Semi-weekly herald., 1909-12-06

ing LIQUOR in anti-saloon territory were
filed in disIict court at Colorado
sprine II ley are convicted they
viii have To serve Jail sentences, since
they have already been convicted Of
the sam, offense.
C. l.. Shnmaker, who was injured
Monday afternoon trying to cross the
Rio Grande track In an automobile
at Blanca. twenty miles east of Ala
mosa, and collided with light engine
going west, received broken leg and
other internal injuries, died at Blanca
Wednesday afternoon.
Eight hundred men gathered at the
Trinity NJ r. church Tuesday even
ing and determined 10 make the tight
for dry" Denver next spring. It
will be a church fight for prohibition.
Members of the church and church
goers, says the Republican, have joined
the ministers in such hearty support
that ministers believe they will win
easily
Owing to TIE continued prevalence
of hydrophobia among the dogs in the
vicinity OF Boulder Mayor Greenman
has Issued proclamation requiring
every dog in the city to be muzzled
OF confined. The mayor calls atten-
tion to the ordinance which provides
for a fine of the owner for all dogs
runninS at large and states that he
will see that It is rigidly enforced
State Auditor Kennehan has trou-
BILE on hand with state house en-
ployes Under the general appropria-
tion bill the salaries of many clerks
and stenographers is fixed at $1,000
per year. but last winter during the
legislative session they were paid at
ing the fiscal year the excess for the
four months was deducted from the
November checks and this left the
clerks with only Sl6.69 and this with
Christmas in sight, That consterna-
tion prevailed is putting II mildly.
In order to provide meals and lodg-
ing for the poor of Denver this win
ter, Mayor Speer has furnished every
policeman with cards, on the face OF
which is an order for a meal or u
nights lodging to cost % cents. The
policemen are allowed to give them
out according to their own judgment
and the city will redeem them the
first Of every month. They are good
in any lodging house in the city that
will give a man meal or bed for
n quarter. This is the mayors plan
of looking after the poor rather than
TO build II municipal lodging house.
The state land board has had the
greatest record in its history during
the last even months. From Jan.
to Dec. 1, 10000 acres of land were
sold as against Al 900 during the year
1908. OF the 10000 acres, $4,000 were
sold in Pueblo and Costilla counties
10000 in Pueblo and 10000 in Costilla
Previous to March, 1909, the board
had transferred 10000 acres under the
Carey act From March J., 1909, tt
| last night the board transferred 400.
600 acres. The sale price of land ha.
nearly doubled in the last twenty-foul
months. The total receipts of the lant
board for the year ending last evening
amount to s5i0.637.94.
Mark G. Woodruff is out of the toili
of the law through the failure of tn,
district attorney to file an appeal IL
the supreme court on the ruling o
istriot Judge Whitford, who threv
ont the last complaint against tn,
for. ,er register of the state land board
| Under II recent statute the district at
toirey has the right to go to the high
er court when the decision is advers
on n point of law. Judge Whitfor,
si>ve the district attorneys offic
thirty days within which to file
bnn of exceptions. The month ha
passed and no action has been taken
the district attorney evidently beiey
ing that ,.e cases against Woodruff
| were hopeless. Woodruff has lef
Colorado and is in business in tn
northwest