Durango semi-weekly herald., 1907-09-16
COLORADO pARAoRApHs.


Fe agent at Las Animas. is in jan
charged with being $500 short in his
accounts.
Contract for the buildings for the
new canning factory at Loveland has
been let for $4,000. Local mea put
up the money.
The difficulty between the drivers
and the Garfield Coal company, near
Florence, has been adjusted and the
mine has resumed work.
Loveland will soon begin the erec-
tion OF a $4,000 school building. The
building will be two stories and base
ment, with sixteen rooms.
smooth young man raised check
from 315O to $3.50 and got 1t cashed
at a Longmont bank and made his
escape. The officers are after him.
l.. j. Finch, wealthy stockman oil
the Horsefiy country, has let con-
tract for building telephone line
from Montrose to his ranch. a distance
OF about twenty-three miles.
Contract for the rebuilding OF the
Golden Cycle mill at Colorado City,
which was burned some months ago
has been let and calls for the compile
tion of the works within ninety days.
While trying to catch the rapidly
moving Rock Island flyer Thomas
oReilley. a young farmer of Watkins
WAS thrown beneath the wheels
the train and his life crushed out in
stantly.
The Denver eating house are con
templating a material raise In the
price OF meals, AS yet there has been
no intimation of an increase in the
wages Of those who patronize the eat
ing houses.
The people OF Grand Junction are
In fever OF excitement over the
reported discovery of 3-karat dia'
mond In the rough, ON the mesa near
the town. The stone was sent to a
Denver jewelry firm to be cut.
From 1900 acres of beets at Long
mont the farmers will receive about
S1,O00,0O0. The sugar factory will
start up next Monday and will run
until March / next. Employment will
be given to 45O men with a payroll OF
$4,000 month.
The bowling of family cat saved
the family OF James Dighton from
being burned to death, at his ranch
near Steamboat Springs. The cause oil
the fire is unknown. The bowling OF
the cat awoke the family in time to
make their escape and save their lives.
The buildings and machinery of the
c. o. d. mine. one Of Cripple Creek's
earliest producers. were destroyed by
fire. entailing loss OF $4,000. with
small insurance. The fire was un'
doubtedly of incendiary origin, but
NO clew to the fire bugs have been
found.
Lost among the mountains of the
Poudre from Sunday afternoon until
Monday night, with nothing to eat
except bluejay, which he shot, and
three mushrooms. was the experience
OF DR.. e. A. Hobby, OF Iowa City. Ia
He and his party were camped at
Dutch Georges on the Poudre, above
Livermore. Hobby. while fishing, be
came separated from his companions
Sunday afternoon. Hobby is little the
worse for his experience.
w. F. Cantwell. the wealthy stage
line owner Of Lyons, will be prose
cuted by the Colorado Humane society
for alleged cruelty to animals. Agent
Z. A. Ransom and #. G. Mcconnell oi
the society have returned to Denver
from Estes park. where they went ia
investigate numerous complaints by
persons who have travelled on the
stage between Lyons and Estes park
AS result OF their trip Agent Nc
Connell will go to Fort Collins anc
Institute a criminal action against
Cantwell.
Reading in the newspapers that
Rufus Sares of Ration had been ar
rested at Trinidad and confined In the
county jail q riving maniac his wife
arrived there to learn that he was
her missing husband and her grief
was pitiful when she discovered his
insane condition. Sares left his home
ten days ago perfectly sane and toll
his wife he was going to work on
the Santa Fe tunnel through Ration
mountain. That was the last his wife
saw or heard of him until she read the
account of his arrest. Sares Will be
sent back to Ration where he will be
tried for lunacy.
Three thosand peope attended the
opening Of the Delta county fair.
Chemical tests of the beets grown
around Greeley show a better average
than asst year.
Longmonts Pumpkin Pie day was
a success. 10000 pies being disposed