Semi-weekly herald., 1909-12-09
COLORADO NEWS.

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The Colorado Midland has advanced
pay of shopmen to same figures paid
by the ID. & Il G., the latter road hay.
ing advanced 3 cents per hour month
ago.
The section around Hotchltiss re.
ceived 100000 for beets grown and
shipped to Grand Junction factory
And only small acreage was planted
to beets.
1t Is reported that Senator Charles
j. Hughes OF Colorado intends pur
chasing Il home In Washington. May.
be he expects TO be returned another
term or two
Wm. Brown, n rancher near Agate.
thirty-Hye miles northeast OF Kiowa,
was overcome by gas while digging
well. fell out of the bucket while being
hoistcd to surface and died before
help could reach him.
An order for 100000 smudge pots
was placed Saturday by Grand June
ton orchard heating company with u
Milwaukee stove company This Is
the largest order on record for or.
thard heating apparatus.
II is reported Rev. d. d. Forsytho,
the fighting parson of the NJ. H. church
at Grand Junction. who stirred the
Denver ministers regarding prohibi.
ton, has been offered $3.50 per month
to take charge of the Denver temper.
ance campaign.
A Lamar spinster of the bewitching
age of 30 has brought suit asaingt
j. II. Duke, one of the leading citIzens
of Rocky Ford. Tor breach Of promise.
the spinster says sho wants 5000 for
her trousseau and $4,000 as a balm to
her bleeding heart
In lengthy interview OF n Pueblo
Chieftain reporter General Manager
Clarke says arrangements are being
perfected to enable every d. e. X.
G. train to run on time. absolutely SO.
He says delayed trains are going to
be thing OF the past. 1t Is only
right to add that nothing was said
regarding the fourth division. Prob
ably we are not worth mentloning.
The Grand valley is surely going
after the apple prize. three different
parts of the valley having arranged
for car load exhibits, and from Fruita
alone over dozen growers have ar
ranged for Individual exhibits. And
here in La Plata county, the home OF
The finest apple in the land, not
thing is being done towards an ex
hibit.
TWO loaded coal cars broke from
train at Malta Friday afternoon and
rushing with terrific speed down the
sharp grade, for four or five miles.
crashed into a westbonnd freight ON
the Rio Grande. The force of the col
lision was so great that the head en-
gine was practically demolished and
left standing upright Engineer o. "
Swanson was seriously injured, both
legs being broken.
One hundred thousand acres of state
land, for which the state will receive
$12 per acre, or s1.2OO.O00 for the en-.
tire tract, was set aside by the state
land board this morning for the use
OF Gerald and Lafayette Hughes. l.
Case OF Milwaukee and the other pro.
moters of the I4i,O0O-acre irrigation
project Immediately north of Hayden
Colo, on he line of the proposed west
ern extension OF the Moffat road
w. l.. Moirin, cattIeman of COM
creek, was killed Thursday night by
an engine on the Rio Grande near
Fowler. With other cattlemen he was
on a stock train taking cattle to Kan.
sas City Their train had been side.
tracked to let passenger pass and
Moirin stepped off on The main track.
was struck by the engine and instant.
ly killed. He was 80 years old. un
married. and has lived In Ouray coun.
ty twenty-five years.
Colorado was in the front ranks in
the national corn show Saturday. win
ming the first prize on corn grown in
the corn zone of which the state is n
part. The judges in making the award
stated that 1t was an easy matter TO
decide as the Colorado product was 30