Semi-weekly herald., 1909-08-26

q. Killian for the past two weeks
left for Colorado Springs this morn
ing to- spend couple OF weeks with
relatives there, before returning 10
Denver.
/ Roy Fraser of the forest service left
for his vacation this morning. which
he viii spend In Denver and Colo
rado Springs, Mr.. Fraser expects 10
attend the Grand Lodge of the Knights
oil Pythias which meets In Colorado
Springs next week
Rev. r.. U. Waldraven. wife and
son returned last evening from Trim.
dad where they attended the Metho.
dist conference They were guests OF
Mr. and Mrs. A c Thomas over night.
continuing to their home at Farming.
ton this morning
The Telluride Journal voices the
sentiments OF this paper in the fol
lowing; 1T is not pleasant to record
the repeated visitatons OF disaster 10
our sister town over the hill. Neigh.
hcrins newspapers would greatly pre-.
fer 10 write up new strikes of ore In
the rich mines of ouray, to recountlng
the destruction wreaked by water
sponts. This seasons misfortunes VIII
materially hinder Ouray's progress for
year or two"
IL 7. Hubbard, Jr. and wife and
Miss Bessie White cape in from Kan.
sas City last night where the two for.
mer have been visiting Mrs Hubbard's
parents, Miss White returned with
them for visit. The party left for
Shiprock this morning.
II. b. PEARS, superintendent of the
indian school at Lawrence, Kans., and
Charles Il. Burton, superintendent of
the Grand Junction Indian school. ar.
rival Inst night ON a trip through the
west, and departed this morning for
Isnacio to visit Superintendent C. Il.
Werner The gentlemen were guests
o, the Palace last night
o
Judge ilolbrook departed this morn
ing for his home at Alamosa, having
been called to Silverton to try the
Hayes Will case. The Judge informs
us that The change of venue to the
United States circuit court was based
on the connection OF the contestors
that they were non-residents of the
state and the further allegation that
the people of Silverfon we're proju-
diced In the premises. Under these
conditions 1t Is rilable to grant
changes, IL remaining for the United
Arguments of counsel and determine
whether it should be tried in the fed
aral courts or remanded back to Sill
vcrton for trial, hence 1t is barely
possible the case may be heard al
Silyerton later ON.
Mrs, A. =. Camp Is home again from
trip to Minnesota, in the beautiful
lake region after stopping over in Den
yer for some days She visited friends
Ia st. Paul aud Minneapolis. for about
two months and enjoyed the visit very
much In spite Of the extremely warm
weather. Mr.. Camp said she was glad
to be home again-whle we have no
doubt the Two orphans" are as glad
as she is-only moreso. What Is
home without mother?"
Sunday afternoon while the Rio
Grande passenger train coming In from
Durango and Silverton was running
through deep curved cut few miles
this side of the Toltec tunnel, two
huge boulders, being loosened by the
recent rain storms, came rolling down
the steep embaBkment and struck the
train between the tender of the loco
motive and mall car, the force of
which drove out the springs from un-
der the car. The train was heavily
laden with passengers from the south
western portion Of the state. and for
a time they were panic stricken, due
TO the close escape Of horrible acct
dent. The engineer is to be congratu-
lated on account OF his presence OF
mind and having his train under con
troll when the rocks came down upon
H. A couple of hours was spent by
the train crew in removing the debris
and fixing the damaged car and the
train arrived safely In Alamosa about
0 o'clock last night -Alamosa Empire
Mr. and Mrs. b. l.. MOffat and fam
lily were among the arrivals on last
nights train from Tucson. Ariz. They
went down on the Red Apple this
morning to visit Mrs. Moffat's father
at Aztec.
Miss Mary l.. Cramer OF Telluride
came In night before last from Pa
gosa Springs and was the guest Of
Mrs. Barney Gogarty yesterday The
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