Durango semi-weekly herald., 1907-06-27

| e""heiihieH, VINO snail perform all
duties now borne by the mayor, coun.
cilmen, auditor, treasurer, solicitor and
other public officers. A bitter fight
was made against the plan by the sa-
looms, city officials and politicians and
the public service corporations.
Longmont has two daily and four
weekly papers.
Monte Vista will have new depot
| building, work on which has already
| commenced.
| The Wagon Wheel Gap station oil
the Denver & Rio Grande has been
| opened for the season.
Christian Kuelbs. who served fifteen
years in the penitentiary. has been
| pardoned by the governor.
The Western Slope Federation of
Women's clubs will hold its conven-
tion in Glenwood Spings Friday and
Saturday of this week.
The Del Norte stone quarry com
pany has received two large orders
Tor stone, one from Colorado springs
and one 'from Denver.
Potato raisers Of Greeley are not
bothered WITH potato bugs this year
Their absence is attributed to cool
weather in he early spring
The Colorado Springs high school
building Is too small to accommodate
the pupils and outside quarters have
been leased for the next terms fresh
man class
jamie Frizzell, the 5.year.old daugh.
fer nf II. .,
The Woodbury. ranch, south OF Colo
RADIO Springs, met sudden and fright.
ful death as the result of being bit
ten by rattlesnake.
While digging a well on the Yer
non McKelvey ranch. eight miles east
OF Greeley, workmen at the depth OF
twenty-five feet uncovered an eight
foot vein of coal of such excellent
quality as to cause considerable ex-
citement.
The state engineers office at Den.
yer has issued notice to contractors
for bids for the construction of a
bridge across the Rio Grande river
near Del Norte. the bridge to be
steel bridge. a combination steel and
wood bridge, or reinforced concrete
bridge.
A liking for omelets may have been
the cause of two Santa Fe switchmen
getting into trouble in the Colorado
Springs courts. At least, the theft OF
nine dozen eggs from a Santa Fe box
car standing In the Colorado Springs
yards was the cause OF the arrest of
Joe Baker and Ray Carnahan, switch
men In the employ OF the Santa Fe
railroad
While Governor Buchte was adj
dressing the convicts in the state pen.
itentiary, two TRUSTEES, Macs, No. 627S,
and Morales. No. 5775, escaped from
the penitentiary farm on Fop.-mile
creek and have not yet been appre-
hended. They went to stock ranch
and broke into the house and stole
suit of clothes apiece, which they
substituted for their prison garb
Twenty-Five hundred people visited
Glenwood Springs Saturday and en-
ioyed her hospitality in the celebra
tion of Strawberry day. The crowd
began to gather at o'clock and con-
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hundred courses of strawberries and
cake were served. Aside from the
strawberries. the features of the day
were dancing. baseball, swimming in
the pools and other recreatiye sports.
Because she had lost money in a
bank that failed at Alamosa, Mrs. A.
r. Patrick of Montrose kept her saw
in aH To,
forgot to remove the money when she
sent the garments to the laundry. Aft
erwards she discovered that three $50
bills had been destroyed In the laun-
| dry mangle. She recovered some small
| fragments of the bills, which are in
| possession of a local bank, and an
| effort will be made to have the United
them, but as the serial numbers are
missing, Mrs. Patrick believes she has
| lost $3.50 lrretrievably.
George Tritt OF Cripple Creek shot his
wife dead and then killed himself. The
cause OF the trouble IL known only to
the wife's mother, who refuses to make
II public.
| The farmers institute at Rife Saturday
| held under the auspices of the state ngri-
| cultural college was success in every
way. They Will hold another one in the
| fall to last a week.
Crops in the dry farming district In
| the northern part of the state are suf-
| fering from lack of water and II rain
| does not come within a short time they
| Will be burned up.
| Red gulch, IN western Fremont coun-
/ ty Is becoming known for it's copper.
| From 70 to lo1 men are mining In Red
| gulch. and great things are expected
| there be orc the summer is over.
| The cltv GO neil OF Montrore at n spc-
| clal session Saturday night passed an
ordinance crrFtiGg n sidewalk district No.
| and providing thPt cement walks, 10
cost $1,000 bo lold. the work to begin
| at once.
The town OF Fountain twenty miles
| south of Colorado Springs, Is bidcing for
| the Myron Stratton hone % be buut
| sometime, by the Stratton inlli ons Foun-
| tain has ma ~ advantages over other
sites now urdor consideration.
| II think ! shall Kill myself yoE eating
| cucumbers. remarked Mrs. btary STARK
| of Denver. as 8le paid for dozen Gu
| cumbers. She n en- proceeded TO make
good and was found dead that night sit
ting In a chair. with cucumber in hei
hand.
Walter l.. Wilder editor and J. a
| Barclay, manager OF tie Pueblo Chief
| tain. have each DolSht a one-third In
terest In the paper Mr.. Stevens an
| nounces that future plans will keep hin
| from the state most OF the time durlni
| the next two years.
An Alnmosa preacher. who holds serv
Ices Sunday afternoon states that he vii