Durango semi-weekly herald., 1907-07-22
COLORADO ITEMS.

Boulder rnspberries are selling at
$3.25 crate, against sl.75 last year
Four persons were injured. two
seriously, and hundreds of thousands
OF dollars damage done to property
and crops by a cyclone which passed
over the country surrounding Holy
oke. The wind was followed by a
heavy hail storm.
According to the report of n Jury
that sat at the inquest into the death
OF Arthur G.. Clarke at Denver, reck-
lessness on the part of Allen G. Hurd-
man, the physician. who drove the
automobile, was responsible for the
fatality.
The Pueblo county commissioners
decided to raise the assessment on all
revenue producing industries and
many tracts of irrigated lands and re-
duce the assessment on small homes in
Pueblo. The assessment on the steel
works of the Colorado Fuel and Iron
company will be raised about $500, 900.
Pending decision on the consti-
tutionality of the itinerant vendors act
the supreme court granted super
sedeas in the case of Ira l.. Smith.
who was convicted of having violated
that act in Huerfano county. There
are now four cases awaiting the de-
cision on the consttutionality of the
law.
Safe robbers dynamited the safe of
w. II. Lilley at Jefferson, seven miles
north of Como, and secured $3.50 in
cash and checks amounting to several
hundred dollars, Three men were
seen riding across the country lat
breakneck speed soon after the ex-
plosion and the sheriff with posse
Of 200 armed men are after them.
Miss Stella Broughton, aged 19,
daughter of n well known family at
Ration. N, NJ. was found by a search
ing party near Boone. twenty miles
east of Boulder. The girl had been
travelling aimlessly about and at the
time she was found was barefooted,
her shoes having been worn out, and
her clothing was scanty.
After two hours of agony Juanita
Streeter, the 2-year-old daughter of
Mr.. and Mrs. l.. A. Streeter of Mon
trose, died as a result of burns caused
by tipping over a two-gallon can of
boiling soup. The baby was burned
IRON its hips down and, it is said.
she did not die so much from the
stoppage of the pores, cause by the
burns, as from the shock
That an organized gang of conf
hence men, burglars and bogus check
mnnipulators have been operating in
Grand Junction to the post ten days is
the belief of the authorities. Six bur
glafies have occurred there within a
week. Saturday forged checks were
passed on merchants and Albert James
believed to be notorious forger.
was arrested with bogus checks for
nearly $4,000 in his possession.
10 properly care for its people who
are afflicted with pulmonary troubles
the Mennonite association has com
menced the construction of large
sanitarium on its farm four miles west
CT La Junta. The foundation has been
finished and the remainder of the
will be pushed to completion
as rapidly as possible. 1t will contain
forty rooms and be modern in every
The cost of this under
taking is estimated at $4,000.
Members of the Colorado Manufac-
Iurers association are being informed
by letter that the association has been
allotted space 20x100 feet in the big |
nay palace. the feature Of the, North |
,rn Colorado agricultural fair In Gree |
ey on August 81, 20 and 23. The as
also gets ten pages Of the !
premium list In which its members