Jesse Millen-Johnson
Position: Staff reporter
Phone Number: (970), 375-4566

The West is History

100 years ago: “C.F. Faith, job foreman at the Durango Weekly Democrat, exceeded all local fishers in the catching last evening of an 18-inch trout weighing nearly four pounds, in the be...

The West is History

100 years ago: “A Clever Girl: We shall expect to see Clara Geoglein our next county clerk and recorder. Not so much because of her admitted popularity as that she has been an attentive ...

And the West is History

100 years ago: “Politically the Democrats predominate in La Plata County by 500-600 votes. It is quite evident then that Republican candidates to be elected must secure a few hundred Dem...

And the West is History

100 years ago: “Mr. ‘Jimmie’ Doyle will tear the La Platas wide open this fall. Everyone is glad that the coming season will see the greatest mining activity the San Juan Basin has known...

And the West is History

100 years ago: “Matt Schaffer, 50, a prominent and wealthy rancher, was kicked in the face and head by a vicious horse. His left eye was literally kicked out, and pieces of the bone of h...

The West Is History

100 years ago: “Bill Shaffer brought word down from Oro Fino yesterday that mountain rats had carried off half a case of eggs from a neighboring prospector and had taken them over a rock...

The West is History

100 years ago: “An astounding find from the Aztec ruins is a pencil – a real pencil, very much like those used today. It is bound with wood and string, and when one wets the end of the p...

And the West is History

100 years ago: “Aztecs thought to be descended from Scandinavian race: One of a pair of locally discovered mummies had red hair, indicating the Aztecs must have been a blonde race. Noted...

And the West is History

100 years ago: “Two men were killed instantly while placing a smokestack on the roof of a boarding house near Vanadium when they came into contact with a high tension line carrying 10,00...

And the West is History

100 years ago: “The impending railroad strike and complete tie-up of all the roads prompts us to suggest you protect yourself by having on hand enough sow bosom and beans to carry you ov...

And the West is History

100 years ago: “The late flood waters in Spring Creek were the means whereby ‘Spud’ House made a lasting ‘rep’ among the railroad boys by being the only one to walk the plank across the ...

And the West is History

100 years ago: “Mrs. James Moore, who underwent an operation for varicose veins yesterday at Mercy Hospital, is doing nicely.” 75 YEARS AGO: “Elite Beauty Shoppe – ‘Where H...