Durango semi-weekly herald., 1907-07-01
COLORADO PARAGRAPHS,

Colorado Springs has a second hand
lumber yard.
Fremont county will soon have che
best roads OF any other county in
the state, the worl, OF convicts.
j. W. Armstrong. a Denver teamstcr
was fined Si05 and costs in the police
court for pulling his slck wife from
bed and beating her into inseuslbnity
Assets Of the Denver Sayingl bank.
representing face value Of botwe sn
100000 ami $4,000 were sold at auc-
tlon Tuesday for S5O.500
It is estimated the state will re.
4 ceiye 100000 as inheritance tax from
the Cheesmau estate. Judge Moses
lIallett has been appointed appraiser
Two Boulder mon have been arrest
ed for violation OF the liquor law.
One OF them had a regular route aud
/ peddled bottle beer a Ia the milk man
An entirely new specimen OF rabbit
has been discovered In Routt county
and has becn named Lets1wmrent No
description is given OF the new dis
| covcry
! A corps of surveyors Is making n pre-.
/ limlnay survey near PalIsade. in the
| Grand valley. to determine the fcnsl.
hilliy Of n proposed irrlgating canal 20
/ cost S1O0O.OO0.
The Canon City strawberry crop is
over for this year It has been the
ughtest crop In ten years. aud prices
we're high, netting the growers as
much as In plentiful years.
Colorado Springs delegates to the
convention OF the National Associa
ton OF Doat Mutos. have gone to the
meeting at Norfolk. Va, determined
to make an effort to capture the con
yention for Colorado Springs in 1910
i2d Barrier operator of a billiard and
pool room and suspected OF running o.
'bllnd pig at Hulsboro. forty miles
! southeast Of Loyoland. was burned out
Tuesday night. a spirited fight has
been made against the place and It
is believed that some one applied the
torch to end It.
About oue-hatf the fan gain and al.
falfl crop was damaged by a fierce
hailstorm which visited the section o
Brush. The storm moved from the
northwest TO the southeast The great
est damages was suffered by strip Of
country three miles wide ani ten
miles long, between Brush and Fort
Morgan.
Richard Irwin, who shot and slightly
wounded William T. DOYLE at the OF
lioes Of The latter In Colorado SPRINGS
on the ilrst Of last March Tuosday
pleaded guilty to the modified charge
of assault with a deadly weapon He
was sentenced to a year In the county
jail and fined $500. The jail sentence
was suspended upon payment Of The
fne.
The members Of the railway com
mission appointed recently by Coy
crnor Buchtel met in Denver and rat. |
fed the selection Of f. J. Chamber.
lin as president and Bulkeley Wells as |
secretary made several days ago at
preliminary meeting OF the committee. |
The commission decided to at once |
notify the railroads to file their sohod |
lle Of rates and as soon as the sehed |
ules are filed hearings viii be had on
protests.
Game and Fish Commissioner d. 3 !
Farr has decided to grant license for
the control OF the hunting and fishing |
on Twin Lakes The company that
has the lease on the lake claims that |
the lease extends to the fishing and |
hunting rights, C. r. Clay Of Denver |
lied a protest with the game depart |
Inent TO prevent the issuance Of the /
license claiming that he represents |
the company which owns two-thirds Of
the land Immediately adjacent to Twin /
Lakes.
One Of the results Of the visit o!
Secretary Of the Interior James H. |
Garfield TO Colorado viii be the build /
ing by the United States reclamation /
service of an immense high line ditch /
that will cost between $2,OOOO00 and /
S3,OOO.0OO. The building OF this ditch |
means the reclamation oi ijO.0O0I
acres Of now arid land which will /
under the water scheme, become some /
OF tho finest agricultural and horu |
cultural land in the entire west, and |
Viii provide homes Tor somewhere /
about 10000 people. Work upon this /
vast ana important national irrigation |
project Will probably Be begun with
in the next twelve months. The pro
posed ditch viii extend across the
Utah line, and all laid that will be
aatered by it VIII form contriputoly |
10 Grand Junction.
Eighty acres OF state land in Weld |
county was soid at auction in Len
yer lor SSl an acre. 1t WAS appraised
at 500.
The prospects Tor banner beet
crop at Manzanola was never better
than a. the present time and the farm
crs are Jubiiant.
In an euort to resist holdup, s. ".
Beachan. Denver fruit yender, was
6Aot twice by the roDDer5 and Is in a
critical condition. The robbers 90
capped.
The Colorado Fuel ana Iron com
pany has advertised Tor bids lor the
erection OF twenty cottages ior rne
use Oh the miners and their lamilies
at mine NO. .. on the outskirts oil
canon City.