Semi-weekly herald., 1909-11-04
ecution of their boycott against the
corporation.
COLORADO News.

The Colorado City postoffice safe
was robbed by cracksmen of $2,4OO
In stamps Friday night.
Tax levy has been Increased In Den
yer raising the amount of tax increase
In that city quarter of million
dollars.
King Meneiik WAS stricken with
apoplexy last week and is reported in
a dangerous condition.
Chicago suffrngists refuse TO stand
sponsor fo~ visits to Chicago of Mrs
Emmeline Pankhurst and Lady Cook.
The Dupont powder magnates are
may have to pay damages for slander.
Machinists on the Oregon Short Line
and Southern Pacific have been grant.
ed an increase OF 3 cents an hour and
a strike averted
The demands of the monthly men
employed in The Buffalo. N. Y. grain
elevators for higher wages, recogni
ton of thei.' union and other minor
l
arbitration Committee,
Pinned under the wreckage OF an
engine when II turned over. John II
Duane, an engineer on the Midland
Terminal railroad was so badly scald
ed by escaping steam Saturday that
he died six hours later at the Sis
ters hospital at Colorado Springs.
+, G. Bonfils and II. II. Tammen of
the Denver Post have bought the Kan.
sas City Post, paying si65.00O. The
money making policy of the Denver
Post seems to be winner. The gen.
tlemen will spend over 100000 in
additional machinery for the Kansas
| City newspaper which will be model
ed largely on the Denver paper.
Trampled by mad cattle. o. c. EN-
menberger of Greeley had a narrow
escape from death Friday afternoon
A herd. containing two bulls. was left
in the street. and when Emmenberger
passed the bulls pursued him. fol
lowed by the entire herd. He ran to
escape. tripped and fell. and the ex
cited cattle rushed over his body
bruising him badly. He threw his
| arms over his head and this saved
his life, he believes. He viii bring
damage suit against the owner of the
herd. A. Beck of Denver
| Charles Heinz. Rio Grande passen-
| ger brakeman running between Ala.
mosa and Durango while walking
through the residence portion of Ala
mosa Friday afternoon stepped on
rusty nail which penetrated his foot
That night he was taken violently III
and the physicians in attendance fear
that amputation of the limb Will be
| necessary owing to blood poisoning
having set in. Heinz had been run
ming between Alamosa and Pueblo and
about a week ago was transferred TO
the Alamosa-Durango branch. He has
a wife and three small children living
In Alamosa.
| Assistant Attorney General James
G. Rogers, in charge of the inheritance
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torney generals office. has prepared
his report for the work of the depart
ment for the ten months of the Demo
cratic administration. The report
shows that there has been collected
and turned in TO the credit of the
state $4,000 for less than one-half Of
the biennial period. The estimate for
| the full two years from inheritance
taxes was only 100000, which is but
| one-fourth of what the department will
collect If the present rate Is maintain
| ed throughout the whole two years
Delta county claims the "spud" rec
ord this year, as well as few other
records which 1t has quietly annexed
during the season. G. ii. Perkins, who
has a ranch on Garnet mesa, about
one mile from the town OF Delta. re-
Gently sold 5000 pounds of potatoes
which struck the buyer as being extra
large. AS a matter Of curiosity he
counted the potatoes and found that
| the average weight of each was 3h
| pUuHus- IL Is cldlIneu lndt lot SO ldTbe
a shipment this record cannot be
eQualled In the west. The potatoes
| were round and smooth and of splen
did quality.
Pricked by conscience which has
| been rendered astonishingly active
since his conversion to the Salvation
army. C. P. Ellis of Fort Collins wrote
to the state game and fish commission
er and confessed that during recent
fishing expedition on the Gunnison
river he caught two or three fish WHICH
| were smaller than the law allows. II
met one man who said he thought the
limit was six inches" he explains
land another who thought 1t was sew
en- inches. These fish l caught were
between six and seven inches long
| and learned afterward that no one
was allowed to catch them under sew.
en- inches" Putting the matter in the
hands of Game and Fish Commissioner
T. ]. Holland to take such action as