The Springfield herald., 1900-12-14
COLORADO NOTES.
A real estate exchange has been
formed at Canon City.

PagOsa Springs over the Rio Grande,
Pagosa T. Northern new line.
The dairy stables of ID. j. Horkan at
Leadyille We're burned on the 9th INST.
and thirty-seven cows burned to death.
The receipts of the Pueblo Demo
cratic county committee were SG,2ol.so'
of which amount the candidates con-
tributed $3,69S25.
The Lincoln county report to the sec
rotary of state shows that only three
people received assistance from the
county in the past twelve months, cost
ing the commissioners $2l9.39.
Judge Charles Wright, formerly at
torney general of Colorado, died at
1>uscon, Arizona, of appendicitis, after
short illness. Mr.. Wright was at
torney general of Colorado in 1870 and
1880.
+. A. Falkenburg. head consul of the
western jurisdiction of the Woodmen
of the World has taken $1,000 to Gal
weston, Texas, donated by jurisdiction
for distribution among the storm SUI
ferers.
In the District Court at Telluride
Angelo Silver, convicted of assault
with intent to kill, was sentenced by
Judge Stevens to the penitentiary for
than five years.
Engineer John II. McCune of Denver
was knocked off the cab of the Colo
RADIO Special. fast Union Pacific train,
near Atwood. December 18th, by n mail
crane. His injuries are considered
likely to prove fatal.
The Democratic state central COM
mittee reports that its receipts during
the last campaign We're S16,2GJ and its
expenditures SIG, 191 50, leaving bal
ance in the treasury of SI3.l1 Cover
nor Elect Orman contributed S2.5oO.
The Colorado n Canadian Valley
railroad is proposed new Cripple
Creek road. The line may be built
from Cripple Creek to Il point on the
Red river, near the mouth of the Wa
shita river The headquarters of the
company are in Ill Reno, Oklahoma.
Governor c. S. Thomas is one of the
owners of coal mine in southern Col
orado. The property is near the sta
ton of Pryor. on the line of the Colo
RADIO Il Southern, between WalsenDurg
and Trinidad. Coal men predict good
shipper when the mine is fully opened.
The corner stone of the new First
Presbyterian church mt Canon City
was laid December 9th. The building
will be of white stone and will cost
about $4,000. 1t will have Sunday
school rooms, n reception room, dining
room and kitchen of the most modern
and commodious style.
The contract for the new Carnegie
library at Grand Junction has been let
to ]. Il. Stull for S4.696. 1t will be
erected OH n lot belonging to the Wo-
mans club on Seventh street, and will
be of brick and stone and tireproof. The
building will be started at once and is
to be completed April list.
Calvin Mortimer of Walscnburg,
Colorado. was sentenced to the peniten-
tiary for two years by Judge Mills at
Las Vegas, for taking $3.50 from
gambling table and sticking 1t In his
own pockets. He was also sentenced
to one year in the county Jail for con-
tempt of court. Mortimer had just
served term in the pen.
1. ii. Robson, manager of the Peli-
can, Dives, 7:3O and Bismarck mines,
as has been his custom for several
years past. gave to each employe on
the mine n turkey for Thanksgiving.
Two hundred and twenty turkeys
We're distributed, amounting in the ag-
gregate to over 5000 pounds.
The Denver & Rio Grande railroad
will send II stockmen's special train TO
the National Cattlemen's convention in
Salt Lake. The train will leave Den
yer at 9:3O the morning of January
18th, and will arrive in Salt Lake at
1: 80 o'clock the next afternoon. The
fare will be SIS for the round trip.
The epidemic of typhoid fever In
Fort Collins as appreciably abating.
But few new eases have been report
ed during the last week and many of
those attacked with the disease ut the
outbreak have passed the critical stage
and are convalescing. Up to this time
there have been but four fatal cases,
two of them being nonresident college
students. The other two We're resident
school children.
DIR. Coltman. pastor of the First
Presbyterian church of La Junta, re-
ceived message from his son, Robert
Coltman, Jr. ut San Francisco. stat
ing that he and his wife and six chill
dren had Just arrived from Pekin, Chi
ma, and that they would leave there
December 11th for La Iunta. The doc
tor and his wife are overjoycd nj the
thought that their children are safe in
n Christian land.
AT its meeting in Santa Fe. Deem
Der 9TH. the Court of Private Land
Claims approved the corrected survey
of the Arroyo Hondo grant in Taos
county. 1t was claimed for 23,OOO
acres by Julian Martinez ct al. and is
confirmed for 20.G29.3S acres. 1t is To-
Gated near Amizett. An order of the
court was entered amending the decree
of the confirmation af the Mesilla col
ony grant so as to define the bounda-
rieS.
The oldest man in the state died at
Denver December 9th. mt the age of