Durango semi-weekly herald., 1907-09-26
COLORADO NHwe.

Careless campers failed TO extin,
giish their camp FIRE and consequently
forest Gre "a raging near Golden.
George King. the burglar. who broke
jail at Grand Junction, has been cap
tured and returned to the county Jail
A Weld county ranchman has gone
into the German pheasant business
Last spring he got eight birds at a
I cost of 500. He now has 25.
1 Thomas Tarpey of Florence recently
/ captured a tarantula that measured
six inches in width. He was mon.
ster and made IA noble fight for his
/ liberty
! General Manager Sharp of the Santa
Fe has ordered that a barrel OF Mani.
/ tou mineral water be shipped every
day to La Junta to be used by the
railroads office force
Monday morning the beet sugar fac.
tories in the Greeley district began
operations. over 600 employees have
been engaged and will handle 1913 900
tons of beets between now and the
closing in March.
Weimer the Grand Junction man
charged with assaulting 4-year old
girl, has been released on $1,000
bond. He will have q hearing Satur
day. He plead not guilty and charges
blacllmail
John Becker of Longmont made sew.
eral attempts to cut his throat with
a razor and inflicted wounds which he
probably would have died. but that
was too slow and he finished the job
by hanging himself to tree.
w, j. Millsap of Trinidad. who
shot and killed Robert Steels. gam
bier at Clayton, N. NJ. about ten
days ago has been =xonerated by
jury In justice court. The men quar-
relied over a gambling debt and the
evidence substantinted Millsap's claim
OF seli-defense.
While attempting to board NOV.
ing train at Clayton, n NJ, Thomas
0'Neill, laborer, missed his footing
and both feet were BADLY crushed by
the wheels He was taken to the San
Rafael hospital in Trinidad where the
right foot was amputated. His con
dition Is serious but ne will recover.
While riding between TWO freight
cars with his father. Joe Mecari, an
Italian. IA years old OF Pueblo, fell
between the cars and was -mangled
under the wheels with his father fran
tic, but unable to assist him. The
boy died four hours later Father and
son were returning from a days hunt
ing.
Hold-ups tackled Oscar w. Gustaf-
sen. Greeley minister, and when
he refused to comply to their com
mand one of them shot him in the
side and ran down the street, the min
lister pursuing. when another shot was
fred striking the minister in the neck.
He will probably recover. The hold
ups escaped.
Fire in Glenwood Springs caused by
an explosion in restaurant, threaten
ed the destruction of that city, but
was finally conquered after doing sl0.-
900 damage to buildings on the street.
Glenwood has no paid fire department
and the volunteers had their hands
full. The explosion was caused by at
tempting to light fire with coal oil.
A number of friends of Rev. Mr..
Harsha who live In Denver and who
remember him when he was assistant
pastor OF the First Presbyterian
church are considering the proposi-
ton of calling upon Governor Buchtel
to give him protection at Kremmling.
Harsha is the man who was recently
horse whipped at Kremmling by white
caps
In free fight at Segundo, coal
camp near Trinidad, one Mexican was
killed. one fatally stabbed and three
others more or less injured. The af-
fair occurred in saloon where the
Mexicans had congregated after a
dance. The saloon fixtures and build
ing were badly wrecked during the
melee. Several arrests have been
made and more will follow.
Williamsburg capitalists are digging
tunnel near Chandler to tap the un-
derflow Of the Chandler creek bottoms
near Florence. An 1S-inch pipe line
will he placed in the tunnel to carry
the water to several hundred acres
of mesa land which viii be placed
under irrigation next spring. The
tapping and conserving OF undertlow
waters in this vicinity is being widely
agitated and several filings have been
made on such sources in the last nine
ty days.