The Springfield herald., 1902-12-19
COLORADO BRIEFS.

A. R. Gumaer is planning to build a
handsome opera house at Florence.
A cold storage company with cap
ital of $3O.OOe has been organized at
Rocky Ford.
| Colorado Springs capitalists are said
to be orgahtztr,s anothN~Rationa+-eat
with capital of 100000.
l.. P. Bansback of Denver has been
elected captain of the Stanford Univer-
sity football team for 1903.
Governor Orman has appointed Miss
Kathryn NJ Maioney as superintendent
of schools for the new. county OF South
Arapahoe.
The 'postoffices at Berthoud, Pagosa
Springs and Rifle have been advanced
from the fourth class to the presiden-
tial class. to take effect January LIST.
In the District Court at Durango
White river Ute, who shot Navajo on
the reservation recently, was adJudged
guilty of murder in the first degree.
The Elks of Fort Collins have decid-
ed to erect new block, the second and
third stories of which will be used eX-
clusively by that order. The ground
floor will be 50x90 feet in size.
A contract has been let to Captain
Boutell for the construction of beet
sugar factory at New Windsor of ca
pacity of 600 tons daily. for the sum of
$150,000. Work is to be begun at
once.
1t is announced that the Santa Fe
Railway Company is endeavoring to
purchase the old Copper King smelter
and some twenty-five acres of land ad-
Joining to be used as location for eX-
tensive railroad shops in Trinidad.
Several lessees of state land in Baca
county complain that there are no sec
tion posts on large amount of the
school lands. An appeal for new sur
veys may have to be made to the
United States government.
Commercial gas is being manufac-
tured by the Boulder Gas Company
from combination of Ignite coal and
petroleum. 1t is claimed that the pro-
cess, which is the invention of General
Manager Peter English is entirely sue
ceSsful.
Andria Offret of Trinidad, accused
on four charges OF cutting timber on
government land. was found mot gull
ty' on the criminal charge in the
United States Circuit Court at Denver.
The other three were damage suits and
were continued.
The Colorado Section of the lnsti-
tute of Electrical Engineers has been
organized in Denver with twenty-eight
members and limitations to join the Or
ganization have been sent to electrical
engineers throughout Colorado, Wy
oming and Utah.
b. Frank Hunter. formerly of the
city council of Denver and we'll
known Grand Army man, has lost his
mind and may have to be sent to an
insane asylum. He left his home in
Denver on the 11th inst. and wandered
about in the country for two days be-
fore he was discovered and cared for.
The county commissioners of Boul-
der county have effected compromise
with the railroad companies on the
taxes of 1901. The total amount of
taxes received by the county from rail-
roads is $22. .133.5S, or $1,69S.0S more
than the railroad taxes received by the
county for 1900.
At Pueblo on the 18th inst, John W.
Frush, after a desperate quarrel, In
which he tried to kill his wife and
grown son, placed revolver to his left
ear and fired a bullet into his own
brain, ending his life almost instantly.
He had been drinking, and 1t is thought
he was temporarily insane.
President Roosevelt on the sth inst.
sent to the Senate the nomination of
Frank L. Downer for assayer of the
mint at Denver and of Joseph W. Mil
som for melter. Messrs. Nilsson and
Downer were appointed by the Presi-
dent before the convening of Congress
and have been in possession of the Of
fees for some weeks.
A recent dispute at Denver between
State Game Commissioner C.. w. Har-
ris and Deputy Game Warden James S.
Bush on a matter of mileage resulted
in demand by Harris that Mr.. Bush
should resign. Mr. Bush would not
hand in his resignation to the commits
sioner, but offered it to Governor Or
man, who refused to accept it and
called the parties together to patch up
the quarrel.
Several Colorado men are mentioned
in general orders No. 2 from national
headquarters of the G. A. r. Conrad
Appel of Victor is made member of
the council of administration, while
A. j. Woodside of Denver is named as
an assistant inspector general. Harper
NJ Orahood of Denver is appointed an
assistant to Allan c. Blackwell, who
is special aide in charge of military
instruction and patriotic education in
the public schools
The Indian appropriation bill re-
ported to the House contains a provis-
ion of S53,12 for the maintenance of
the Indian institute at Grand Junction.
Besides the instruction and care of the
pupils this amount includes appropria-
tions of 81 500 as pay for the support,
$4,000 for repairs. s7,625 for heating
and ventilation, and $4,000 for shops
$1,000 is allowed for incidental ex-
penses in the Indian agencies in Colo