Semi-weekly herald., 1909-11-18

OF her health. and returns much bene-
flied by the change.
Mrs. A. NJ. Ferguson and children
left for Denver this morning TO Join
Mr. Ferguson. Mrs. Ferguson has been
visiting her parents for few weeks
Mrs. Galbreath accompanied her
daughter as far as Kearns where she
will stay over for visit with her
sons.
Arrangements for the celebration of
| Founders day at the Pueblo library
| are about completed The event will
take the form of reception with
musical program The board of di
rectors, and the members of the eoun-
ell at the time the library was turned
over to the city. will be the reception
committee.
| Peter Holmgrain passed through this
morning from Silverton to Denver,
! Cripple Creek and other points in the
state, for few months vacation. Mr.
| folmgrain is one of The pioneer min
| ing men of San Juan county. and has
been operating his mining claims at
Eureka The past season.
| Mrs. l.. NJ. Newell. general mission
airy of the Woman's Baptist Home Mis-
sion society. left this morning for Ala.
mosa to spend a few days in the In
terest of the cause she represents.
Mrs. Newell will then go on to Las
Vegas to attend the Baptist Territorial
convention She expected to leave
yesterday morning, but stayed over
| one day by request, to address the
women i'm the afternoon. Mrs. Newell
was the guest of Mrs. Dave John
son, during her stay in Durango.
verton. bringing sixteen head of burros
to winter on the Patrick ranch near
Ignacio Mr.. Bell says the snow in
the vicinity of Cascade and over the
hill to lockwood is very deep and it
was difficult TO break the trail Mr.
Bell is not among those who think
Silverton and San Juan county is in
the dumps, but on the contrary says
everything is looking well, that all
things considered, conditions are much
better than one would suppose There
is much work going on among the
mines and the winter season will be
one of development.
Mr.. and Mrs. S. S. Exon were re.
turning passengers 10 Mancos this
morning. Mr. Exon has a fine ranch
on the upper Mancos for which he
refused $4,000 a short time ago. he
thinks that end of the Montezuma val
ley is the only place. the hay and cat.
tie produced there being the best there
is. The hay crop was fine this year
in spite of all the drawbacks in the
way of bad weather, and several peo.
pie were obliged to put up additional
hay sheds to contain all that was pro.
duced Mr.. Exon is pioneer, com.
| ing to the San Juan in 1882. For some
| years he lived in Durango, being at
| one time on the police force, and later
| worked for Harry Jackson. Mrs. Exon
was brought up In Durango, her
mother, Mrs. NJ. B. Daniels residing
here at present. They were in the
I city on land business.
Geo. J. Kindel, the well known
freight rate fighter and buster. arrived
| in Durango on the train from Silver.
| ION this morning. He is accompanied
by w. H. Hall, secretary of the Con.
sumers' league of Colorado. A com.
mittee of citizens met Mr.. KindeI at
| the depot and welcomed him to the
| city, escorting him and Mr.. Hall to
the Strater hotel.
During the forenoon and part of the
afternoon the two gentlemen put In
the time visiting merchants and get.
ting acquainted with the people.
representative of The Herald call.
ed on the gentlemen at the Strater ho-
tel shortly after the noon hour and
found Mr. Kindel bristling all over
with indignation over the way Colo.
RADIO is treated in the matter of freight
rates, and he has the situation down
as pat as the teacher of the primary
grades have the alphabet Mr.. Kin.
del does not claim TO be an orator
but Just plain every day talker and
having so much material is able to
present his case in favorable light
every time. Mr.. Kindell does not come
to Durango TO discuss local rates. his
tight being on a larger scale. the local
question being left to the people di
rectly interested. He will take up the
general discrimination against Colo
rado by the roads entering the state
and show what can he accomplished
to save Colorado millions of dollars
annually. He holds that we should be
given the benefit OF water rates via
Galveston, something that is denied