Show PERSONAL COMMENT ON CURRENT TOPICS the suit brought by arizona to stop the building of the boulder dam will be reviewed by the supreme court couri odthe of the country lor for final settlement early in in march we hope the cour court twill will pass on the matter speedily and s settle ettle kor ifor all time time the con tenion the people of the country are ale getting pretty well fed up on delays an attempt will be made to pass a law in the colorado legislature legis laure mak ing it unlawful for officers to raid private homes in the quest for il licit liquors it seems kind of tar far fetched to pass such a law when there is a constitutional provision of the count rys charter covering just r such it procedure proc edme but then when officers will override laws to gain their ends it may be well to pass supple laws the red cross has undertaken to raise raie 3 00 for the imme liate relief of the drouth sufferers of the middle states while congress ron gresa is quarreling about how to distribute the 00 appropriated for that purpose starving ng pea pie cannot wait for food until a lot of lunk heads beads wrangle wi angle so it is up to the people of the country through the red cros to do what they cen can in in the emergency one of the most dastardly outi rages ages against the rights of citizens that has ever come to our notice was the account of the tar and tea fea hering of a waman woman rancher in in col orado 01 ado by alleged cattlemen dur ing ng the constantly changing condi lons ions incident to settling new countries there always has been more ir r less arbitrary attempts to hold bold hack back progress but eldorn eldom been ii p perpetrated ted against women its a sad commentary on our chiv civilization when all kinds of food stuffs are acre so plentiful that the growers annot sell them for enough to pay for foi the work of raising them and it the same time thousands of our people in in ill fated sections have not the wherewith to feed their families it is is to be hoped that from the present depression there wil be evolved some system whereby adequate assistor as sistar can be ghen 00 aught in in the clutches of drought tornado general financial depression or other cause beyond their control without paying interest to the pow ers that have concentrated the me daum of exchange of the country into their own few hands our state legislature met monlay and we are aie wondering what the 1 beope 0 pe of san juan county are doing to see that ave e secure the exten sion of our oui stata road load south to ti bhe arizona state line afe are the only border county in in the state that does docs not have a direct road to the state adjoining it while there has been a lot of road improvement within the county during the past two years idill the lack of this road is one of the worst drawbacks to the industrial t r tat progress of the county with our ur state road touching the arizona line we could expect much road implement by arizona in in order to get to us for many of the imported necessities of our sister state with a passable road directly south san juan county would have a direct outlet for almost everything it produces to abc tl c best market it could find to sy say nothing of the great country that would be opened to the public lets leave no stone unturned to see that ahat this road is is extended tended ei to the arizona line before the present session of the legisa ture adjourns the hitherto wet state of nevada must have experienced a severe shock when federal dry agents raided the saloons and cabarets of the city of las vegas and closed up some twenty of them the raid was staged in in order to clean up the town and make it safe for the workers on the boulder dam in face of the attitude of the state law enforcement officials it may be well that we have the government agency to fall back on it has been the history of boom towns that liquor and gambling have been the greatest burces of vice vice C |