The Springfield herald., 1900-02-02
COLORADO NOTES.

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that he was stealing ride and fell Off.
Treasurer Bennett of Weld county
was discharged from custody by Unit
ed States Commissioner Hnsdnle. Mr..
Bennett had been arrested on com
plant of Rev. J. II. RAIDER of New
Windsor on the charge of sending II
dun by postal card. In sending out
his notification of personal taxes due
the treasurer added I'VE must have this
tax now" The words We're taken by
the minister and by the United States
attorney as conveying threat. Com
missioner Hinsdale took another view.
and dismissed the proceedings.
The people of Boulder sent lot of
provisions to the people of Ward, who
lost their property in the recent fire.
Several dwelling houses have been con
verted into temporary store buildings,
and nearly all of the burned-Out mer-
chants have ordered new stocks of
goods. The city council held special
meeting Saturday evening to take steps
towards clearing up the debris, and al
so to open up new town books and be-
gin business with clean slate, as all
of the old records We're totally destroy
ed. Everyone feels that the fire will be
to Ward what the Cripple Greek fire
was to that great camp, and that here
is good place to remain, as the mines
were never looking better than now.
| Everyone is feeling cheerful and firmly
believes Ward will soon recover and be
n better mining camp than ever. The
town officials will take action to
straighten some of the bends, widen
the streets and encourage the building
of handsome town.
Public feeling at Canon City against
tI,A Of t,fht mi N
Rooney, who escaped from the peni-
tentiary on Monday night appears to
be growing as time goes by without
bringing news of their capture. Ward
en- Hoyt was greatly encouraged
Wednesday afternoon to learn that
since taking the trail on Tuesday
morning the bloodhounds had followed
it continuously and that the four con
4 victs had been traced 10 the neighbor-
hood of Victor. There one of them
called at house and asked for food,
while his companions stood little dis
tance apart. The woman of the house
picked out n photograph of Wagner as
that of the man with whom she had
talked. All We're dressed like tramps,
but she was positive in her identifica
ton. Hoyt said he was sure of the ul-
Innate capture of the convicts. Gov
ernor Thomas has offered an addition
al reward for the apprehension of the
rnurderers. The reward is $500 for lie
four or $125 for any one of them. The
governor said that despite the talk
concerning the revival of capital pun
ishment he was not In favor Of 1t.
AT the annual meeting of the Grand
Junction Fruit Growers Association
u statement of the condition of the as
sociation for the past year and the
ne F,,,t In, 81 ,-fl
ley which the association had shipped
to other points was read by President
A. A. Miller. Manager Moore, In his
annual report, stated that the associa-
ton handled 2S,47G boxes of fruit last
year, of which 2,5S4 boxes went out in
car lots, the remainder by express and
local freight shipments, showing an In
crease of nearly fifty per cent~on or
ders last year over the previous year.
The federal government. after long
discussion of the matter is about to
go ahead with the construction of large
reservoirs for the storing of water to
be used by occupants of the Southern
| Ute reservation. This question has
been agitnted for n long time and will
be settled sool by the authorities. The
| site to be seltEted probably will be in
the Navajo a{ld AIancos canons. The
water supply will be received from the
Mancos river. Surveys We're made last
summer for this work and now the res
ident government photographer. A. l..
Fellows. has been called upon to furn-
ish the Department of Geological Sur
vey at the national capital photographs
of the proposed sites TO aid the federal
authorities to decide just which site
for the proposed reservoirs to select.
Other photographs are being sent on to
Mr.. Fellows, among them being views
of the various parts of the Great Plains
reservoir SYSTEM representations OF
ditch gauging and many other views.
Some of them will be used for lantern
slides and views for the federal de-
partment
The Colorado Sugar Manufacturing
Company. of which John +. Campion
Is president, and several Denver and
Colorado Springs capitalists are stock
holders. has announced its plans for
the coming season at Grand Junction.
The company is arranging to bring
large number of new farmers into the
Grand valley this year. and will culti-
vate all of the 800 acres of farm lands
that it owns. To this end n force of
men and teams has already been put to
work blowing and preparing the
ground for seeding. The company's
agents are at work in the East, secur-
ing the colonlStS. lhe oifcr made Is
that the company will furnish them
with land. water and seed free of all
charges. and pay S4.2J Il ton for all
bects up TO the fifteen per cent. stand
ard. For each one per cent. of sugar
in excess of fifteen and one-half per
cent, % cents II ton Will be paid. All
efforts will be directed to an early start
this year. and the intention is to ex-
tract the sugar from rs many beets as
possible, starting as soCn as the roots
are ripe ana storing them rs long as
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