The Springfield herald. (Springfield, Baca County, Colo.) 1887-1919, 1902-09-19
COLORADO BRIEFS.

time in the vicinity of Longs peak.
William, Pring and another man las
soed-n bear cub near Monument a few
/ days ago and led it home in triumph. :.
Senator James w. Bucklin of Grand
Junction is making tour of the state
in advocacy of his Australasian land
tax amendment.
The winning of game from Milwau-
kee on the 10th instant placed the Den
yer baseball team at the head of the
Western League.
The Denver Chamber of Commerce
is preparing to welcome the crown
prince of Siam, who is expected to
reach Colorado October 2Sth.
A widely circulated report of the
death of J. w. Benson. former mana
ger OF the Camp Bird mine ut Ouray,
proves to have been unfounded. 8. -
Professor f. IL. Ormsby of Denver
has been selected as Instructor of the
Agricultural College Glee Club, which
lie successfully managed last year.
The ordinance closing barber shops
on Sunday, which was recently adopt
ed in Denver, has been sustained by
Judge Lindsey of the County Court of
Arapahoe county.
Capt. Lyulph Ogilvy and wife left
Greeley a few days ago for Scotland.
where they will spend the next year at
Castle Airlie, the ancestral home of
the captains family.
At Pueblo n few days ago Mrs r. A.
Hartman and her four-yearold daugh-
ter received painful burns from the ex-
plosion of patent stove polish which
they bought from n peddler.
AT Denver, on the 10th inst, ?. J.
Moore, n carpenter, was fatally
stabbed by A. IL. Flood, a butcher, in
quarrel which arose over some beef
steak purchased by Moore.
The State Federation of Labor has
sent out circulars all over the state,
calling upon workingmen to make cleo
ton day holiday in order that work
ingmen may attend to their duties at
the polls.
The United States Geological Survey
party in charge of +. Nj. Taylor and w.
H., Greathead has been running levels
in Estes park from which to correct
the determination of the height of
Longs peak.
The State Normal School at Greeley
has opened this fall with the largest
attendance ever known. The seventy
four members of the class which grad
uatcd last spring have all secured good
positions as teachers.
NJ. J. O'Brien. special agent of the
United States land office, who has been
fighting fires in the forests arounI Es-
ties Park, reports that the situation 10
greatly improved and hopes that no
further serious damage will result.
Arrangements are in progress for the
fitting celebration of Emancipation
Day at Colorado Springs, September
22nd. The inability of Booker Il.
Washington to attend, owing to pre-
vious engagements occasions much re-
greet.
DIR. Adam L. Ford of Denver pro-
poses to build sanitarium on the cot
tage plan near Custer City. In Custer
county. Log houses will be occupied,
by distinct classes of patients, but the
institution is intended for the care of
those afflicted with consumption.
Work on the new zinc smelter at Pu-
eblo has fairly begun. One hundred
and fifty carloads of structural iron
will be used in its construction. The
American Bridge Company has charge
of the work. The smelter will be the
largest of its kind in the world.
Superintendent Dietrich of the Colo
RADIO Springs schools reports record
breaking enrolment, over 1850 pupils
already being registered. The increase
in attendance, is so great that the
school board will have to take up the
question of providing additional accom-
mOdations Immediately.
Colorado State Grange Day at the
Agricultural College, Fort Collins. will
be on September Goth. Preparations
will be made to entertain 1900 or
more visitors. There will be a basket
dinner, after which short program
will be rendered and the visitors will
then inspect the college.
The Populists of the Twelfth Sena.
torial District, composed of ArapahOe,
Morgan, Logan and Washington coun-
ties, met in Denver on the 18th inst,
and nominated w. j. Powell of Ster-
ling for state senator. For the repre-
sentative district composed of Arapa-
hoe, Morgan, Logan and Washington,
James NJ. Long of Morgan county was
named for float representative.
The very unusual spectacle of min
lister officiating at his own wedding,
such as occurred in Boulder a few days
ago, when Rev. p. S Cattell performed
the ceremony which made himself and
Miss Etiie May Wise husband and
wife, has attracted Il good deal of at
tention from clergymen throughout the
state. few of whom consider it a good
precedent, even if it is admitted to be
legal.
The Colorado Springs correspondent
of the Denver News says: a number
of local capitalists, headed by ]. r.
Mckinnie, are about to invest heavily
in beet sugar plants in the western
part of the state. Mr. McKinnie has
Just returned from visit to Grand
Junction, and it is understood that he