Holt OF
FL Paso.
A man by the name of d. Pialvandc
while working on the dump at the
smelter shortly before the noon houl
dropped bar of lead on his foot, bad
ly lacerating it. At first it wai
thought the foot was crushed and the
ambulance was sent for and the mar
hurried to Mercy hospital where Drs
Haggart and Lefurgey dressed the in
juries. II is said he will soon be abl'
, to move about.
The funeral of Mrs. Harry Syringe
I took place in SiIverton this afternoon
4 the lady having died OF cancer of th'
j stomach. Deceased was an old tim
resident of Silverton along with he
L husband. a brother OF A. r. Syringe
), of Durango who went up this mornil
# to attend the funeral. Our Silyertol
correspondent reports large turlou
;, as the departed was well known an
well liked.
IT Commissioners Charlton and Logar
/. accompanied by Surveyor Burdicl
a went down to Ignacio this morning
Is look after the new steel bridge. b.
t. fore returning they intend to go
q Bondal. where they will investigai