Semi-weekly herald. [volume] (Durango, Colo.) 1907-1917, 1910-08-18
COLORADO NEWS.

| About HOO people will attend the
Roosevelt banquet in Denver Aug
29th.
Five thousand men, women and chill
dren find employment In the agricul
| tural county OF Weld.
Thirty-five thousand tourists are ex
pected to visit Colorado during the
next two months.
Cantaloupes are now going east from
Colorado in car lots. They are net
ting shippers from SO to $3.50 pei
crate.
1t is pretty well assured that with
Republican success this fall one John
Cleghorn will not be appointed war
den of the penitentiary
There have been thirty-eight new
postmasters appointed in Weld county
during the last two years, most OF
them in new towns which have sprung
up along railroads. or In the semi
arid region.
Ouray county Democratic central
committee baked on endorsing Shat.
roth's extra session. The governor
had asked the committee to get busy
the same as in La Plata and other
counties of the state.
The 100000 mill owned by the Mid.
get-Bonanza Gold Mining company at
cripple Creek, which is controlled by
Kansas City and St Louis capitalists,
was struck by lightning Saturday dur.
ing the worst rain and electrical storm
this year and burned to the ground.
Denver Post says there is rising
resentment against Senator Hughes
Tor his failure to come out and ask
Tor the fulfillment of platform pledges
The election of Hughes was a huge
Joke by the so-called Democratic re-
formers of Colorado.
Mrs. Robert Armstrong of Eaton was
struck by bolt of lightning and rem.
dered unconscious at an early hour
Saturday morning. Her condition is
serious, though not fatal. She was
standing in the center of her dining
room when the lightning struck the
house. A portion of one of the walls
OF the building was knocked out
John Verrellen, a ranchman living
fifteen miles southeast of Fort Col.
Inns, was accidentally shot and killed
Saturday afternoon. He was driving A
binder and took along a shotgun with
which to kill rabbits. He sighted n
rabbit and stepped from the platform
OF the binder to get better aim, draw.
ing the weapon toward him. In some
manner the gun exploded, the full
charge entering his left side. Verrel.
len is survived by widow and five
children.
Elaborate preparations are being
made FOR the reception of former Pres
ident Theodore Roosevelt on his ar.
rival at Pueblo Aug. 30. According
to the arrangements made by Clifford
Pinchot, the foremost citizen was only
to stay in Pueblo about thirty min.
utes, providing his train left Denver
on time. and was not delayed en- route
The Pueblo committee is making ar.
fragments for special train to bring
Colonel Roosevelt from Denver to that
city so that he can remain here for
an hour or longer and participate In
the laying OF the corner stone of Pue.
BIOS new 100000 Y. NJ. C. A. build.
ing.
There Is no labor shortage in the
orchards of the Grand valley and the
hundreds who are flocking that way
expecting an enjoyable season of work
In the orchards are doomed to disap.
pointment. Scores of men, women and
children are already coming into the
valley, particularly from Denver, ex.
pecting to find employment at outdoor
work in the fruit ranches Whether
they are sent over by employment
agencies or are coming simply on their
own initiative is not known, but 1t will
be well for them to understand that
no extra help is needed at present,
says dispatch to the Denver Post.