A number of articles have recently appeared in papers of the state relative of an effort that is to be made to accomplish the board-gauging of all the narrow gauge railway lines in central and south Colorado. The matter will come to a kind of focus on Saturday noon at a meeting of the Agricultural and Livestock Bureau of the Civic and Commercial Association of that city. The occasion will take the form of a banquet at which the matter will be discussed and a plan of action determined. Most of the towns of this part of the state will have a delegation in attendance at the meeting and Messrs. GT Cline and Josiah Jackson, who left for the capital city Wednesday, will represent Mancos. It seems that Denver business interests are becoming somewhat alarmed over their ability to hold the trade of this section unless something is done to improve the transportation facilities from the southwest to that point; hence the effort at this time. It is the first time Denver people have intervened in our behalf in this important matter and we hope the effort will result in great success.
Mrs. Jessup burned
Last Friday afternoon Mrs. Dick Jessup had an experience with gasoline which was rather serious and could have easily been worse. The family makes their homes in the upper rooms of the Tavern building. It appears that Mrs. Jessup had been doing some cleaning with gasoline and accidentally overturned the bottle, spilling the gasoline on the floor. The air becoming charged, the gas ignited from the fire and in an instant the gasoline and most articles in the room, including Mrs. Jessups clothing, were in a blaze. With woman instinct she seized her baby from the bed and rushed from her room. Her screams soon brought help, the fire in her clothing was smothered but the blaze in the room was put out with a chemical fire extinguisher. Fortunately, the child was not burned at all, but Mrs. Jessup was burned rather badly in a number of places but not extensively. She is getting along well.
Weeding out the scrubs
At the meeting of the Mancos Cattleman’s Association last Saturday afternoon, the matter of thoroughbred bulls for the range again came for consideration. Owing to the scarcity of the kind of thoroughbred animals required and the high price that must be paid it was decided to modify the rule somewhat for this year and also permit members of the Association to keep a number of their best grade bulls for another year.