The Springfield herald., 1901-09-27
COLORADO NOTES.

Z ly on the new water works system ut
Longmont.
The State University at Boulder has
| opened with an increased number OF
| students.
| 1t is estimated that nearly forty
square miles of timber has been killed
by the recent fire near Eldora.
! a. G. Dewitt. arrested at Denver on
the charge of forgery. is said to have
record of having forged over 3OO
checks.
Miss Odessa Ross of Kiowa has been
selected as maid of honor for Elbert
county AT the Mountain and Plain fes-
| tival.
The grand stand for the Festival of
Mountain and Plain in Denver looks
as If it We're intended to hold all the
people in the state.
| The Bent County Fair. at Las AMI
| mas. closed September 18th. after
| three days of successful exhibition
and entertainments.
a large crowd gathered In Littleton
the other night and burned in eitigy the
| assassin CZolgosZ, and Emma Gold
| man. whose words served as inspira-
| ton for his crime.
| Miss Rose Moody of Monte Vista has
| pttl tHpStH 10 represent INV 'i"h'S
county as maid of honor at the Festi-
val Of Mountain and Plain.
Surveyors are now at work on the
Eldora extension of the Colorado N
Northwestern railroad. Several routes
will be surveyed and the most feasible
one chosen.
Miss Louise Roseberry has been Sc
lected by Custer county as maid of
honor to the festival queen. She is
eighteen years of age and was raised
in the Wet Mountain valley.
The directors of the State Fair at
Pueblo have changed their plans OF
having n Midway. but will Introduce
the feature of n German village, to-
Gether with other novel attractions.
Miss Edna Sweeney of Walsenburg
will be maid of honor from Huerfano
county in the Festival of Mountain
and Plain, and Miss Ida Millinger of
Holly will represent Prowers county.
The worst of a series of violent rain
storms struck Manitou and vicinity on
the forenoon of September Sd, continu-
ing for some time, and wreakinS con-
siderable damage. Between Colorado
The village of Ash, a short distance
north Of Ouray. was almost completely
destroyed by fire on the 10th inst. The
Graham supply store was totally de-
stroyed. Loss about $4,000; insurance,
340O.
Miss Ella Naomi Penfold of Bur.
lington has been chosen maid of honor
to the Mountain and Plain festival
queen from Kit Carson county. She Is
n daughter of ]. w. Penfold, county
treasurer.
A stock company has Seen organized
principally among the Woodmen of the
World of Fort Morgan to build an au-
ditorium and lodge room. 1t is pro-
posed to erect building at cost of
about $1,000, to seat GOO people
On Sunday, September 10Th. the day
a fter the death of President Mckinley.
nearly every pastor in Colorado devot-
ed his sermon to topics connected win
the great national tragedy. Large pub
lie gatherings We're also held in all tho
prncipal'towns of the state.
Oliver p. Virgins, the aged scout
and Mexican war veteran who has
been stationed rs officer in the postot-
flee building at Denver for many years,
has been replaced by Il younger man.
Officer Virgins was n picturesque nS-
ure and will be much missed.
The members of the \. o. u. w. are
Ioi IL SiaHh hi'i'h ''',
and initiation ceremonies at Canon
City on the evening of October 18th,
in which lodges from Pueblo, Florence,
Coal Creek, Canon City. Westclihe
and Salida will participate.
On the day of William McKinley's
funeral Nathaniel Lyon Post No. .. G.
A. r., of Boulder adopted resolutions
| calling on Colorado's senators and con-
gressmen to secure federal legislation
against anarchy and suggesting an in
| ternatonal bureau in that connection.
September 10th was Pioneers Day
| at the fair in GlenwOod Springs, OF
Eagle, Pitkin and Garfield counties.
| Anyone who moved into the region be-
| fore January /, 1887 is accounted
pioneer, though if he We're n baby at
| the time he can hardly be an "old pi-
| oneer."
On the 18th instant DIR. ID. l.. Nc
| Murtre of Emerson, Iowa. who was
staying with his son in n cabin at Il
mining claim on Quinn mountain. near
Eldora. was so badly burned while
trying to save some property from the
cabin, which took fire from the blaz-
ing forest, that he died next day from
| his injuries.
Six men were killed and four in
| 1ureu on the lOtn lHst Dy IL terIlDie oA-
plosion in the Spring Gulch mine of
| the Colorado Fuel and Iron Company
fourteen miles from Cardiff on the Je-
rome branch of the Colorado Midland
railroad. The dead are: p. G. Picker
| ton. - Andres. Peter Deldora, David
Collier, George Cassenger and an un-
| known Italian.
September 10Th. the day on which
!, President Mckinley was buried at
Canton, Ohio. was observed as day
of mourning in every town in Colora-
| do, so far as heard from. In all the