The Springfield herald., 1902-04-25

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William Il. Pnbor the veteran Colo
RADIO editor and colonizer has revived
his Pabor Lake colony in Florida and
is again publishing the Pabor Lake
Pineapple. -.....- -5 r.... .l,.a- .r.s.
-Four hundred workers. in the planning
mills of Denver have been granted an
increase in wages from 21h to 30
| cents an hour. The eight-hour day is
still under discussion.
An advance of wages. averaging
about twenty per cent. has been re
Gently granted employees by the Griffin
Car Wheel Company operating plant
in southwest Denver.
The following new postoitices have
been established in Colorado: Boyero
| Lincoln county, Christ B. Ioenehs,
/ postmaster; Pandora, San Miguel couh-
ty, Alexander ii. Wood, postmaster.
About 100 citizens met at the opera
| house in Alamosa to organize COM
pany to build and operate an electric
light plant. a plant to cost S2oooo
| with capacity of 1000 incnndescent
and fifty arc lights will be built.
The presbytery of Pueblo, which has
| just closed its session at Florence,
elected Rev DR.. Coltman of La Junta
commissioner to the general assembly
of the Presbyterian church, which
meets in New York city on May 10Th.
with stealing cattle. had his trial in the
District Court at Golden April H. and
after hearing the evidence, the judge
| instructed the jury to bring in II YER
dict of acquittal, the evidence being i'll
| sufficient.
The glee and mandolin clubs of the
State university returned to Boulder
| April 11th, after more than two weeks
| spent in tour of the state. They left
Boulder March 10Th and covered n to-
tai of 1903 miles, stopping ut every
| town of Importance on the route.
The Girls Friendly Club at Denver
is the beneficiary of $4,000 from Mrs.
Lowthian, widow of Thomas Low
THAN, at one time n wealthy mining
man at Leadville. The money will be
used to build a permanent home as an
auxiliary to the City Temple work of
Dean Peck. .-l.
Aurelio .Espinosa, n senior in the
State University at Boulder, has been
appointed to the chair of romance Ian
guages at the University of New MeNi-
structor in Spanish and French at the
State University for two years. He be-
gins his duties next September.
Throughout Colorado the bridge and
structural iron workers have demand
ed, and expect, better pay and shorter
hours, to begin on May 1st. The union
which is in Denver, with members in
other counties, submitted Il demand
yesterday for an increase from 80
cents to 10 cents an hour, and an eight
instead of nine-hour day.
Mayor Wright of Denver has re-
ceived the badge which his daughter,
Miss Roberta Wright, will wear when
she christens the cruiser Denver. 1t is
a beautiful sample of the goldsmith's
art and is valued at 5000. 1t is made
of gold from the famous Camp Bird
mine and imbedded in the yellow met
al are two diamonds and a sapphire.
Among the curiosities that Larimer
county hopes to take to st. Louis is Il
section of the siXty-foot vein of coal
that has been discovered in that coun-
ty. 1t is the intention to cut through
this vein and to remove a cross section
of it in pieces which will be set up in
st. Louis, showing both the character
of the coal and also the wonderful
thickness.
Governor Ornan will ask the COVER
nor of Washington for the extradition
of pug" Ryan, alias l.. y. Scott, alias
J. C. Moore. the notorious Colorado des-
perado wanted in Summit county to
answer the charge of killing Sheriff Nj.
| Il. Conrad. and for whose detention
there is n reward of 50, 1000. Ryan was
captured few days ago by the offi-
GERS at Seattle.
G. II. Smith, one of the men found
guilty for being implicated in the re-
cent Colorado Fuel and Iron Company
pay check forgeries, was sentenced i'll
the District Court at Pueblo to not less
than one year nor more than eighteen
months in the penitentiary. Smith
pleaded guilty and turned states evil
dence, but was not allowed to testify
on legal technicalty.
"Within three months we shall have
the grocers of Colorado thoroughly or
ganized," said President George n.
| Ortlway of the State association after
the local grocers' meeting at Denver
I'VE will get the Arkansas valley or
ganized this week and will then go af-
ter other sections of the state. and will
place the sugar card, giving a ten per
cent. profit to the retailer in every
| town in Colorado
w. S. Osborn. n Victor groceryman,
while hunting about ten miles south
| west of Victor on Millsap creek. came
upon n huge mountain lion devouring
| n calf which 1t had Killed. He took Il
| shot at the animal at Il distance of 600
| feet and killed it. 1t measures ten feet