Semi-weekly herald., 1909-03-04
COLORADO NEWS

| Millions were made and millions
lost in wheat corner in Chicago Sat
urday.
The rumor that the C. F. & l. Co
had been absorbed by the steel trust
is denied.
A large colony of Hollanders are or
ganizing 10 locate In San Luis valley
They han from Iowa.
A Jap sitting on trestle on the
| Colorado Southern road near Trinidad
was instantly killed by a train Fri.
day
Pueblo Republicans are confident OF
victory this spring. The Democrats
have not made good In city govern.
| ment.
1t is now said the state university
at Boulder will receive quarter of
million dollars nt the hands of the
present general assembly.
Senator Cassidy entertained the
senate and newspaper reporters of
that branch with banquet al the
t'ipWh HottI rlluuJ night.
Gypsy Smith opens his evangelIstic
campaign In Denver Saturday night
of this week. All the churches have
united in the call and VIII work In
unison.
The editor of the Servian weekly
paper at Pueblo is receiving letters
threatening death unless he stops writ
ing articles criticising Austria and ad.
yocating war.
Child labor, postal savings and wa
er rights bills, three measures en-.
dorsed by Roosevelt. failed to pass
the house and senate. although the
members found plenty OF time to prate
about minor affairs.
Contractors of the Washington
county court house substituted cement
bricks for pressed bricks and the
| other day were compelled to tear
down walls that had reached height
OF 4 feet. Better abide by contracts.
Denver papers are considerably
aroused over folder just issued by
the Union Pacific which places the
population of Denver at $4,000. This
is only a thousand more than the
census of 1900 and Denver claims a
population Of $4,000.
Miss Florence May Kennedav. a
waitress in Boulder hotel. has been
left 100000. The good news was re-
| ceived by the woman Friday. The
young man who "shined" up while the
girl was earning a humble and honest
living, should come In for consIderate
treatment at this time.
Denver has brute by the name oil
J. II. Williamson. Friday last William
son, wife and two children. were In q
carriage following an 18-months- old
child to the cemetery. when William
sou attacked his boy and then struck
door and throwing them Into the
street. Ten years on the stone pile
should be the punishment
AT luncheon given the Colorado
visitors In Washington Saturday BY
| Thomas f. Walsh, at which former
| Governor Peabody and Samuel Duttor
were among the guests. proposition
was launched for holding world,
fair at Denver in 1912, to eclipse any
OF the recent expositions held In this
country. 1t IS planned to secure, 4
possible. an appropriation through tn,
present legislature OF Colorado OF 81,
100000. a second million by congress
sional Legislation at the next session
of congress, and to issue one and
half million dollars in bonds.
Denver ministers and Temperance
people held mass meeting Sunda
to protest against the Carey bill be
fore the legislature. At present tn
local option law is so construed tina
II precinct goes wet and the war
goes dry" as a whole, the wet" pr,
clnct is also dry" as a whole and
precinct In that ward goes dry" tn
precinct remains dry" even thong
the remainder Of the ward teens wilt
saloons. The purpose OF the Cary at
Is to change this and make the pr,
cincts whatever the people will ther
TO be, regardless OF how the remaInde
OF the ward may be voted. The Care
bill passed second reading Friday.