Semi-weekly herald., 1908-02-17

dian appropriation bill SO that the In
i. dian school at Fort Lewis could b,
. continued. His amendment carries al
!. item of $3s,000. and will continue tn,
, school for the coming fiscal year, al
the end of which 1t is expected it viii
The indian affairs committee drop
ped the Fort Lewis school from the
benefits of federal support. but Hag
gott's amendment restores II to It's
former situation"
Already arrangements have been
made by the farmers and sugar com.
pany for raising 10000 acres of beets
in the Greeley district this year.
Heretofore 1t has been necessary to
ship in labor during the beet season,
but this will not be the case this year.
the 1900 Russians, Japanese and Mex,
leans required TO handle the beets
| having become permanent residents.
The sugar company predicts that in
side of FIVE years the beet crop of the
district will be grown by Russians
and Japanese. to whom the farmers
will rent their lands,
Hon. H. NJ. Hogg visited Telluride
the first of the week on law business.
The Telluride bowling team visited
Ouray the other night and-got
skinned.
Begins to look as though the beet
growers of the Manzanola district
will erect an independent sugar fac
tory.
Thomas Ward. Jr has at last Sc.
cured the United States district attor-
neyship the president designating
him Tuesday.
Delta is said to have developed
lively fight over "who is to be post.
master" Why not get along in har-
mony, like Durango?
The Post says the brick trust boldly
admits that it paid the bricklayers'
union $4,000 to lay trust brick and no
other also to keep the agreement
Six months ago the principal elec.
trio wiring companies of Denver
formed a trust. Since then the prices
of wiring and switches have almost
doubled, says the Denver Post.
The state normal school at Greeley
has added one of the rarest and most
expensive collections of humming
birds in the world to Its museum. 1t
numbers 400 different species. gath
cred in South America especially for
the school.
President Slocum OF Colorado col
lege has been notified of his appoint
ment as member of the executive
committee of the international tuber-
culosis congress. Other members of
the committee are President Roose
welt, former President Grover Cleve
land. and DR.. John Osler.
The Pueblo Chieftain is after the
Of Pueblo county because they re
fused to join 36 saloo1-keepers in en-.
forcing the Sunday closing law. Thir
ty-six saloonkeepers signed an agree
ment to remain closed, but the Others
refused and the officials stood with
them.
A lone bandit entered a gambling
room in the basement of the Coronado |
hotel in Trinidad at o'clock Tuesday |
morning. held up the gamekeeper.
James Williams. and with the other
hand filled up small vallse which he
was carrying, with all the money in
sight, $3.50 in silver. and made his
escape.
Reports from Gleneyre. Colo, are
that ranchmen are suffering from the
rayages OF wolves. A recent heavy
snowstorm In the mountains near
Gleneyre sent the hungry beasts to
the ranches, and within the last few
days Ranchman Burns has lost cat,
tie, sheep and calves.
over in the quiet town of Grand
Junction Saturday night two women
engaged in regular rough-and-tum-
BILE fight. one the wife OF a railroad
man and the other a restaurant keep
er who objected to a remark dropped
by the aforesaid wife. The trouble
started several weeks ago and ii was
thought had been settled. but thel
women met after the close of a dance
and mixed it" good aad plenty. And
the amusing part of it is that the hus-
band was held by a number of friends
of the young woman while the two
women scrapped.