The La Jara chronicle. (La Jara, Conejos County, Colo.) 1896-19??, 1904-11-25

Peter Hansen was doing business
in La lara the first of the week.
Traffic on the Denver & Rio Grande
is the heaviest it has been for years.
just received, new and pretty
assortment OF Picture Mouldings, at
the Drug Store.
G. G. Oliver & Co. are headquart-
ers for fresh vegetables. A full stock
of seasonable edibles always on hand.
Attend the supper given by the
Ladies' Guild tomorrow evening.
The best meal you ever got for a
quarter.
The farmers are now receiving the
highest price for wheat that has ever
been paid in the valley, 81 per bushel
or 81 81 per hundred
Greeley potatoes are now quoted at
IS cents per hundred, with no market
at that price. The crop this year was
the largest ever raised.
The Club saloon retails the best
whiskey ever sold over bar in La
lara. 1t is 40 proof and eight years
old. If you doubt it, come in and we
will prove it to you.
SHELDON & BRUMBLY.
Last Saturday night Mrs. VIM. II.
Kirby, of Sanford, suffered the loss
of her Thanksgiving turkey, sneak
thieves entering her coop and stealing
the bird. 1t was contemplate
trick and the identity of the thieves
is KNOWN.
A remarkable dinner was served
recently by farmer near Ault, Colo
RADIO. The table was set for twelve,
and the menu consi sted of one 81
pound potato, one 15-pound cabbage,
one 1O.pound chicken, one 6.pound
turnip, one 2-pound onion, and three
pies made from II pound apple.
Not satisfied with their present
cinch on the great industries of the
far west, the traffic officials of the big
lines are thinking of raising the rate
for transportation of wool to the east
ern markets. Cold chills will play up
and down the spines of the spectators
who are contracting for every pound
of next seasons clip at an advance of
about six cents, dirt, grease and all.
Field & Farm.
/ An agricultural colony is being or
ganized in Illinois to come out to
Colorado and settle in the San Luis
valley. These farmers are all thrifty
and well-to.do. The high price Of
land in Illinois at the present time
has induced many to sell out and try
other fields. Others have different
reasons. In some cases member of
the family has pulmonary troubles
and the move is in the interests of
tkat one. Houses will be built this
winter and the land prepared for
crops next year.-Field and Farm.
Sheriff Weiss passed through Monte
Vista on his way to Canon City with
Jack Doyle, one Of the parties who
committed the robbery of Fassett s
store last month. At trial in the Dis
trict court at Del Norte, Doyle plead
guilty and turned states evidence
on bis partner in the burglary. For
this reason his sentence was very
light, being from one to three years in
the penitentiary. Fassett recovered
about one-third Of the stolen stuff,
including one fir overcoat, Navajo
blankets, etc.-Monte Vista Journal.
Thr ough the efforts of the Humane
Society the deserted children of Toi
Mayheld and his vile, Ora Barber
Mayfeld, will be taken in charge by
the state through an order of the
County Court next Monday. Will,
aged 10, and Nora, aged Z, will be
sent to the State Home for Dep endent
Children, aud Sarah, aged 6, will be
adopted by Mrs. Poulson of Sanford.
The father will be prosecuted by the
Humane Society for criminal neglect
of his children as soon as he he can
be located. He was last beard from
in Telluride. If justice is done, both
i father and mother will land in the
penitentiary where such heartless
wretches belong.