Durango semi-weekly herald., 1907-05-13

Glenwood Springs will celebrate
strawberry day on June Is.
The Santa Fe road is arranging to |
build $4,000 hospital at La Junta. |
Five hundred Russians have gone to
Loveland to work in the beet fields.
contributed 5000 to 100000 fund for
advertising Colorado.
Judge Moses Hallett has recently
sold his 400-acre ranch near Del Norte
to Geo. A Willis.
Business at the Montrose postof-
flee has reached the point which guar
antees carrier system.
The Rio Grande State bank is the
name of the new fiduciary institution
to be opened in Del Norte Iune l.
Las Animas is rejoicing over the
building OF new million dollar sugar
factory. Frost did not injure the
beets in that section.
Antoine Falliti was buried under sew
eral tons of coal at the Santa Fe
chute Trinidad and escaped serious
injury. 1t required ten minutes to
get him out.
The Illinois Liquor Dealers associ-
ations has invited several reformers
to tell at its banquet how the saloon
business can be elevated.
Chicago fire losses for the first four
months of 1907 are nearly S2.0O0,0G0
and threatens to make the total for
the year record.
The annual tax income of Weld
county, OF which Greeley is the coun-
ty seat, foot mp over $40S, 900, of which
$4,000 will be used this year for
roads and bridges.
Frank A. Malone, colored, was
bound over to the district court in
Denver on a charge of trying TO set
fire to the home OF Britton Barlow
while the family was asleep.
Nels and Aaron Carlson have taken
another lease on the National Bell
at Red Mountain. They made n good
thing out of their lease last summer
and expect to do better this sum
mer They are now drifting for ore
and will be in shape to ship by the
time the railroad is running.
The Denver News claims II will pub
lish the exact truth regarding the
trial of the Western Federation men
and to this end have sent "a special
man to see that the kind of truth
is printed that suits the policy of Mr..
Patterson and his twin papers.
The Anheuser-Busch Brewing asso-
citation has filed its answer in the
Kansas supreme court at Topeka, con
Tossing Judgment in ousters, offer
ing to withdraw from the state and
pay all the costs in the action, and
asking that no receiver be appointed
for its property there.
Rev. L. B. Lytle, presiding elder of
the Maryville district of the Metho-
dist Episcopal church, and Mrs. Mar
garet Shelton, head of the Deaconess'
home at st. Joseph, Mo-, have resigned
as the result of scandal following
the visit of the minister to the nurses
| rooms.
William E. Curtis, writing from
Washington, says that the govern
ment is seeking a commercial agree
ment with France like the new one
| with Germany and that commission
will be appointed to visit Paris this
summer to negotiate plans for one
with similar body there.
The plant of the American Smelt-
ing company at Murray, Utah, sub
urb of Salt Lake city, closed down
Thursday owing to strike of $50 OF
the 1000 men employed. The strik
ers were intimidating those working
and the company shut the works down
and the ore will be sent to other
plants for treatment
After losing out in foot race with
confidence man, S. b. Patterson,
Colorado Springs grocer, has appealed
to Chief Reynolds to catch the man
who passed confederate $40 bill on
him, receiving in exchange two s.
bills. The race between the "con"
man and Patterson caused consider.
able excitement on South TETON street.