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Semi-weekly herald., 1911-09-21
AS PRIZES
AT APPLE EXPOSITION

DENVER, Sept. 20.-Cash prizes
and special premiums to the amount
Of $4,000 will be awarded at the
American apple exposition which will
be held in Denver the week of Nov.
12. The second edition of the pre-
MUM list will be off the press in
about week, and the last edition will
be published about the middle of Oc-
tober. Apple growers can receive cop
les by writing to headquarters of the
show in the Chamber of Commerce
building.
No expense and effort are being
spared to make this show one of the
biggest and best ever held any where.
Apple growers in every district in
America are invited to send exhibits
and the management assures them
that their fruit will be judged strictly
upon merit.
More than $4,000 in prizes will be
awarded in the twenty-five box exhi-
bits, over $4,000 in the ten box dis
plays and 1000 in the five box dis
plays. No exhibits will be accepted
of more than twenty-five boxes, and
from that down to plates.
Among the special premiums will
be farm implements and machinery,
spraying outfits, orchard heaters and
nursery. stock.
One of the big attractions at the
show will be the apple kitchen. Ap-
Piles will be cooked in every conceiva-
BILE manner and demonstrations will
be given to show women visitors just
how it is done. There will be an ap-
pie packing contest and box making
contest in which valuable prizes will
be awarded.
Among the handsomest trophies to
be awarded will be one offered by the
. International Apple Shippers associa-
, ton. A great many silver cups have
been presented by apple dealers ant
Semi-weekly herald., 1911-09-21
GATHER UP
THE WEEDS
Civic Club Asks Everyone
to Lend a Hand Friday
Before Fair

Now is the time to obey the in
junction Of Holy Writ, "to gather UP
the tares, and bind them in bundles
to burn them" for Friday next has
been established as "clean up" day
by the Civic club and city council
Last evening a committee of the
former appeared before the council
and laid their plans before that body.
The council granted the ladies' re-
quest, and promised their enthusias-
tic support. They also voted to allow
the club the use of the street clean
ing department, men, wagons and the
teams, for one day, which after con-
ference with the street commissioner,
was fixed upon as Friday of this week
Superintendent e. o. Smiley of the
city schools has agreed to cooperate
with the Civic club. in their efforts
to produce a beautiful city, and
corps of high school boys will be on
duty on Friday to assist in the good
work.
Now is the time for the citizens of
Durango to yet busy and do their part
in ridding the city of the unsightly
weeds and other trash which give the
town such an untidy and neglected
look. Few individuals for business
reasons can afford to be untidy in
their personal appearance, and the
same is true of town. If we would
attract to us the right kind of peo-
pie, we need to keep our streets and
sidewalks, as well as our yards, free
from weeds. To see crop Of weeds
on the face of our streets and side
walks, suggests thrift and prosperity
no more than four or five days
growth of beard on the face of a
man who advcrtises his neatness.
The Civic club ask all Durango cit
izens to collect the weeds not. only b,
their yards but in the street contigu-
GUS to their property and burn them.
Let us all do our part to see that
there shall not be weed left in the
city by Friday night. 1t is amazing
how much may be accomplished when
all work towards the same end.
When you see the ladies Of the Civ
ic club busy with their groups of
workmen on Friday in different parts
of the city, trying to make a City
Beautiful, that will appeal to our WIS.,
itors Of net week, as prosperous
and desirable place to live, be grateful
foi the efforts they are putting forth,
and If there is anything you can do
to help them, do it. What is benefit
To Durango, helps us all. Good citi-
zens of Durango, as you are loyal to
your town. get busy!
Semi-weekly herald., 1911-09-21
WOMEN FARMERS
ORGANIZE IN AFRICA

COLORADO SPRINGS, Sept, 90
The first auxiliary to the International
Congress of Farm Women has been
organized in the Union of South Afri-
ca. AT the first international con-
gress, which meets in this city Oct
u, the South African congress will
ask for affiliation. A letter was re-
ceived at headquarters giving details
oil the organization at Pretoria and
the calling Of congress there on Oct.
5 and 6.
The officers of the African congress
are: Lady Gladstone, wife of the gov
ernor general, Lord Gladstone, patron
ess; Lady Methuen, wife of General
Methuen, commander-in-chief of the
South African forces, president; Mrs.
Louis Botha, wife of the prime min
lister and minister of agriculture, and
Mrs. Johan Rissik, wife of the admin
istrator of Transvaal province, vice
president; Miss ]. C. Van Duyn and
Miss |. Lodge, secretaries. Miss Van
Duyn is gold medalist in household
science at Macdonald college, Canada,
and Miss Lodge is deeply interested
in all matters pertaining to women's
work. The object of the two Farm
Women congresses is to discuss mat
ters Of vital interest in rural homes
seeking to make them healthier, hap
pier and more beautiful.
Semi-weekly herald., 1911-09-21
EFFECT OF A NAME.

"Give a dog bad name, and hang
him." runs wise old saw, but who
would believe that in this age any
one would superstitiously suppose the
name it bears among men influences
the character of a body of water :?
From St. Petersburg comes the report
that the czar is of the opinion that
the name Of the Black sea should be
changed because Of the number of
wrecks on its stormy waters. They
average more than one day, in some
years mounting to four hundred or
even four hundred and fifty, many
Of them being attended with large
loss of life. However, why should the
name of a color be necessarily asso-
ciated with good fortune or disaster? ?
Consumption has not ceased to be q
dreadful disease since men began call
ing it the white plague."-iIancock
(Mich.) Evening Journal.
Semi-weekly herald., 1911-09-21
IGNACIO INDIAN FAIR
A GRAND SUCCESS

There is much of interest to be seen
at the Ute Indian fair, at Ignacio,
especially to tenderfoot like this
editor The Indians themselves, cos
tuned in their distinctive dress, gaudy
in color and elaborate in design, are
alone a sight worth seeing. Many of
the squaws are carrying, in "baby-
boards" lashed upon their backs, cute
little pappooses who solemnly survey
the crowds and roll their little black
eyes, which appear to be the only por-
ton of their little bodies which are
movable in their packings. The wom-
en- wear beaded moccasins and leg
gings, brightly colored dresses and
most gorgeously tinted shawls. The
men wear variety of costumes rang
ing from the aboriginal to the up-to-
date clothing store ''hand me downs"
The largest number of the men, more
particularly the young bucks, wear
their hair in two long braids, each
braid wrapped in vividly colored rib
ben. Their horses are decked with
flashy ornaments and bear themselves
proudly, just as the crack steeds of
noble warriors should do.
At the agency office building two
large rooms are devoted to the fair"
these rooms are filed with specimens
showing the agricultural and indus
trial skill of the Utes. There are
pumpkins and squashes, onions and
potatoes, grains and fruit, in great
abundance. On the walls hang ex-
hibits showing the skill of the older
women in bead work and of the young
err women in needlework. On table
is spread most delicious looking lot
of cakes and pastry, bread and bis
suits, all cooked by the girls who at
tend the agency school, and in little
punches around the grounds the cook
ing of the daily meal, in real Indian
campfire style, is going on, the vi
ands in the latter cases being fresf
beef which is being rationed out, with
anu DSaiot W Vic hfcs'N''
the families in attendance who no
only receive the rations and pack then
to their camp but also go out ant
gather up the wood with which tn
meal is cooked. 1t is scene in whicl
the primeval and the modern sit sid
by side.
The old fellows, SCARED and wrin
kled, appear to take great pride i
the grains and vegetables exhibited
they stand and look, with solemn Wis
age at the display of bead and needl
work but at the sight of the pro
digious vegetables they warm up an
grow eloquent in the Ute way. /
our judgment the government is max
ing a great mistake in not appropr
ating sum Of money sufficient I
make It possible to award number q
Semi-weekly herald., 1911-09-21
A FEASIBLE
ROUTE WEST
New Road Will be Built
From Santa Rosa, n. N.
by Rock Island

ats feasible route" so says Sur
veyor j. w. Giddings who, in company
with II. S. Wanamaker, a capitalist of
San Francisco, has just completed a
horseback ride of fifteen hundred miles
along the proposed line of the lew
railway which is to connect Durango
with the Pacific coast.
Mr.. Giddings is an experienced civil
engineer and, in his talk with us
this morning, expresses his belief that
most practicable route from the
towns of Springer, on the Santa Fe,
and Santa Rosa, on the Rock Island,
through Pennington, Durango and the
Montezuma valley, to the coast, has
been discovered. He states that Mr..
Wanamaker, who made the entire trip
with him, is highly pleased with the
route selected, that it is route of
easy grades and minimum cost of con-
struction, and that he believes that
in the near future the work Of ac-
tual construction will be begun.
While the project is said to be an
Independent one yet we believe that
the great Rock Island system is be-
hind it and, if we are right in our sur
misses, the road will be in operation
in the not distant future, it is a well
known fact that the Rock Island has
been for some time casting envious
eyes at this part of the country and
figuring for an outlet to the coast
through this particular part Of the
southwest. This road, when built, will
give the San Juan basin the long de-
sired connection with the cities on the
coast and will be the means of max
ing Durango the most important cit,
: between Denver and the Pacific coas
, towns.
Semi-weekly herald., 1911-09-21
TAFT COVERING MICHIGAN.

GRAND RAPIDS, Mich, Sept. 20.
Grand Rapids is preparing cor
dial welcome for President Taft, who
is due to arrive in this city about
breakfast time tomorrow for n visit Of
six or seven hours. Grand Rapids
central location and the strong in
fluence it Yields in Michigan politics
have led to the belief that the speech
to be delivered here will be one Of
the most important Of the presidential
tour. At luncheon the president viii
meet some of the prominent men Of
the state and after a short drive about
the city will depart at 2 o'clock in the
afternoon for Kalamazoo, which will
be the last stopping place in Michi-
gan.
Semi-weekly herald., 1911-09-21

substantial prizes to the growers Of
the winning specimens from the gar.
den and the field. 1t may be true
that nothing can be done to induce the
old men to turn their time and atten.
ton to the work of growing crops but
the young men could be interested
and could be transformed into good
farmers and into self-respecting and
self-supporting people.
Tomorrow the fair will end with
the awarding of the premiums and
the distribution of such prize money
as Superintendent Werner has been
able to raise for the occasion, and with
a reproduction Of the famous battle
between the troops and the Kiowa-
Comanche warriors, in which Buckskin
Charley and three other old Ute
braves, who actually took part in
the battle, will participate. A NOV
ing picture show company have a
force of men on the ground and pic
lures of this battle will be taken
and films produced for the instruction
and amusement for the photoplay GO
ers of the nation.
Semi-weekly herald., 1911-09-21
DENVER TEAMSTER RUN
DOWN BY ID. & X. G.. TRAIN

Western Press.
DENVER, Sept. 20.-Carl F. Holm,
40 years old, and teamster, was
run down and instantly killed last
evening by D. g. r. G. passenger
train.
According to Joseph Peterson, who
was with Holm, they were walking
down the center Of the track toward
town. The approaching train was not
heard by either of the two men until
it was almost upon them. Peterson
was the first to see the train and
jumped and at the same time yelled a
warning to Holm who in an attempt
to jump from the track stumbled and
fell. Before he could crawl from the
track the train, which was running at
high rate of speed, struck him, hurl-
ing his body nearly fifty feet and kill
ing him instantly.
Semi-weekly herald., 1911-09-21
INDIANS WIN BATTLE
WITH MEXICAN TROOPS
Western Press.

Western Press.
MEXICO CITY, Sept 20.-One hun
dred and seventy-eight men were kill
ed and 2l5 were wounded in battle
OH the banks of the Girpalva river,
near the city of San Cristobal, be-
tween force of 5000 Chiapas Indians
and 1900 Maderists. The battle was
brought on by the opposition of the
Indians to the candidacy of Archbish-
op Leva for the governorship of the
state of Ciapas.
A small band which raided San
Cristobal was repulsed and followed
into the hills by Captain Culebra. The
Maderists encountered the main body
Of Indians in ambush and were com
plcted routed, the Indians then march,
ed on San Cristobal and took COM
plete possession of the city. Three
thousand Indians have left Tobasco
to join the Chiaspas band. The COM
bined force will attempt to drive the
Catholics from the state.
Semi-weekly herald., 1911-09-21
WIN. S|MONS
FOUNDDEAD
hs$:y Shows Death
wSs.e to Natural
Causes

About O'Clock yesterday afternoon
the dead body of William R. Simons
was found down by the railroad yards
near the Durango feed corral.
Joe Shields, young man who was
passing through the yard, noticed the
body lying in the weeds and he at once
notified Officer Garbanati who went
down to investigate and found the
man dead.
Hood & Ames were notified and
took charge of the corpse which was
at once identified as being the remains
of Simons.
An autopsy was held by the cor
oner, Mr.. Hood, with DR.. Hobby as
attending surgeon, and it was found
that the man came to his death from
natural causes, the autopsy revealed
the fact that the man had been in
very poor health, he had been suffer
ing from heart trouble and had been
drinking heavily for some time, cal
culous deposit had formed just at the
apex of the heart and had weakened
him to such an extent that ne had
chilled to death in the cold rains of
Monday night
Simons was man of about 40
years of age. He had at one time con-
Quoted a hotel at Bayfield, and oper-
ated a stage line between that town
and the railway station of Ignacio
He had been drinking heavily for
some time and it is thought had wan
dered down by the tracks on Monday
evening and in his impoverished cons
dition had been unable to survive the
effects of the chilly rains. The de-
ceased has a brother living here and
his mother and another brother are
residents of Alamosas ito which place
the remains will be sent, nsstonIor
rows train, for interment.
Semi-weekly herald., 1911-09-21
ELco ECHOES.

A severe hail storm visited this sec-
tion today doing much damage to
growing crops. The alfalfa which
was ready to cut is almost total
loss. ~
Edna Nephew, Mes. John Frazier
pnd Carter Frazier spen. Saturday
and Sunday in Durshgo.
Mary Probst and Clement Rhodes
have been absent from school IN .c-
count of sickness. ss...--.....---..-.-..-.a,..
xina Frazier and Lloyd Anderson,
students at the Durango high school,
spent the week enI with the homo
folks at Elco.
Mr.. Welch of Bloomfield N. W., live
stock inspector for San Juan county,
made a business trip 10 this region
Sunday.
lisa and Ethel Craig left Friday for
Vinita, Okla, where they will spend
the winter with their father, DR..
Craig.
Robert Frazier returned Monday
from business trip to Pennington.
Rev. Russell, Sunday school mis-
sionary for the Presbyterian church
in Colorado, and Rev. McChesney Of
Ignacio were visitors at Elco Friday.
Rev. McChesney was looking after his
parishioners among the Meicans in
this vicinity and at La Posta. Rev.
Russell visited the Elco Sunday school
on Sunday and gave an interesting
talk TO the children.
John Bryce of CASTELAR,. Sam, Tom
and Mary Hanger Of Riverside and
Robert and Clay McCulloch Of the
Sunset Mill region attended church at
Elco Sunday.
Semi-weekly herald., 1911-09-21
STRIKE TIES
Up SYSTEM
Not a Street Car RunIliae
in Detroit---17OO Men
Are Out

Western Press.
DETROIT, Mich, Sept. 20.-Sev-
enteen hundred employees of the De-
troit United Railway company went on
a strike at 8 o'clock this morning and
no street cars are running in the city.
The men got %, % and 28 cents an
hour.
Practically all the men were at
our meeting this morning." said one
of the men," only about fifty were
absent. There was not dissenting
vote on the strike proposition"
The state fair officials were out
early, anxious and worried about con-
ditions at the fair grounds. With
the big fair under way and only two
days gone, with thousands of peo-
pie expected today and all the rest
of the week, this means to them a
great loss.
When the company yesterday ask
Ell whether the union would consider
n thirteen-hour day at new sched-
ule the men offered to try the hours
for thirteen days. The company in
sisted If the question Of wages was
to be considered the men must ac-
cept thirteen hour schedule without
trial
Semi-weekly herald., 1911-09-21
K|[LfDSfLf
AND BABES
Poor Health and Worry
Drive Woman TO an
Awful Deed

Western Press.
CANON CITY, Colo, Sept. 90
Broken in health by the hardships at
tending the birth and rearing Of elev-
Ell children and despondent Of their
lives prospects, Mrs. Matte Garrett,
Al years old, killed her youngest
daughter Juanita, aged 3, and her g.
year-old son, ID. w. Garrett jr., some
time yesterday afternoon, by shooting
them through the heart with re-
volver, and then committed suicide
with the same weapon. Mrs. Garrett
shot herself in the left breast but
the wound not proving at once fatal
she cut her throat with a knife and
also tried to stab herself through the
heart. None of the knife wounds would
have proved fatal.
Before killing herself and the chill
dren Mrs. Garrett wrote note on a
calendar hanging in front room,
reading: my head is killing me and
| must end it all.-Mattie." This note
was found today.
Mr.. Garrett and the five other chill
dren of the family had been working
in an apple orchard during the day
and did not return home until nearly
dark. Ethel, Is years old, was the
first to enter the house. Not finding
her mother in the kitchen she called
for her but received no 1nswer She
first went into front room and
from there on into one Of the bed
rooms where the bodies Of The dead
children and mother lay on the floor
each in a pool Of blood.