Durango semi-weekly herald., 1907-06-13
COLORADO PARAGRAPHS.
The Denver police raided hop joint
Monday and gather in thirty sleepers.

The Denver police raided a hop joint
Monday and gather in thirty sleepers.
The various smelter, railroad, brick
yard and other employees In and around
Colorado City receive 100000 month
for their services.
Travel to Cripple Creek has increas-
ed to an extent that an extra train
has been put on the Short line road,
and will run during the summer.
Two masked men entered Phehlo
drug store and at the point of gun
held the proprietor up for $50 and n
gold watch. They escaped.
Senator Lewis of Florence has sent
to the secretary of state his resig-
nation as state senator. Mr.. Lewis Is
now postmaster.
John Komsella, an italian. is pris-
oner in the county jail at Canon CITY
charged with an attempt TO kill Orion
w. Locke. a prominent attorney CT
that city.
James Lawton, 1i-year-old boy,
was killed In the shaft of the Bennett
coal mine, near Greeley Monday. He
was knocked of ladder by de-
| scending cage.
State Meat Inspector Newsom re-
ports that he condemned three slaugh-
ter houses at Trinidad, and has ~
| charged against two Walsenbufg men
for selling diseased meat.
| Officials of the Rio Grande were at
Lake City the first of the week con-
ferring with the business men relative
| to railroad extensions and better IA
| cilities for transporting ores.
| Mrs. Harry Orchard is residing at
| Altman in the Cripple Creek district.
| Both sides have asked her TO testify
IN the Haywood trial, but so far she
has refused, saying she could give no
important testimony.
Josephine l.. Peavy has sent the
| governor her resignation as Il mem-
| ber of the board of control of the
state industrial school for girls, stat
ing she did not have the time to
give % the work.
Governor Buchtel has designated
Friday, the 14th inst, as flag day and
the people are requested to celebrate
the day by display of the flag on
their homes, on school houses, on
other public buildings and on all plac u
of business.
The state board of agriculture has
decided to increase the premiums Civ
EN- for exhibits at the state fair SIC
each exhibit from each county. This
was done on account of the shortage
of the fruit crop and to act as d
stimulus to fruit growers to make
greater effort to produce finer exhibits
at the fair
While riding in an aerial cage 6s
feet above the ground, Joe Vecchio
miner employed by the Victor Fue
company at Delagua, lost his balance
and fell to the ground. He was un
conscious when picked up. No bones
were broken by the fall, but he is
suffering from internal injuries ant
may not recover. He is 30 years o
age.
A greater Colorado through the in
crease of the farming interests of tny
state and not by means of mining, -
might be supposed, is one of th'
ambitions of Senator Simon Gugg9r
helm, who is home after an extended
trip lasting several months. To this
end Senator Guggenheim said tina
he was willing to contribute by per
sonal service on committees and il
that will serve.
The trustees of Milwaukee cemeter
les decide to place a ban on Sunda,
funerals, which, they say. attrac
|
crowds.
Governor Franz of Oklahoma hai
notified Governor Buchtel that he will
attend the conference of WAster,
States in Denver next week.
Railroads are said to have convinced
Postmaster General Meyer that Mr.
Cortelyou's mail-computation order II
unjust, but the president is declared
to favor enforcing new rule.
Mrs. James II. Mansfield, who, al
Violette Watson, sued Thomas F
Walsh millionaire mine owner fol
s350,000, says in New York that sht
has received letters threatening vic
lence if she does not drop the suit
| William E. Curtis writes from New
York of an interview with Police Com
missioner Bingham, who tells him o.
the methods he has adopted in the
hope of making the New York force
the best in the world, and of elimi
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