Semi-weekly herald., 1916-01-13
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The December payrolls OF the C.
f. q /. Co, in Pueblo amounted to
1921, 900.
Boulder is terrified by bandits.
Twenty different people have been
held up the past few weeks.
The postoffice at Superior, Bould-
er county, was dynamited Friday
night and the robbers escaped with
around $500 in loot.
Denver was visited by fog Fri
day mornig that was so dense the
street cars could not be seen a quar-
ter of block away.
Peter Miller was killed by being
hit by an auto at Colorado Springs
Friday last.
F. W. Korsmeyer, Colorado
Springs druggist, was convicted in
police court of selling intoxicating
liquors and was fined 5000 and costs.
the maximum penalty for the first
offense.
Sales of state school lands for the
last six months of 1915 brought into
the state treasury S19S,940, an in
crease of $50,345 over the same six
months in 1914.
The Ford party passed thru Ger
many in a sealed train on their way
to Holland, but no power on earth
can seal the lips of the party or pre-
vent its members making speeches.
The Denver police force now has
a bootlegging squad, squad of po-
licemen whose duty it is to investi-
gate all places in the city where it
is thought bootlegging may be car
'ried on.
Two Cinnamon We're arrested at
Walsenburg having 40 gallons of
cheap whiskey in their possession in
pint and quart bottles. The booze,
it is believed by officers, was for
sale among their countrymen in the
different coal camps.
During the first seven days in
January 32 arrests were made in Las
Animas county for alleged violation
of the prohibition law. Officers in
that section must be busy looking
after booze fighters and dispensers
of the ingredient.
During the year there were grown
in both Powers and Baca counties
about 26,000 tons of broom corn, for
which the growers realized $240,0O0
in cold cash, practically all of which
was shipped from Holly to broom
all over the United
States.
Colorado will get 5000 sacks of
German sugar beet seed according to
announcement today by the Great
Western Sugar company. w. L.
Petrikin recently arranged thru the
British ambassador at Washington
for the shipment of $1,000 bags OF
beet seed from Germany.
Denver chamber of commerce has
raised $4,000 to send a committee ts
Washington to lobby for the Moffat
tunnel bill. Thought congress pass
ed law prohibiting lobbying. But
as the president has been violating the
measure maybe it is thought best to
open the lobby to ali corners.
Flour has advanced 90 cents in Den
yer the past week, soft wheat flour
commanding $2.85 and hard wheat
flour $2.95. Greeley potatoes are re-
failing at s1.75 per hundred and prime
Western Slope Reds are 50 with indi-
cations of prices going higher for
spuds. This should dispose of sur
plus product in the San Luis valley
and Western Slope sections.
Colorado has more than 1,700 bar
bers, according to C. f. Goodfriend,
president Of the state board of bar
ber examiners who has just gotten
out his annual report. Every barber
in the state has been required to
take state examination to prove his
competency before being allowed to
shave the public.
A total of !, 605,034 head of live
stock received at the Denver Union
stock yards was received in 1915, oc-
cording to the company's annual re-
port. The receipts were divided as
follows: Cattle, 1922; calves, 2s,-
419, hogs. 343,653; sheep, 765,l7o;
norsss and mules. 1850. The horses
and mules handled in 1914 tot'ied
i6.s57. The increase this year estab-
fishes new record and is credited to
the European war.