Durango semi-weekly herald., 1906-12-03

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that there was no chance to extin.
| snish them.
COLORADO NEWS cULLiNGS.
Wolfe hall in Denver has close un-
III the first of the year on account of
liphtheria.
Miss Ethel Clifton. a telephone girl
| of Denver, has fallen heir to $40. 900.
She is still working at the switch
board.
From May TO October 10000 tom-
SITS visited Colorado Springs. accord
.ng to the figures given out by passer-
ger agents.
Police of Denver have appointed a
committee to work during the next
legislature for bill pensioning ind
gent policemen.
Mrs. James Reed of Florence
rwoke TO find her house in flames
and jumped through window to keep
rom lnclnerated.
The FL Paso county Democrat of
CoAOedo Springs has been sold to
Clyde l.. Starrett, clerk of the district
court of that place
The number of cattle handled in
the livestock yards in Denver the past
TWO months has broken all records,
and the present record is expected to
he broken in December. The most OF
he cattle came from the wa3setn
ilope.
Mrs. Francis NJ. Tomlinson- Watson
pf Denver. after fighting for forty
hee years for recognition by the gov
ernment of deed of valor performed
by her husband during the Civil war,
has received $500 prize money for
sinking three Confederate ships near
New Orleans
F.. r. Russell of Colorado Springs,
after being robbed in Redwood, Calf.
ound gun In the pocket of a bor-
| rowed overcoat and used II on the
hold-up as the latter was running
away after taking Russell's money
The shots took effect and the robber
was captured.
Governor Mcdonald broke the Gus
/ tom of pardoning some convict on
Thanksgiving because all the life
| termers, among whom the lucky con-
vict was chosen, were murderers. It
has been the custom to pardon some
| one Christmas, Thanksgiving and the
Fourth Of July. This meant the re-
lease of six murderers during every
governors term. and the practice has
reduced the number of convicts to an
alarming extent
According 10 A. ]. Ortiz. vice-con-
sui for Mexico in Denver. the trouble
about the release of the body of Mrs
Matte Critchelow of Denver, who died
in the City of Mexico last week. was
| the application for release wasn't
made through the proper channels.
| He says he told Edward Heitler. ia.
ther of the dead woman, how to pro-
coed in the matter and gave him the
name Of an attorney in Mexico who
would have arranged the matter, and
the only expense would have been the
attorneys fee.
John Green, who was paralyzed in
the legs as the result of an accident
at the Mitchell coal mine at Boulder
October 27 Of last year. was yester
day awarded $4,000 by the jury that
tried the case. Green was working in
a coal mine of the National Fuel com
pany of Denver when a runaway cal
caught him and pushed him agains
the wall. inflicting injuries from
which he will never recover. AL
though the National Fuel compan,
was made defendant in the case ant
the verdict is against the LondoI
Casutlty company, in which the Goa
company has all its employees insured
Colorado is the only state in tn
Union where there Is Legislation
against the insuring of children unde
the age of ten years. Interes
centers about this fact now. whel
Bridget Carey OF Philadelphia is ae
cused OF killing two children to obtail
the insurance on their lives. A bite
fight was launched some years ago b.
E X. Whitehead, secretary Of tn