The Springfield herald. (Springfield, Baca County, Colo.) 1887-1919, 1902-08-15
COLORADO BRIEFS.

| mat Pueblo VIII DC III tne NesteAh
| League next year.
The first crate of Rock Ford canta-
loupes this season appeared on the
Denver market August 9th.
A Rocky Ford couple haze given up
| the Idea of Il runaway marriage De-
cause this is the cantaloupe season.
The lawyers of Ouray beat the doc
tors and druggists in IL baseball game
| on the 18th inst by score OF. 70 to H.
| The joint ticket agencies at Denver,
| Colorado Springs and Pueblo estimate
there are 27,OOO tourists now in the
| state.
| About 100 members of the Tennessee
Press Association will arrive in Den
| yer, August 14th and make u trip into
| the mountains.
| The Hotel Ryan, at Gilman, and the
office of the Gilman Water Company
were burned August It'll. There was
no insurance.
The Colorado Fuel and Iron Com
pany's power house at the Crested
Butte mine was burned on the morn
ing Of August Bird.
j. Wallace Gum has resigned the pas
torate of st. Paul's Episcopal church
mt Florence, and on September LIST will
take up work in the city of Ouray.
On August 18th 1900 tickets were
stamped at the Colorado Springs offices
of the Western Passenger Association.
The previous record for day was
1000.
Secretary of State Mills is already
preparing certificates of election and
also blanks for the submission of the
constitutional amendments ut the com
ing fall election.
Great preparations are being made
for Watermelon Day Mt Rocky Ford
September 4th. Arrangements have
already been made for eight special
trains on the Santa Fe.
The Normal institute of the Fifth
district began Il two weeks session at
Colorado Springs, August 4th. The
district embraces Teller, Douglas, III
Paso and Ebert counties.
The forest fire at Aliens. park has
been extinguished. Appraised ii. A.
Wells and nine men. assisted by the
weather, put out the flames. The
method used was back-tiring.
William Coyne. who died at Helena.
Montana, Il few days ago. was one OF
the first printers on the Rocky Noun
tain News in Denver when the paper
was founded by William n. Byers.
Willard l.. Ames, formerly assessor
of Arapahoe county, died at Denver
on the 9Th inst. from appendicitis. AS
assessor Mr.. Ames made Il state repu-
tation for fearlessness and efficiency
While Colorado Fuel and Iron Off
cials We're debating the propriety OF
shutting down their coking plant Tor
want of water, word was received that
the employees were drowned out and
had to fly for their lives.
Grant Upton of Hygiene. aged about
thirty-tive, who was declared insane
in Boulder county and taken to Dr.
Works private asylum at Pueblo. Sun
day, died there August 4th. He leaves
wife and two small children.
1t is estimated that the recent storms
in the southern part of the state have
damaged the railroads to the extent
of $4,000; the Rio Grande loss ap-
proximating 100000; that of the San
tn Fe $4,000, and that of the Midland
$4,000.
A village Improvement society has
been organized at Glen Park and Pal
mer Lake. Special attention will be
given to preserving the natural beau
ties of the two resorts and prizes will
be awarded for the most attractive
premises.
BrOoding over the death Of her
adopted son, who was murdered by an
unknown man on the plains south OF
Durango last September, Mrs. Laura
E. Ehrenfeld of Colorado Springs has
become insane and was ordered to be
sent to the Woodcraft sanatorum at
Pueblo.
AS n dance was in progress at Bal
ley, Platte canon, on the night of Au-
gust End, n meteor was discovered
about 1 o'clock in the eastern part of
the sky. 1t was like one grand illu-
mination and the rare beauty OF the
scene stopped the dancing until it had
passed.
In Difference to the difficulties that
tenderfeet have in pronouncing names
derived from the Spanish. the Santa
I'e railway has ordered that in all its
signs and advertising the word can
on shall be spelled canyon" AS for
instance Canyon City, Cheyenne Can
yon, etc.
Appraisers Toombs and Jamison are
preparing a contour map of the San
luis valley, showing the agricultural
sections of the valley and irrigation
and drainage conditions. They have
recently completed full investigation
of the valley with respect to these
matters and the map will be a valua-
BILE addition to such records.
Terseto Chaves, a Mexican sheep
herder in the employ of Felix Chaves,
large owner of sheep in Saguache
county, was shot and killed August
md by David Tucker, cowboy en-
ployed as a range rider by Clark Bros,
The shooting was done at the Sa-
guache big park east of Saguache.