Semi-weekly herald., 1909-10-04
tatoes from Greeley has fallen 1000

tatoes from Greeley has fallen 1000
cars below that OF month ago.
As memorial to her husband the
late ex-Gov. B. II. Eton. Mrs. Rebecca
Eaton OF Greeley will present to that
town $4,000 public library building.
One hundred potato diggeia refused
TO work at Greeley for 81 PEI day and
board. They were informed by the
city marshal that men who hung about
he city who could obtain work would
re taken in as vags.
The opening OF the Gunnison tunnel
IS being felt in Increased prices of
and. Raw fruit land on Spring Creek
mesa touched highwater mark when
n. W. H. Turner of Brush, Colo, pur-
chased 40 acres of vacant land In ihe
center OF the fruit district for $500
an acre
| Tobias Mattox. living a mile souih-
west Of Greeley. will take $1,000 in
fruit from an eisht-acre orchard this
| season. having one OF the best crops
since he planted II seven years ago.
There are twenty eight varieties of
apples, different varieties of plums,
grapes. pears. peaches. etc. The aver
age harvest of each plum tree brought
q return of $40 and over ton and
a half of grapes will be gathered.
]. Mills, "a Wyoming sheepherder,
undoubtedly saved his life by hacking
off finger with duh knife. Mills
was bitten on the end of the finger ny
rattlesnake He attempted 10 ampu-
ta.e the finger above the bite but his
knife was so dull that he could only
! cut the flesh away from the bite.
! This. however, was sufficient to pre-
D vent the poison entering his system.
0 graph station and ordered an auto
] mobile in which he was taken to
0 Cheyenne and placed in hospital
D Three times has the shadow OF death
j entered the home of j. NJ. Miner, the
= owner of the Weekly Herald of Grand
j junction, during the past week, and
it is again hanging over the home.
5 One week ago Mrs. Miner passed to
3 the great beyond, and the next day
4, their infant child followed It's mother.
n, Tuesday evening Eugene. the l0year-
'e cid son. breathed his last and the T.
fl year-old daughter is not expected to
II live. Typhoid fever has been the cause
IN of II all
u There was rejoicing In the office of
u he secretary of state Monday when
s filed reorganization papers and paid
on the spot fee of $72,1 the larg-
est fee ever paid by any corporation
W 10 the state of Colorado. Attorney T
III If. Devine, of Pueblo. handed Secre-
Is ary of States James B. Pearce check
N Tor that amount at the time he filed
II the papers describing the process
lie whereby the Missouri Pacific has alb
n .orbed eleven other subsidiary lines
v in Missouri, Kansas and Nebraska
'e with grand capitalization OF $240,-
Is 700 00fl --
RS An Anost osstfit ftsf -4tAlsrlssee-gagens loaded
" with potatoes drove onto IN old brfdgs
" crossing the Rio Grande river at Del
Norte and the bridge gave way pre-
cipitating the teams and drivers into
u about eight feet OF water John
u O'Brien, driver of the rear wagon. was
-e buried under the load in the river and
drowned. Another driver by the name
Ia of Wright. received several bad
a bruises and cuts about the face. The
~ horses came out OF the accident with
IS only minor injuries. The bridge has
'k been condemned but had not been
"a closed to traffic.