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

A good flow of gas is reported to
have heen struck near Fowler at a
depth of eighty-five feet.
Pueblo Is to have cold storage
plant to cost $500.000. The plant will
pipe cold air to the business section
and supply those who do refrigerating
on a large scale.
Work on the construction of the
Canon City and Royal Gorge Electric
railway has begun. The road will run
from Canon City to the top of Royal
Gorge and will cost $75O,OOO.
w. II. Kreg, recently n laborer at
the Portland cement plant, committed
suicide by shooting himself His wife
is proprietor of the hotel at Portland
Kreg has been discharged and this Is
supposed to have been the cause Of
the suicide.
The contract for the construction
of the Lamar sewer has been let to a
Denver firm of contractors. The con-
tract price is $4,000 and the sewer
must be completed within sixty days
after work begins.
Champ Clark of Missouri and Gov.
A. b. Cummins of Iowa will address
the Chautauqua at Montrose which be-
gins tomorrow. The program is one of
the best ever gotten up In Colorado
Chautauqua. This will be the first
Chautauqua held In Montrose and the
committee has made extra efforts for
It's success.
The citizens of Keene, In eastern
Weld county. are digging the first ar
tesian well in that region. There are
two reasons for putting down the well;
one, that It is possible to strike a
flow of artesian water to be used for
domestic purposes. and also to un-
cover coal vein which Is said to
underly the town.
Las Auiinas will soon be one of
the best paved towns In the state.
The paving for two districts has been
completed and the property owners
have petitioned the city council for
.he formation of the third district
rhey are not afraid to spend few
aoi!ars to improve their city, which
a the same time enhances the value
of their property.
Like a while elephant on their hands
is a barrel of bottled beer In the pos
session of the town officers of Ault
Friday they arrested Jud Cathy, al
legged owner of the goods, charging
that he was violating the ordinance
by selling liquor. and holding the beer
as evidence. Cathy escaped from Jail
and the possessors OF the beer are
now wondering just how far their
power of confiscation goes.
Unless ruling of Deputy State
Auditor Daniels is set aside, the pure
lood commission will not begin its
work until 1908. The law creating
the pure food commission provides
that II shall take effect Jan. /, 1908.
The appropriation bill carries with 1t a
1907 appropriation. The commission
ers had chemist make some tests ON
food and sent in a bill OF $40. The
deputy auditor refused to pay the
bill on the grounds given above.
As the result Of getting caught be-
tween two mine cars. Thomas Kelly,
one of the contractors who Is driving
the million-dollar tunnel through Ra-
ton mountain, was seriously, If not
fatally. injured while directing a crew
OF workmen In the tunnel. One hip
was broken and, 1t Is said, that Kelly
Is injured internally. Kelly was a
prominent politician OF Kansas and
served that state as treasurer.
To save woman's life a special
train was run up Pixies peak over he
cog road. The woman Ia Mrs. Belle |
Holden. who conducts a boarding
house at Seven Lakes for the city and
,og road employees. She suffered an