The Springfield herald., 1901-12-13
COLORADO NOTES.

Charles ii. Springer has been ap-
pointed engineer in the Pueblo public
building.
Senator Teller has taken his seat on
the Democratic side of the Senate
chamber
Mrs. Maud Ballington Booth spoke
to an immense audience in the First
Presbyterian church, Pueblo, on the
night of December LIST.
| George Winston and l.. \. Williams,
of Muskogee. Indian Territory, have
purchased controlling interest in the
stock of the Mercantile National Bank
of Pueblo
Chancellor f. Benjamin Andrews OF
the University of Nebraska, will pre-
side at the laying of the cornerstone
of the new science building at Colo
RADIO College, Colorado Springs.
! Many of the Cripple Creek gamblers
have left for other points throughout
the state and country, as they are sad
to believe that gambling has been
closed for good in Teller county.
For the month of October the Colo
RADIO " Southern Railway Company
earned $i9T. .244. an increase of SO
and net Sl49,622. an increase of 3d.
SIC; surplus $132,oG6, an increase of
SIS, ,723.
A meeting of the Pueblo Business
Mems Association was held November
29th to condemn the action of Mayor
| West in allowing the gambling houses
to reopen. Strong resolutions We're
passed.
The postoffice order establishing
free delivery service at Grand June
tion has been postponed to the 16th
f,,- t1,., la1n Il.
failure of supplies to reach the office
in season.
The ladies of the Norton Art Club of
Pueblo opened four-days' art eXhi-
bition and sale of pictures on the 3rd
inst. The proceeds will be devoted to
q fund for founding an art gallery in
Pueblo.
o. L. Adams of Denver, editor of the
National Standard, has been appointed
by Commander-in-C Chief Torrance of
the G. A. X. to be inspector general OF
the Department of Colorado and Wy
oming.
The electric line between Denver and
Aryadn was opened December LIST. 1t
is believed that this is, but the begin
ming of n number of important sub
urban extensions by the Denver Tram
way Company.
The anual report of the Denver Char
ity Organization Society shows an ex-
penditure of $25,5OO during the year
Excellent work was done with the
money by the various charitable soci-
cites of the city. .s 30.
Capitalists of Boulder have raised
enough money to put the Boulder Ran
way Il Utility Company out of debt
They say the company will soon extend
its lines and make needed improve
ments at the plant.
Owing to the cut in rates nearly
thousand people visited the Cripple.
Creek district on Sunday, December
1st, coming up from the valley over
the Flarence Il Cripple Creek and the
Midland Terminal lines.
At Ward on the 9TH inst. Justice of
the Peace Gibbons fined John Field,
farmer living near Longmont, the sum
of 5000 and sentenced him to the
county Jail for ninety days for stutiins
twentysix turkeys with stones while
the birds were still living, and selling
them, dead but undressed to n butcher,
at Ward.
w. S. StrattOn has accepted the inyi-
tation of the Colorado Springs Mining
Stock Exchange to be the guest of hon
or 1T IL at tllc +AHlltES Holti,
January 18th, to commemorate the en-
trance of the association into the STRAIT
ton Mining Exchange building. and rs
an expression of the public spirit
shown by the millionaire.
Beet pulp from the Loveland sugar
factory is being tested as to its value
for fattening cattle and sheep. w. II.
Turner is hauling to Berthoud and
feeding cattle. Bartholf * Kelim have
n large number of lambs on the John
stone farm southeast of town. and
about mile from the factory. to
which they are feeding about forty
tons day.
The resignation of c. II. Middleton,
assistant chief engineer of the Denver
Il Rio Grande, has been announced.
Mr.. Middleton has another position
awaiting him. 1t was announced that
no successor would be appointed and
that the place would be abolished.
This is taken to mean that the Rio
Grande authorities are contemplating
no plans for extensions of Importance.
A new club of horsemen. to be called
the Country Club, will be organized in
Denver to replace the Overland Park
Club. Henry Wolcott is the principal
owner of the stock of the Overland
Park Association, which for the last
five years. it is claimed. has been
maintained at a loss. Mr.. Wolcott, it
is said. is preparing to make his resi-
dence in the East, and has offered to
make two years lease to the new
club
w. s. Stratton will donate to El Paso
county the new park at the end of the
Cheyenne canon street car line recently
improved by him. County Assessor