Semi-weekly herald., 1909-08-16
COLORADO NEWS.

There will be no land for settlers
to take up at the tunnel opening at
Montrose
New Lincoln penn bearing the
three initials OF the DE- signer are com
manding 25 cents each What rake
off IL the Durango penny collector
could have realized at this rate.
Telluride Journal has just entered
on Its sixteenth year. It's healthy
hid and we welcome II to our exchange
table every night.
| Travel into the southern part OF
Colorado. the San Luis valley and the
San Juan country, has been larger
during the past few months than at
any other time In the history of the
country. There have been more peo-
pie coming to invest during the pres
ent year than at any other time since
the advent OF the earliest settler, says
an Alamosa dispatch.
Twoc ars of cantaloupes left Rocky
Ford Tuesday, First car was billed
to Denver and the second TO New
York. About $50 crates were shipped
by express to various points through
out the state. Aside from these two
cars and 400 crates from which went
out by local freight Monday, shipments
have been rather scattering.
State Labor Commissioner Brake
wants II known that there Is not q
shortage of labor in Colorado. He
states that the labor employment agen
cies of the state can furnish as many
American laborers as are needed for
! any of the Jobs in the state.
An organized gang, composed of five
of the cleverest female plckpockets
, in the United States, and as many, II
; not more, men, is operating in Den
YER. In the past week the gang has
!; gone through the department stores
; hotels and pleasure resorts, and sc
cleverly have they operated that re
: ports at police headquarters show they
} have stolen diamonds OF a total value
of over $4,000.
r The directors of the Conejos Co
Il IoDtIhLoI NlliS CDlL
pany met at Conejos Monday ant
+ voted to build a mill In Antonito tc
{ replace the old mill which burned a,
l Conejos June &c. The company has
) its water power plant at Conejos ant
will operate the new mill by electric
ity,
Having a premonition of danger
. Miss Myrtle Younker. daughter of c
Il 1. Younker of Eaton, fled from hel
home Saturday evening to neigh
, boris, during an electric storm JUS
, after she left, the house 1t was strucl
n by lightning, the bolt tearing away
the chimney.
In decision handed down by Judge
, Cavender in the district court at Lead
/. vile. Sheriff William H. Campbell was
given judgement of STA against the
county commissioners for mileage fees
] which the latter had refused to pay
] for conveying prisoners to the State
5 Industrial school at Golden, in cases
g where more than one prisoner was
: taken at a time. The suit grew out oi
. the cases of five boys recently con
( victed of juvenile delinquency in the
: county court and sentenced to Golden
: The sheriff took the boys to the re
formatory at the same time and ren
dered bill under the fee system fol
mileage on each individual boy. The
commissioners allowed him mileag,
j but for one boy, and he brought suit t
collect for the others. The court helt
+ that inasmuch as the law does no
D certify that the officer is to receiv,
e mileage for but one prisoner in cast
more than one is taken at a time he
S Is entitled to the fee for each one
e He also ruled that regardless of tn,
a number of prisoners taken on one trip
q the officer Is allowed but one mittimu.
fee for the lot The case of Distric
e Attorney Hogan against the commits
O sioners for fees for prosecuting tn,
same boys was decided adversely /,
/, the plaintiff, the court ruling that thu
!. public prosecutor is entitled to bu
q one fee in juvenile cases, when prison
ers are tried collectively. Both case!
] will be appealed to the supreme court