Semi-weekly herald., 1909-09-13

T
yer this morning. The latter say
storm conditions around Pueblo an,
Trinidad are very bad. Trinidad
riddled from washouts and great dam
age to property. both public and pri
vate. with all streams flooding tn,
lowlands.
party up from Farmington-over
land-says water flooded the fai
grounds two to four feet during tn,
high water, washing out some of tn,
fence. AS the fair is two weeks off 4
should not interfere with the bis
event. Ground will have an opportu
nifty to dry out and plenty OF time Civ
EN- to repair damage. Let our people
arrange to attend the fair.
In the ball game played at the
fair grounds yesterday afternoon be
tween the Colorado Cubs and the Colo
rado Pirates. the match resulted in a
| score of 2 to In favor OF the Pirates
| The gate receipts after all expenses
were paid amounted to $3.50 and were
turned over to the mayor for relief OF
the Hood sufferers. Charles Stilweu
took the tickets and refused To let any
| one In free. insisting that they were
not running any charity concern! As
for the rival mines they played their
prettiest and looked-well the pic.
lures will show that! The pictures
are mighty good looking.
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When The Herald insists on the
city council obeying the laws like they
want the common people to do, and
call for bids for printing and station
cry and job work. is there anything
unfair in it? Why should the Demo
cratic majority in the city council fol
low the lead OF the organ" and rant
and fume and curse and swear at The
Herald for simply asklLg them to fol.
low out the plain provisions of the or.
dinance? OF course The Herald has
ed for and 1t should put In the lowest
bid, that 1t would get the contract
AS lawabiding men obey the law
you have on your ordinance book.
Manager Hopkins and his telephone
crew have been doing the strenuous
act the past few days. To commence
with he was called out 2:3O Monday
morning to straighten out wires cross
ed with electric circuit which pre-
vented putting the main portion of the
line out of commission. Then the
rural lines were in bad shape-the one
up the valley and the one to Bayfield,
This side of Bells Spur, sixteen miles
up the river, half mile OF poles were
down. Several places this side the
river had undermined some poles. Mr..
Hopkins went along with his men and
returned TO lockwood last evening.
Then men were sent east to repair
the Bayfield, line the same time a crew
was started up the river The people
appreciate the activity of Manager
Hopkins in getting communication es.
tablished
J. J. Lumsden of Grand Junction
IL I'm the city for a few days. Mr..
Lumsden is general contractor and
mas been in the business for the last
twenty-five years In Grand Junction
growing DIP with the town. He Ia here
on business with the Glen Colorado
people, the big project in the Prewitt
pastures. The business concerns the
construction of big dam In their
reservoir system. Mr., Lumsden ex.
poets to leave in the morning for Can
on City. where he is engaged In con.
structing the water work system for
he town. The system includes eight
miles of pipe through Royal Gorge
a difficult piece of work. The pipe
is thirty inch. and carries twenty-five
and half feet OF water.
III addressing tIle council tue Otner
night you said The Herald lied regard
Ing the size of stone In the storm
sewer. VIII you call at The Herald
office and put up money that no rock
was placed in the sewer measuring
| over twelve inches. Now let us see
who lied. II will take some money 10
| dig up the trench, but we will make
| II an object. Let us find out whether
The Herald is lying or whether you
| are making a grand stand play. We
| are ready to find out and are willing
to chance our money on statements
| furnished us by men who know. Let's
| find out who is lying.
| The board of county commissioners
are up against 1t good and hard. Some
| time ago they visited the Kline dis
| trict and after looking over the situa
| ton came to the conclusion that Il
was necessary to put in a bridge. The,
voted to put In steel bridge with
fifty-foot span Since the flood tn,
river has spread itself until II is nov
at that particular point. one hundre,
and fifty feet. II reminds one OF tn,
.