Semi-weekly herald. [volume] (Durango, Colo.) 1907-1917, 1910-08-08

Monday afternoon by cloudbursi
which for a time threatened damage
greater than that of last week. Trees
in places were stripped. while water
stood in nearly all the streets a foot
deep. From the Minnequa Heights tor
rents rushed in to the steel plant and
kept rising In some parts until the
water extinguished the fires OF the fur
lnaces. The rain was accompanied by
hail and lightning. Lightning struck
a large picnic, but no one was injured
woman physician in Denver re
ported three cases of measles when
later it was discovered It was small.
pox with three additional cases de
veloped. creating somewhat of panic
in the neighborhood where the many
have been exposed. The physician in
question should have her license re.
voked and sent up for about 'steen
years.
| AT meeting of the advertising com.
mittee of the San Luis Valley CONNER.
cial club held in the Alamosa club
rooms Monday night, Walter n. Icken
OF Alamosa was elected chairman and
]. E. ID. Frazey of Antonito secretary.
The purpose of the meeting was to
provide ways and means for advertis.
ing the San Luis valley at the meeting
Pueblo in September. ID. L. Newcomb
Jr. of La lara. president OF the San
Luis Valley Commercial club. address.
ed the meeting and proposed that 81.
500 be subscribed towards advertising
the San Luis valley and for other in.
I cidental expenses for collecting an ex-
hibit for the Pueblo congress. This
suggestion was adopted and the ten
| club towns OF the valley are to be as.
| sessed their proportion to make up this
| assessment 1t Is the intention of the
San Luis Valley club to have one OF
| the finest displays ever exhibited in
| Colorado and the indications are that
| the business men and farmers will
not spare time or money in making a
| fine display of what can be raised in
| the San Luis valley. In the meantime
what is Durango and La Plata county
going to do.
Former State Boiler Inspector Whit
ney is now confined in the Denver
/ county jail awaiting trial on charge of
embezzling.
In announcing his candidacy for re.
election Congressman Taylor says he
will not ally himself with any faction
OF the Democratic party.
Attorney General Barnett is playing
| the "four-flush" act by starting an in
vestigation of the penitentiary under
form Republican administrations
Eighteen months have gone by without
| action, but an election is coming on
and the party must try and secure pc.
Utica! thunder.
The meeting of the state central
| committee on the day previous to the
meeting of the extra session has been
postponed. 1t was ascertained that
| certain Democrats would not stand the
party whip and would refuse to be CO
creed, hence 1t was considered best
not to hold the meeting and 1t has been
indefinitely postponed
A. j. Condor, a member of the com
mittee appointed to boost Greeley as
the site for the Odd Fellows home,
announces that he had been informed
by one of the head men of the organi.
| cation in Denver that Denver practical
iy had been decided upon. Fort Col
Inns and other towns in northern Colo.
RADIO were making fight to secure the
home.
After having been closed for several
weeks to permit repairs to machinery,
the United States mint In Denver has
| resumed coinage. Several labor-saving
devices were installed during the shut.
down. among them being n coin weigh.
Ing machine. AS a result of putting
that machine In operation the services
of eighteen women coin weighers will
be dispensed with. There are now
about 100 people employed In the mint.
Two of the greatest boosts ever Civ.
en- the state of Colorado and its re-
sources have been bestowed recently.
One appears from the United States
government in bulletin Just issued by
the department of agriculture, entitled
Irrigation In Colorado" The other Is
to be given by the Review of Reviews,
a powerful and influential national
magazine, which will present in its
September and October numbers two
articles. one inscribed. Fixing the
Eyes of the American Nation on Colo
RADIO" and the other, What Colorado
has to Offer the Settler"
In the examination to prove the resi-
dence of the late Thomas f. Walsh
Charles Bolles, county commissioner oil
Arapahoe county in which Clonmel Is
located, testified that Mr.. Walsh was a
life member of the I.ittleton club and
that when he was around the club and
around Littleton he always referred to
1t as his home club. 1t was also shown
that Mr.. Walsh had voted at Littletor