Semi-weekly herald., 1914-02-09

j. w. Hale of the Laplata, returned
from Denver last night where he
placed his little six year old son ir
care of his aunt. Mr.. Hale is making
preparations for an overland trip te
the Bluff section, where he has rad.
ium land interests, which he expects
to develop the coming season.
i Patrick Henry Davis of Thompson's
Park was licensed to wed Miss Anna
Schafer of Mancos, by County Clerk
Mrs. Orme today. The groom elect
is one of the prosperous ranchmen of
the Thompson's park section. He is
a brother of Mrs. William Shaffer of
this city. The bride is well known
young lady, of Montezuma county.
In his annual report to the city
commissioners, Fire Chief Dietrich
calls attention to the shack that is at
present being used for the storage of
the exercise wagon and the ladder
truck as being in a disgraceful and
dilapidated condition. He suggests
there is plenty of material at the old
water works plant, such as brick,
sand, window frames and other ma
terial that would go long way in
building brick wall of sufficient
height which, with lean-to roof
against the east wall of the city hall,
would make suitable place in which
to store the apparatus named and
would provide for the storage of
grain, hay and other supplies, and
recommends that this work be done.
P. c. Mochinsky, foreman at the d.
G. R. G. roundhouse, is home from
Montrose where he and his family
journeyed a few weeks ago to attend
the wedding of Mrs Mochisky's sis
ter, Miss Mabel Skinner Mr.. Moch-
isky encountered no end of trouble on
his trip home. Mrs. Mochinsky and
the little girl started home with him
At Telluride they were blockaded for
three days. The prospects for the
road to be opened soon did not seem
favorable so they were returned to
Montrose, where the feminine portion
of the family decided to tarry until
railroad service was restored on the
Southern. Mr.. Mochinsky made an
other attempt to get to Durango by
way of Salida. Here blockade made
it necessary for him to change his
plans and he was obliged to return to
Ridgway and travel over the South
ern to Durango. His Montrose to
Durango trip covered just seven days.
In his annual report Water Com
missioner Redman gives a detailed
account of the work done by the de-
partment during the year. Among the
things mentioned are, the replacing in
the pipe line of $50 feet of tile with
spiral wound pipe; banding the pipe
with 1900 1S-inch bands between
mileposts 5 and 6; removing $50 feet
of slide on the Conroy ranch; cover
ing one-half mile of the pipe line with
brush to prevent cattle from tramping
on it and starting leak. The un-
covering, repairing, back filling and
replacing where the top showed decay
of $500 feet of pipe; placing several
new bents under the pipe at Shale
point, near the Martin ranch; putting
in 27S feet of pipe in the new spill
way at the Conroy ranch and replac-
ing two 90-degree angle boxes with
wooden stave elbows. The commits
sioner calls special attention to the
bad places in the pipe line near the
Cash and Conroy ranches and recon-
mends that the line be changed to
points where the danger of sliding
will be removed.
District Attorney George Lane re-
turned from Cortez last night where
he spent more than week collecting
evidence in the case of Wood and
Stern, the young men charged with
the murder of Nelson De Luche. The
preliminary hearing of the accused
men, which was held Saturday, re-
suited in their being bound over to
the district court without bond. Ac-
cording to the evidence produced on
the witness stand, De Luche and a
man by the name of Bennett were
driving along the road when Wood
and Stern overlook them and became
involved in a quarrel with De Luche
over gun that had disappeared. The
quarrel became very heated, and the
young men invited De Luche to get
out of the buggy and fight and one
of them stated he would be taken
out forcibly if he refused to do so.
De Luche complied with the order.
The fight started and shortly accord
ing to the testimony of eye witnesses,
Sterns pulled gun out of Woods
pocket and moved as though he was
going to shoot. De Luche drew an