Durango semi-weekly herald., 1907-06-10
COLORADO ITEMS.


The school census just taken shows
that Pueblo has 1885 children be-
tween the ages of 6 and 21. only an
increase of 500 during the year.
The Colorado City school board
granted raise OF $50 year to all
teachers employed in the schools
there. The salaries are now $50 and
5000.
| A stranger, who ran over a 7-year-
old girl at Trinidad. narrowly escaped
lynching by the angry populace. The
child was not seriously hurt. The
man got away and disappeared.
A woman left her purse on a counter
while attending bargain sale at Pti-
eblo department store and when she
went after it was gone. The purse
contained s9S. She didn't recover it.
Articles of incorporation have been
filed with the secretary of state for
the Utah-Nevada Powder company,
with a capital of s7.50O,O00. The in
corporators are all Colorado Springs
men.
Burge Dale was fined $40 by the
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police magistrate of Denver the other
day for beating a woman. He hadn't
the money to pay and rather than
have the county keep him until the
| fine was served ont sentence was sus-
pended providing he would leave town.
One Of the Boulder aldermen created
a sensation at the meeting of the city
council the other night. He stated
that the city was paying for 1000
500 candle. The report will be in
vestigated and II found true it. is
likely the light companys franchise
will be revoked and the city put in
a plant of its own.
| The school board of Colorado
Springs decided to allow Jean Vanat-
Ia to graduate from the high school
and to give him a diploma. Vanatta
is fraternity member, and several
weeks ago Principal Richards threat
ened to withhold his diploma if he
did not resign from the secret society.
This the boy refused to do. and his
father, John X. Vanatta, a prominent
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ter into the courts unless the board
! gave him the honors won.
Twenty prominent and wealthy resi-
dents of Trinidad are in receipt of
letters from Madrid, Spain, signed by
one Manuel Cervera, who represents
himself to be political prisoner in
that country and who seeks financial
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He wants $l,100 to aid him in secur.
| ing the release of trunk containing
| valuable papers in New York. He en-
joins strict secrecy on each recipient
and offers to divide 100000 francs
with the party who will advance the
| s1,1O0. None of them have bit
Attorney General Dickson announces
that on July / he will start suits
for the collection of all fiat taxes
against all corporations not paid by
that date and he will also ask the
court to declare that those corpora
tions who have not paid these taxes
are not residents of the state. Under
the law as amended by the last gen
eral assembly all interpretations pay 2
cents per $1,000 fiat tax. There are
10000 interpretations doing business
in the state. 5000 of which have
have paid these taxes. Those who do
not will, if the attorney general can
secure the opinion. be declared non
residents.
About O'Clock Wednesday evening
the people of Sugar City were all
startled by a sound like thunder
clap followed by n deluge of water
which flooded the streets. The water
main of the National Sugar Manufac-
turing company leading from Lake
| Henry had burst. This is a wooden
pipe about thirty inches in diameter
which is laid along the middle OF
Bronx avenue and the pressure when
the lower gate is closed is tremendous
Masses or earth weighing tons were
torn from the street and the detached
pipe was thrown to the sidewalk. 1t
required several hours to check the
flood.