Semi-weekly herald., 1908-04-06
mess too much. l have a family tc
support and / am growing old"
George W. Melville is looking after
business in Aztec today.
COLORADO NEWS.

TO 100000.
The Denver & Rio Grsnde has jus
issued neat 60-page pamphlet en-
titled, Camping in the Rockies
Pueblo school girls object to goiu,
down the fire escapes in the fire drill
because it muses. their hair and soil
their shirt waists.
Blanda Nelson. girl 10 years old
is suing for divorce in Greeley OF
grounds of cruelty. She was mar
ried last January.
John Wassinger of Denver has beer
bound over on the criminal charge o
sending Miss Annie Herbert an OBJ
scene valentine through the mail.
The contract for the state bridge
over the Uncompahgre river in GU
ray county has been let to the NJ. II
Levick Construction company for 81.
300.
Delegates from thirty towns in
| Colorado are attending meeting In
| Denver for the purpose of organizing
a state branch of the brotherhood OF
| Methodists
Enoch Brunelli of Rouse is the own
er of a two-headed calf. which he has
had mounted In Colorado Springs
The calf died when two or three
weeks old.
| Wayne J. Smith, boolSkeeper, fell
FIVE stories in the elevator shaft in
| the Ernest & Cranmer building. sus.
tanning only a fracture of the leg
and some bruises.
At n depth of 1000 feet flow of
three cubic feet per second of artes-
ian water was struck three miles east
of Florence on Monday. A summer
resort is to be built.
Walter Reed and w. H. Altevogt,
TWO young men OF Denver. We're sen,
tetnced to iive to six years in the
penitentiary for robbing an old man
of 40 cents. They also beat him
nearly to death.
j. II. johnson and wife, cooks at
Shoshone camp near Glenwood
t'pi itt,ot fiib dlItNA tHdfBtu
with killing mountain sheep. A
band OF sheep had been coming near
the camp, being very tame.
A prehistoric tooth was discovered
at a depth of 30 feet In digging a well
at Pierce. 1t is nine inches long, nve
inches broad. weighs five pounds and
viii probably be given 10 the state
Normal school While this Is the
first fossil to be found at Pierce,
number have been uncovered in the
Grove country, and IT is believed this
section may prove to be a rich fossil
field
According to figures compiled by J..
b. Lazear. second vice president OF
the Central National bank of Den
yer. Colorado has the greatest cash
resources of any state in the Union.
He says in summing up: During
the panic of 1893. of the then 81 nat
ional banks, 1G suspended; of which.
however. all but two resumed bus
mess, and finally paid in full. While
during the panic of 1907 of the 10S
national banks there were no suspen-
sions, and all are in sound and in sol
vent condition. On a recent visit OF
the writer to the western slope, where
fruit orchards are selling at from $500
to $4,000 per acre, and in northern
Colorado. where a loss of 81 per head
for lambs was anticipated, profit
Of $1.50 per head seems now to be
assured, the banks are gaining in de-
posits, and It looks quite likely that
Colorado will remain In the strong po
sition."
Articles of Incorporation have been
filed by the Rocky Mountain Highway
association, having as its object the
building of an automobile road
through Colorado. Montana. Wyo-
ming, Idaho, Utah, New Mexico and
Arizona. Anyone Interested In good
roads IL eligible TO membership.
Governor Buchtel will deliver three
addresses in Trinidad Sunday, April
H. He viii speak in the morning at
the First NJ Il. church and win lee
ture in the afternoon at the West the
ater In the evening he will speak at
the Presbyterian church to union
church meeting
AS a result of the "spud special"
train which made n tour of the
state with experts who lectured on
potato culture, three farmers from
the southern part of the state will
| buy a carload each of seed in Den
yer. Each car OF seed Will produce 65
| acres of potatoes.
Monday "a carloads of sheep left
Greeley for the Chicago market. rep
| resenting $1,000 a carload, or s12G,
600 Sheepmen say that, notwith
standing the high prices paid, three
| fourths of their sheep we're shipped
on losing market and that the higt
returns OF the remainder will mo-
cover the losses on the first ship
ments.
Chicago's milk supply Is threatened
by strike OF drivers.
The worlds champions were defeat
ed by the Atlanta team the other day