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Semi-weekly herald., 1916-08-07

tain roads are even better than the
roads in the lower country where
both are simply earth roads, as most
of them are.
AS to the road over Wolf Creek
Pass, it is safe to say that the ordi-
nary driver would hesitate to take
his machine over it even if it were
an old road had it been raining for
some two or three weeks. 1t is prob
able that the authorities should no.
tify the public that the road is not
suitable for travel during this rainy
weather. The San Luis valley people
should take care of that from the
other side as there is where the road
is in bad condition from the heavy
rains. A day or two of sunshine and
no rain will put that road along with
other roads in good shape.
La Plata County Roads.
The county commissioners and the
road officials got to work yesterday
and put the road to the south in fair
ly good shape for auto travel. While
there were no particularly bad places
in the county there were a number Of
| little washouts around culverts and
washins along step hillsides. Cars
are travelling regularly between Du-
range and Pagosa Springs, some go
ing out this morning and others go
i ;,,o fhtc oft Tho wade
have not been impossible between
Durango and Montezuma county.
Cars have been making the trip, but
have found some very muddy places
just as one would naturally expect
after such continuous raining. About
the only advice that can be given to
autoists that they should wait until
the weather has cleared and the roads
have dried. At least only the best
and careful drivers should undertake
mountain trips on new roads and
rainy weather.
Many are expressing their praise Of
the new Carbon road which came in
for some criticism at the time it was
built. Altho we had one of the hard
est rains in years the road stands as
firm as a stone wall. The debris
washed down in places was easily
removed in few hours and cars are
moving as usual.
Later-Two bridges are reported
out on Spring Creek in the Tiffany
section and the commissioners on re-
quest have sent extra help there.
Semi-weekly herald., 1916-08-07
CALL FOR BIDS

SEALED PROPOSALS will be re-
ceived by the County Commissioners
of Rio Arriba County, New Mexico,
on the 20th day of August, A. ID.
1916, in the office of the County
Clerk of the County of Rio Arriba
for the building of the County Court
House at TERRA Amarillo, the Coun-
ty seat of said County, according to
the plans and specifications now on
file in the office of the County Clerk
of said County.
Copies of the plans and specifica-
tions can be examined by applying to
the County Clerk of said County.
All proposals and bids must be ac-
companied by a certified check of
no less than 10 per cent of the bid
and a good and sufficient bond will
be required from the contractor for
the proper fulfillment of the construc-
tion of the said Court House, and the
termination of the building.
The County Commissioners of said
County will reserve the right to ac-
cept or reject any and all such pro-
posals and bids.
CARLOS MARTINEZ
Chairman of the Board of County
commissioners of Rio Arriba County.
TERRA Amarillo, N. M,
July 10Th, 1916.
M. A. GONZALES,
County Clerk.
First publication, July 20.
Last publication, August 10.
Semi-weekly herald., 1916-08-07
SHERIFF'S SALE.

BY VIRTUE OF writ of execu-
ton issued out of the clerk office OF
the district court Of city and county
Of Depver, and the state of Colorado
and to me directed, whereby l am
commanded to make the sum of two
thousand one hundred and twenty
two and 5l-l00 dollars, ($2, ,l22.5l)
and costs of suit, the amount of
certain judgment recently obtained
against The Copper Hill Mining COM
pany in favor of The Stearns- Roger
Manufacturing company, out of the
lands, tenements, goods and chattels
OF the said The Copper Hill Mining
Company | have levied on the follow
ing property, to-wit:
The compressor house of the above
named The Copper Hill Mining com
pany, situated on ground said to be-
long to one Tony Du Pre-, about one
half mile south of the .awn of La
Plata in La Plata county, Colorado.
One Ingersoll Type 10 air COM
pressor plant complete, with air tank
| and all accessories, right hund num-
ber 18O89pp; left hand number
| 1SOSSpp. On steam boiler in setting
horse power about 20, with feed pump
| and stack; one l-qt. copper oiler. one
| bale cotton waste, five wrenches.
various sizes, one coil 1-2 inch hose
| with nozzle; all contained in the
| aforementioned compressor house
| One water tank about eight feet liz
diameter and twelve feet high, con-
structed of wooden slaves, located
or same ground as compressor house.
The following property of the said
company at the Copper Hill mine,
said mine said to be the property Of
one George Brawner: ~ lengths II
lb mine rail, l Leyner pneumatic
drill sharpener, five Water Leyner
air drills.
Therefore, according to said COM
mand, | shall expose for sale, at pub
lie auction, all the right, title and
interest of the above named The Cop
per Hill Mining company in and a
the above described property on
Tuesday, the End day Of May. 1915.
| at 2 o'clock p. IN. at the compressor
house of The Copper Hill Mining
company, and at the Copper Hill mine
near the town of La Plata in La
| Plata county, Colorado.
Dated at Durango this 17th day Of
April, 1916.
| The sale above advertised is here
by continued to August II, 1916.
| ARTHUR C. FASSBINDER,
| Sheriff of La Plata County.
Hartman & Ballreich, attorneys.
Semi-weekly herald., 1916-08-07

where today, no matter how much he
may have been needed.
At the end of the journey, however,
we found hope. We discovered that
bunch of mules had reached the
transportless troops in Mercedes val
ley by rail and that eight regiments,
including the First, Second and
Third Minnesota; First, Second and
Third Indiana, and the First and Sec
ond Nebraska, had received the d.
minutive quota of twenty mules
apiece. With transports of 20 mules
per regiment and roads like these,
the European war couldn't be fought.
Out of eight trucks we saw on the
trip, eight were mired.
Semi-weekly herald., 1916-08-07
NOTICE OF ADJUSTMENT DAY

The undersigned Judge and EX-
Officio Clerk of the County Court of
the County of La Plata in the State
of Colorado, hereby gives notice that
in the hereinafter estates he has fixed
MONDAY the 1lth day of SEPTEM-
BER A. D., 1916, for the settling and
adjusting of all claims against de-
cedents.
On said date all persons having
claims on demands against said
estates are notified and requested tc
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 estates
are requested to make immediate pay
ment to the Administrators and Ex.
ecutrix named, to-wit:-
Estate of George r. Brawner, de
ceased, Mary A. Brawner, Executrix
Estate of Abner S. Lowell, deceas'
ed, Ruth M. Lowell, Administrators
Witness, Richard McCloud Judge
and Ex-officio Clerk of said Court
with the seal thereof hereto affixed
at his office in said City OF Duran.
go, this first day of August A. d
1915.
RICHARD McCLOUD,
Judge and Ex- Officio Clerk of the
County Court.
(Seal of County Court)
First Publication, August 3, 1916
Last Publication. August 81, 1916
Semi-weekly herald., 1916-08-07
HIRAM JOHNSON FOR SENATOR

Over in the old California the Re-
publicans are having lively time
over the United States senatorship.
Gov. Hiram Johnson has placed his
hat in the ring and the political pot
is beginning to boil. johnson has
many opponents in the Republican
party. He belongs to the Progress
i've wing and the regulars are looking
for another candidate. There are
now three in the race. There is but
little if any desire on the part of the
Democrats to get into that kind of
fight in California. 1t is presumed
that Francis j. Haney, a former Pro-
gressive of Democratic nativity, will
be urged to accept the nomination.
This will muddle up the Progressives
some, since Johnson and Haney have
both been leaders in that party.
johnson, of course, will take with him
the Republicans and Haney will have
the Democrats. Then what will the
Progressives have if they decide to
stay in the ring as a national party ?
The two big leaders gone, the Pro
gressive party is gone.
Should johnson get the nomination
on the Republican ticket he will be
opposing Haney on the Democratic
ticket. There will be something do
ing then and it is a safe guess that
Hiram will do just as he has beer
doing in that state clean up the oppo,
| stion and Haney will not, from this
time on, look any better to him thar
did his other opponents that have hat
to take the count.
Semi-weekly herald., 1916-08-07
WATCHING FOR THE
DEUTSCHLAND

The great and only official organ,
(said so themselves) of unwashei de-
mocracy, passed into a state of inroc-
uous desuetude yesterday evening
about p. m. We don't know whether
it was too much feed at the pubic
trough, or too much weary waiting
for the Deutschland (from Chama by
express), but something awful must
have caused that fatty degeneration
of the heart, which caused this morn
ing's Democrat to overlook tie fact
that Democratic convention was he'd
last night, right at our very door,
ard Senator West was designated as
the Democratic standard bearer, in
the senatorial race. Why adyertise
Durango as the convention city, when
such an important event is allowed to
go unheralded? The convention co
we understand was attended by a
great throng of Democrats, and was
held right up in Geo. Moo iv's office,
bur Senator West surely must have
failed to "ante."
Semi-weekly herald., 1916-08-07
MOTOR TRUCKS ARE USELESS
ON MEXICAN BORDER IN

MERCEDES, Texas, August a. =
An American army of $4,000 men,
including New York, Illinois, Virgin
ia, Iowa, Dakotas, Minnesota, Indi-
ana and Nebraska troops, lies as
helpless in the muddy lower Rio
Grande valley today as an angle
worm in a jug of sorghum molasses.
In the dispatch car of Lieut.. ]. H.
Muncaster, chief of the new motor
car machine gun squad, with Ser
geant Wallace of the new squad as
driver, l rode fifty miles along the
lower Rio Grande front today.
The folly of equipping our army
with trucks after the European fash
ion, apd not having the European
roads, was seen every half mile. |
tried to imagine that / was riding
along one of the several European
fronts. Such sights as no European
front affords were common.
A rain such as today's would have
made no difficulties on any European
front but almost paralyzed the Amer
lean forces. Gen. Petain's thirty
mile flying circle of motor trucks at
Verdun, by which trucks carrying
supplies whirl to Verdun on one-half
of circle and return on the other
half, would be utterly impossible to
duplicate here.
When ! began the trip l knew that
many regiments were absolutely
horseless and in case of any sudden
movement it would be necessary to
transport all supplies on trucks, and
all troops on trucks, or afoot.
Seven miles from Brownsville we
found a three-ton truck blocking the
road -mired-with two trucks held
up behind it. If there had been 1O,-
900 men behind, going to save some
desperate military situation, they
would have been held up as well.
1t wasn't the fault of the truck,
which was resting on it's axles with
wheels whirling uselessly in mudpits.
This in the middle of the road. All
| European roads--even those in re-
mote Galacia, the present Russian
front; even those in Greece, Mace
donia and the wild Balkans - are
paved with stone in the middle so
that mid-road blocks are impossible.
Ten miles farther on another truck
was mired the same way. AS far as
other sights are concerned, it is easy
to imagine the trip. l was behind
the European armies and saw many
soldiers Undiscovered, dirty and wet.
Near San Benito we passed the dis
NAL American army cemetery with
white wooden crosses, where few Of
the soldiers killed in the Mexican
raids are buried. An American army
hat was stuck on one cross.
Our car itself was mired in a mud
pit made by a truck earlier in the
day. Eight louisiana soldiers, under
orders of Capt. Wilson, Twenty-Sixth
United States infantry, lifted it out.
The incident proved that while gen.
erals in The European war are able
to whirl to any part of their front
in autos in the nastiest weather, no
American general in lower Rio
Grande could not have whirled any
Semi-weekly herald., 1916-08-07
ROADS NOT BAD
CONSIDERING STORMS
(From Thursdays pailyl

(From Thursdays Daily
Notwithstanding the fact that there
have been several critical reports,
on the highways Of the San Juan,
given out recently il is only fair to
the people of the entire San Juan
generally and to the road officials
particularly to state that, consider
ing the two or three weeks of rainy
weather that we have had and the
fact that new roads are being built
and the old roads repaired in all
sections of the San Juan, we have
roads equal if not superior to the
roads of any other state in the Union
that have general conditions similar
to conditions in Colorado. In fact,
no one should expect good roads after
some two weeks of raining, even il
the roads be old and time worn. The
truth is they do not have good roads
anywhere during rainy weather un-
less the roads are gravel surfaced.
During the rainy season the noun
Semi-weekly herald., 1916-08-07
NOTICE OF CONTEST
Department of the Interior
United States Land Office

Durango, Colorado,
July 3rd, 1916.
To Abe S. Carmichael of Bayfield,,
Colorado, Contestee:
You are hereby notified that Albert
Won Rothberg who gives Durango,
Colorado, as his post-office address,
did on July Bird, 1916, file in this of
flee his duly corroborated application
to contest and secure the cancellation
of your Homestead Entry, Serial No.
O37O9 made November 16, 1912, for
the Wa NWA, NEA NWA and
NWA NEA of Section A, Township
"a north, Range 8 west, N. Nj. P.
Meridian, and as grounds for his con-
test he alleges that you have failed
and neglected to establish your resi-
dence on said lands in said entry
since you filed on said lands, and that
you have failed and neglected to
maintain your residence on said entry
and to improve and cultivate same
at all.
You are, therefore, further noti-
fled that the said allegations will be
taken as confessed, and your said
entry will be cancelled without further
right to be heard, either before this
office or on appeal, if you fail to file
in this office within twenty days
after the FOURTH publication of
this notice, as shown below, your
answer, under oath, specifically re-
spending to these allegations of con-
test, together with due proof that
you have served copy of your
answer on the said contestant either
in person or by registered mail.
You should state in your answer
the name of the post office to which
you desire future notices to be sent
to you.
G. H. CHARLTON, Register.
Date of first publication July 6, 1916.
Date of second publication July 13,
1916.
Date of third publication July 20,
1916.
Date of fourth publication July 81,
1915.
Date of fifth publication August 8,
1915.
Date of sixth publication August 10,
1e1&.
Semi-weekly herald., 1916-08-07
Texas Auto Party
Arrives in Durango

We had the pleasure of meeting,
this morning party of antoists from
La Mesa, Texas. They are on their
way to the Mesa Verde national park
and the Dolores range of mountains
where they are arranging with other
parties to go into the wilds of the
mountains in search of bear and other
big game.
p. j. Stark, C. II. French, Marvin
Horton, ]. C. Brown, p. S. Dunlap
and Jim Burleson compose the party.
These men together with 40 horse
power Hup are just the fellows to
get out and do something in the way
of seeing some of this little old world.
When we talked to them about muddy
roads they gave US the laugh" They
informed us that they had had but
little trouble with roads or anything
else and that they were no out look
ing for difficulties, but for good
time in the mountains.
They left their homes July 22nd,
and came up by the way of Roswell,
Santa 'e and Taos, New Mexico.
They they came thru Manassa, La
lara, Alamosa, Monte Vista and Del
Norte to the South Fork country,
where they proceeded up the new road
hardly finished to climb the conti-
mental divide. This new road and
mountain had no terrors for lot of
stalwarts as they are. When they
were asked about the new road, they
replied, ave did not have any par
ticular trouble coming up that new
road Saturday. We understood that
we were among the first to cross the
continental divide, but we enjoyed it
all the same, The mud in few plac-
es bothered us some, but no more
than the mud in other places, for in
stance, one at Manassa where a bad
ditch had broken let the water out on
the highway. They said, we stop
ped at Pagosa Springs and had a
talk with their road man over there.
They were asked if Fred Catchpole
was not the name and they replied
that it was. They told him of the
few bad places on the way that could
easily be fixed and he said that he
would have those places looked after
Immediately.
They came over from Pagosa yes
terday and are now in camp at Brook
side, a lovely camping place on juno
ton creek in North Durango. They
will remain here a few days taking
in the country and getting acquainted
with some Of our people.
Later they will leave for Mancos
and the Mesa Verde national park
where they will see the ancient Cliff
dweller ruins, said to be one Of the
wonders of modern times. From the
park they will go out in the noun
tains for hunt for bear and other
big game.
They are proud of their Hup which
carrier their heavy load a distance
of $40 miles thru all kinds of places
and over the mountains without a
hitch.
They ordered the Herald sent to
their home in Texas.
Semi-weekly herald., 1916-08-07

Edison Mason, Zipporah Mason
Billy Morgan and Weaver Masol
spent the day at Elco last Sunday.
Semi-weekly herald., 1916-08-07
500 Reward

The San Juan Wool Growers asso-
eiaticn will pay $1OO reward for inv
formation leading to arrest and con-
viction of any person or persons il
legally holding sheep belonging -
any member Of this association.
%-20-w and sw. Il.
Semi-weekly herald., 1916-08-07
SUNNYSIDE ITEMS.
, :. u !. Il u u :. u = u u u u

The Ladies Aid of Elco and Sun
nyside will give an ice cream social
and entertainment at Elco, Friday
evening August 4th.
Edison Mason, Zipporah Mason,
Billy Morgan and Weaver Mason
spent the day at Elco last Sunday.
Gladys and Josephine Hendricks of
Riverside, Vera Frazies of Elco, and
Zipporah Mason of Sunnyside spent
the afternoon and evening with Vadis
Paxton last Thursday. Miss Paxton
entertained the young ladies with
some very fine music.
George Morgan and Edison Mason
were business visitors at Eleo We'd
nesday.
Emma Probst and her small sister
Mary, will leave for Aztec, N. M,
soon, where the latter will attend
high school.
There has been quite bit of dam
age done to irrigating bitches, roads
ETC., in this section by high water
and heavy rains.
A. A. Brown, his son Fred and
J. M. Nelson enjoyed a fishing trip
in the Florida and Vallecito sections
last week.
Billy Morgan was a business WIS.,
tor in Durango Wednesday.
Semi-weekly herald., 1916-08-07
UNARMED VESSEL ToRPED0ED

LONDON, August 3.-The Cocker
liner Britannica with displacement
of thirty five hundred tons has been
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-04-22
ACCIDENTS DUE
TO APPLIANCES
Interesting Study of Casualties
Issued by the State De-
partment of Labor

More people were hurt in handling
mechanical appliances, such as tools
and the like. than from any other
cause in the list of 61,54O industrial
accidents for 1915 just studied by the
statisticians of the State Department
of Labor and Industry. The summary
of the industrial accidents of the last
year shows that 1908 of the 61.54O
resulted in death. Just 1874 of the
remainder being sufficiently serious to
result in disa Element for thirty DAYS
or the l9, Sc hurt in handling tools
and other appliances, only 2S were in
jured fatally and 1882 seriously The
next classification of causes is falling
objects which caused $500 accidents,
479 fatal. a large proportion of these
accidents were in mines.
Machinery was responsible for SOS
injuries including 119 fatal, 1,146
serious and 6,S14 minor. Explosives,
electricity. fires, hot and corrosive sub
stances caused 4.36S injuries of which
PA were fatal, 599 serious and 3.555
minor.
one hundred and three persons died
as a result of injuries received in fall
ing, $50 others were seriously injured
ana 4,645 suffered minor injuries from
this cause.
Employees working about cars and
other moving equipment sustained in
1uries which resulted in the death OF
15S, seriously injured S43 and caused
minor injuries of 2,919
stepping on nails and other sharu
objects resulted in injuries to 1.O47
employees, of whom IA died. 20 were
disabled for more than thirty days
and 1.O0S disabled for less than thirty
days. Seven workmen died from in
juries sustained by running into OF
striking against objects and 176 were
seriously injured in this manner while
2.592 sustained minor injuries
Poisonous substances caused one
death, serious injuries and 12
minor injuries.
ln the classification of miscellaneous
causes 5,O40 workers were injured OF
whom IS died. 449 were seriously in
jured and 4,506 disabled for less than
thirty days.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-04-22
Another Hill Climbing
Record For King Car

Chief Engineer r. p. Chase. of the
King Motor Car Company. has added
another Lookout Mountain on high
gear record to his string. This time
Engineer Chase piloted an eight-cyl-
inder King over Lookout Mountain,
California. lie already holds record
for taking King over Lookout Noun
tin in Colorado on the high gear. His
friends look for him doing the same
thing on Lookout Mountain Tennessee
before long.
The Kings chief engineer went TO
California to rest after the long. hard,
Gruelling trips he made with the seven
passenger. eiCht-cylinder King when it
was in its experimental stage. King
distributors in California asked Mr..
Chase to see things that are called
hard for an automobile to do i'm their
territory. He was taken over the
mountains to the Mexican border. out
OF Los Angeles east over the Arrow
head range. and then out on the desert
i'm Eastern California. He was whzZed
az a high rate of speed over Califor-
MAS boulevards. shown what the west
ern motorists demands of his car on
the hills in Los Angeles and San Fran
cisco.
In Los Angeles they have hill
known as Grand avenue. Motorists get
good fe est start. exceeding the speed
limit, to make this grade. AS a result
the police have become active. MIR.
Chase was able TO pilot a King up this
hill on the high gear within the speed
limit and TO bring the car half way up
the hill. stop it and then start off on
high gear and complete the climb.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-04-22
Buick Manager Opposed
to Deferred Payment Plan

Unqualified endorsement of the de-
nunciation hurled by r. II. Collins,
general sales manager of the Buick
Motor Company. against a general eX-
tension of the deferred payment plan
o. selling automobiles is voiced by Jay
V. Hall, general sales manager of the
Oids Motor Works. of this city
mo man should buy an automobile
until he can afford it, says Hall. ANY
other course is sure to end in disaster,
not only for the individual, but for the
industry as well.
ITO date the growth of the auto
mobile business has been absolutely
sound. at the expense of no other in
dustry. and of positively benefit to ALL
A wide application of the deferred
payment plan would change this COM
pletely by causing many men to as
sumo obligations they have no busi-
ness to carry.
I'm a majority of instances the
dealer would he the man to suffer. A
period of financial stringency among
his trade, and he would have a guam
tity of half-sold cars on his hands of
secondhand value, little cash, and no
credit at the bank to tide him over.
I'm the seventeen years of it's exist
ence the Olds Motor Works has dis
posed of millions and millions of dol
lars worth of automobiles without re-
sorting to deferred payment methods
in marketing its product. 1t is n shame
that the good name of Oldsmobile
should be linked with such a propo-
sition at this time. The idea will GER
tainly fail of endorsement by anyone
connected with this organization"