Semi-weekly herald., 1909-10-11

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The real mother was awarded Gus
tody.
About IL o'clock Monday during a
violent electric and rain storm bolt
of lightning struck hay stack on the
farm of Oscar wilkins, one and a half
miles southeast of Alamosa, and con-
sumed sixty tons of hay. The bolt
also killed two horses OF wilkins that
were hitched to wagon near the
stack Two farm hands working in
the field nearby we're knocked to the
ground and stunned but not seriously
injured.
A compromise has been reached be-
tween James Doyle and James F..
Burns and the mining feud involving
the ownership of practically one-half
of the latter's holding in the famous
Portland mine, has Eeen ended. Mr..
Doyle is the gentleman who Is operat-
ing on the East Mancos and 1t is said
he will receive several hundred thou
sand dollars. This will place him in
shape TO go ahead and prove to the
world that the Mancos district is rich
in mineral wealth.
Billy Sunday addressed the Denver
ministerial alliance Monday evening
at the Central Presbyterian church
in which lie jumped onld the ministers
in the following fashion: IF didn't
sweat down more collars preaching to
sinners than some of you, I'd get out
of the pulpit" "The minister of today
is like cheap-skate restaurant hot
air on the table, all the eatables in the
window" The gospels got TO be
handed out hot to the bunch that
waits to hear or else 1t goes foul"
BY vote of 1S9 for to against. the
Greeley-Poudre irrigation district vot-
ed the contract with the Larame-Pou-
Dire Reservoirs & Irrigation company
for construction of a full system of ir-
rigation works as large as almost any
of the government systems. to tap the
Cache Ia .Poudre and Laramie rivers
in Colorado. two and oDe-half mile
tunnel is TO be built from the Lar
annie to the Cache la Poudre. By the
same vote as above given the people
of the district vote $J,100.000 of 6
per cent irrigation district bonds to
pay for this giant work. This assures
the construction of the greatest irri-
cation enterprise ever projected by
private capital in the United States.
Water is the great boon in Colorado
and in this respect La Plata county
leads with four streams running par
alle through the county.
The latest Denver fad is to chase
coyotes with automobiles. The poor
animals are handicapped
Delta is going 10 make hard strug.
gle to secure sugar beet factory.
The country produced 10000 tons of
beets this year which go to Grand
Junction to be made into sugar.
Denver Republican dispatch from
Boulder says 5000 people with brass
band escorted Billy Sunday to the
depot when he left that place for Den
yer,
II ovuiu astvnish you to boar how
many cans of peaches and how many
tons OF raisins are put up in California
Maryland Delaware, New Jersey
| western New York and western Michi
gan produce immense quantities oil
peaches and pack alarge part of the
| crop, but business is conducted upon
| much larger scale in California The
Gamers talk of tons instead of bas
kets, and carloads instead of cases, and
they ship more than 10000. 900 pounds
of raisins to various parts of the
world. Colorado will soon give Calf
ornia Il close call
Philip Griffith, an independent oil
| operator has completed the deepest
hole ever drilled in the Florence
field When the tools were pulled and
measurments taken it was discovered
that the well had reached u depth OF
| 4,017 feet. There are several wells
in the Florence field that have been
| drilled to a depth OF from 5000 10
$500 feet
Ii the fal mers of Mesa county will
each bring their best peck of oats to
Thomas f. Mahoney. who is the local
member of the Colorado committee in
| charge of gathering exhibits for the
National Corn show at Omaha, he is
confident that he can bring back one
of them the trophy cup valued at ST..
800, offered by the state of Colorado
for the best showing OF oats grown
in the west
Billy Sunday, Spectacular hard work
ing, plain spoken Billy Sunday. talk
ed in The Central Presbyterian church,
Tuesday night to a crowd SO large
that one man broke his leg trying TO
crawl in window, says the Denver
Republican Billy riots and cayorts q
about the platform as II he were on
the coaching line; his voice is the
typical baseball voice and In his effort
to get The devils goat, so To speak. he
employees all the gesticulations. All The
VALIANT lanonaaa nrJ cp "A.