Semi-weekly herald., 1908-10-19
LOCAL NEWS.
(From Thursdays Daily,

LOCAL NEWS.
(From Thursdays Daily,
A bridge on the Rio Grande South
ern eighteen miles below Ridgway
burned yesterday. 1t was 1870 feet long
and will take three to four days to
replace.
The voters OF this county want tax
payers, men who made their money
and invested it in realty, to be com
missioners instead of men who loan
money at high rates of interest A
money loaner may be a very nice man.
but he is entirely out OF place as a
commissioner.
Miss ,Iary E. Gaines left tor Farm.
ington this morning to resume her
duties at the Mary Fiske home, a
mission school for the Navajo Indians
Miss Gaines has been taking a vaca-
tion since last January and is much
benefited by the rest and change. She
spent part of the time with her sister.
Mrs. James Otis.
G. 7. Cline and little daughter, Ma
bel, returned last night from a cam
paign trip through the Allison coun-
try. MIR. Cline is the Republican can
didate for state senator for this dis
trict. and judging from the reception
he is getting in La Plata and the en-
thusiastic support of his own county
he will be our next senator.
T. p. Sanderson has been laid up
with a bad leg which he hurt during
the fair. He stepped on broken
board at the fair grounds and fell
through, skinning and bruising his leg
badly. While trifle better, the in
jured member is still too much swol.
len and painful to bear his weight
Mr.. Sanderson hopes to be around in
a day or two
~ niooiSi, WhO Dttn Cdol-
Ter at the freight depot for some time,
has been transferred to Santa Fe, and
left with his little daughter, for his
new location today. w. b. Lawrence
of Denver has taken his place.
Mrs. T. E. Richey and Mrs. Ira
Prichard of Princeton, KY, went 10
Ignacio today to take in the fair for
a day or so, on their way home The
ladies ara friends of the Misses Pick.
ering and have been in Durango about
six weeks.
Frank Hyde, the Bluff City mer-
chant and trader, is in the city. Mr. |
Hyde is just from the Utah oil fields |
near Bluff, which are attracting the
attention of spectators and railroad |
people. When Mr.. Hyde left home rep
sesentatives of the Southern Pacific |
were looking over the field. One of |
the oil wells has pumping capacity |
Of 1900 barrels of crude oil every
twenty-four hours. Sixteen drills are
going night and day. Bluff City is |
1875 miles due west from Durango.
and is reached via Dolores.
w. B. Mooney of the state normal |
school at Greeley, who has been visit
ing the Durango schools for couple |
of days. went out on today's Southern |
to Mancos, afterwards visiting Rico |
Telluride and reaching Delta In time |
to attend the teachers association
meeting there on Friday, October 23. |
Mr.. Mooney expressed himself as very
pleased with the condition of the
schools. The high school is remark |
able In the perfection of its arrange
ments and the smoothness Of its ma
chinery. This is not surprising since
Mr.. Smiley is a trained specialist in
high school work. In the grades, In
which Mr.. Mooney is specially inter |
ested he found the rooms well venti- |
lated. artistically decorated, and for |
the most part, the teachers energetic
and capable.
Mrs. Rose, mother of Mrs. James
Craig. who lives on the Campbell
ranch in the Animas valley left today
for Tacoma, Wash, where she will be-
come the bride of A. J. Robinson, the
owner of q fine fruit ranch near that
place. The bride-to-be is a well pre-
served woman of 67 years of age and
the groom is a few years older. From
all appearances the lady feels as
young as she ever did, with as lively
an anticipation of the future as If she
were II instead of CT. The engage
ment of the couple took place this
spring. AS soon as the lady would
name the day, the groom-to-be sent her