Semi-weekly herald. [volume] (Durango, Colo.) 1907-1917, 1910-07-25
COLORADO NEWS.

attending the. Colorado Springs Nor
NAL Institute.
Denver's entire police force has
been detailed to catch the yeggmen
who are operating there.
Montrose Masons have formed an
organization and will at once com
mence on a $4,000 Masonic temple.
| Isaac ]. Carpenter, Colorado MO
neer. scout. died suddenly in Florence
Monday. Mr.. Carpenter came to this
state in 1854. He took part In many
early day battles with the Indians.
General Lessig, well known in Grand
Army circles and a once social lion.
died at the Soldiers home at Buena
Vista a few days ago. Body will be
cremated and sent to Pottsville, Pa,
the old home. for burial.
| James Beatty of Montrose was fined
$50 and costs for disobeying the quar-.
antine law regarding small pox. A
few fines like this would have proved
| beneficial at both Alamosa and Cortez
last winter.
| To secure funds to provide iis.
rensary and to purchase the neoes
| sary camp equipment for the Colorado
State Association for the Prevention
! and Control of tuberculosis. the Lake.
| side resort in Denver has been turned
over to the organization for the en-.
| tire day of August g.
Rain in several sections of the state
brought relief Tuesday and Wednes
day nights.
The first rain of the season fell at
Trinidad Wednesday night, lasting
several hours
Denver chamber of commerce has
accepted the offer to mediate in the
water squabble.
Montrose is reported to have been
the hottest place in the state Tues.
day, registering 1O4 in the shade.
Chief Armstrong, by driving demi
mondes who support men from city.
hopes to rid Denver of macquereaux.
A Denver saloonkeeper and one Gus.
toner were held up Wednesday night
and relieved of S25 contained in the
till and So in the liquor dealers
clothes.
Farmers in the locality of Fort Nor
gan are busy poisoning grasshoppers.
They are unusually thick this year.
Paris green and bran is placed in
fields and has killed millions, saving
some crops from total destruction.
lightning played a queer prank at
the home of Louis Duprey at Colorado
Springs, when 1t stripped the chimney
of a score of bricks, entered the In.
terror of the home, put out all electric
light, and stunned Mrs. Duprey. She
speedily recovered.
The report of Bank Commissioner
Pfeiffer on the condition of the banks
OF the state has just been completed
and shows that of an increase of 49,.
292 ,36S10 in the resources of these
banks, about half Of that increase has
been gained by Denver banks.
Denver ball club by winning yester-
day and Sioux City losing leads the
Western league by one game won and
the same number lost. Denver club
has been making a splendid record OF
late while the Sioux city team has
been going down the toboggan the
past week.
LOST-Any person who has lost the
secret of answer to prayer can recover
same at Pilgrim church Wednesday
evening at prayer meeting"
The above appeared in the lost and
want column of the Pueblo Chieftain
Wednesday morning. Why should not
n church advertise The same as other
lines.
The Colorado Stock Growers con
vention closed Tuesday. Little was
done at the session beyond passing
the resolutions offered by the execu-
tive committee the day before and one
censuring the Colorado Live Stock as
ISOLATION for claiming to represent the
majority of stock raisers of Colorado
and leading ex-President Roosevelt to
believe their claim.
Prof c. l.. Fitch, potato expert of
the Colorado Agricultural college,
states that grasshoppers are becoming
so numerous in the Greeley district
that it would be necessary for the
state to cooperate with farmers in
destroying the plague. Professor Fitch