Semi-weekly herald., 1907-10-03
COLORADO NEWS.

birthday Monday.
Henry Havermeyer, the sugar king
Is expected in Denver Friday.
J. F. Farris of Pueblo was run over
by a switch engine and fatally injured
The stratton Inheritance tax was
paid yesterday into the state treas
ury.
Denver Times-News-Post are at it
again and character assassination Is
at discount
Contract has been let for the cree.
tion of s5O,OOO addition to the state
insane asylum at Pueblo.
Greeley shipped FIVE carloads OF
onions to be used as seed to san
lose. Cal. About 5000 bushels.
The success of the first crop of
beets in the Trinidad district has
more than doubled the value of land
M. Goldberger's dry goods store at
Pueblo was damaged by fire to tho
extent of 100000 caused by an ex.
plosion Sunday
C. A. r. Commander Mellette ha5
fled credentials with the governor
who will now issue commission as
a member ex-offcio of the soldiers
home commission.
For the steenth time Denver Time
announces it belongs to no party But
lust wait until election comes around
and see how quickly it seeks cover III.
er the Democratic tent.
The district court in session a
steamboat Springs took jnst four min
Ytes to grant a decree that separated
'egaIly Mrs. O. b. joyful smith
rom her unworthy spouse. on the
'harge of cruelty and nonsupport.
While the 4-year-old son of Ranch
nan Ery Miller near Gleuwood
Springs was playing in IN oat hcld
near the house, the father, who wa
irving a binder, ran upon the child
tearly seyering one of his legs JUST
below the lJnec.
State Labor Commissioner Swanson
mas been investigating labor condl
ions in the Cripple Creek district
md reports things generally satlsfac
tory there. He says the card thai
miners must get from the Mine own
RS association is merely a card o.
recommendation.
Convictions have SO far been Sc.
cured on every indictment rcmnne6
ny the Fort Collins grand jury ir
The liquor crusade and there is d.
temporary lull in the district court
which will again take up jury trials
next Friday.
The Denver Post of Monday con
tains write up of the Colorado-New
Mexico fair and pictures Of President
Nathan and Directors Vandegrift and
LOTUS. Now this makes the rest OF
the push real mad Those left out
will about have to send for the re.
nowned Queen Bee"
Because of the difficulty in han.
lling the potato crop, especially in
regard to gathering it, number OF
Greeley farmers have decided to quit
growing potatoes and devote their
lime and land heretofore devote to
that crop to stock raising. in which
they agree there is more money.
At a meeting OF the state fair di,
rectors reports of officers showed that
the fair this year was the most sue
eessful in the history of the asso-
| citation, financially as well as in every
other way, and practically all debts
will be wiped out. The directors de
cided to prepare plans to make next
years fair even bigger ami better.
The suit OF Rozene Meeker against
the Denver Post was decided in ia
yor of the latter. Miss Meeker brought
suit against the Post for $4,000 dam
ages for articles concerning her pub
ished in the paper. On the same
grounds she secured a verdict Of $50
against one Of the other papers and
$500 from the other on "A compromise
After four attempts TO lidnap her
by friends of the uncle who, it is al
legged. had lived in criminal relations
with her for several months, and now
confined in the Walsenburg Jail await
ing trial, Martha Delaney. lS years
old, whose parents live in Pueblo, was
taken to the Home of the Good Shep.
herd in Denver by officers of the
state bureau Of child and animal pro
lection and lodged there.
Walter Alexander and Albert Bills,
expressmen. were shot and killed at
the Midland terminal depot. Cripple
Creek, and Nat Thorpe is confined in
the city Jail, charged with the shoot
ing. There were no direct witnesses
to the ARRAY except that Engineer
Peck, who had just arrived at the
depot with the night train, saw Thorpe
and Alexander wrestling on the plat.
form after the passengers had depart
ed. and heard three shots fired Bills
was the innocent bystander.