Semi-weekly herald., 1908-08-20

turn has entertained them to q degree
that the social set In Telluride has
not experienced before. Mrs. Hogg'l
visit has been the occasion of q grea
number Of entertainments given 10;
her and by her that will long be re
membered by those who had the good
fortune to attend them.
Mercury as cure for tuberculosis
the discovery of Surgeon Barton Lisle
Wright. United States navy, has beer
proved at the United States naval hos
pital at New Fort Lyon. Colo. Tuber
| culosis patients received at the hospi
tai and pronounced as incurable have
recovered. Some of these cases were
| aggravated by serious complication
sometimes found In consumptive cases
As the result OF the election OF
George A. Hally to succeed himself as
president and w. T. Hickey of Pueblo,
to the office OF first vice president, u
split up in the Colorado State Fed
GRAFTON Of Labor is imminent. The
OF withdrawing and forming South
ern Colorado State Federation. to take
in unions in the southern part OF the
state dissatisfied with the present or
gnnization.
The county commissioners Of Ou-
ray county backed by the commission
ers from practically all OF the counties
on the western slope. have filed man
damus proceedings to compel the state
board OF equalization to redistribute
the recent assessment which was made
on railroad property. The counties
maintain that the distribution should
be on a straight mileage basis irrespec
tive OF whether 1t is narrow gauge or
broad gauge track and Irrespective of
the traffic carried over the road.
A little yellow dog is the indirect
cause of law suit brought by the
town Of Ault against ]. A. Patterson,
resident there, tried before jus.
tice, and whose case is now appealed
to the county court. The case may
prove test OF the validity of the
Ault town ordinance requiring own
ers OF dogs to pay tax on them. Pat
terson refused to pay his dog tax. was
arrested and his fine and costs amount
ed to 325. He held that II was ille-
gal and that the city had only the
right to sieze the dog In case the taxes
were not paid on it.
The ingram mine at Salina In Boul
der county was Saturday evening the
scene Of one Of those terrible acci-
dents common to the mining industry,
when the premature explosion OF about
fifty pounds of dynamite instantly kill.
ed Charles Callicutt. Ole Broughton
and Frank Shea In the stope from the
245-foot level OF the mine. The men
were working with machine drills In
the stope and preparatory to going off
shift were getting ready to load two
rounds OF holes and had brought up
into the stope from forty to fifty
pounds Of dynamite.
Attorney General w. II. Dickson,
while In Trinidad few hours Friday
afternoon. issued an order that all
saloons and business houses that have
been allowing gambling. must stop 1t
August IS. In giving them until that
time to comply with the law. he said
that he did not wish to work hard
ship on any Of them. The order was
given as coming from Governor Buch.
tel. who says gambling In Trinidad
and Las Animas county. which has
been running wide open for several
weeks. must cease.
The University of Colorado will soon
have a completely equipped timber
testing laboratory at Boulder. Ma.
chimes for this laboratory have been
ordered. and delivery has been prom
ised during August. The first prob
lem taken up will probably be the In
vestigation OF the relative strength Of
dead and firekilled timber. as COM
pared with that OF timber cut while
still growing. Two testing machines
will be installed, the larger one capa,
BILE OF exerting q pressure Of 100000
pounds, and the smaller capable Of
exerting a pressure Of 10000 pounds.
Both these machines are of the latest
design and each Is driven by sepa-
rate motor. The laboratory equipment
also will include power-driven saw
and planer for preparing specimens
from timber as 1t IL delivered at the
laboratory.
An underground river a quarter OF
mile wide in the Pierce locality, TWEEN
ty miles north OF Greeley. is helping
solve the problem Of irrigation there
for large area. To avail themselves
of this underflow the Pierce residents
have put down wells and the water ia
raised with pumps. The most novel
well is that OF H. Bert Cave and is
really two wells. witk a pipe running
between them. Each is twelve feet In
diameter. thirty-two feet deep and the
water rises ten feet and runs In as
fast as taken out by pump operated
by electricity. This plant furnishes
sufficient water to irrigate sixty acres.