Semi-weekly herald., 1909-11-22
COLORADO NEWS.

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Fort Collins is to have a new bank
Ing house
The snowstorm the first Of the week
hampered beet harvest in many of the
beet districts
| Governor Shafroth says he viii not
permit the Jeffries-Johnson fight to be
pulled off in Colorado. No use of
Durango bidding.
| Governor Shafroth declares he will
not issue any holiday pardons. This
Will be disappointing as custom has
been to grant an unconditional pardon
to some unfortunate Thanksgiving and
| Christmas
| Denver news arriving last night
gave considerable prominence to DIR
McI1wen Of this place. G. 7. Cline and
II. V. Ausburi. of Mancos. the three
being grouped in photo Illustrated
on first page.
Judge Greeley Whitford last Satur.
dag SELF two Denver saloon keepers
to jai Tor 100 days. for failure to OBJ.
serve the Sunday closing law and an,
nounced that there would be no more
fines in his court for infringements of
the license law. nothing but jail sen
tences
| Governor Shafroth received from the
| federal government that a check for
| $49.52l.21 had been mailed him as Col
orado's proceeds from the forestry re.
serve for the past six months. The
state gets 25 cents of every dollar
collected by the forestry reserve serv.
| lee. The money Will be turned over
| to the counties to be divided upon
| an acreage basis.
The Grand Junction sugar factory
| had their first pay day Monday and
disbursed about S150,000 In cash. They
will pay out about si500OO additional
during the balance of the season. So
far 5000 tons of beets have been de.
livered to the factory and 10000 more
| tons are looked for during the com
ing week. The farmers are being paid
| the flat rate of So per ton.
DR.. Smiley OF Denver has just closed
the greatest religious revival in the
history of Washington county, All
denominations united with the evan
gelist People drove TO Akron from the
country for twenty miles. The church
auditorium was packed to the doors
nightly. Over hundred converts
came forward. Every merchant in
town co-operated In the effort by clos
Ing his store at night. The religious
interest has spread to other towns.
With olothing clinging to a skele
ton which was stripped of all its flesh
The remains of Edward Walker, drown.
ed in the Gunnison river about ten
miles above Grand Junction Sept. 2
was found Monday afternoon In the
river below Fruita by Leslie Hughes.
eyed Is. Only the clothing which
clcng To the skeleton made identif
cation sosSible. When drowned, Wal
ker was fording the river with w
the finilies of both Witnessed the
drowning. Bedwell searched for the
body foI weeks.
Journal says hay commands sl7 to
$40 per ton in Telluride.
Something of sensation was
sprung in district court at Lamar
when Henry Starr. the noted Okla.
homa criminal, pleaded guilty to rob.
bing the Amity State bank AT Amity
Colo, July S, 1907
Thirteen gambling machines OF va.
rious makes and kinds We're demolish
ed at Boulder Wednesday by the sher
iff These machines were collected by
Sheriff Capp in a raid on various pool
rooms and saloons in the county.
John Graham. for many years n
resident of Fruita. was Jailed at Crane
Junction charged with pootlegging
Spoilers employed by the town OF
Fruita secured the evidence and q
raid was made on Grahams place
Tuesday night
The office of chief civil engineer OF
the Rio Grande railroad. maintained nj
Salida the past twenty-five years. viii
be abolished January l. Expensiv,
sinecures are to be abolished under
the new management and the none,
used for equipment and betterment o.
: the road all around
Dependency because his wife ant
children had left him and refusal o
druggist to sell him more morphine
are believed to be the reasons thai
led DR.. A. l.. Gilmer. aged 40. one o.
: the best known dentists OF the Sar
Luis valley. 20 commit suicide Wed
! nesday nj his home in Manassa, wher,
, he had been practicing for the las
I year.
The Colorado Springs Morning Ga
I zette owners announce that next weel