The Springfield herald., 1902-05-30
COLORADO BRIEF S.

near RangeIy in Rio Blanco county by
July.
Bellamy Storer. United States min
lister to Spain. has given $1,000 to the
Glockner sanitlrium at Colorado
Springs.
President Frank Adams of the Den
yer Fire and Police Board, who has
been dangerously i'll for some time,
is reported TO be slowly recovering.
The Pueblo Elks' Building Associa-
tion has been organized for the pur-
pose of acquiring real estate and build
ing a lodge room for the ElkS OF l'u-
eblo. q.
Postmaster l.. G.. Dana of Colorado
Springs has received notice from Wash
ington that his request for four extra
clerks during the summer season would
be allowed.
Civil service examinations Will be
held in Aspen and Fort Collins on May
2Sth for the purpose of filling the posi-
tons of clerk and letter carrier in those
places.
A district convention of the Wood
men of the World will be held at Flor
ence June 18th at which delegates will
be elected to the state camp ut Cripple
Creek in August.
Gen. w. ]. Palmer has presented four
fine deer to the geological collection of
the City park in Denver. They were
taken from his grounds ut Glen Eyrie
near Colorado Springs.
The spring races of the Colorado
State Fair Association will be held at
Pueblo June Sd TO 9th. Many of the
fastest horses in the West are entered
for the different events.
There will be a civil service exam
ination held at Denver on June 18th
and 18th for the purpose of filling the
position of medical inspector and ply
sician in the Philippine service.
Twenty-three Young men and one
young woman We're graduated on the
10th inst. by the Colorado College of
Dental Surgery. which is the dental
department of the University of Den
Yer.
1t is stated that John Keating. super
intendent of the public schools of dis
trict No. 20. Pueblo. could have sue
ceeded Regis Chauvenet as president
of the School of Mines ut Golosn bad
he so desired.
Harry Niemeyer, n young man who
carried paper certifying that he was
a member of the Society of the Army
of Santiago de Cuba. shot himself
through the brain in front of the cap
itol building in Denver on the 18TH
inst
The triennial international Sunday
school convention will be held at Den
yer June 26th to both. Besides dele
gates from all parts of this country,
representatives are expected to be
present from Canada, Mexico, Porto
Rico, Cuba and the Philippines.
The real estate committee of the Pu-
eblo Business Mems Association have
inaugurated series of weekly lunch
cons at which the business affairs OF
the city will be discussed. The lunch
cons will be given every Wednesday at
the Grand hotel.
The first japanese to declare in Pu-
eblo county their intentions of becom-
ing citizens of the United States, pre-
sented themselves at the office of the
county clerk few days since and Sc
cured their first papers. They are de-
scribed as two young and rather pretty
women.
The Santa Fe will put on a. new
through Colorado train for daily run,
beginning June 1st. The new train
will be composed of one composite car
n chair car. an observation car, two
sleepers and diner. The putting oil of
this train will necessitate a change in
the time card.
The pay of fifty-four clerks in the
Denver postoffice has been increased
500 Il year each. beginning July 1st
Postmaster Twombly is authorized to
place on the pay rolls at a salary of
$500 each seven additional clerks. Oc-
tober LIST he is authorized to appoint
six additional clerks ut the same salary.
John Baumgardner. and old-tme
Leadville prospector. was found dead
in his cabin. eight miles north of Lead
vile, few days ago. He had plenty
of provisions and it is thought that he
became suddenly ill and was unable TO
summon help. He had been dead for
some time, and his large dog was
found n. short distance from the cabin
nearly starved:
A Grand Junction dispatch of May
18th to the Denver News says: The
wool clip of the Clark flock was load
ed to-day for shipment TO St Louis.
Forty-two hundred sheep yielded 3d.
600 pounds of wool and the price paid
is said to be IS cents per pound. Clark
x Son will ship their sheep TO the
range in Gunnison county for the sum
mer in few days. .is.l
A roundup of wild horses has been
in progress on Wolf creek. Crooked
Wash and Blue mountain by horsemen
from Rio Blanco and Routt counties.
1t is very exciting sport and many fine
animals have been captured. These
wild horses have been troublesome to
stockmen, as they entice away tame
stock. hold down the springs and
water holes and run cattle off the