Semi-weekly herald., 1909-09-02
| visit next month.

Warden Tynon of the penitcntiar
10 making arrangements to send al
other bunch OF convicts to the ron
making camp In Las Animas county
There are about Go prisoners In tn
camp. and it is Intended TO increas
the number to so or 90.
Despondent over his wife's death
d. C.. Cullinane, a former cattle MAJ
OF Las Animas, attempted to shoe
himself In a saloon on South UnioI
avenue, Pueblo, and when he was foil
ed by friends he then took big bit,
out of a beer glass and swallowed II
He Ia now in the hospital and may
die.
Edward r. Wolcot. line patrolmar
employed by the Northern Power com
pany, was electrocuted while AT work
In tree Saturday morning a mile
and half north of the big power plant
81 Lafayette, He was chopping some
limbs off n tree when his AK touched
an electric wire and he was instant.
ly killed.
| An unidentified young man. evident.
| ly 10 years old, walked off Burling.
| tor passenger train while It was run.
| ming so miles an hour near Hudson.
Colo, Saturday morning. The boy was
rendered unconscious and was picked
up and brought TO Denver where he
was taken TO the hospital. He had
| over $500 on his person, bat not a
thing whereby he could be identified.
Twenty-three carloads of fruit left
the Grand valley one day last week, in
cludins the first carload lot Of melons
| and the first refrigerator car of III.
berta peaches. Bartlett pears are con
siituting a large part OF the shipments
which have increased at single bound
from 40 cars week to almost that
many day The first carload of
honey left the same day for Kansas
City.
Two tiny baby shoes. peeking over
the edge of a water pail In her back
yard. greeted the startled eyes of l3-
ycarold Lydia Howatt of Denver Sat
urday afternoon upon her return from
an errand performed In the house for
her mother That was the notice she
received that her 13-months-old baby
brother had fallen headfirst into the
pail and drowned while the mother
worked on In the kitchen, unconscious
OF the tragedy
Wages of conductors In the snow
plough service Of the Moffat road have
been raised by the road from $l35 to
S160 per month, and OF brakemen do.
ing similar duty have been raised from
800 to $l20 per month. The scale Is
said to be the highest paid Tor similar
During the FIVE years the road has
bees In operation there has never been
a wreck, collision or runaway of a
passenger train.
Northern Colorado will this year
produce nearly si.OOO.00O crop of
Irish potatoes, Advance estimates
made by the railroad which will han
die the crop show that there VIII be
IN the neighborhosd of 1900 cars. or
about 1S0 tons against 10000 cars, or
100000 tons, last year. While IL Is a
which will permit the compiling OF
the exact figures, the above estimates
are considered very conservative.
So far reports have been received
from assessors from thirty-nine out
of the iifty-nlne counties, and thirty
eight out of the thirty-nine received
are unsatisfactory. In other words,
every report received with the ex-
| ccption of one has an assessment
which tho board believes Is too low.
That one is the report from Otero
| the Pueblo Chieftaln. The Otero as.
SCISSOR got busy and turned In re-
port 100000 In excess OF the amount
asked for by the board Members of
the board had not fully recovered their
| equilibrium over this report today.
| Robert w. Bonynge, member of tho
| congressional monetary commission
engaged In investigating the banking
| systems OF the world prior to making
recommendations to congress for new
laws, arrived home In Denver Satur
day, after an absence of five months
| He talked most Interestingly on the
work Of the commission and on tho
new tariff bill. for Mr.. BonyDge as q
member of congress until the miracu
lous whrligig of November last, was
a members Of the ways and means
committee OF the house that took tes
tim0ny on the tariff question previous
to the extra session. Although tbs
press has contained statements regard
Ing the creation of a federal centra
bank on the recommendation OF thu
commission, Mr. Bonynge states tina
nothing has been determined regard
ing the report OF that body to b
made probably by next spring. Nj
I3onynge upholds the new tariff meas
ure as one well suited for Colorad
and other Rocky Mountain states.
While The total crop yields OF Colt
RADIO. including fruit, for 1909 prom