Semi-weekly herald., 1907-11-21

sault charge in justice court He gave
"A check for $500 bond on which he was
released and Immediately drew the
money from the bank and skipped.
Edward Scott colored OF Colorado
City, alarmed over the stock panic
drew his savings. sl,SOO. from the
bank and gave it to his mother to
keep for him. She placed it in salt
sack and carried it with her She left
ii on the -counter of a grocery store
and clerk threw 1t in rubbish heap
under the counter. She missed it and
when she went back to the store il
was hunted up and returned to her.
A tabulated statement is being sent
out by the State Agricultural college
showing the results of an experiment
with 100 pigs of equal weight in 10
lots of 10 pigs each for l02 days, from
February to May Is. 1907. with corn,
barley, beets, tankage and alfalfa In
various combinations. The result in
profits of the 10 pigs in each lot were
in their order as follows: Corn and
tankage. StS.06: barley corn. and al
fanfa, S43.9G; barley and tankage.
Sil.59: barley and shorts. S40.S7: bar
ley and peas. 1880; barley and wheat.
$39.Sl; corn ana alfalfa, s@3.32; barley
and alfalfa, S3O.2G: barley and beets
1881; corn and beets. S795. Another
experiment will be made to check
these figures. All grain used was es-
timated at so cents per hupdredweight
for alfalfa. beets at s. ton and tank
lge at $50 a ton.
w. c. Blair of Hinsdale county has
been appointed by State Chairman vi.
Wan secretary of the Republican state
central committee.
Harry Carbon. j. II. Woodward anG
c. l.. sharpe, all of Pierce, near Gree
ley, are under arrest and charged
with embc2zling funds of the Union
Pacific Railroad company.
From figures compiled by the pas
senger departments of the railroads,
/, is figured that 5000 persons have
come to Colorado to make their home
since the first OF the year.
Sixteen hundred children were cared
for by the state bureau of child and
animal protection during the year end
ing October 81, 1907. according to TIE
report of Secretary Whitehead
A picl;poeket stole Denver WON
ans purse containing a check of $35
and Sc in money. She chased him tive
blocks and grabbing him forced him
to give up the money, after which he
escaped.
Almost smothered to death under
10000 bushels of potatoes. missed by
his companions and rescued only after
the floor had been cut away beneath
him, was the thrilling experience of
Thomas Barnett, an employe at the
Greeley starch factory.
Joe Butcher, aged Is. exhibited sev-
eral rattlesnakes at Fort Morgan. In
the last two months ne mas killed 81
and has saved the skins of %. He is
careful. and if the snakes bits itself.
he viii not remove the skin. These
snakes were all found in one place.
sandhill with a southern slope.
In the suit brought by Miss Jenny
Pettyjohn, a young and pretty real es-
tate agent of Mum, against DIR. Chas.
Heberton of Num- in which the plain
tiQ claimed that she did not receive
her share of the commission on a
$1,000 sale of land, Judgment was rem
aered by which the defendant paid
$75 commission, instead of the $4OG
claimed,
human skull was dug up on Col
lege avenue, Canon City. by w. s.
Merris while working on an irriga
tion ditch. The find was taken to the
city hall, where Marshal Houston rec
ognized it as the exhibit which had
sent John Cox to the penitentiary
Tor life. Cox was arrested November
lG, 1891 inst fifteen years ago. for
killing John Anderson in a saloon row
at Chandler.