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Semi-weekly herald., 1916-06-26
NOTICE OF ADJUSTMENT DAY

The undersigned Judge and Ex-of
ficio clerk of the county court of the
county of La Plata in the state Of
Colorado, hereby gives notice that in
the Re, einafter estates he has fixed
Monday, the Bird day CT July, A. d
1916 for the settling and adjusting
of all claims against decedents. On
said date all persons having claims
or demands against said estates arc
notified and requested to present the
same to said court for settlement and
adjustment, at the court house in the
city of Durango, county Of La Plata,
and state of Colorado.
All persons indebted to said es-
tates are requested to make immedi-
ate payment to the executor and ad-
ministratrix thereof named, to wit:
Estate Of Frank L. Sortais, deceas-
ed, Jennie Sortais, administrative.
Estate of Edwin Southall, deceas-
ed; The Durango Trust Company of
Durango, Colorado, executor.
Witness. Richard McCloud, Judge
and Ex-officio Clerk of said court,
with the seal thereof hereto affixed,
at his office in said city of Durango,
this first day Of June A. D. 1915.
RICHARD McCLOUD,
Judge and Ex-officio clerk Of the
County Court.
.
First publication June !, 1915.
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Semi-weekly herald., 1916-06-26
500 Reward

The San Juan Wool Growers' asso-
station will pay $100 reward for in
formation leading to arrest and con-
viction Of any person or persons il
legally holding sheep belonging to
any member of this association.
4-20-w and sw. If.
Semi-weekly herald., 1916-06-26
Buys Large Tract Of Grazing Land.

Buys Large Tract Of Grazing Land.
H. N. Linebarger has bought a
large tract of grazing land ten miles
south of Chama and will 60 into the
cattle business on q more extensive
scale. The tract comprises 1900
acres of old Spanish grant and the
price paid is $2.15 per acre. Some
of the land is timbered but the tim
Der rights are reserved. The land will
furnish ample summer range for a
large herd of cattle while the Tiffany
ranches will grow the alfalfa for
winter feeding, which will surely
make winning combination. -
Ignacio Chieftain.
Semi-weekly herald., 1916-06-26
Trading Trips.

Among the out of town folk trad
ing at Graden's today were Mrs. John
Jelenik, Mrs, Casper Shafferhoff and
Ed Mackenzie of the Florida mesa
A. H. Greer, Walter Fielding and A.
Mckelvey of Kline; c. Vigil, Posta;
Tom McTaggart, Florida; Robert
Patscheck, Hesperus; David Mosier,
Sunnyside.
Semi-weekly herald., 1916-06-26
Purchasing Expeditions.

Among the out of town folk trad
ing at Otis, McGirr's today We're Mr..
and Mrs. E. e. Rist, Mrs. Ed. Pedwell
Carl Spinning. j. T. Fnzel, Mrs. s.
G. Parker and James F. Conway of
the Florida mesa; Elton Apperson,
Salt Creek; Howard Marshall and two
sons. and John Neary. lockwood; and
M. sgd Mrs. Bert strsttss, Brssa;
Semi-weekly herald., 1916-06-26
Post Offiee Moved Te..errew.

Post Office Moved Te@orrow.
The Durango postoffice which has
been in its present locati, n for more
than a quarter Of century will be
moved to the Blum block, corner Of
Main avenue and 10th street tonor-
row. The new quarters have been
thoroughly renovated and effectively
decorated, and equipped with up-to-
date steel fixtures.
Semi-weekly herald., 1916-06-26
Dry Weather Running Range

Dry Weather Running Range
Sheriff Dufur was up from Aztec
last night for the purpose Of filing
an application for new range with
the local forestry office. In the hills
where his stock is grazing nearly all
the water holes have dried up, and If
the dry weather continues the grow
ers fear they will be entirely without
water for the stock. The new range
sought still has an abundance of
water flowing.
Semi-weekly herald., 1916-06-26
LOCAL AND PERSONAL
FROM sATURDAY'S DAILY

LOCAL AND PERSONAL
FROM SATURDAYS DAILY
w. H. Akers was an arrival from
Eureka this mornjns who registered
at the Palace.
Mr.. and Mrs. ]. c. Fortisr of Ration
were passengers to Flora Vista this
forenoon.
Mrs. Bert Bondure went to Alamosa
to look after her real estate inter-
ests.
DR.. M. D. Taylor and Fred Town
send passed through from Trimble
this morning on their way to Aztec.
w. A. Navinger left for Farming
ton this morning where be will work
for the Enterprise.
The Pittman Motor Car company
delivered Ford to Miss Ethel Sparks
of Pagosa Springs today.
Mrs. Henry Klahn of North Du-
range went to Chama this morning
for few days visit with relatives.
Albert +. Green, arrived from Den
yer last night on inter state commerce
business.
Mrs. Mary T.. Conley, Mrs. Walter
Foley's mother, returned last night
from six months stay in Southern
California.
Con Nolan, C. & s. roadmaster
stationed at Trinidad, is here visit
ing. his relatives, Mrs. John Quinn,
who has been seriously i'll for many
weeks.
Mrs. Jesse Hallar and Miss Ger
trude Rickner were motor visitors
from Mancos who registered at the
Strater last night.
+. G. Gilbert and d. MacLean re-
turned from the Silverton camp this
morning, where business occupied
their attention for a couple of days.
=. C. Chultl of Colorado Springs
was hound for Flora Vista today on
tusiness connected with his wife's
estate.
Mrs. Will Steinberg was passeng-
er to Dolores this morning to visit
her sister, Mrs. Gordon Wood and
her mother Mrs. Chestine.
l.. Hendrickson left this morning
for Arizona, in company with George
Robertson, who is making the trip
in his auto.
f Miller, H. E. Brooks and Mr.. and
Mrs. j. C. Graham were members of
R motor party from Chrome who were
off for home this morning.
Mrs. X. n. P0ulson left this morn
ing for her home in the La Jara
vicinity, after visiting her son Dan
Christensen, who resides at Kirkland.
DR.. Robb of Silverton passed thru
Durango yesterday on his way to
Denver to purchase a new car. He
plans to make the return trip in the
auto.
j. Huber, gardner on the George
Allen ranch, returned to Pennington
today after a few days outing at
Trimbel Springs.
Miss Ella May Walvcrth, teach
er from the Ignscio section, was
guest at the Savoy last night, who
left for the Lower La Plata this
morning to visit her parents.
Pleasant Outing at Electra.
w. r. Abbott, head of the Colorado
branch of the American Steel and
Wire company, and C. E. Bullin and
+. B. Conine, prominent Denver lum-
bermen departed this morning after
spending yesterday at Electra, the
guests of William Birkhimer, in the
jackson cabin. A fishing expedition
in the Jackson motor boat formed a
part of the days festivities.
Activities nj the Ten Brock
o. j. Olsen, manager Of the Ten
Semi-weekly herald., 1916-06-26

w. H. Akers was an arrival from
Eureka this morning who registered
at the Palace.
Semi-weekly herald., 1916-06-26

Mr.. and Mrs. J. c. Fortisr Of Ration
were passengers to Flora Vista this
forenoon.
Mrs. Bert Bondure went to Alamosa
to look after hsr real estate inter-
ests.
Semi-weekly herald., 1916-06-26

w. A. Navinger left for Farming
ton this morning where be will work
for the Enterprise.
Semi-weekly herald., 1916-06-26

The Pittman Motor Car company
delivered Ford to Miss Ethel Sparks
of Pagosa Springs today.
Semi-weekly herald., 1916-06-26

DR.. M. D. Taylor and Fred Town
send passed through from Trimble
this morning ON their way to Aztec.
Semi-weekly herald., 1916-06-26

Mrs. Henry Klahn of North Du-
range went to Chama this morning
for few days visit with relatives.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-05-10
HE DID NOT WAIT
Negro Sold Chickens to Cope
and Then Fled.
Owner of the. Fowls a Witness
to Transaction.

''Forty-eight''-tha the telephone
number at the police station-just the
mention of it put speed into the legs of
a well-dressed young negro man who
was trying to put through a chicken
deal at the Cope Produce company
The Copes buy chickens. An old
negro man came in looking for chick
ens-chickens that had disappeared
the night before.
What kind of chickens were they?''
asked one of the Copes.
why, they was yaller one, a
speckled one, white one and the rest
wuz just chickens said the old negro.
He was permitted to look over all
the chickens the Copes had purchased
during the day. He looked longingly
at all of them but when he was
through he shook his head, sadly.
Nope" he said, my chickens
hain't there"
began to eXpatiate upon the trials and
fluctuations of a negro who tries to
make a living raising chickens among
his friends.
While he was talking young negro
dressed up, like a horse and buggy,
came in carrying a big pasteboard box
carefully wrapped in cloth.
You buy chickens l believe" he
said to Mr.. Cope, with a correspond
ence school accent.
we 90, SAID MT. cope, ana nuOSed
the man sitting on the chicken crate
to keep quiet.
The young man gave his name. his
address and told the name Of the man
from whom he bought the chickens.
Cope looked at the old man with a
question in his eye.
yep mumbled the old man,
''theIn's them.''
When the young fellow had COM
pleted the history of the chickens
Cope called to his son.
Roy he said, "cal1 up 49,
Not another word was necessary.
The young negro didn't even look at
his chickens. He looked for the door
and went through it the same instant.
He headed west, increasing his stride
as he went. He crossed Jackson street
and the line of vision just ahead of his
shadow kept going.
The old man gathered up his chick
ems and took them home.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-05-10
For Catarrhal Deafness
and Head Noises

4 Here in America there is much suffering
from catarrh and head noises. American
people would do well to consider the
method employed by the English to com
bat this insidious disease. Everyone
knows how damp the English climate is
and how dampness affects those suffering
from catarrh. In England they treat
tarrhaI deafness and head noises as a con-
stitutional disease and use an internal
remedy for it that is really very efficacious
Sufferers who could scarcely hear a
watch tick tell how they had their hear
ing restored by this English treatment to
was plainly audible seven and eight inches
away from either ear.
Therefore, if you know someone who
is troubled with eatarrh, cararrhal deaf
ness head noises, cut out this formula
and hand it to them and you will have
been the means of saving some poor suf-
ferer perhaps from total deafness The
prescription can be easily prepared at home
for about 75c and is made as follows:
From your druggist obtain 1 OF. of
worth. Take this home, and add to it
q pint of hot water and ounces of gran
iilated sugar; stir until dissolved. Take
tablespoonful four times day.
Parmint is used in this way not only to
reduce by tonic action the inflammation
and thus to equalize the air pressure on
the drum, but to correct any excess of
secretions in the middle ear, and the re-
suits it gives are usually remarkably quick
and effective.
Every person who has catarrh in any
form should give this recipe a trial and
free themselves from this destructive
disease.-Advertisemen
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-05-10
OUTNUMBER GERMANS
Berlin Critic Says French Have Twice
as Many in Verdun Battle.

Berlin, May 10.-'The German at
tack on Verdun is based in the crush
ing effort of German heavy artillery
writes Major Moraht, military critic
of the Tageblatt. 1.-The capture of the
smaller fortresses in the west at the
beginning of war by the use of heavy
artillery was only a prelude to the
artillery operations now in progress.
THE French have not been able to
compete with German artillery and
ammunition. The enormous losses of
the French are due partly to the eff
feet of the German artillery and partly
to the tenacity of the French who will
not abandon their trenches
Although it is generally considered
that attacking forces must be four
times superior to those of the defense,
in the Verdun campaign the number
of German troops engaged is much
less than half that of the French. The
number of French troops may be cal
culated at not less than 100000. This
figure represents half of the entire
forces which France still has at her
disposal for active fighting.
"All the German successes on the
eastern and western fronts were gain
ed with numerically inferior forces.
Moreover the Austro-Hungarian troops
for year have been holding back
twice their number of the enemy. The
principal elements in victory-quality
or troops and courage-are Steadily
working to our advantage"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-05-10
VOTE The BONDS
e. L. Copeland Endorses the
Auditorium Proposition.
Conventions One of Our Best
Assets, He Declares.

Topeka needs the new auditorium
to continue the growth or It's popu-
larity with the people of Kansas said
E. L. Copeland, treasurer of the Santa
Fe railroad this morning.
''Howd'ye mean, popularity! he
was asked.
"I mean that Topeka stands better
right now out in the state and there
is a friendlier feeling toward her than
ever before and the conventions we
have entertained during the past few
years are the cause of it," he ex-
planned.
ST have been travelling over Kan
sas twenty-five years and I can see
benefit to Topeka not only at home
but in bringing SO many Kansans here
and making them acquainted with
our people, our merchants, our
business and professional men,
and people in all lines, our places of
interest, public buildings streets, etc.
Conventions have acquainted thou
sands of Kansans with Topeka and
thus they have a closer interest in our
city than if they had never been
here
One of Our Best Assets.
Then he continued: That is the
reason we must remodel the audi
forum and make it big enough to ac-
commodate all our needs. We can't
afford to lose single convention.
They are one of our best assets. Fur
thermore, we are entitled to them. We
are entitled to all the state conven-
tions that meet in Kansas. We are
the state capital, the center of state
government and many of the most i'm
portant state institutions, we are well
located, have good railroad facilities,
and this is the logical convention
city,
Mr.. Copeland said he favored the
100000 bond proposition upon which
the people are to vote May 81.
Plan Is All Right.
Il favor anything that will increase
our facilities for entertaining people,
he said. 'One or two conventions
have grown too large for the present
large the present building or build a
new one altogether. But i see no
necessity for new building, since the
plans for the enlargement and re-
modelling will, as I understand them,
give US everything we need. I know
the men on the committee who have
this matter in charge and have con-
fidence in their judgment When
they tell me they have evolved a sat
isfactory plan, after devoting much
time to it, and then submit their plan
and explain it to me, I am willing to
go with them
81 am for the present proposition
for which the election has just been
called. l have studied the matter
over myself, and 1 think the plans
drawn will fill our needs 1 am for
taking care of the citys interests.
II hope the bonds will be voted y
said Mr.. Copeland, and that work
on both the buildings can be started
before the first of July. 1 hope the
people will study the proposition, and
especially the city's needs and not
vote from prejudice AM
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-05-10
STIRS HIS IRISH
George Bernard Shaw Resents
Execution of Rebels.
We're War Prisoners Not Sub
ject to Death Penalty.

London, May 10.-George Bernard
Shaw, discussing the execution of the
Slim Feiners in an open letter today,
says:
NV view is that men who were shot
in cold blood after their capture or
surrender were prisoners OF war ana
it was therefore entirely incorrect TO
slaughter them The relation OF ire
land to Dublin castle is in this respect
precisely the same as the Balkan
states toward Turkey or Belgium to-
ward the kaiser or of the United States
to Great Britain. Until Dublin castle
is superseded by national parliament
and Ireland is voluntarily incorporated
with the British empire like Canada
Australia or South Africa, an Irishman
resorting to arms to achieve the indie
pendence of his country is doing only
what Englishmen will do if invaded
and conquered by the Germans.
Is Not a Slim Feiner.
"Such an Irishman is as much in or
der morally in accepting assistance
from the Germans as England is in
accepting the assistance of Russia in
a. struggle with Germany. The fact
that he knows that his enemies will
not respect his rights if they catch
him and that he must fight with a
rope around his neck adds in some
measure to his glory in the eyes of his
coInpatriots ana in the eyes OF d1s1n-
terested admirers of patriotism
throughout the world. The slaughter
of man in this position makes him
a martyr. The shot Irishmen will
take their places beside Emmett and
the Manchester martyrs in Ireland and
beside the heroes of Poland, Serbia
and Belgium in Europe. Nothing in
heaven or earth can prevent it.
Il am not q Sim Feiner. I have
always insisted it is the duty of Ire
land to throw herself with all her
force against the Germans and Aus
trians, but i remain an Irishman and
resent any imputation that I can re-
gard as traitor any Irishman taken
in a fight for Irish independence
against British goYernment.''
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-05-10
Clear, Peachy Skin
Awaits Anyone Who
Drinks Hot Water
Says an inside bath, before break
fast helps US look and feel
clean, sweet, fresh.

Sparkling and vivacious-merry,
bright alert-a good, clear skin and a
natural, rosy healthy complexion are
assured only by pure blood. If only
every man and woman could be in
duced to adopt the morning inside
bath. what a gratifying change would
take place Instead of the thousands
of siclxly, manufacturing men, wo-
men and girls, with pasty or muddy
compleXions; instead of the multi
tlades of nerve wrecks" "rundowns,"
'brain fags'' and pessimists we should
see a virile, optimistic throng of rosy
checked people everywhere.
An inside bath is had by drinking
each morning. before breakfast,
glass of real hot water with a tea
spoonful of limestone phosphate in it
to wash from the stomach, liver. kid
neys and ten yards of bowels the pre-
vious days indigestible waste, sour
lamentations and poisons, thus
cleansing, sweetening and freshening
the entire alimentary canal before put
ting more food into the stomach.
Those subject to sick headache, bill
iousness, nasty breath, rheumatism,
colds: and particularly those who have
a pallid, sallow complexion and who
are constipated very often, are urged
to obtain a quarter pound of limestone
phosphate at the drug store which
will cost but a trifle, but is sufficient
to demonstrate the quick and remark
able change in both health and ap-
pearance, awaiting those who practice
internal sanitation. We must remem-
Der that inside cleanliness is more i'm
portant than outside, because the skin
does not absorb impurities to contain
mate the blood while the pores in the
thirty feet of bowels do.-Advertise-
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-05-10
PLAN DIDN'T WORK
Hill City BIackmaiIers Caught
at Crude Crime.
Victim Was Once the Wheat
King of Kansas.

Hill City, Kan, May 10.-A crude
scheme to obtain money through the
blackmail route was uncovered here
in the recent arrest of John Mccain,
who is in the Graham county jail
charged with attempting to extort
money from A. ]. Rice, a wealthy and
aged landowner, through a threat of
damage to property. Last Tuesday
morning when he started to leave his
room he found letter on his door
knob advising him to deposit $3.50 in
designated spot before o'clock Sat
urday evening. The letter said that
the writer was a member of a family
whom Rice had skinned" out of that
amount of money and that the whole
family would carry out the threats
unless the money were forthcoming.
Rice apparently complied with the
demand after consulting w. L. Sayers,
county attorney, and then Sheriff
Jones and Deputy Sheriff Gillen
watched the point where the can was
buried. When Mccain came to dig up
his money he faced two big shotguns
in the hands of the officers and he
surrendered. Later he wrote a letter
to Rice confessing the crime.
Once Kansas Wheat King
A. ]. Rice was known in 1908, as the
Wheat King of Kansas. Clarence Mat
son was sent out here by the State
Journal to write him up.
He was rich and a bachelor and the
notoriety he received from the State
Journal articles brought him letters
from matrimonially inclined women
from almost every state in the union,
also letters asking assistance, from
many needy persons and requests for
donations to large number of chart
table institutions. His mail grew SO
large that he gave up the task of an
swering the letters and many humid
reds of them he burned without read
ing them, or even opening the envel-
opes in which they came.
In spite of the fact that Rice has
long ago lived out the allotted days of
man he is still active and visits his
this, and adjoining counties, regularly,
using docile old horse hitched to an
Anticipated top buggy as a mode of
travel. Until recently he travelled on
a, bicycle and the sight of the old man
drifting along the highway with his
whiskers streaming out behind was a
very familiar one.
Owns Much Land
He is the owner of 118 quarter sect
ions of Graham county land and he
refuses to sell an acre. He main
tains an office in Hill City and throws
all valuable documents and legal pa
pers into one large box in his office
and calls his method the Rice Filing
System" He claims that by having
only one receptacle for all papers he
wanted papers can be found but ack-
nowledges that it frequently takes him
many days of constant searching to
dig out from the bushels of papers
the particular papers he wants. He
is queer, but good.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-05-10
WHO'S A VAGRANT?
Ralph Mathena Points Out Fact That
He Has Working Wife.

On the theory that he is a married
man and his wife works, Ralph Ma
thena protested bitterly when the po-
lice arrested him last night on the
charge of vagrancy.
''Vagrancy,' under the ordinary
police Interpretation, consists of ex-
listing without any visible means of
support. Mathena failed to under
stand why he should be charged with
vagrancy when he had a wife to sup
port him.
Mathena is alleged to be carrying
on a business that is all profit. It is
charged that he approaches strangers
who look thirsty and offers to find
liquor for them. They pass him the
coin, the police say, and Mathena for
gets to come hack.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-05-10
KIND TO PRISONERS
Turks Show Utmost Consideration for
Welfare of Kut-el-Amara Captives.-

London, May 1o.-According to a
dispatch from an "eye witness with
the British army in Mesopotamia,
Khalil Pasha. the Turkish general to
whom the British forces under Gem
era1 Townshend surrendered at Kut-
el-Amara showed the utmost consid-
Grafton for his prisoners.
Khalil Pasha expressed admiration
for the gallant defense of the garri-
son and showed anxiety that they
should be fed. He especially desired
that every comfort and consideration
should be shown to General Town
shend and expressed regret that his
own supplies were not more plentiful.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-05-10
FIGHT IN THE DARK
Owing to Absence of Light Stories Do
Not Agree.

Tom Slaughter, negro, was asleep
in his room at 10 North Kansas ave-
nue.. A friend wanted a match. He
woke Tom up and that made Tom
angry. So far both the friend and
Slaughter agree as to the statement
of facts, but at that point the stories
diverge.
Slaughter says the friend also be-
came peeved and SHE'D a water glass
at him, cutting a hole in his head.
The friend says Slaughter threw a
brick at him, in the dark, that 1t
bounced off and he caught it With
the same brick he tried to reshape
Slaughter's head.
Slaughter volunteered his presence
at the police station. The friend has
not been arrested.