The Springfield herald., 1902-05-02
COLORADO BRIEFS.

Strawberry Day again this year.
Thre hundred is the average number
of bicycles stolen every month in Den
YER.
j. Stitt Wilson, the noted socialist
lecturer, has been having immense au
diences in Denver.
Raymond and Whitcomb excursion
parties have begun passing through
Colorado. Look out for bad weather.
Colorado railroads will be given a
chance to exhibit at the st. Louis ex
position by the Colorado Fair commits
sion.
EX-Gov. John L. Routt is now in
Paris, France, with his family, but ex
poets to return to Colorado about
June list.
Seven companies of the Eighteenth
infantry have been ordered to Fort Lo-
gan, near Denver. They are at present
in Texas.
While in apparent health, Frank
Sinner, prominent hardware mer-
chant at Creede, suddenly fell dead of
heart failure on the morning of April
Goth.
At Canon City, April Goth, Rev. w.
III. Hightower, II widower, aged eighty
three years, was married to Mary
Goodwin, u widow, aged sixty-three
years.
The fund that is being raised by the
capitalists of the capital city to pur-
chase presents for the cruiser Denver
has reached $3,995. 1t was to have
been $4,000.
Captain James Reed of Buena Vista
died of pneumonia mt st. Anthony's
hospital, Denver, April 21st. He was
Grand Army man and seventy-one
years of age.
The new steel bridge across the
Platte river ut Brighton is completed.
The structure is 300 feet long and cost
the county of Arapahoe S1S,OOO. 1t
has two spans of $50 feet each.
a. NJ. Hawley, secretary of the state
board of agriculture. has received the
appointment of statistical agent of the
United States Department of Agricul-
ture. He will collect Colorado crop
statistics all over the state.
A Colorado zephyr blew Emil Strand,
the team of four horses which he was
driving, and IL load of timber over the
bank near the Eagle Bird mine at Sill
yer Plume a few days ago. Neither
team nor driver We're badly injured.
The committee of investigation on
the books of eX-City Clerk w. ii.
Moore of Durango has completed its
work and the report shows Nh. Moore's
shortage for the three years term to
be something in excess of $4,000.
The bill granting the city of Colo
RADIO Springs the right TO buy 1000
acres of the forest reserve in the vicin-
ity of Seven Lakes. where the new
water works system is located, has
been passed by both houses of Con
gress.
Isabella Dayton of Peyton, Colorado,
in the County Court of El Paso coun-
ty, has been granted II divorce and IT,
tie to 400 acres of land she decided to
her husband. They We're married eS-
actly thirty days before she filed the
complaint.
President Van Horn of the Laramie,
IIahn's Peak and Pacific railroad has
written from the Boston office to Vice
President Miller in Laramie. Wyo-
ming, instructing the 'conipany's of
iicers to resume operations on the line
as soon rs possible.
Rabbit coursing is crime. viola
tion of the humane laws of the state. |
according to the verdict of the jury in
the West Side court mt Denver which |
tried the test case in that tribunal
1
the State Humane Society.
The commissioners of Saguache |
county at the April meeting took up
the matter of display at the St Louis
Words Fair. and decided to ask Rio |
Grandc, Costlla, Conejos and Mineral |
counties to join with Saguache in
display to be known as the San Luis |
valley exhibit.
w. ii. Brown of Marble, who was
accused of blasting fish in the Crystal
river several weeks ago, was brought |
before Judge Stevens of the District |
Court at Gunnison for trial. He plead
ed guilty and was sentenced to not
less than six nor more than eighteen
months i'll the state reformatory at
Buena Vista.
The Gem Gold Mining Company has I
secured Judgment in the District Court
mt Cripple Creek against the town of
Altman for $1,000. During the small
pox epidemic last year the town seized
the claim owned by the mining com
pany and established a pest house
there, preventing mining operations
and damaging the company.
In the District Court at Meeker,
James Wallace, n wealthy cattleman
of Rio Blanco county, was acquitted
on charge of cattle r,istling. William
Farley was sentenced to eighteen
months in the penitentiary for steal
ing n number of watches, amounting
to $500, from A. Oldland & Co. The
court adjourned to September 18th.
Charles II. Pierson of Idaho Springs,
Il veteran of the Civil War, who has
been trying for several years to secure
n pension on account of injuries re-
ceived, has just been Informed that his