Semi-weekly herald., 1908-07-20
COLORADO NEWS.


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Greeley Baptists are planning on a
new $4,000 church.
Seventeen railroads are to be sued
by the United States for violating the
safety appliance act.
The floods of Las Animas county
have subsided with damages Of only
about 5000.
The safe or the Colorado Southern at
Windsor was blown open by yegg-
men and 500 secured Monday morn
ing.
Denver is Just settling the spring
election expenses. $500 people hav-
ing bills. aggregatIng something over
$4,000.
Sixteen vagrants were fined In the
police court In one day at Trinidad.
And Kansas farmers are in line for
all the labor possible.
Mclvor Tyndall was giving an Ell
tertainment at Trinidad Monday night
when his audience stampeded. Heard
wall of water fifteen feet high was
coming down the river.
Harris Stratton, for forty-three years
resident OF Fort Collins, sergeant-at.
arms of the first Colorado state sen
ate, and otherwise prominent In pub
| lie life, died Monday, aged 10.
Accidentally falling against dead
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company. while dumping refuse into
Fountain creek, In the southern part
of Colorado Springs, Joe Pelas, q
gardener, was killed instantly.
Ten thousand people crowded into
the big tent to see the Hagenbeck and
Wallace circus in Denver Monday
and three thousand or more turned
away for lack of standing room. This
proves the Democratic party is no
the only drawing show on earth.
Miss Harriet NJ. Young, aged 2.
years, daughter of G. H. Young o
Colorado Springs. was badly stunned
by lightning while at her post al
operator of the Santa Fe station Du
val, four miles north of the Springs
Miss Young continued to dispatcl
switching Two trains after being stun
ned.
John Harris. aged 20. who went I,
Fort Collins from Los Angeles for nj
health about three months ago, WI,
drowned Monday afternoon in Sheldol
lake, one mile west of town. Witt
several companions he was out for
swim and Just before going into tn
water Harris took chew of tobacco
which 1t is belieyed he strangled on
As he went down he made no outcry
but seeing his predicament, verlan'
,Iacoby tried to save him. graspinl
him by the hair, but was unable tt
hold him. The body was in the wate
three ami one-half hours before its re
coyery.
| Governor La Toilette will speak a
the Rocky Ford Chatauqua July %.
Give babies more pure water ant
less milk in hot weather is the advic,
given before the Suburban Health
league OF Chicago. rs .f
Denver is having plenty of circuses
two already having been there ant
Barnum & Bailey's colossal affair will
be in the city July 27th and 2sth.
The Northern Pacific reports To-
June s4.324.244 gross earnings, de
crease of $2,068,54S; for the fsca
year, s63,319,921. decrease $665,626.
i Judge Baily refused to grant tn,
Injunction against the Pueblo count,
commissioners for the building Of
new court house. This means new
building.
After living for four days with I
broken neck. Arthur Anteni, the A
year-old child of MIR. and Mrs. JOSEPH
Anteni of Trinidad, died as a result o
the injuries received by falling from
the porch at the family home. Tn,
child was unconscious until the time O
his death.
Senator Henry M. Teller left Wed
nesday morning for Narragansett Pier
to attend a meeting of the senate
bmembers appointed by Vice President
Fairbanks to serve on the monetar,
commission created by act of congress
May 30. The meeting begins July q
and will probably continue about ter
days.
| Arthur Jackson, president OF the Ma
tional Good Roads congress and vice
president OF the National Good Roads
association, has volunteered to solicit
funds TO continue to be used In prose
cutting the work of the Colorado state
highway. Mr.. Jackson visited Trini
dad Wednesday and promised the
members of the chamber of commerce
and the county commissioners his
hearty cooperation in keeping the
work on the road In progress. The
$4,000 appropriated by the last ses-
sion OF the legislature has been al.
most exhausted and the efforts OF Mr..
Jackson and the citizens OF this coun-
ty are now being directed toward keep
ing the convicts here until another ap-
preparation has been made by the
state.
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