The Springfield herald., 1902-06-27
COLORADO BRIEFS. i.

10th instant
A postottice at Sellar, Pitkln county,
has been established. with Otto Is. hil-
patrick as postmaster
The Colorado X Southern is meeting
| with success in its efforts TO attract
visions to the Platte canon this sum
mer.
Roy Bourquin. n boy of II. had both
hands blown of while playing with
powder at Cripple Greek on the 10th
| inst.
The Grand junction School Board
| has purchased sites for two new school
buildings and will erect handsome
| structures.
The Denver base ball team by repeat-
edly defeating Omaha has reached sec
ond place in the Western League and
is crowding Kansas City for first.
President Benjamin +. Andrews of
the University of Nebraska delivered
the address on the occasion of the
| graduating exercises of the Leadville
| high school.
The property of the Jarvis Hall
school for boys at Denver has been
sold by the Episcopal Church author
| tiles and no attempt will be made 10
revive the institution.
President Frank Adams of the Den
yer Fire and Police Board, who has
been dangerously sick for long time.
is reported to be much improved and
in fair way to recover.
There will be no more electric light
competition in Denver The managers
of the Denver Gas and Electric Com
pany have purchased majority of the
stock of its rival, the Lacombe Elec-
tric Company.
At Colorado Springs June 10Th James
Walsh, a barber. was killed by stab
| from a pair of scissors in the hands OF
Joe Scott Walsh had interfered to pro-
tect Scott's wife from an assault by
her husband.
Rev. Canon Bywater of Grace Cathe-
dral, Topeka. and member of the FAC
ulty of Kansas Theological Institute.
has been appointed by Bishop Olmsted
archdeacon of the Denver diocese of
the Episcopal Church.
james +. Secrest, formerly banker
of South side Camp No. IL. Woodmen
of the World. in Denver was arrested
on the 18th inst ON warranJ charg-
ing him with embezzling S1,JO4.45 of
the funds of the camp.
A Chicago dispatch says that mem
bers of the Interstate Commerce Com
mission will 90 TO Leadville, Colorado,
where an inquiry Will be made con
cerning charges filed by the Board of
Trade of that city against the trans
continental lines.
Former Sheriff Joseph Yates and
William Mott. two well known mining
men of Boulder County. have returned
from the Thunder Mountain country
in Idaho and report that it has been
greatly overestimated and has no at
fractions for prospectors.
The Denver x Rio Grande has re-
ceived five of ten new passenger loco
motives 1t has ordered. They are the
largest ever placed in service on Col
orado road. and can make sixty miles
an hour on the heavy grade between
Denver and Palmer Lake.
John Brisben Walker. editor and
publisher of the Cosmopolitan maya
zine. has been elected president, and
Mortimer f. Taylor. formerly of the
law firm of Wells, Taylor x Taylor of
Denver. secretary, of the Colorado So
ciety recently organized in New York
Supervising Architect Taylor has re-
jected the bids of the Congress Con
struction Company for the interior fin
ish of the Denver mint. This bid.
amounting to S219.326 was the only
one Iul HlsIl'h III response " All' 'iA' ~
tisement New bids will be called for
This is the old. old story told again.
Mrs. Martha y. Shute, secretary of
/ the State Horticultural Society calls
upon the people of Denver to spray
their trees. especially the maple and
locust trees. which have been attacked
by what is known as the maple scale
The scale is of an oval shape and n
yellow or brownish tint. and contains
thousands of insects that eat their
way to the heart of the tree and de-
stroy its life.
AT the recent meeting of the Colo
RADIO State Dental Association in Colo
RADIO Springs an artificial palate was
inserted in the mouth of Mr.. Burk-
head of Denver, who was born with a
soft palate and could not eat well or
articulate distinctly. DIR. +. l.. Smith
of Denver performed the delicate OPP
Grafton, witnessed by a room full of
dentists. Burk head can now talk and
eat normally.
Rural free delivery service to com
mcnce August LIST has been ordered for
the route from Eaton. Weld county,
length twentyfour miles, area forty
square miles, population 800. number
of houses. 100: carrier, VIII Lowry.
Also for the route from Fort Morgan.
Morgan county. twenty-five miles, area
thiity-siX square miles. population 40,
number of houses pinety-tive; carrier
Mark G. Getchell.
Mai William Cooke Daniels of Den
yer narrowly escaped being caught i'll
the Martinique horror. He is now in
London, and wrote TO friends in Den
Yer that he reached Martinique only
tho day after the destruction of st
Pierre. Major Daniels was in Fort DE
I'm nL.1. tho rni..ht Enfnr.A md n.nS snil-