Semi-weekly herald., 1908-03-02
COLORADO NEWS.

was married at Bee Town. Wis, and
was stung.
Five wells are being drilled by the
United Oil company at Florence. the
largest number yet drilled at any one
time by this company.
Postmaster Dan w. Stone of Trim
idad, who has just returned from
Washington. says he has secured the
promise of $25.O00 more for the erec-
ton of a postoffice building. The sum
now to be appropriated is $4,000.
Nine snowslides at Buena Vista, the
largest of which was 100 feet long and
60 feet high, blocked the Colorado &
Southern railroad Monday.
The Canon City council has al
lowed $50 reward for the recovery OF
the body of the Italian Minichelli to
Roy Green, who also received 500
from the county.
Breckenridge justice of the peace
held Superintendent II. f.. Morris of
the Gold Dust mine to answer to the
district court because the company
failed to meet the monthly pay roll.
Max Conrad. while playing pool in
Trinidad, stepped backward into a
door which the porter had left open,
and fell to the basement. He was
picked up unconscious and physicians
fear concussion of the brain.
A new ice company has been
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lower the price. Several thousand
tons have been secured at Glacier lake
on Sugar Loaf mountain. Last year
the two competing companies consol-
dated and raised the price.
The body of Joseph C. Taylor, OF
| Newcastle, Colo. were found hair
buried in the sand of the Arkansas
river near Canon City on Tuesday.
The find was made by some children.
| The man was accidentally drowned
about the goth of October.
Edward Swanson, crazed by drink.
locked his wife and child out of their
home in Denver and they were forced
to spend the night outside. Before
| locking them outside he beat his wife.
and when he was arrested next day
| she was too i'll to appear against him.
Judge George Allen OF Denver has
decided that the state inheritance tax
| is a part of the general state fund,
and so the state treasurer will he
called upon for s110,0O0, which was
appropriated by the last legislature
for the support and maintenance OF
the various schools of the state.
Samuel Hager o farmer near Den
yer. was stabbed three weeks ago
| with n pitchfork in the hands of Il.
Wylie. and died last Monday from
| blood poison, which followed his
wound This makes the thirty-second
death. either self-innicted or from the
| hands of another in thirty-two days.
An example of rare nerve was ex-
| hibited in Denver when Anton Zuvich
had a countryman named Mike Stip-
| anech covered with a gun. ''If you
don't stop pointing that revolver at
me, I'll kill you. If you so much as
| look as If you were going to pull the
| trigger, I'll beat you to DEATH" said
Stipanech. The bluff worked and Zu-
| vich allowed Stipanech to take the
| gun away from him.
The University of Colorado Repub-
clared for Taft.
All the Santa Fe shopmen who were
| recently laid off in Pueblo have been
| put back to work at full time.
A recent census gives Fort Morgan
population of 3.717. and Governor
| Buchtel has declared it city of the
second class.
Roy Borquin, the armless youth
held for the robbery of the pest house
| and other thefts in Canon City, has
| confessed to arson. Borquin told the
sheriff how he stole a can of coal oil,
scattered it on the floor of an empty
building on May avenue and showed
how he started a fire by holding a
match between his teeth and lighting
it on the wall. The loss occurring at
the time of the fire was estimated at
$500.
Game Warden w. d. Wilson of
Creede recently arrested A. F. Triplett
for killing deer out of season in the
vicinity OF Wagon Wheel Gap. When
tried In a justice court Triplett was
fined $25 and costs, amounting in all
to s65.30. There have not been a
great many infractions of the game
laws reported to the state fish and
game department recently, The lat
est reports of the kind were to the eff
feet that some Mormon settlers in the
San Luis valley have been killing
ducks without licenses. The duck
season is now open but hunters must
be provided with licenses, and some
special game wardels have been sent
down to that vicinity to look into the
matter
p. w. Goodrich of Greeley has the
private diary of his great uncle, Capt.