Semi-weekly herald., 1907-12-26

j. L. Martinez, Forest II Sparks, com.
mittee.
The Rocky Mountain Smelter ut
| Florence has been sold for sd00. 900
| to the Troy Consolidated company,
composed OF men heavily interested in
mines in the west.
About twenty recruits to the army
have been secured so far this month
| in Trinidad.
United States Marshal D. C. Bailey
is reported to be prominent candi
date for mayor of Denver.
Sixty students of the State School
Of Mines are studying practical mining
in the Cripple Creek district.
The Colorado Springs Electric com
pany announces a 10 per cent rednc
tion on rates beginning January l.
Fifty-one narrow and thirty y.nve
broad gauge cars of ore were shipped
from the Cripple Creek district Friday
Information from the various sec
tons of the state is to the effect that
merchants are doing an exceptionally
good Christmas trade.
The police of Trinidad picked up q
| man who had large quantity of
counterfeit coins In his possession. He
said he was from Oklahoma.
Werner 2. Reed of Colorado Springs
paid 100000 for 1000 acres OF land
In the Grand valley and will plant
the whole Of 1t In fruit trees.
The state bank examiner has been
notified by +. W. Ellwell, who con
ducts a private bank, that he will or.
gnnize state bank In Denver on
January !, with capital between $40,
900 and 100000.
a Pueblo man got himself Into trou-
BILE with the county court for refusing
to pny alimony, ms directed by the
court. He tried to argue ont of II, but
the Judge said pay or go TO Jail, and
he paid
An Austrian employed at the Min
nequa plant, at Pueblo. while suffer.
ihb 'ioii up tiAitt plbt uottlcb
of whiskey He was found unconscIous
next morning and before medical aid
could reach him he was dead.
On account OF Ill health. James Kir.
wan. who has been acting as secre-
tary-treasurer OF the Western Fedora
ton of Miners since the time W. d.
Haywood was arrested and taken to
Idaho for trial. has rendered his resig.
nation. Ernest Mills. member Of the
executive board from British Colum.
bia. was selected to fill the vacancy.
Joe Palmer 45 years OF age, the no
torious confidence man and associate
Of "Soapy" Jeff Smith during the ex-
citing times OF 1891 nt Creede, Colo
has been taken TO the county hospital
ward. For some time past Palmer
imagined that he was being pursued by
some OF his oldtime enemies and they
were threatening 10 shoot him
A Union OF the brotherhood OF
Railway Clerks has been organized at
Pueblo with forty members.
One man was killed and another sc
rlously lajured by the premature ex-
plosioD OF blast In the Pictou mine
near Walsenburg.
Geo. A. Hall. one of the most pros
porous ranchmen in Fremont county.
| was killed In q runaway, seven miles
from Canon City.
The assessed valuation of the 90
counties of the state as shown by the
abstract of assessment furnished by
the county assessors. Is 1867 ,369,374.
Saturday was payday in the C. #. e.
/. coal camps of Las Animas county.
Dp TO Sunday night the police Of Trim
idad had made thirty-one arrests for
drunkenness and disturbance.
| Gambling which closed IN Telluride
last May. but which has been running
In full blast the past week or 80
has been closed again and the city
officials say II will stay closed.
After beating the 1ailer into insensi
bility three prisoners made their es
cape from the county Jail at Walsen
burg. They were recaptured and are
now confined in steel cages.
The assessed valuation Of Denver Is
placed at s11s.921 .s55. an increase Of
nearly si.000.O00 over last year. This
valuation is made on a basis OF 5t
per cent, but will not reach over 30
per cent.
Boulder county's treasurer report
that 99 per cent OF tho tax for thii
year has been collected. Boulder ha.
J not got any the best OF Ia Plata OIL