The Springfield herald., 1899-04-14

visibility of slaughtering the English
sparrows.
/ Governor Thomas has appointed
James 4. Smith of I.eadville to be Ia
Dor commissioner.
! The Union Pacific may build
! branch south from Fort Steele into
] Routt county, Colorado.
I Frank Springer. II D. & X. G. brake
man. was run over and killed at Pueb-
10 while switching cars.
4 The Colorado Il Southern is building
hotels mt Bailey's and Slaght's in Platte
canon for the benefit of summer tour
I lists.
| The trouble between the Colorado N
Southern Railway Company and its
/ telcgraphers is in n fair way to be
settled.
Albert Creek. who has been in jail at
Canon City, charged with killing MS
father, has escaped twice, but has been
recaptured both times.
In all probability a monument will
be erected in Pueblo to the memory OF
Captain John Showers Stewart of the
First Colorado volunteers, who was
killed in an engagement in front of Ma
Mia. March 25th. The monument will
also be in honor of the other brave
boys who met death in the Philippines.
William Hall. the murderer of 7. G.
Grump, has been found guilty of mur-
der in the first degree. and will be
hanged at Santa Fe The date of exc
cution has not been set yet. Theo.
Wick. who shot and killed his guardian,
DR.. Parish. last winter in Roswell, re-
ceiyed n sentence of eighteen years in
the penitentiary.
The following Colorado soldiers have
been sent home from Manila on nc-
count of sickness: Claude B. Hooper,
William T. Byrne, Herbert a. d. Lowe,
Charles C. Drake, ID. A. Cutting, A. IL.
Rogers, William c. Saxon, George A.
Carmechel. Jonathan De York. Archie
Blair. C. b. Bailey. a. Westfall. John
T. Horsman. o. II. Heinroth. Nj. j. Nc
Glynn, and L. Van Coraigh.
The Utah Beet Sugar Company has
lust declared dividend of % per cent,
payable in stock. and decided to eN-
pend 100000 in the Improvement and
extension of its plant mt Lehi. Two
branch factories are to be erected. one
this year and another next year. y
tug and line of scows will also be
placed on Utah lake for the transporta-
ton Of lime rock from the company S
luarres to the factory.
The citizens of Loveland are max
ing strenuous effort to secure Mt that
place the establishment of n beet sugar
factory. At present they are endeavor-
ing to raise Il bonus in consideration of
which a company of capitalists stands
ready to put in the plant. This con
sists of $4,000 in cash and 1.500 acres
of land within six miles of Loveland.
should this be proffered the company
/ pledges itself TO put up 100000
plant and operate it. II is understood
( that $1,000 in cash and 100 acres of
land have been pledged.
The Union Pacific gravel mine at
/ Sherman has been placed in charge of
+. p. Edwards of Illinois. II is the in
/ tention TO commence work shipping
| gravel at once. Two steam shOvels and
large force of men will be employed
| in the work. The shipments will ag-
gregate 5000 tons per day during the
entire summer season. A rotary plow
I is now clearing the gravel pits of snow
I and ice, and shipments of gravel will
/ romence in a few days. The shipments
1 Of gravel from Sherman will cause the
employment of several additional train
! crews.
! The passage of the Bell anti-scrip bill
means perhaps more to Las Animas
county than any other measure that
I has ever passed the Colorado Legisla-
ture. Such a bill has been demanded
by the people there for several years.
( The bill will do away with the truck
+ store business whereby the coal com
pta IaI 10 hoe fl,n in
out of half their wages by forcing them
I to buy at exorbitant prices everything
I they may need at the stores owned by
/ the coal companies. 1t is matter of
? fact that at the company stores mer-
chandise of almost every kind costs the
T miners much more than when bought
at Trinidad, or at any store not con-
; trolled by the coal companies.
! Seventeen Union Pacific surveyors
left Cheyenne for the purpose of max
! ing a survey of branch line of road
proposed to be built from Sidney, Ne
I braska, into eastern Wyoming by way
/ of Crawford, Nebraska. This extern
sion is planned to secure the stock and
farm shipments from the valley of the
! North Platte in western Nebraska and
: eastern Wyoming as against the Bur
! lington system, which has n corps of
: surveyors in the field surveying n pro
posed line into the district from Brush,
2, Colorado. The district has a number
of prosperous towns which have been
built up without railway communica-
ton, which will be connected with out
side markets should the proposed lines
be built.
The Supreme Court of Wyoming met
at Cheyenne on the 3rd and handed
down decisions in at least two import
ant cases. In the case of John Rob
erts ct al, treasurer of Laramie coun
ty, it was decided that the bondsmer
of the county treasurer were not liza
BILE to the county for funds lost by the
treasurer in the bank of Thomas A