Semi-weekly herald., 1910-05-26
COLORADO NEWS.

increase wage amounting to per
cent
Plckpockets reaped a harvest in
London during the jam OF the funeral
of the late king. 700 people reporting
losses aggregating 100000.
Oliver Spitzer has been pardoned by
President Taft. Splitter was sentenced
to two years for sugar frauds against
the government He will tell all ne
knows about the frauds which is said
to be good deal
One of the largest tracts ever ol.
been appraised by the land board 1t
consists of $40 acres laoated in Weld
county. near Pierce. The board fixed
a price of $40 an acre.
The decision of Judge John C. Pol
lock of the United States circuit court
at Topeka, Kans., enjoining the en-.
forcement of the Kansas bank guar
anty law has been reversed by the
at st. Paul
The bodies of W B. Fields and
Speaker Mosely. the last of the seven.
ty-six miners who lost their lives In
were recovered Thursday. The men
were working nearly mile from the
entrance and were buried under tons
OF rock.
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bank clerk who robbed the National
City bank of Cambridge, of which
$240,000, 1t is said, was lost in an at
tempt to break New York faro bank,
was sentenced to fifteen years in the
Franklin county house of correction
Saturday.
| Suit was filed in the federal court
Thursday by the United States Mort
gage and Trust company Of New York
asking a receiver be appointed for the
Yankee Fuel company. an organiza-
| tion which has its main office in Trini.
dad and which owns much coal land
county. New Mexico.
J. F. Lace, assistant agent at Du.
range for the Rio Grande, who is
charged with the embezzlement of
5000 was arraigned in justice court
in Pueblo Friday on charge of having
passed worthless check at that place
He pleaded not guilty. waived exami-
nation and was bound over. He will
he 1T n, &.
fore he is turned over 20 the Durango
authorities.
Four hundred boys of all sizes and
ages engaged in a free-for-all fight in
avacant lot at West Thirty-seventh
avenue and Clay streets in Denver
Saturday afternoon, following a game
OF ball between the teams of the Ebert
and the Gilpin grammar schools. Base
balls bats. picks and AK handles. ham
mers. clubs and other kinds of juve-
nile weapons were used with telling
effect by the partisans of both sides.
Dragged by runaway horse over
the tough and cactus grown prairie
for half a mile his left foot caught in
the stirrup, expecting death every min.
ute. and only saved by the stirrup
strap breaking, A, O'Donald, work
man on the Milton reservoir, near
Evans, Colo. sustained five broken
ribs. wounded head and a stiff and
sore body Friday.
The county commissioners OF Delta
county have appropriated $500 10 the
irrigation congress to be held In Pue-
bio last September and are planning
to send big display of the county's
products, which will be exhibited al
the state fair and later at the exposi-
ton In connection with the congress.
Delta county also is preparing to send
exhibits to the United States land and
irrigation exposition in Chicago and
the national horticultural congress in
connection with the congress. Delta
county also Is preparing to send ex-
hiblts to the United States land and ir-
exposition In Chicago and the |
national horticultural congress in |
Council Bluffs. besides a number of |
smaller fairs.
Unless the cause is discovered and |
done to save ii. the dense
cottonwood forest lining the Arkansas |
river and its tributaries In Colorado |
and Kansas will. within the next few |
years, have entirely disappeared. For |
the last year or more the cottonwoods |
have been dying by thousands Entire |
forests have died within six months |
and certain sections of forests cover !!
ing acres OF ground have withered and !
the trees have shed their bark with. |
in few weeks. State Horticultural !
Bartels discussed the strange dimu-
milton with Pueblo horticulturists. He