Durango semi-weekly herald., 1907-04-15

: fare badly.
Many farmers in the Vicinity oi
Greeley are getting ready to plant a
large acreage to the giant sugar man
, gel. or stock beet. in preference To
I growing sugar beets on their land.
The stock beets are to be used In fat
ten cattle, sheep and hogs for market.
The variety to be planted Is a cross
between the sugar beet and the man
gel wertzel. which yields so per cent
more than the sugar beet with half
the cost OF growing. The cost OF hand
labor in raising one acre of sugar
beets is 500. while for stock beets it
is SO. the team work being the same
on both. { Senator w. l.. Clayton ad-
vocates growing the stock beets. as
his returns last year were excellent,
the yield being forty to sixty tons an
acre. The expense of digging this
crop is saved by turning the stock
into the field Fattening stock for
market has become one of the main
Industries here and farmers are en-
deavoring to grow as much feed for
them as possible. And this again re-
minds us that farmers of this section
should be more progressive and fat
ten beef for at least the local market.
| John Mclean is under arrest at
Greeley charged with attempted as
sassination of a near ueighbor, VIM.
Metcale. Both reside ON adjoining
| farms.
| Bids will soon be let for the con
struction of the new s225,O00 federal
building at Colorado Springs and the
| structure will be pushed TO rapid
| completion.
The State Life Insurance company
| Of Indianapolis has been granted
new lease of life and win continue to
| do business in Colorado. Both sides
| have made concessions.
| AT the biennial meeting of the state
board of agriculture held at Fort Col
| Inns Wednesday President Barton O.
Aylesworth of the state agriculture
college was reelected.
A Colorado Springs Jury refused to
grant a divorce to a man because the
wife did not contest. They wanted to
hear her side of the story. The
charge was extreme cruelty.
W. .. hlhtaiu httu ltapDOlhttu
superintendent of state fsh hatcheries.
| Dr. l.. S. Barnes is retained as super
intendent of the La Plata hatchery
and j. NJ. Gamsby at Emerald lakes.
The cattlemen of the Grand valley
are making a fight against paying a
| fee for permission to Craze their cat
| tie on the forest reserves. They an
nounce that they are In the fight to-
| stay
To advertise new brand OF -four a
Grand Junction firm will next Satur.
| day serve roast beef. bread. butter
and coffee to all comers and at the
same time offer for sale to every
person sack of -four for 81. That
method Is a novel method of adver.
Using to say the least.
Resenting what he termed vilif-
cation of his dead father Frank De
SAINTS, an Italian, Is alleged to have
stabbed and fatally wounded Dominica
Petrelo. countryman. in Bessemer.
| He was arrested while attempting to
board train at the union station. Pc
trelo was stabbed In the back. the
knife penetrating his left lung, and he
is not expected to recover
There has been paid, or declared
payable this month, grand total OF
| $256,G27.56 by Cripple Creek mining
companies. as follows: Portland, $120,
600: vindicator, $4,000; Elkton. $37-
| 500; Work, $4,000, and Mary McKin-
ney, $39,127.56. These companies all
paid similar dividends in January of
this year, SO that the total Cripple
Creek dividends for January and April
alone aggregated over 100000.
| Charles S. Thomas and John Larson,
two prominent young miners. were
taken to Ouray Wednesday and locked
in the county jail, charged with high
grading on the Atlas mine. Some 5000
worth of quartz, 1t is alleged, was
found In their possession. Larson is
a brother OF prominent business man
in Ouray and young Thomas home
is In Grand Junction, where his fam
| lily is very prominent In society.
The penitentiary authorities have
been presented by Judge C. E. Waldo
of Canon City with a bound volume
containing a complete history OF that
institution from Its establishment
down to It's present time, 1t Is the
only volume of its kind in existence
and as the reports go back to terri
torial days, 1t is valuable addition
to the political history of the state
State Treasurer A. e. Bent Is now
signing his name about 200 times per
day to liquor licenses. Most OF the
licenses expire at this time and are
being rapidly renewed. There has
been quite a stir made in the col
lection of these license fees during
the past biennial period and at present
the state gets about $4,000 in rev.
enue from this source every two years.
Some $500 licenses are now held In
the state.
|. w. Mcconnell, connected with the
Gunnison tunnel tells the Montrose
Enterprise that the drillers are past
the sand and water assure. and in
solid rock again. The sand vein was
ten feet wide, and of to one side the
flow of water washed hole through