Semi-weekly herald., 1908-05-18
COLORADO NEWS.

A deficiency OF $1,000 has been iouno
in the books OF l.. j. Tyson, former
city auditor, of Pueblo.
Delta has filed petition with Gov
ernor Buchtel, praying to be made
city of the second class. The town
now boasts of population of 2,03s
people.
Colorado viii make a strong bid Tor
honors at the national corn exhibit at
Omaha next December, the initial
steps being taken at the Fort Collins
Agricultural college.
Excavation for a cellar caused an ad-
! joining brick building in Greeley, own
ed by DR.. c. II. Mumford and occupied
by J. Sispo with a garage, to collapse
Monday. The falling walls barely miss
| ed some men and teams working in
the cellar. Ten automobiles were
ruined
Charles Tidd aged H. was run over
and killed by freight train near Mar
shall, in Boulder county. The boy was
going TO Louisville on the freight train.
As 1t neared Marshall he jumped and.
it is presumed. struck telegraph pole
and was hurled back under the cars.
1g-year-old Mexican boy named
Tomas Baca was cut in two by
| freight train at Engle, n, NJ. He tried
| to board the train while it was run
ming at thirty miles an hour.
b. f. Bancroft of Grand Junction is
| reported to have refused the other
day an offer of $500 for his cherry
crop OF five acres, the purchaser agree
ing 10 take charge of the crop at
once and do all the picking, running all
chances of further freezes. Mr.. Ban
croft claims he made $4,000 on his
cherries last year.
l.. l.. Stimson, engineer for the EN-
pire Construction company, composed
of D. A. Garfield and James w. Nc
| Creery of Greeley and S. II. Shields
OF Fort Morgan, has returned to Gree
ley from the Montezuma valley. He
| says the big irrigation enterprise, be-
gan year ago by the company. is
practically completed.
An unique method of building a big
elevator Will be employed by Bruce
Eaton and M. S. Losey of Eaton, who
will simply raise the roof and height
en- the wall in the middle of the large
potato warehouse built by Ex-Governor
Eaton in Eaton twenty years ago. The
elevator will have capacity of $4,000
bushels.
The state university has appealed
what is known as the Mackey case to
the supreme court. This is the case
where the state of Colorado is CON
testing for Inheritance tax ON $271,-
23l left by A. Fl. Mackey TO the state
university. Colorado won in the low
er courts and the university is appeal
ing.
The state pure food commission and
the dairy department have started a
movement to guaranteed pure cheese
in Colorado markets. A standard has
been agreed upon and all cheese that
does not come up to this standard
must be so marked The standard is
50 per cent butter fat. This will ap-
ply to foreign as well as local manu-
racturers.
Mabel the 17-months-old daughter
of Mr. and Mrs Il. A. Preston of Grand
Junction, was fatally burned by a
flame which shot out of stove when
she was playing in front of ii. Her
clothing caught fire and the mother
: wrapped a blanket around her. quick
ly extinguishing the flame, but not till
the little one had been badly burned,
death resulting in few hours.
The humane society will fight the ap-
: plication for pardon made by Clyde
: Casidenta. Casidenta is an Italian.
who less than year ago, was con-
: victed OF assault 12-year-old deaf and
dumb girl. Casidenia is ward heeler
and 1t is understood that his release
) is wanted because he can deliver GER
tain Italian precincts. The society
J has asked to be heard when his case
comes up. He was given from Ave
to six years.
Hazel Waverly. II years old, was
attacked by young man with razor
while out walking with him the other
night In Grand Junction, the attack
being made across the railroad tracks
She ran screaming into me first house
she came to and gasped out her story
and then tainted. Two men gave
J chase and ran the young man into the
railway yards, where he escaped. Ac-
cording TO the girls story she was at
tackled with the razor because she
spurned the young mans advances.
Neither she nor her parents will d.
vulee the name OF the young man
and the police have nothing to say
about II. except that he is well con-
nected
/ The reason for the Palisade district
being SO free from frost is explained
by the theory that the sheltering walls
of Little Book cliffs lying to the east
of the town, absorb heat from the
long afternoon sun and radiate II back
over the valley after the sun has set
During the day person standing near