Semi-weekly herald., 1910-02-03
COLORADO NEWS.

per will return funds Illegally paid
out of the city and county treasures.
This thought arises from the way Ken.
nehan is securing return of funds
to the state treasury.
The lneficiency of the juvenile court
TO deal with the truancy problem has
led DIR. C. +. Chadsey, superintendent
of Denver schools. to recommend to
the board of education that special
school for truants be built.
Fred Tompkins. aged So, was run
over and killed Friday evening near
Pailisade by Rio Grande freight
train. Tompkins was walking on the
railroad track and did not hear tho
warning whistle. He was a pioneer
OF the valley.
| After n number of conferences with
committees representing every depart.
ment of .-.e road the officers of the
Denver & Rio Grande announce that
they have wiped the slate clean of
all past indifferences and that the new
policy of dealing directly and fairly
with employees will be ineffect from
this time on.
As the result of startling revelations
made at Fort Collins by l5-yearold
Loveland girl, fifteen men and boys
some of them prominent In Loveland
left that place without taking time
TO pack their personal belongings
After the girl told her story, Sheriff
| Carlton went TO Loveland with war.
rants for the arrest of eleven of the
men, only to find they had left town
on a freight train.
The law which gives the state the
right to levy a tax of cents on every
thousand dollars of the capital stock OF
all foreign corporations doing business
within the state was again declared to
be constitutional by Judge Lewis IN
The federal court Saturday The case
was that against the Great Western
Sugar company which refused to pay
the tax OH the ground that It was
unconstitutional.
Made prisoner In his cabin by the
| I"N"'s nhoh Vi ANONtIupfT.
Gabbner, "A veteran prospector, ate all
his provisions except can of lard
and then subsisted upon mountain rats
until his stomach revolted Then lie
died of starvation and mountain rats
partially devoured his body before II
was found, The scene of the tragedy
of the mountains is a rude cabin be.
tween st. Elmo and Hancock, twenty
miles southwest of Buena Vista.
| The whereabouts of Charles Post.
the blind postmaster at Morrison,
! Colo, and formerly mayor of that
village. is causing his wife and friends
no end of uneasiness, and a number
OF the latter are searching Denver
for him. The fact that Mr.. Post is
blind adds to the fears that he might
have been foully dealth with Mr. Post
left Morrison last Tuesday He went
to Denver, as has been his custom for
years and registered at the ST. James
hotel. He gave up his room there
Thursday morning and since thea all
trace of him has been lost.
| Il want my money back on this
ticket. i can not go to Chicago"
said an old patriarchial looking man
AZ the ticket office at the Denver union
station Friday night. what is your
reason for not using the ticket" ask.
ed the ticket agent I'VE only re-
fund the money when you have some
good reason for not using the ticket"
Il have the best reason in the world
| for not going to Chicago" was the re-
ply. Il refuse to take my life in my
hands. 1t Is not only Sodom and
Gomorah which were demolished be.
cause of their wickedness. San Fran.
cisco was the wickedest city and you
know what happened. now you see
what is happening in Paris. think
| Chicago Is next and | am going to
stay away until after the comet has
disappeared"
Paris flood damages are now placed
at s50.O00,O00. Send the bill to The
Herald. We will pay It,
The 10000 Americans in Paris are
reported to have escaped the ravages
of the flood with no loss of life.
Territory equalling nineteen square
miles were submerged in Paris last
week. with 900 miles of underground
sewers flooded and damaged.
Ducks are flying north from Their
mopolis, Wyo., indicating, so say old
timers, an early spring. Not in many
years have ducks started north from
the hot spring SO early in the sea-
son.
| Elk in large numbers are dying OF
starvation near Cheyenne, Wyo. Deep
snow prevented hundreds OF animals
getting down to feed. and before relief
could reach them the animals died.
Game wardens are making every pos
sible effort to save the remnants OF
| the herds, but If the cold weather
continues. they will be wiped out.
Chicago merchants have been com.
PEELED TO organize and devise scheme
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