Semi-weekly herald., 1908-06-08

III Is lutl ONtl lfOVOyoV" ~
mato plants and $4,000 sweet potato
plants, to say nothing of great
amount of garden truck, has been set
out in Grand Junction sine the fruit
was DESTROYED. The fruit raisers ex
pect to make up their losses, to large
| extent. by raising garden truck.
]. j. Mcdonald found the body OF
| a man in McDonald's cabin on his mill
ing claim twelve miles from Red Cliff.
He reported the case TO the coroner
without making an investigation. Nc
| Donald left his cabin the Sd of May
and when he returned found the body
| lying on the floor with the door open.
| John Walsh, first sergeant Company
II, Twenty-frst regiment, United
States army. walked in to Glenwood
Springs Monday on his way to san
Francisco He is walking acrosD tie
continent on a wager put up by w. X.
Hearst and c. A. Ostermeyer OF New
York, to make the trip in ninety days
He is eleven days ahead of his sched-
ule at Glenwood If he wins the wager
he will receive $4,000.
4 The alumni initiated the high school
graduates at Fort Morgan into the
mysteries of their organization and
people who were on Main street were
given the pleasure of seeing young
lady drive a tame rooster the full
length of the street with cords at
J tached TO its wings as lines. Some
we're made to scrub the postoffice
J floor, while other looked after the
dusting OF the clothes of the people
they met.
H. L. Carlson, wealthy citizen OF
North Denver has employed an attor
ney to bring mandamus suit against
Wolfe hall to force that institution
to bestow upon his daughter, Grace
Carlson Prout, the diploma which Miss
Margaret Kerr, the principal, has de-
MED her. Miss Kerr, upon learning
that the girl had eloped to Littleton
l. last April and there became the wife
+ of Roscoe Prout, refused to permit her
to graduate and even denied her right
10 her sheepskin.
j. C. Bixler, the ticket agent at
: Swink, was arrested yesterday and
tried before Justice Clark charged with
stealing the sum of $1,062 from the
: Santa Fe while acting in his capacity
E as agent He claims that he took the
a money to buy land in New Mexico and
: intended to replace it before the audi
tor came around, but failed to do so.
X He was bound over to the district court
under $4,000 bond, which he was un-
able to give and he was remanded to
jail.
u Either Colorado's pure food law must
= be amended insofar as it applies to
> goldfish or else the people of the state
will be compelled to do without cod
. fish during the summer months. The
y law prohibits the using of any pre-
servative in preserving meats. Accord
/ ing TO those who know the Goldfish
business it is impossible to preserve
u this meat without using preservatives
u and in fact the use of the preservatives
l
. mixup between the pure food commits
sioners and Goldfish balls is that the
commissioner issued a statement warm
ing the public that there is a great
deal of danger in using Goldfish during
It the warm months. The commissioner
Z states that several cases have been
e brought to his attention where Goldfish
S had become more or less putrid owing
TO the fact that preservatives could not
Z be used and that several cases of pto-
: maine poisoning have resulted from
/ its use.
William Elzinga, blacksmi ii instruc-
= tor at the Fort Collins agricultural
college, has resigned, stating that he
: is tired of the wrangling." 1t is be-
= lieved there are other troubles at the
college
A petition is being largely signed
by taxpayers of Pueblo against the
building of new court house, fearing
that it Will be above the estimate and
; claiming that the old building is ade-
quate for all purposes.
The state railroad commission has
decided TO get down to business and
b. ready to hear complaints of ship.
pers. There is some doubt as to the
appropriation made by,lh legislature
to pay the commissi being avai' 4
able.
Rosalind. the 3-year-old daughter of
Max Cohn. merchant of Glenwood
Springs, while playing with matches,
set fire to her flimsy white dress. Her
mother threw blanket around her
and extinguished the flames, but not
until the child had been so badly burn
ed that she win probably die.
In runaway accident in Leadville
Wednesday, julius Briel and Clark
Waite were seriously but not fatally
injured. Both are now at the hospital
Briefs right leg is broken. Waite suf
fered broken arm and injuries on the
head. The men were riding in heavy
| delivery wagon and were poinp doun