Durango semi-weekly herald., 1907-04-29
NEWS FROM OVER THE STATE.


Three assayers and Cripple Creel
miner are under arrest for high grad
ing.
Two Colorado City saloonkeepers
were fined 5000 for selling liquor on
Sunday.
| Two hundred and fifty men have
made application for the twenty Jobs
on the Colorado Springs police force.
| Grand Junction Is to have $780,
900 brick factory. to be erected by To-
| cal capital.
Florence business men are planning
to build an electric road to the coal
| camps and other nearby towns.
Ouray citizens have formed the Ou-
ray Development club and will adyer-
tise and boost on their own hook.
And now Joplin, Mo, police are
under the ban. \ Have been accepting
| presents from gamblers and sporting
houses.
Several more indictments have been
returned against the Utah Fuel com
pany by the United States grand Jury
at Salt Lake.
A Colorado Springs couple. after
being divorced a year. decided that
life yas not worth living apart and
are married again.
Under its new management The
Grand Junction News comes out with
eight pages chuck full of ads and
good reading matter.
Orin Forsyth, 20 years old, n senior
IN the state normal school, has been
notified that he has been appointed
teacher in the Philippines
A. NJ. Stevenson gives out an in
teryiew in Washington in which he
ieclares Colorado is strongly in favor
of retaining Roosevelt. So say we all.
Delta now has the lid on tight and
no liquor licenses will be granted this
year. The council also refused to
,llow slot machines and card rooms
Serving whisky over the counter and
ihaking dice for drinks just as If they
we're barrooms is the charge made
against drug stores on Capitol hill,
Denver.
Wallis Allen, who has been missing
rom his home in North Platt Neb.,
or twelve years. has been located at
Grand Junction. He gave no explana.
ion for his silence.
The Denver Post arriving last ev-
ening makes a brutal attack on Sen
ltor Patterson. Now it will he time
!y for David F. Day to fire another
shot at the Post proporietors.
The Denver Post art commission is
likely TO go crazy, having 5000 pho
ographs on hand from which to select
he most beautiful woman. My. what
furpulllng there will be when 1t
S over.
The loss because of the storm in
ruit killed in Delta county alone is
Hose to s1.000.000. In some sections
entire crops have been destroyed. The
apple and peach crop is completely
iuined, though no damage has been
lone to the trees.
Fruit growers of Manzanola are
completely discouraged since the hard
reeze which wiped out all fruit pros
)ects for the present year. The dam
lge cannot be estimated, as the in
lications before the storm were ia
5orable for record breaking crop.
While watching his father. brass
worker, at his work, Arthur Sweeney,
II years old of Denver, conceived the
idea of manufacturing money in the
same manner. A sentence to the
Buena Vista reformatory from Judge
Lewis in the United States court was
the actual outcome of his thoughts.
Fred Dwynell of Loveland accident
ally shot Allen Straight, Jr., in the
alters room. The two men were eX-
mining an old revolver and did not
Know it was loaded. The ball entered
Straight's leg just below the right
knee. A peculiar coincidence is that
our years ago while boys Straight ac-
;identally shot Dwynell.
Emil Elm of Walden comes to the
'ront with the champion fish story.
He was driving a bunch of horses
across the Platte river, when one
of the horses struck trout with Its
hoof, stunning the fish. Another horse
struck the fish, knocking it out of the
water, and Mr. Elm secured it. The
trout weighed nearly three pounds.
That buying. selling, renting and
oaning of young girls and even kid
1aping has become common practice
IN the foreign quarters of Bessemer
was revealed in police court when
Urick UzaZac, an Austrian, was
,harged with disturbance of the peace
by Miles Niluc in connection with the
llleged abduction of his pretty 16-
gear-old cousin.
Mayor j. II. Seeley OF Canon City.
has called a meeting of the water
committee of the city council to con
slider several proposition for a water
supply. A bond issue of 100000 is
available for the purpose. Beaver
'reek, Cottonwood creek and Spring
,reek are all excellent sources. Canon
City's present supply Of water is taken
rom the Arkansas river.
James F. Goddard, the Grand Juno
ton contractor who was arrested some
lays ago charged with stealing 5000
worth of watches from a local jewel
er, has been released and the charges
dismissed. He explained that the
watches had been given him by an.
other man and learning later that