The Springfield herald., 1901-07-12
COLORADO NOTES.

June 2Sth.
The new Antlers hotel at Colorado
| Springs will be run strictly on the
European plan.
A fifth sub-station of the Denver
| postottice is to be established, located
| on Capitol hill, and three new carriers
added to the force.
Samuel Moffat, the oldest brother of
David IL. Moffat, the Denver banker.
| died few days since at Goshen, New
York, aged eighty-two.
With the opening of the ID. & r. G.
line from Texas Creek, Westclitfe and
Silver Cliff have made their second de-
but into railroad society.
Mrs. NJ. a. Shute. secretary of the
State Board of Horticulture, will have
charge of the horticultural department
of the state fair ut Pueblo next fall.
There is Il very pretty rivalry be-
tween Boulder and Colorado Springs
in the matter of quarto-centennial
| celebration. Good advertisement for
| both.
| In excavating for the basement of
new building ut the corner of -Four
| teenth and Lawrence streets, Denver,
| the workmen found the tooth of a
mastodon.
| The county commissioners of Ell Paso
county are considering petition for a
| franchise to construct an electric rail-
| way from Colorado City to the Garden
1 of the Gods.
| AT its recent session in Columbus,
Ohio the supreme council. United Com
mercial Travellers, granted charters for
! councils at Trinidad and Pueblo and
also a charter for the grand council Of
Colorado.
The new law permitting the infic-
tion of the death penalty for murder
went into effect July l, but the quo
tations do not show any rise in the
price of hemp.
At Ouray, on the Fourth, in the min.
ers double-hand drilling contest,
Hupps and Lindquist drilled in the
regulation contest time 1914 inches In
/ Gunnison granite.
| w. +. Bailey, formerly general pas
| senger agent of the Colorado Midland,
has been appointed manager of the
railroad department of Rand, McNally
x Co., publishers of Chicago.
! The American Microscopical Society
will meet in Denver ut the same time
! with the American Association for the
Advancement of Science. One hundred
members are expected to be present
| There were fifty-nine cases of diph-
! iberia in Denver during the month of
June, as compared with fourteen th"
/ year previous, and the health commits
sioner has instituted an investigation
{ to try to find out the causes.
Chancellor II. A. Buchtel of the Uni.
versity of Denver reports that the uni
versity had S7S students last year in
all departments, q. gain of 24S over
the preceding year. He says the at
. tendance will easily reach 1000 this
fall.
! From all parts of the state come the
usual reports of Fourth of July acci-
dents. II all the victims could be
gathered in one crowd it would furnish
an appalling object lesson, for there
would be fully 100 sufferers, some very
seriously hurt.
! During sudden squall of wind at
Pueblo, June Both, Mrs. j. w. Mitchell
was struck by n falling limb from
dead cottonwood tree and dangerously
hurt. She was taken to st. Mary's
hospital. A babe that she held In her
arms escaped almost entirely unin-
I jured.
President Mckinley has signed the
| following Colorado commissions: Per-
ry Hobkirk, receiver of public moneys
at Del Norte; David C. Fleming, reg
lister of the land office at Sterling (rc-
appointed); Charles B. Timberlake, re-
1 ceiver of public moneys at Sterling (re-
( appointed).
At Pueblo June 29th the temperature
as shown by the thermometer was 1881
| degrees at $50 p. m., which was a rec
ord-breaker. The hottest day previous
+ to that was in July. 1883, when the
! mercury rose to 1927. But no pros
trations We're reported as would have
been the case in any eastern city.
| The safe in the postoffice at Manza-
hola was blown open about . o'clock
in the morning on July 4th and 800
stolen by robbers, who escaped. 1t
was n good time for the safe blowers,
as the explosion attracted no special
attention on account of the celebration
of the day by firing guns and crackers.
Carl Hahn, Il machinist in the en-
ploy of the Colorado Fuel and Iron
Company at Pueblo, has invented a
machine to be run by liquid air. He
estimates that one gallon of liquid air,
which can be manufactured for %
cents, can be made TO run bicycle go
miles on smooth road, and an auto
mobile 100 miles:
A Cheyenne dispatch says: 1t is rc-
ported that rich gold and copper bear
ing ore has been discovered near Dia-
mond Peak. just over the line in Colo
RADIO, and between the headwaters of
the Cache In Poudrc ana Big Laramie
rivers. 1t is said that the ore at the
grass roots carries S1l0 in gold ana
| copper. There has been Il rush of Wy,
oming miners to the scene.
Thomas f. Armstrong. prominent
ranchman from near FranStown. in