Durango semi-weekly herald., 1907-03-07
NEWS FROM OVER THE STATE.

Iaxes paid In Weld county one da,
last week footed up over $4,000.
In the sixteenth round OF what wa.
scheduled for twenty-round bout
Denver Ed Martin was knocked Out
by Sam McVey. the colored heavy
weight, Saturday night.
An armory building is in course oi
erection at Fort Collins costing SIS,
600, the state having taken lease
on the building for 10 years at $1.sOO
per annum.
Mrs. Julius Aichele. wife OF one OF
the best known democratic politicians
In Denver, filed suit for divorce Satur-
day. The papers have been suppressed
and the reasons are not made public.
Dean Carlysle of the state agricul-
tural college says there is great need
OF pure food law in Colorado as
| there is vast amount OF adulterated
goods on the market and slaughter
houses are not what they should be,
especially In Denver.
1t is said Joker" has been found
in the Kelley local option bill which
is applicable only to Incorporated
cities. Question, therefore, is Denver
| an incorporated city or is II a city by
special charter? If the latter, then
the Joker" is playing its part
State Auditor Bent is still holding
the warrants of the members OF the
legislature and is refusing to pay them
until after his bondsmen have salts.
fed themselves whether or not the
house adjourned sine die by reason
of its action one week ago last Thurs
day.
The memorial passed by the Colo
rado legislature asking for the open
ing of certain lands In La Plata coun.
ty be opened under the Carey act
was presented to the senate Thursday,
some days after the bill had passed
both houses. Big bodies move rapid
ly some times.
A. l.. Duey. one of the oldest and
best known engineers on the Rio
Grande system, died at the Rio Grande
hospital at Salida Friday night after
brief Illness. Mr. Duey has been
on the Rio Grande for the past twenty
years. He leaves wife, two daugh-
ters and two sons. He was mem
ber OF the Masonic lodge at Salida.
w. Harold Stewart, son of the post
mn CT at t.,
tain district, aged 90 shot himself in
Denver Thursday. Seems the young
man was tortured with strange visions
and took this method of ending his
trouble. About the same time another
young man, aged 20, Kenneth j. Welk-
er. shot and killed himself in Denver.
Water is one of the great proposi
tions in Colorado and the big bitches
planned for La Plata county, Monte
yuma and San Juan county, New Mex
leo, will work wonders Notwithstand.
Ing the immense reservoir and irriga-
ton systems in the northern part of
the state negotiations are pending be-
tween the Poudre Valley Ditch & Res.
ervoir company and the Laramie Res
ervoirs & Irrigation company by which
the latter proposes to carry out stu
pendous irrigation enterprise by bring
ing 6.O00,000,000 cubic feet of water to
100000 acres of land in northern Weld
county at a cost of $2,000,0O0. This
scheme involves the piping water from
the Laramie river in Wyoming and
the bringing it through the High Line
ditch into the Poudre Valley ditch,
whose owners propose to extend the
latter some thirty miles at a cost of
$l25,OOO to point five miles north
east OF Fort Collins, terminating in
Cobb lake, of capacity of $4,000 ,OOO,-
900 cubic feet. Already 100000 has
been spent on the Poudre Valley ditch
by the farmers who own 1t. The Lar
annie Reservoirs & Irrigation company
already owns eleven lakes in Wyom-
ing known as Link lakes, and also
owns the Poor lake with capacity OF
100000 cubic feet north OF Fort Col
Inns. Water Is water sure enough in
Colorado and one of the most valu-
able assets.