Semi-weekly herald., 1909-03-29
COLORADO NEWS.

COLORADO NEWS.
The dates for the Pueblo state fair
have been changed to Sept POPS.
The storm put 5000 Denver phones
Que of commission Wednesday.
Lightning struck pole of the power
company and put out the lights over
large section of northern Colorado
Tuesday.
Miss Gwendolin Young Liyermore of
Telluride is among the benetciaries
of the estate of the late General
Palmer. the amount being $4,000. A
comfortable competence for frugal
person.
The Ouray Plaindealer lands a hot
roast on the eating station at Cimaron,
stating that 1t serves rotten and taint
ed meats which caused large num-
Der to be poisoned. The paper ad
yises people to take along lunches.
| If Denver is forced to pay sl4,500,-
600 for the water plant 1t will be a
long time in paying the debt. The
real cost of the plant is probably less
than half the sum agreed upon by the
appraisers. The valuation of the fran
cbise is placed at over s5,OOO,000.
Two hundred citizens of Glenwood,
tired of Democratic rule, met Mon
day night and nominated a complete
ticket. The Democrats have a straight
ticket while Republicans will support
the Citizens movement. Most every
town in the state will bar politics as
the issue this spring.
Ninety-seven carloads of sheep left
Greeley for eastern markets Tuesday.
Four hundred carloads, or 1O4 900
head, have already gone to market
from Colorado G. Southern points in
northern Colorado and there are many
more to go. Points on the Union Pa
cific will have sent over 100000 head
before the season ends. The total
shipments in northern Colorado will
bring over 100000.
Pueblo is oyerrun by the worst gang
of burglars, thugs and macquereaux
in the history of the city, and, follow
ing burglaries and the murder of Pa
trolman Barner Sunday night, talk of
the organization of a vigilance com
mittee is general on the streets. Pue-
bio is under a Democratic administra-
tion that has catered largely to the
dives and reign of crime is the re-
suit. This reminds Hs that Durango
has red light district on First street.
The saloon keepers of La Junta,
through their attorney, F. A. Sabin,
have applied 10 the district court for
an injunction to prevent the citizens
OF La Junta from voting upon the
question of making the city of La
Junta antisaloon territory. 1t was
voted upon by precincts last fall and
every precinct went dry but one which
was won by a small majority. They
take the ground that It cannot be
voted upon again until the end of
twenty-three months The matter will
probably go TO the supreme court.
Opponents of the Eppstein Oasis"
bill now believe that they have that
measure practically defeated since the
Judiciary committee yesterday put
over It's hearing upon 1t until next
Monday by vote of six to five. With
the special order calendar in the way
the Cary bill cannot be reached before
the end of the session as there are
about forty bills ahead of 1t on the
general order calendar. And Senator
Skinner and other antl-saloon advo-
Gates say they VIII talk the Wardlaw
bill to death In the Judiciary commit.
Tee before allowing II to come out of
committee, says the Denver Republic
an.
When Chaplain Kirk of the house
offered his prayer Tuesday morning
he astonished everybody by praying to
the Creator to compel the Democratic
members to fulfill their platform
pledges and help bury them In DO
litical graves II they did not. When
he finished, Speaker Lubers told him
that If he ever undertook to deliver
another political speech In a prayer
he would get called down and thrown
out. The speaker informed the chap.
lain that he was not there to make
grand stand plays for newspaper no.
toriety but that he was there TO ask
divide aid and guidance for the mem
bers of the house.
Contingent upon the subscription Of !
s25,ooo by the people OF the Plateau
valley and the securing of the neces-
sary right OF way, the Rio Grands viii