Semi-weekly herald., 1908-02-13
COLORADO NEWS.

depth OF over four feet.
The anti-saloon agitation has at
last struck Holly and numerous peti-
tons are being circulated by the tenn
perance people. who declare thoy
mean business.
In fall of rock In the mine OF the
Victor Fuel company at Delagua. one
miner was killed. another probably
fatally injured and two others hurt,
but not seriously.
MIR. and Mrs. Otto Mears of Colo
sado are visiting Washington. and on
last Thursday evening we're guests OF
Senator and Mrs. Guggenheim. On
Feb. Is Mr.. and Mrs. Mears Will sail
from New York for three months
tour in Europe.
A cut OF $3.50 per ton was made in
the price OF gas coke by the Denver
Gas and Electric company Saturday
morning. That makes total of $2s5
cut of the price within the past few
weeks, and coke is now selling at IS
per ton.
At meeting OF the Democratic
club In Denver Saturday. Harry ms
ley, supposed TO be a spokesman for
Mayor E. w. Speer. announced that
the mayor would be reelected by at
least 5000 majority at the coming
| election.
The killing of wives and suicide oil
husbands is becoming epidemic In
Colorado. And is the publication OF
the crimes that increases the disease.
We have the Pueblo, Colorado City
and Denver double tragedies within
the past ten days
With his suspenders tied to beam
in the city jail. William Herquim OF
Colorado Springs tried to hang him
self in Colorado City. The suspend
ers broke and the man received bad
fall. The next morning he was fined
$40 and costs and released.
The ranchers OF the SunHower val.
ley, near Trinidad. will next spring
plant n large acreage to sugar beets,
Us 1t is now certain that the Holly
Beet Sugar Refining company will
erect n factory a. Hoebne. the center
Of the farming land of the valley.
A Pueblo Italian was fined one dol.
lar and casts for stealing ten cents
worth of coal. There Is said to be a
great deal of petty stealing going on
and It's not ON account OF the real
value, but the principle that is in
yolyed. If 1t is shown that the coal
is required among the poor It will be
furnished. but stealing must end
While driving Lavender's six.horse
ore team near the dump OF the Tom
Boy mine. where one of the large
snowslides ran recently, the horses,
wagon and rider were preclpitated
over the embankment by miniature
slide ana hurled hundred feet or
more down the side of the mountain,
where they were almost buried under
the snow. The driver and horses es-
capped uninjured and no serious dam
age was done.
The 15-months-old baby boy OF Mr..
and Mrs. G. Scott. of Rocky Ford,
while playing in the back yard fell In
the cistern and was drowned. fA
skull was crushed in the fall. The
mother had Just gone into the house
and when the child did not follow her
In went to look for 1t and found that
1t had fallen into the cistern. The
mother jumped into the cistern to res
cue the child. The cistern was about
one-third full OF water.
Robert Guggenheim. OF the famous
GuggenheIm family. is in Denver for
few days. He has been inspecting
the smelters of the company In Utah
and other western states and is now
| en- route east. He Is a son Of Daniel
| Guggenheim and a nephew of United
States Senator Simon Guggenheim.
There is no truth whatever In the
report that has been sent abroad that
the Guggenheim interests have gone
Into the control of Rockefeller" he
stated positively. There was no oc-
caslon for such rumor, and 1t is en-
tirely without foundation"
Denver Gas company Is figuring on
purchasing the Majestic building for
permanent home. The Majestic il
held at 100000.
Pueblo wants the national delegate
convention. This is all right. Give
II to her and let Pueblo Republicans
get together and stop their quarreling.
It is said that New oYrk interests
are attempting to corner a sufficient
number of Cripple Greek mines To
place them practically In control of
the camp.
or course the marriage OF two min.
ing men were to pretty young
nurses" At least this is the version
telegraphed to Denver papers. Who
ever heard of a romantic wedding
where the girl was not pretty? Per
ish the thought.
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