100 years ago: Clay Williams, “a recent arrival from Mancos, and now living on Fourteenth street,” was arrested on a warrant “sworn out by his wife, Bina, on a charge of assault and battery.” He was placed in the county bastille by “Undersheriff Hampton” and would “probably come up for arraignment” the following morning.
75 years ago: The Denver & Rio Grande Western railroad was granted permission by the federal district court to purchase “1,000 new steel gondolas to handle an expected increase in coal tonnage in Utah.”
50 years ago: It rained during 20 of the past 22 days, and the 12th day in a row, in Durango.
25 years ago: A man found “about 75 rainbow trout dead in his pond” at his residence in the 2500 block of County Road 240.
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.
