Semi-weekly herald., 1908-09-21
COLORADO NEWS.

ID. G. Packer, hacker of the Denver
league baseball nine, is dead, aged 81
Safe crackers secured $500 from the
safe of the Keystone grocery at Colo
rado Springs.
This years term of Colorado college
opened with 100 more pupils than last
year.
Ault is preparing for a grand barbe-
cue and harvest celebration on the
3Oth.
Glenwood Springs is considerably
worked up over the reported finding
of the petrified skull of saurian.
Gustave Ongenart, a Belgian truck
gardner, was instantly killed by a
street car at Globeville.
G. R. Lewis, who succeeds Danny
Sullivan as postmaster at Cripple
Creek. now has charge of the office.
The agricultural college opened with
PA students. as against 2O4 for last
year and 146 the year before.
Two young children were drowned
in irrigating bitches in Fort Collins
within a few hours of each other.
The Colorado Federation of Won.
ans clubs will meet in Colorado
Springs on the 22d of this month and
be in session four days.
Berford Turner, said to have a wife
and family in Kansas, is in Jail in
Colorado Springs. charged with the
| abduction Of a 17-year-old girl.
1t is claimed by the Denver police
that the man charged with the murder
of Policeman Stevens is jeff Davis,
member OF the Black Jack gang of
outlaws.
Jim Lynn, colored, murdered
young girl and wounded her mother
some time ago in Pueblo, will be hang
ed in the penitentiary during the week
beginning October 10.
The police Of Colorado Springs have
been asked to find Wayne Crookes,
formerly of Willinburg, Pa, whose
mother is believed to be on her death
bed.
Yesterday afternoon the grand stand
| at the Pueblo state fair collapsed and
ESQ went down with it. Several people
were more or less injured, none seri-
ously.
The coal chutes of the Rio Grande
railway at Glenwood Springs were de
stroyed by fire, entaining a loss of
$4,000. The fire is believed to. have
| caught from trainman's torch.
Alderman c. F. Hudson of Grand
Junction was robbed one night of his
gold watch and large sum of money.
1t is likely the police force of that city
Will sit up and take notice in future.
AS the result of the accidental dis
charge of gun carried by one of
hunting party near Lafayette, Michael
Ryaskey is in the University hospital
with gunshot wound in the calf of
his leg.
E. C. Stimson. Democratic nominee
for congress from the First district,
has declined she honor. giving private
business reasons for the declination.
Charles Tew of Greeley will probably
be named
After suspension of two months
work has been again commenced on
the Canon City water works system.
Work was suspended because of diff.
fculty with the Rio Grande railway
on account of right of way.
In saloon row at Salida, two for.
eigners were shot in the legs. In an
attempt to frighten the bellgerents
the proprietor fired into the floor
the bullets striking the two men. who
were not participating in the row.
merely looking on.
the western slope fair at Montrose
this week was a success in every way.
The display of farm products. cattle.
horses, hogs and sheep was the finest
In the history of the county and as
Montrose is one of the banner coun.
ties OF the western slope this year in
Its fruit harvest, the horticultural dis
play is expected to equal is not sur
pass that OF normal years.