Durango semi-weekly herald., 1907-06-20
COLORADO PARAGRAPHS.


COLORADO PARAGRAPHS.
A. s. Peck, young married man
arrested following the death of pretty
the county jail at Grand Junction.
pending the outcome OF the investiga
ton that is being made by the au
thorities.
Members Of the faculty of the agri-
cultural college have purchased $50
acre farm for the purpose of putting
into practical use methods of farm
ing learned by the experimental work
at the college for their own benefit.
The price paid was $4,000.
Three hundred thousand dollars was
set aside by Andrew j. Macky, the
Boulder banker and pioneer, In his will
for magnificent new building in con
nection with the University of Colo
RADIO TO be devoted to some particular
branch Of education.
A record automobile run from Sa-
Ida to Leadville was made Sunday.
The road up the Arkansas valley is
rough and hilly, the distance being
sixtyseven miles. DR.. F. N. Cochems
and w. d. Irwin made the trip In
three hours and thirty minutes, allow
ing for several stops.
Florence fishermen declare that a
large percentage of the young trout
placed in Beaver creek annually find
their way through the irrigating ditch
es to death on farms. Games and
Fish Commissioner Farr will be asked
to see that the farmers provide
screens to prevent this.
Just after bidding friends goodbye
preparatory to leaving for Italy, where
he was to be married, an Italian whose
name could not be learned, was kill
ed by train at Delagua. The italian
resided at Hastings, where he had
worked for the Victor Fuel company
for number OF years, and had accu-
mulated considerable money.
This year so far is a record breaker
for the sugar factory at Longmor,
twelve thousand acres of beets have
been planted, and the stand Is almost
perfect. Over 1,700 fields hands are
employed to take care of the crop
If the indications hold good the crop
means nearly $1,000,000 to the beet
growers of this section.
Chas. w. King. an important wit
ness for the defense in the Haywood
trial, died from neuralgia of the heart
Sunday afternoon at Canon City. King
is the man whose bloodhounds trailed
the men who blew up the Independ-
ence depot. and his testimony, it is
claimed, would have been valuable to
the defense.
A few hours after beginning his
first days work as oiler at the Golden
Cycle mill, Roy Love, aged 25 years,
of Colorado City, sustained injuries
necessitating the amputation of his
right hand above the wrist. Loves
sleeve caught in the cog wheel of an
engine which he was oiling, drawing
his hand and wrist into the machine.
Dynamite and caps in sufficient
quantity to blow up the entire bust
ness section of Pueblo were found
by the police hidden in the Arkansas
river bottom. Since the arrest OF
two postoffice robbers in the bottoms
the police have been keeping close
watch. and 1t was while a mounted
officer was making an investigation
that he discovered the explosives.
Wandering in the late afternoon
over a lonely and desolate portion of
a mountain near Beulah, Colo, Robert
Paisley mining prospector, declares
he came on a deserted cabin, in which
he found the dried and withered body
of a man with bullet hole in the
skull. An overturned table and batter.
ed stove in the center of the room
gave evidence of terrible struggle.
The matter was reported to the mar.
shal OF Beulah, who. Paisley says, ques.
toned him suspiciously and then told
him that he had been in the business
too long to be fooled by such n story
and refused to make an investigation.