Semi-weekly herald. [volume] (Durango, Colo.) 1907-1917, 1910-06-30
we're sprained and he sustained minor

we're sprained and he sustained minor
injuries.
Grand Junction has FIVE building and
loan associations.
Bent county Is very much interested
In having fine exhibit at the irriga-
ton congress to be held at Pueblo.
With the Southern Pacific Durango
will become common point and hence
headquarters as distributing center.
Pueblo Chieftain arriving last night
says an inch of snow fell Mt Grey
Creek. mining camp on the Ration
slope. Sunday.
The prize and premium list OF the
next annual stock show to be held in
Denver, is out. Parties desiring should
send to the association In Denver for
them.
The Denver Press club has accepted
an invitation to visit Grand junction
section in September. Wonder If the
newspaper boys would not return via
Ouray, Silverton and Durango IL prop
erly invited. Suppose we try it.
The artesian well drilled by Grand
Junction will be of no material assist
ance in solving the city's water sup
ply Every effort made to increase
the flow was failure; sixty gallons
per minute is all the well Is capable of
supplying.
The Uncompahgre valley farmers
will begin to get water for irrigation
reports received from Montrose. The
great Gunnison tunnel which was for
mally opened last year by President
Taft is rapidly nearing completion and
the first water for irrigation purposes
will be let through on that date.
The Society of Colorado Pioneers
held their annual picnic Saturday at
Elitch's garden. Sixty three of the
400 men and women who are entitled
to membership attended the picnic To
belong to the society person must
have come to Colorado before Deem
Der 81, 1860. Hardly a person was
present who was not over 10 years OF
age; the average was ~.
Fifteen horses were burned to n
crisp, six carloads of hay destroyed,
fifty tons OF oats scorchsd, nineteen
garbage wagons singed, the wearing
apparel Of ten inan badly damaged. two
large IRAN buildings burned to the
ground and proJsr worth s10U,0UD
endangered by n fire which swept the
Denver hog ranch, five miles northeast
OF Denver Saturday morning
AS soon as a system of rules and
tai savings bank is promulgated by the
postmaster general, the secretary OF
the treasury and the attorney general
OF the United States, who constitute
board of trustees, eighty-one postof-
fees in the state of Colorado alone
Will be eligible for designation as
| banks of deposit and payment under
the new law which was enacted last
week. The Durango office will be
one Of the new postal offices.
A oog owned by John Tribbe, a
farmer living near Wetmore, Fremont
ccun,y. thought to have goue mad
from the excessive heat caused no end
of excitement in that locality Satur.
| day. Mrs. Tribbe. who was at home
| alone. escaped an attack by locking
herself in the house. The dog first at.
! lacked horse and after bitin, Il Sc.
verely turned its attention to The cats
in the aei5bborhood and as result
half dozcr are dead. Upon sr. Urn.
bles return he secured gun and fol.
lowed the dog to Wetmore where after
figi, ,nG every dog 1t encountered ard
biting ten others was finally killed.
A veritable army of men is at work
on the grounds of the Interstate Fair
and Exposition association at Den.
yer, In preparation for the annua,
show, which is already taking on ma
tional proportions, Forty thousand
dollars in prizes will be given for the
various livestock entries and displays
OF agricultural and horticultural prod.
ucts. The result of irrigation and
the possibilities under the new recIa-
nation policy will be amply demon
strated. SO that when Col Theodore
Roosevelt and his Rough Riders take
possession of the grounds during their
union, the former president will have
the picture complete. The dates an.
nounced by Secretary Fuller are for
two weeks. beginning Sept 3.
| Only the fact that they stood on
the wooden door sill OF the concrete
barn on the farm OF w. A. Sample,
southeast of Eaton. saved Walter Sam
pie and Jim Brain from instant death
by lightning in the electrical storm
late Friday afternoon, which knocked
the two men down, burned Samples
shoulder, badly singed Brains face and
hair and instantly killed four valuable
mules and horse standing not two
feet away. Had the men been stand.
ing on the damp floor OF the barn
from which they had moved n second
before. 1t is almost certain the thun
derbolt would have been fatal to them
John e. Godding, former president