Semi-weekly herald., 1909-03-01
,ad to combat in 1s years.

on Denver for the meeting this year
July SO.
Fort Collins is infested by a band
OF thieves who are becoming open in
their work. The police ought to be
able to nab the offenders.
Miss Rausch and assistants are
holding domestic science course al
Greeley this week. One hundred and
seventy-five women are enrolled.
An invitation has been Issued by
the student body OF the agricultural
college. to the general assembly to
visit the college in q body and see
the workings of the institution.
w. J. Bryan has purchased n $50
acre fruit ranch in Texas which he
Will have set out with new trees. Says
1t will be in fine bearing shape by
the time he is 60 years of age.
Marshall pass has given the railroad
officials about as much trouble as
Cumbres hill, the road being blocked
two weeks. The Ouray-Telluride and
GuDnison country Travelled by way of
Grand Junction over the broad gauge
mail and express being diverted the
same way.
About s250.000 is to be spent by the
South Palisade Fruit Land G. Water
Development company within the next
year in developing a tract of $1,000
acres near Whitewater, which was
granted and patented to the state of
Colorado by bill which passed con.
gress Monday.
A petition has been presented to
the district court at Fort Morgan ask
Ing grand jury to investigate the
selling of liquor and gambling, which
II Is alleged has been carried on the
last year in local club rooms. II is
reported that Judge Burke will grant
the petition and that jury will be
called, Members of the Organization
are leaving town In large numbers
The state building inspector Tues
day morning stated that the public
school building at Newcastle was un.
| safe and ordered the 300 children go
| ing to school in the building trans
ferred to other places. AT a mass
meeting the next night three of the
church buildings were rented and as
| the school district is without funds a
committee was appointed to go to Den.
yer and request the legislature to loan
| them $4,000.
A bi-state convention in the interest
| of the forestry reserves of western
| Colorado and Utah will be held at
| Grand Junction in conjunction with
the visit of Clifford Pinchot, who Is
to speak there. probably March 30.
The chamber of commerce intends to
issue invitations to all the cities of
eastern Utah and the western slope
of Colorado to send delegations and a
general round table discussion of the
workings of the forestry bureau viii
be considered.
The associated charities of Denver is
preparing TO inaugurate new plan
for the care of the needy of that city
| 80 Pi''h win Dt uioiS lnt Inc Itttnl
ly inaugurated in eastern cities. The
association will become, semi-public
and will be supported by contributions
not only from private sources but stom
the municipal government and II will
take the care of the poor and needy
out of the hands of the county com
missioners and will, If possible, secure
a man well trained in this work from
some of the schools for this purpose
in the east
| What promises to be one of the
most interesting campaigns ever made
at Lamar is the fight which has just
begun for the election to the public
offices of men who are infayor OF
temperance and the determination OF
the saloon. Owing to the fact that the
saloon question was voted upon last
year and the vets won by a majority
of forty votes no election can again
be held until next year However the
AntiSaloon league is preparing to
make fight 10 have men elected as
councilmen and mayor who are op.
posed to the saloon.
A dry wave mas struck Salida and
already there is great activity by both
the drys and vets for the purpose of
winning the fight on the saloon ques-
tion which will be waged at the com.
ing spring election. The Anti-Saloou
league has been busy circulating be.
titions. 1t is believed that there will
be no trouble In occurring tue neces
sary 40 per cent of the voters sigma
lures required. During Monday night
the saloon forces got busy and dis.
rtibuted literature in which they claim
the taxes of the people will be increas-
ed If the saloons are abolished, for
the revenue now derived from the sa.
looms will be cut off. There are
seventeen saloons at Salida which pay
an annual license of $500 each.
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