Semi-weekly herald., 1910-04-14

was prevented by the timely arrival
OF the prison physician
Motormen and conductors OF the
Pueblo street railway have asked for
an increase in wages and also an
eight-hour day. They have been grant
ed conference by General Manager
Vail to he held soon.
The PallsaGe Fruit Growers asso
citation has ordered forty tons of fancy
wrappers advertising the "Palisade
Peach" and has also provided litho
graphs to advertise their apples, pears
and other fruits grown In the famous
Grand valley.
The big moral wave has struck Colo
RADIO Springs and Colorado City. result.
ing in scores of men and women being
arrested. Drug stores and rooming
houses in both places were secretly
raided by the sheriff and many ques
tionable characters apprehended
A conflict between sheep and cattle.
men of the Pinon mesa. near Grand
Junction, is feared. The cattiemen
claim sheep cannot be grazed in that
section and the sheep men are taking
issue with them. Sheep and cattle are
being driven upon the mesa In large
numbers and battle seems inevita.
BILE.
More than two thousand coyotes
were killed by poison along the Colo
o-Wyoming border line during the
winter The district has been pretty
well rid of wolves and other wild AMI
mails.
The death of Thomas f. Walsh will
prove windfall for the Democratic
state administration as II Is figured
the inheritance tax will amount to
about sl6o.000. This will liquidate all
state Indebtedness.
The railroad business Of Colorado
never faced such flatterlng prospects
as are held forth for 1910, and It Is
predicted that all past records will be
exceeded by the end of the current
fiscal year. The increase of business
of the Colorado & Southern precedes
that of any other road
The forest service In Colorado and
portions of Wyoming will employ fifty
FIVE extra men during the coming sum
mer to cruise timber on national for
ests and to investigate the rate oi
growth of forests. These men will re
port for work as soon as their college
work ends this spring.
Water commissioner of Fremont
Custer and portions of Pueblo and
Teller counties has ordered many
bitches closed in adjudication of water
for spring irrigation owing to scarcity
of supply, the snowfall In that section
having been very light and much ap
prehension is felt for an adequate sup
ply for even the older bitches.
There are now over 400 cases o
smallpox in this state, according to DIR
Hugh l.. Taylor, secretary of the stat,
board Of health, and doctors all owe
the state have been warned to TAX
every precaution to prevent the sprea,
OF the disease. Most OF the cases s,
far reported have been Very mild. The
are not centralized but are scattere,
in all parts of the state and medica
| men are at loss TO account for tn,
prevalence of the disease.
The coal strike Is creating anxiet,
among operators in the oil field a
Boulder and they are arranging for
supply of coal for drilling outside O
| the belt were gas Is available for fuel
Arrangements are being completed fol
drilling six new wells, one each by ths
Fidelity BonlderGreeley. Flemming
Martin Rathvon, and two by the Unit
ed Oil company. Operators state that
'if northern coal cannot be secured
they will go to the southern field.
Representative Taylor introduced
bills in the house concurrent with
Senator Guggenheim in the senate foi
the purchase of sites for public build
| iht7o 40 ioiioN ktldIlIOSd, SlU,nUU
Canon City. $4,000; salida, $40. 900;
Durango, $4,000; Montrose, $4,000;
Telluride, $4,000; Montrose, $4,000;
Delta. $4,000; Aspen. SIS 900: Golden
$4,000, and Glenwood Springs, s15 900
Two hundred thousand dollars Is ask.
ed for the Grand junction building.
That the brewery interests OF the
state will contest the recent town
election in Evans is announced from a
reliable source. 1t is said the brewery
people were much surprised at the
number Of dry votes cast. Will contest
on technical grounds and II they fail
in changing the result. will purchase a
site south of Greeley, between Greeley
and Evans. on one of the new rail.
ways, lay out a town and locate set.
Tiers who will vote on the local option
question.