100 years ago: Silverton train service resumed after several “snowsheds” on the line caught fire.
75 years ago: Three hundred pheasants were delivered to Durango and taken to Fort Lewis by members of the Basin Sportsmen to be released and hunted.
50 years ago: The physician treating Ted Sooter, a 28-year-old man with a rare case of chicken pox pneumonia, reported he was “holding his own” against the disease.
25 years ago: Patrick Bing, a 26-year-old man from Durango, was charged with second-degree assault and felony criminal mischief after he beat a teenage boy with his own baseball bat and “bashed every window and light in his pickup” on Main Avenue. The brawl ensnared five people and about dozen passive spectators. Correction: Patrick Bing was arrested at the time for allegedly committing a crime. But this history item failed to note that subsequently, Patrick Bing was cleared of all charges against him, when the arresting officer admitted he had named the wrong suspect.
Most items in this column are taken from The Durango Herald archives, Center of Southwest Studies and Animas Museum. Their accuracy may not be verified.
