Semi-weekly herald., 1909-10-21
COLORADO NEWS.

COLORADO NEWS.
Grand Junction Elks have started a
campaign for the erection of home
to cost $4,000. Our Grand Junction
friends continue TO boost their town.
l.. b. Dawson. deputy county treas
urer of Fremont county. cannot make
his books balance by $1,000 or more
and has turned over securities to his
bondsmen to make good any shortage
that may be found
Mrs. Celia Wilson. a woman over
rs, who last spring Instituted suit
against Grand Junction for $1,000 dam.
ages for injuries alleged to be due to
falling on a defective sidewalk, was
awarded 5000 In the district court.
Looks like the price of turkey will
be prohibi,ive for Thanksgiving this
year outside of The man with a large
bank account. possibly reaching 30
cents per pound In Denver, largely ow-
ing 10 shortage of the national
fowl
Crossword Lake dam is completed
and Its reservoir, the largest In Weld
county. having a capacity OF 10000
coo cubic feet, will be ready for use
next season. The reservoir Is AZ feet
deep aud has been dry but twice in
forty years and usually contains 25
feet of water
A Grand valley special train. to be
made up in Grand Junction and to In.
clude delegations from every city in
the Grand valley. from Rifle to Mack
Will go to Denver to the national ap
pie show 1t will be regular set of
boosters. What is this section of the
state doing TO make showing?
c. " Budke. an lS-year.old Denver
boy. pleaded guilty to having taken
two 800 bills from out the purse OF
"A sweetheart upon whom he was call
ing. He took the money last spring
Because of his youthfulness and other
circumstances, he was given sixty
days in the county jail
Bert Schouten. an empl0ye OF the
Colorado & Southern railway. was
found dead under the wheels OF a
freight car in the c. e. s. yards Fri
day afternoon. Evidently he had at
tempted to board n moving car and
his foot caught in a frog and in a
moment the wheels OF the tender pass.
ed over him. He was instantly killed
, The Railroad Red Book for October,
which has just been Issued by Pub
Usher j. Harry Carson, for the pas
senger department OF the Denver g.
sents a pictorial story OF President
Taft's trip through Colorado on the
occasion of the recent opening OF the
Gunnison tunnel of the Uncompaghre
irrigation project OF the government.
The story is illustrated with numerous
hitherto unpublished pictures OF the
president and his party and scenes nj.
tendant on the opening of the tunnel
II is Believed that Colorado's sugar
beet crop this year will greatly exceed
| in value that of last seasons which
| reached $6,50O.000 The figures on
| this years crop include a large acre
age of the American Sugar Beet com
pany in the Las Animas valley, as
well as that of the northern Colorado
section. Experts of the Great Western
Sugar company have estimated that
S0O.0 900 tons will be harvested in the
frost makes the exact tonnage un-
| certain, but the farmers have no fear
OF drought, which last year destroyed
ABOUT 40 per cent of the crop. This
| year. more land has been put into
sugar beets, which bring s. a ton. The
yield probably will make 25 per cent
more sugar this season. which should
bring the value of beet sugar produced
in Colorado considerably over }1O,.
| COO 600.
AT Fruita the high school pupils
were given weeks vacation in order
to assist In picking the apple crop.
The auditing board composed OF the
governor. treasurer. auditor and at.
torney general on Friday last allowed
all the bills OF the Western Federn.
tion OF Miners alleged to have been
incurred during the Cripple Creek In
surrection amounting to 100000. The
governor and his co-laborers have now
paid the bill for the vote received last
fall.
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