Durango semi-weekly herald., 1907-06-03
COLORADO ITEMS.


OF typhoid or any contagious disease.
Denver heads the list In the Western
league. Probably will not hold the
honor long.
The Elks lodge of Grand Junction
will soon begin the erection of a
$4,000 home.
The Greeley Opera House company.
with capitalization of 100000 was
recently incorporated.
A Las Animas county man has just
secured a judgment for 1915 against
the county for the use of one of his
buildings for a pest house.
Daniel o. Eckis has been appointed
assistant forest ranger for the Lead
Vile forest reserve and B. f. Sander
cock for the White river national for
est reserve.
Denver county has contracted for
l50 voting machines, costing $3.50 each.
1t Is claimed the machines will pay
for themselves inside of ten years.
The Dean machine was selected.
Ice froze quarter of an inch thick
Sunday night at Lamar, but no Sc
rious damage is reported. The south
west is not the only place having bad
weather and backward spring.
The county superintendent OF
schools OF Las Animas county has
called a meeting of the directors OF
the various school districts of that
county for the purpose of arranging
Tor uniform textbooks for the public
schools.
Wiley, ten miles north of Lamar, is
to have a $1.000000 sugar factory with
a capacity OF roo tons. There are at
present 10000 acres of beets In the
Arkansas valley and the i've factories
now in commission cannot handle the
product.
Mayor Frank Green of Greeley has
designated the week beginning June !
As "cleaning up week." during which
time every citizen will be expected tc
collect all weeds, rubbish, etc, about
| his premises, whicn will be iia'iled
away at the expense of the city.
Jack, the Pepper" has been an
noying the people of Trinidad. A good
fetal to the pepper men, but the Trim
idad fellow will likely not get OFF thai
easy II caught Several citizens have
placed their shotguns within easy
reach.
| Twenty Pueblo men Joined the the
/ rntf tot In, in, !, To !,
The alluring s13 a month and find
catches them.
| Fort Collins has three daily papers
the third one was launched Tuesday
morning All three of the papers are
generously patronized by advertisers
The Burlington has put on a loca
train between Denver and Oxford
Neb., for the accommodation of the
many towns in east Colorado and wes
| Nebraska.
| Andrew Huyler. druggist of For
Collins, received broken ankle ant
body bruises as the result of filling
a soda drum. Huyler put too mucl
acid in the drum and 1t exploded
throwing him through partition.
| Governor Buchtel has issued requi
sition papers on the governor of Mich
| igan for the return of Anne Meister
man. She is wanted in Denver, charg
ed with having failed to return to Q
| jewelry store $500 worth of jewelr,
which she took home for inspection
/ Citizens of Ault found that bie
potato dugout was being put to new
uses when they arrested Jud Cathy
for holding cockflghts and running q
bootlegging joint in one located within
200 feet of the Ault public school and
only ten feet outside the corporate
| limits.
The state auditing board has au
thorized the auditor and treasurer tc
redeem 100000 worth of the deficiency
warrants issued during the Peabody
administration to run the state uni
versity. This makes total of $4,000
paid and leaves a balance of 10000
to be paid.
The injunction suits and other court
proceedings, threatened by farmers in
the Fountain valley Immediately below
Colorado Springs. against the various
reduction works at Colorado City, will
probably not be filed, because the
managers of the mills. after getting
legal advice, have decided to do what
they can to stop the dumping of tail
ings into Fountain creek.
To determine whether prairie lands
can be taken up under the desert act.
a contest was started in the United
States land office in Denver which
promises to be of immense import
ance. The decision will affect the
validity of the ownership of hundreds
of thousands of acres of land in the
west that have not been taken up un-
aer the desert act.
A young woman who gave her name
as Florence Hague. was arrested near
Trinidad in a little adobe hut on the
Starkville road, on suspicion of being
the harborer of all the stolen goods
which have been missed during the
past two weeks, while an epidemic of
burglaries was going on in that city.
When the hut was searched goods
valued at many hundreds of dollars