Durango semi-weekly herald., 1905-11-06
TELEGRAPHIC
AND GENERAL
NEWS ITEMS

An incubator Is being used at Trim
!dad to save 24-ouncc baby.
Paul Morton says the insurance agi
tation will result in placing compon
les on better basis.
Two prisoners In the Greeley iai
picked the lock to their cell and es
capped Thursday
twenty-five hundred places in Iii
nois charitable institutions passed nm
der state civil service Thursday.
Mcclellan is favorite for mayor OF
New York by two and three to one
while the odds favor Jerome by two
to five to one.
The largest payment for sugar
beets in the history OF Colorado will
be made at Fort Collins Nov. Is, when
s4oo 900 will be distributed to the
| farmers
Kansas is after he Pullman com
pany because 1t has not paid It's char
ter fee Of $4,000. and will attempt Ia
drive the octopus ont OF the state un.
less II comes to time.
Hall Caine, before sailing from New
York for home, says honor Is decay
ing in America and England, and that
the rich set nhoad example By lying
and cheating in business.
Thomas b. Ellis. formerly of Denver,
is now under arrest in San Francisco.
charged with bigamy II is said that
he has wife in that city and one in
Denver. He is chauffeur by trade
Mayor Speer of Denver announces
that he will make Denver the most
beautiful city in America. He Is ar
ranging for the expenditure OF SI2O00
in fancy lamp posts on sixteenth
street in that city
Net earnings of the United States
Steel corporation for the quarter end
ing September 80 are s31 .2dO. .5s2. n
gain of s12.46G.6 $50 over the third quar-
ter last year. and the untitled orders
on hand amount to 5.SG5. .377 tons
The first death due as a result of
the recent storm in the northern part
of the state was that OF w T. Smith,
| who was frozen at Overland TUESDAY
night He was a lineman for the Colo.
ado Telephone company and was over
come by the cold,
| Laws to protect song birds from he.
Ing killed by cats, requiring license
| tags for the animals and holding their
owners responsible for their dcpredn.
lions. are urged by the president Of
the National Association of Audubon
Societies in New York.
| Minneapolis will be dry Sabbath
town beginning next Sunday Mayor
David p Jones issued an order Wed
nesday for the closing OF all saloons
and bars from Saturday midnight un
l
face OF the fact that the Sunday clos
ing law has been the deadest kind %
a dead letter in Minneapolis for more
than score of years.
Wednesday in the district court a
Montrose Judge Stevens announced al
important decision bearing upon th'
water rights on the UncompahEre riv
er. T. NJ. Moore ct al asked permis
sion to change the point Of diversion
of l7S cubic inches Of water from tn
original point Of diversion near Delt
to n point eight miles south OF Nor
trose. a distance OF 3S miles. Judg
law to change this point Of diversio
J as IT would injure all tine owners q
b Junior priorities between the orlgina
5 point OF diversion and the point aske
b for The petitioners gave notice {
b. appeal TO the supreme court.
9 The Grand Junction beet sugar fa
: tory Is turning out 100 pound bag {
@ sugar every minute of the day an
/ night The factory has been runnin
4 at this capacity for two weeks an
@ during that time has sliced and wor
d ed into sugar an average OF 100 tor
3, OF beets per day OF "a hours. n
e largest days run was GA tons. TT
beets are of first class quality. rlt
and ripe, and the mill IL turning o
about 10000 pounds of sugar eve
S day. which experts pronounce the be
ever made In Colorado There hi
'r been harvested 10000 tons of bee
y. from $500 acres in the vicinity OF II