The Springfield herald., 1901-08-16
COLORADO NOTES.

September 9th.
A $500 belt will be offered for the
best exhibition of rough riding Mt the
| approaching Denver festival.
The fiftieth annual meeting of the
| American Association for the Advance
| ment of Science will convene in Den
| Yer August 26th.
In Denver on August Sd Carl Meng
shot and probably fatally wounded his
neXt-door neighbor, w. ID. Hogan, as
the result of family quarrel.
The Denver Eye, the principal sub
i urban weekly paper of Denver, mas
been purchased from the estate OF j.
G. Garrison of l.. N. LalinSer.
The firm of A. I. Lewis Il Co., Den
yer. have offered Il $3.50 diamond ring
to be awared by lot to one of the duly
elected maids of honor attending the
festival of 1901.
Fred Jeffries was killed at Black
Hawk on the night of the Sd instant
by taking hold of live electric wire.
He was the only son of widow on
whom she was largely dependent for
support.
The Rio Grande Southern for the
fourth week in July earned $14, an
increase of S131 over the corresponding
week of last year. For the month 1t
earned $43,9S0, an increase of S1,4i3
over the same month of last year.
The colored people of Fremont and
Pueblo counties celebrated Emancipa-
tion Day at Florence, August 9th.
There was an excursion train from Pu-
eblo which brought several carloads or
visitors. accompanied by the Pleasant
Grove Band.
Captain G. II. Hilton, Jr., who served
during the war with Spain and during
the Philippine insurrection with the
Colorado regiment and the Thirty
ninth infantry, United States volun-
teers, has received notice of his ap-
pointment as first lieutenant in the ar
tillery branch of the regular army.
The Denver & Rio Grande proper, for
the fourth week in July, shows net
earnings amounting to S331 900, an in
crease of $24, 700 over the same week
of the preceding year. For the month
of July the earnings were $1,O23.Soo,
an increase of $101, 300 over the same
month of last year.
At the meeting of the Scientific asso-
citation in Denver this month Curator
Ferril of the State Historical and Nat
ural History Society, will endeavor to
call attention to the necessity for the
publication of an up-to-date botanical
work for the Rocky mountain and
western plains region.
Louis II. Enrich has offered the
Chamber of Commerce the use of his
extensive lawn and grounds for the en-
tertainment of the American Associa-
tion for the Advancement of Science,
which meets at Denver, August 24th,
should that body accept the invitation
to visit Colorado Springs.
At last reports II. B. Palmer, the
gunner who was dangerously injured
in firing n salute mt the Boulder Quar-
to-Centennial celebration, was doing
well in the hospital ut Boulder, and
likely to recover. He has lost one
arm and three fingers of the other
hand and is in danger of losing one
eye.
The Grand Junction city council has
voted to give the Peach Day committee
the benefit of the license that may be
assessed against shows. etc, during
the three days celebra ton, August
2Sth, 10Th and 3Oth. The committee
hope in this way to raise several hun
dred dollars more toward the big cele
Iration.
Orville Wilson. who was brought
from Durango to Salida by Sheriff An
kle on charge of being implicated in
the death of Eta Fowler, was taken
before the coroner's jury and made his
statement to that body. He was taken
to the county Jail ut Buena Vista and
the preliminary trial was set for Au-
gust Goth.
The Manitou City Council has passed
nm ordinance to the effect that after
sundown all burros which are kept
for hire shall be banished from the
city, to remain in exile until morning.
The ordinance applies as well to dogs,
cats, parrots or any other beast or
bird that may become troublesome
during the night time by reason of un-
earthly noises.
A deplorable accident occurred on
the 9th instant at the home of Van b.
Kelsey. five miles north of Fort Lup-
ton. Wheeler Kelsey. a boy of eight
cen, while performing with revolver
supposed to be empty, shot and killed
Harry Rafferty,, aged thirteen. the son
of neighboring farmer. The bullet
entered at the inner corner of the left
eye and penetrated the brain.
Thomas Conway. recently returned
from the Philippines, was instantly
killed at Anaconda on the night of the
4th instant by taking hold of Il live
wire. Conway was about twenty-five
years of age and his father at one time
was superintendent of bridges on the
Florence Il Cripple Creek railway.
He has two brothers who reside at Du-
range.
AT the anual meeting of the directors
of the Colorado Springs IL Cripple
Creek District railway. in Colorado
Springs. the following officers We're
elected: President, Irving Howbert, re.
elected; vice president. William Len
nox; treasurer, F. NJ. Woods; secretary
and assistant treasurer. Il. Il. Draper