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Semi-weekly herald., 1911-07-24
PLAYING POLITICS.

There is too much playing politics
in every branch of business in these
later days. Politics is played in the
city council, in the meetings of the
board Of county commissioners, in the
deliberations of the different state
boards, and we believe that this is par
ticularly true of the board of state
land commissioners, in this state. Pol
itics is played, and disgusting brand
of peanut politics, too, in the dispens-
ing of public funds of the municipali-
ties and counties of the state, and
even the funds of the state itself. The
reform" movements are, nine times
out of ten, only political move, a
move made not to cut out grating
but to change the personnel of the
grafters. The Lorimer case is, we be-
lieve, a case in point and of this case
the Denver Republican aptly says:
when the historian of the next
century undertakes to set forth the
Lorimer case he will enter upon one
o. those 'Man-in-the-I -Iron-M Mask af-
fairs that will keep him digging TIN
rest Of his natural life. In this day
there seems to be no end to the mat
Semi-weekly herald., 1911-07-24
DIR. WILEY'S CASE.

1t is to be hoped that thorough
Investigation will show that the Of
fense of DR.. Wiley against one of the
fduciary laws of the government is
not sufficiently serious to warrant his
dismissal from office. He is one of
the most valuable men that the gov
ernment and it's people have ever had
in their employ. From the details of
the case against him so far made pub
lie it appears that he is technically
guilty in the method of applying a
sum set apart for the payment of ex-
pert services to the federal depart
ment of chemistry. There is no
charge that he profited personally
through misapplication of this fund.
Nor will 1t be argued that the gov
eminent did not get its moneys worth
from DR.. Rusby, who received this
money in larger per diem fees than
the law allows. So the matter is pure
ly technical one. Not only that, but
the error was committed by DR.. Wiley
in his enthusiastic efforts to get the
best possible service for the govern
Semi-weekly herald., 1911-07-24
SilyertOn Booster Writes Herald of La
Plata and San Juan Mines

The strikes which have been made
and are today being made in the La
Plata mountains are having more than
local influence in bringing to light a
territory which has been sadly neg
lected and which has the combina-
tions of geological phenomena most
favorable for ore deposition.
The section referred to is the coun-
try extending northeast from the La
Platas- and southwesterly from the
South Mineral creek district in San
Juan county. Near Rolling mountain
which constitutes part of gigantic
stock of monzonite, Judson Clevenger
after twenty-six years Of assiduous
prospecting, by a combination of cir
cumstances, among which he secured
possession of long tunnel driven to-
ward his ground, has opened up a
body of sulphide ore in one of his
veins at the three hundred and fifty
foot level which has been reported by
those who have seen it to be strike
of Importance and apparently of great
stability and productivensss.
The Bandora mine, one of the best
mineralized lodes of South Mineral
creek has also disclosed some rich
silver ore in quantity which is bound
to bring considerable influence to bear
on the future operations of the prop
erty.
The writer has heard in Durango
that several prospecting parties were
early contemplating trips into this
section and from Silverton parties are
already in the field, others expecting
to follow shortly.
When Emil Fisher was in this sec
tion in the early days, sketching over
the country, it is reported that he
brought to Silverton from somewhere
in the neighborhood of Grizzly peak
a specimen from vein which yield
ed startling results in gold on being
assayed. He directed several parties
to the place but not having knowl-
edge of the formations was unable ap-
parently to send them to the right
locality.
Other stories have been told OF
rich finds in this section, the loca.
tions of which were not divulged by
men who took high grade ore from
them, most of whom died with theil
secret. Many stories of this character
have been followed up and the ma.
jority of them have proved to be pop.
pycock, but the latent possibilities OF
the section stand out enticingly to be
investigated and lend semblance OF
Truth to the reported discoveries.
Semi-weekly herald., 1911-07-24
A NEW COMPANY.

Rumors which have been prevalent
for some time with reference to the
acquiring of the Rocky Mountain Bel
Telephone companies by the Colorado
Telephone company are confirmed by
the action of the board of directors of
the former company at its meeting
held recently.
A few days ago the Colorado COM
pany merged with its associate COM
pany to the south-the Tri-State Tele-
phone and Telegraph company, which
has heretofore operated in southern
New Mexico and eastern Arizona
The merged companies were re-chris.
tened The Mountain States Telephone
and Telegraph company and the can
itai stock increased to $500 600.
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ment.
Still the law is the law when there
is mind to enforce it, and there is a
possibility that DR.. Wiley will be dis
missed from the government service.
Such action will be hailed with keen
delight by those who are not in SYM
pathy with the pure food and pure
drug laws. But not so with the peo-
pie generally Some of them have
laughed occasionally at some of the
pronouncements that DR.. Wiley has
made, and some Of the efforts he has
indulged in to make the administers
tion Of the pure food law worth some
thing. He has been pioneer in wax
ing the people up to the injury that
was being done their health through
impure foods and medicines. 1t was
natural, therefore, that some of his
dicta should be received at first by
the people az being strange. But time
and experience have proved that most
of it was sound. The people have
discovered that DR.. Wiley has beer
their champion in a most importan;
pursuit. They admire him and his
work and they would be loathe to see
him retired from office because of q
single error that he has made in mat
ters administrative.
Semi-weekly herald., 1911-07-24

ter. If testimony of witnesses, mil
lionaire and otherwise, is to be be-
lieved, it must have cost several mil
lion dollars to elect the blonde boss
of Chicago to the United States SEN
ate. And as for the individual and the
interest which were responsible, the
historian aforesaid will have an easier
task to determine who wrote "Shake-
spears.'
"The Iorimer case is being dong
to death. Every individual seeking a
passing notoriety, every muckraker in
and out of congress and every direct
legislation crank have had whirl at
it in the last two years. 1t is this
summers sea-serpent. The captain oil
industry and the. captain of the indo-
lent squad when there is nothing else
to be said or done can secure scare
headline by announcing that they had
something TO do with the election OF
Lorimer. The notorious jackpot ae-
cepting the evidence as true, must
have contained a kings ransom, be-
cause everybody that was anybody in
the nation was a contributor.
"And who was this man Lorimer
history may ask. The Lorimer myth
will be to the effect that Lorimer was
greater man than Morgan, had AL
drich in the hollow of his hand and
dictated to the White house, and, what
is Of more importance, perhaps, to
Wall street. He will be set down as
the greatest orator that ever entered
the sacred editice, a man who could
move the millionaire club to tears,
who made and unmade presidents and
who held the great state Of Illinois in
his vest pocket. And to secure the
election Of this Prometheus unbound,
the nation was deluged with gold,
parties were overturned and commerce
held in allegiance.
at would be cruel to expose the
myth at any time, much less now,
when the Democratic bosses have the
matter in charge.
I'VE are not in the secret but if it
were laid bare it would be found that
Lorimer's election to the United
States senate had nothing to do with
the case 1t was pounced upon to
cover up the real quarrel and the
real issue"
Semi-weekly herald., 1911-07-24
MANY CLAIMANTS TO
VISIT OMAHA LAND SHOW

OMAHA, July 17.-By a streak of
good fortune a large per cent of the
100000 people who are expected to file
for claims in Mellette and Bennett
counties, South Dakota, will pass
through Omaha and will be given an
opportunity to see the Omaha land
show at which the resources and OPP
portunities of the entire west will,
be exploited, Thus it will be possi-
BILE to directly interest thousands of
persons who are actually seeking
homes and who will be in the proper
frame of mind to receive and absorb
all the information that is thrust upon
them.
AS an example of the great number
of land seekers who will pass through
Omaha in October it is set forth that
in 1904 100000 people registered at
Bonesteel. Four years later at the
Dallas registration for Trip county
lands il4,000 seekers made filings. On
these figures is based the estimate
that there will be at least $1,000 reg
istrations at Dallas, Gregory, Rapid
City and Chamberlain for the Melette
and Bennett county lands. At least
10000 of these are expected to pass
through Omaha, which is the gateway
to the west, and it will be possible
to interest great many Of them in
the opportunities offered in the region
further west. The South Dakota reg
The country is composed of sedi-
overlain in part by quartz
trachyte and faulted profusely by in
of stock rocks and porphyry.
1t has been reported that Whitman
Cross of the United States geological
survey is responsible for the state
ment that the dikes of the La Platas,
credited with the derivation Of the
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and retain the good will of his pa
irons. This is no joke.

The longer we live the more we re-
alize that il we attend to all of our
own business properly we have got all
that we can do. We find that we
have no time to monkey with other
peoples affairs. Isn't that the way
with you? You may be making mis-
takes in your business, but we haven't
time to run after you and show you
where they are. You may be making
fool of yourself socially, but we have
all we can do to keep our own canoe
off the sandbar. If we go to wasting
our time looking after your business
something is liable to go wrong with
ours There are just enough people
in this world to manage all the busi-
ness properly. But if you neglect
yours to help us out there is going
to be trouble when you get back home.
We all like the man who attends
strictly to his own business better
than we do the buttinsky. AS we poke
around day after day we can tell the
men who are attending to their own
affairs and the men who are not. The
men who are attending strictly to
their own business are the ones who
go to the bank every day to make a
deposit. So tomorrow, when you start
over to your neighbor's TO give him a
little advice look around and see if
you can't use it yourself to very good
advantage.
Semi-weekly herald., 1911-07-24

and the first act of the Lew corpora
ton is the acquiring OF the Rocky
Mountain Bell properties by purchase.
The new corporation capitalized
at $50,000,O00, but less t an half this
amount will be issued against the
properties and an actual excess of
physical property will b. maintained
over the amount of stock issued.
There will be no preferred stock and
no bonds, and no attempt will be made
to pay dividends in excess of what
the public might consider reasonable
and honest. This financial policy is
merely a continuation of hat pursued
by President Field of the Colorado
Telephone company for so many years.
The latter company has long been
known for its conservative financing
and broad policy of making extensions
not only as demanded by the growth
of the country but in anticipation and
advance of such growth.
President Field will continue at the
head of The Mountain States TeleI
phone and Telegraph company, which
will be further officered as follows:
President-E. B. Field.
Vice President and Treasurer-Edw.
B. Field jr.
Secretary. f. Macdonald.
General Auditor-Roderick Reid.
General Manager-E. NJ. Burgess.
Semi-weekly herald., 1911-07-24
Jas. T. Dunn, Prominent In Business
World, Dies By Own Hand
Western Press.

Western Press.
ATLANTIC CITY, July 21.-Thom-
as T. Dunn, the head of a novelty
concern of Philadelphia, was found
dead in his room in hotel here early
this morning, having committed sui
eide by shooting himself in the heart.
A suit, for quarter million dollars
for alternating his affections was
brought by Mrs. Sarah II. Rosenbaum
Dunn against Mrs. Lizzie II. Holme,
Is pending in the New York supreme
court.
Dunn came from Philadelphia We'd
nesday and registered at a leading
hotel. All day yesterday he did not
leave his room and finally the hotel
proprietor sent up maid to learn
whether he was ill. She got no an
swer When the door was forced in
Dunn was found lying on the bed with
bullet hole in his heart, a revolver
lay beside his right hand.
Dunn went to San Francisco soon
after the fire and there met Mrs
Sarah Rosenbaum widow. Her first
husband was named Rogers. A di-
vorce had parted them and Duke"
hosenbaum, wealthy San Francis
can, married her. He committed sui
eide and left an estate worth more
than quarter million which by care
iui investment the widow enlarged to
over million dollars. Mrs. Rosen-
baum and Dunn were married in Los
Angeles on March 8, 1907. Dunn be-
come the proprietor of the Hotel Sa-
Voy IN San Francisco. Mrs. Dunn, in
ner suit, alleges that Mrs. Holme put
lr $4,000 to get the hotel for Dunn.
Semi-weekly herald., 1911-07-24

We don't want the sympathy of the
public, what we want is business,
business for tina country, the town and
our shop. We want to see the entire
community prosper and then we know
that we will get our share. The peo-
pie Of town had vastly better be
engaged in working for the good of
the town than in petty quarrels and
personal chickering's. A two line bosst
for the community is better than u
two column roast of competitor in
any line of business. The Durango
Board of Trade is doing its best to
boost and we are with each and every
member Of that organization in the
work.
Semi-weekly herald., 1911-07-24
Senate Expected to Pass Reciprocity
Pact Tomorrow Afternoon
Western Press,

Western Press.
WASHINGTON, D. c., July 21.-
President Taft will sign the recipror-
ity bill and this nation part in max
ing the reciprocity agreement an ac-
complished fact will have been per-
formed before he departs for Beverly
tomorrow, if present plans do lot mis-
carry.
Tomorrow is the day on which the
senate agreed to vote finally on ihe
pact. Immediately after the morning
business has been disposed of the yot-
ing on the am andments will BEGIN.
There are not so many of these to be
disposed of that the way cannot be
cleared for a final vote by 2 O'Clock.
There will be ample time then, if the
bill is engrossed in advance, for it to
pass by 3 O'Clock and then be carried
to the White house, which the presi-
dent will not leave until o'clock to
catch the federal express to Boston.
This is the present arrangement,
look to see the agreement, on the
part of the United States, carried out
before sundown on Saturday.
Bailey declared his set speech off
yesterday. Smith of South Carolina
was heard second time against the
bill and Hepburn talked against Jones
OF Washington and delivered a strong
argument in favor of the pact.
Speeches by Senators LaFollette of
Wisconsin, explaining his proposition
for revising the woolen and cotton
schedules of the tariff law, and Will
Liam Alden Smith of Michigan on the
various phases of the bill, were sched-
uied to occupy todays session of the
senate in anticipation of tomorrow's
reciprocity vote.
Semi-weekly herald., 1911-07-24
CHEAPER REDUCTION.

1t would seem to us that the decla
ration, made by Wizard" Edison, tha
by new process of electrical treat
ment the reduction of low grade orr
can be done at materially lower
cost, means a great deal to the Sar
Juan district and we are glad to know
that arrangements have been made
for experimentation along this line
and that two carloads Of ore have
been shipped to the Edison labora-
tory for that purpose.
There is no country on earth where
electricity can be produced more
cheaply than right here at the very
entrance to many Of the mines.
The Denver News says, editorially,
on this subject:
I'VE are very glad to have Thomas
A. Edison try to reduce the treatment
cost Of Colorado's low grade ores. In
work of that sort, Edison is as won
derful as the ancient wizards pretend
ed to be. A practical method for get
ting a few cents more per ton, net
yield, would put many now idle mine
in operation, and send many a now
worthless dump to the mill. But
after all, Colorado, not Edison, has
the chief work TO do in this matter.
.The basic need in the development
of electro-metallurgy is cheap slec-
tricitx. At Idaho Springs, where cheap
electricity il fact, an increase in
savings of 10 per cent was secured at
cost of about a cents per ton. In
Sweden, where electricity is cheap,
other wonders of equal measure are
worked on other ores. Near Niagara
Falls, where electricity is cheap, the
rare metals are separated from their
ores, and made ready for market. The
whole thing depends on cheap current.
And in Colorado, with the greatest
advantages ION earth for developing
cheap current, the price of electricity
is still prohibitive of experimentation
in the line most needed.
Eve can have National Forests"
where everything frsm the annual
flowers to the rocks are conserved"
for future generations. We can have
trusts, which capitalize franchises at
tens of millions of dollars, and make
the people pay dividends on this fic-
titious investment. But if we decide
to have and to hold these beneficent
things, we can't have the cheap cur
rent which will get the most value
cut of our mines. 1t is up to us to
make choice; and, considering the
present situation, one would think it
about time we made it."
Semi-weekly herald., 1911-07-24

The Herald wants the government
mining experimentation station To-
Gated at Durango but the Board of
Trade, having committed themselves
early in the deal, and pledged their
support to Silverton, will endorse its
location at Silverton. We still main
tam that Durango is the proper place
for the plant to be located, but if we
cannot get it hero we are tooth and
toenails for Silverton.
Semi-weekly herald., 1911-07-24

Every young man should ge< hold
of piece of land and hang onto it.
God is not making any more land but
he is making people every day and the
time is coming when a quarter section
of any of this land out on the differ
ent mesas will make its owner a
wealthy man. The old men all know
that this is true but the young man
will probably regard it as only a
dream.
Semi-weekly herald., 1911-07-24

We have this to say for Papa" Day,
he is one of the kindliest old chaps
we have ever ran up against and we
are not spring chicken-in years
either. His brusque manner is merely
mask which covers u kindly heart
and lot of good nature, we imagine
that the old man would fight like a
wild cat, if occasion demanded, but
he has ever been genial and friendly
toward us and we are ready to give
honor to whom honor is due.
Semi-weekly herald., 1911-07-24

We all like the girl who can dance
like dream and the one that can
pound the piano. We all like the girl
who writes verse by the ream or hol-
lers in high soprano, and the girl that
can talk and the girl that can not,
the sweet little saint and the sinner,
but the girl that we LOVE, the best
of the lot, is the girl that can cook n
good dinner.
Semi-weekly herald., 1911-07-24

Every business and every line OF
work has features about it that are
unpleasant, there is no walk in life
that is always smooth, and the SOON
er one comes to know this fact the
better for their peace of mind. When
one knows that sorrow and grief must
come one can prepare for their COM
ing but it takes experience to enable
us to know this.
Semi-weekly herald., 1911-07-24

Either tastes differ or else familiar
ity breeds contempt for yesterday we
heard Abe Hapgood say that he would
rather have a can of sardines any day
than trout and that mutton was
much better than venison.
Semi-weekly herald., 1911-07-24

Years of experience makes news
paper man callous regarding what his
competitor says of him and his paper,
the real test of the matter is in the
amount of free will patronage the pa
per gets. The public regard news
paper row as merely joke and tire of
it quickly.
Semi-weekly herald., 1911-07-24

This Awful Licking which we are
getting is bringing in some new and
unsolicited patronage for which we
are truly thankful. We can take care
of lot more even if we have to en-
large The Herald.
Semi-weekly herald., 1911-07-24

Denver has made a great city be-
cause every man, woman and child
in the city have always been for Den
yer. They Work, Talk and Boost
for their town first, last and all the
time. The Same results will come to
Durango if the same methods are
nursuad
Semi-weekly herald., 1911-07-24

Having made our own living since
we were fifteen years of age we some
how feel confident that we can con-
tinue to do so. We had nothing at all
to start with and have held our own
without help from relatives, or others.
Semi-weekly herald., 1911-07-24

Not being able yesterday to get
our phone report of the ball games
of the day previous we took the lib
erty of clipping the report from the
Democrat. 1t claims that the reports
were entirely wrong. What else could
have been expected.
Semi-weekly herald., 1911-07-24

To man up tree it does not ap-
pear that life, purchased at the cost
of lifetime in the penitentiary,
would be much to rejoice over. Only
the daily hope of speedy deliverance
could make it endurable.
Semi-weekly herald., 1911-07-24

We are willing to say this for the
Pueblo man who has gone crazy over
the subject of good roads, that he
could not have picked on better
theme to go nutty on.
Semi-weekly herald., 1911-07-24

While we strive to be generous and
pubfic-spfrited, anyone collecting a
fund To be used in securing suitable
national anthem, can save postage by
not writing. We can't sing, and are
willing to let the rest of the country
struggle along with such national an
thems as it now has in stock.
Semi-weekly herald., 1911-07-24

Unless we are at an entertainment,
in company with our better half, we
can always be found at The Herald
office or at our home. No night ca
rousing, sr bumnisg around, in ours.
We are too fat
Semi-weekly herald., 1911-07-24

The efforts used in hunting for
something to crouch about would pro-
duce better and more profitable re-
suits if used in looking for something
to boost.
Semi-weekly herald., 1911-07-24

All the aviators have made money
but the Wright brothers seem to be
the only ones who are making noise
as though they intended to live long
enough to get any good from it.
Semi-weekly herald., 1911-07-24

We believe that we have the best
disposition on earth. We never get
mad at anyone and never care darn
who gets mad at us. Birds of feath-
err will flock together and so will peo-
Pile. No one paper can satisfy all the
people and ne one paper can get ALL
the patronage.
Semi-weekly herald., 1911-07-24

We may get wrong report occa-
sicnally, we may be wrongly informed
by well meaning but mistaken friends,
but we will never, under any cir
cumstances, Intentionally mislead our
readers upon any matter.
Semi-weekly herald., 1911-07-24

When man gets an idea in his
head that people are picking on him"
he is usually mistaken, it is guilty
conscience, instead of the people, that
is picking.
Semi-weekly herald., 1911-07-24

Being baby is expected of in
fants but grown up people should not
indulge in that practice, remember
that only to him that overcometh is
there promised crown.
Semi-weekly herald., 1911-07-24

When our space gets so it is not
worth anything then we'll devote lot
of it to petty quarreling but as long
as there is a demand for it we will
use it in money earning.
Semi-weekly herald., 1911-07-24

Borrow copy Of the Democrat. and
see what Rod says about it. To be
too quick to fly off the handle is an
admission, sometimes. Learn to take
q joke or quit joking.
Semi-weekly herald., 1911-07-24

We imagine that lady, wearing
white hose and slippers, who is caught
out in big rain knows how to SYM
pathize with a farmer who has his hay
all in the swath when the floods come.