The Springfield herald., 1902-02-28

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| thing for February.
State Game Commissioner Harris has
ordered about fifty Mongolian pheas-
| ants. WHICH he will distribute. in sew
| eraI of the, southern counties.
rIThe raillonds will make rate of one
| fare for the round trip for the encnmp-
ment Of tife g. "A. r., Department, OF
| Colorado and Wyoming, to be held ut
Rocky Ford next June.
The school census for 1901 shows
162.1.1S children of school age in the
state. OF that hbfnber, ,S1,336 are pyyss
and S0,64o- are. girls. There are 366i
men and 1878 women teachers.
The AEentcalpr -~anitariun Qf Mani
tou, n Roman Catholic institution, has
Just .recciSed'd d efft of $1,000 from Cen
eral wv ]. Palmer, the 1nohey to be
applied to the debt of the Institution.
Farmers living on Beaver creek, be-
tween Florence and Pueblo, tell of a
large mountain lion which has been
lurking in the hills of that neighbor-
hood. Several unsuccessful attempts
to kill the beast have been made by
the turner's.
Congressman Bell has introduced
bill for the relief of o. Il. Noland OF
Mancos. Colo, providing for payment
OF $1,000, being the value of stock
killed and stolen by the Navajo and
Ute. Indians and belonging to holland.
between 1887 and 1892. ..f
The home OF the Misses Burns, sis
tiers of james f. Burns, president of
the Portland Mining. company, at- Colo
radO Springs, was entered by burglars
on the night of the 10th inst, and
silyerware. jewelry and other valuable
property taken to the amount of S1,2OO
worth.
II, Inge and j. F. Anderson. who
have been prospecting for coal about
thirty miles south of La Junta, have
found two veins. one five feet and the
other seven feet in thickness. This has
cOused quite stir here and ether par
ties are organizing. 1t is thought the
belt extends for several miles.
The following postmasters have been
commissioners: WilliamH Davis, Flor
enee; William V. Roberts, Fort Col
Inns; Richard G. Dalton, La Jmta;
Daniel Il. Cooper, LAMAR, Homer IL.
Grafton. M2nitou; james B. johnson,
Montrose; James w. Long. Ouray: Lib
bic Herman, Elizabeth; Carl; FELTON,,
Swandyke.
The contract for the new passenger
and freight depot at Loveland has been
%rlIe present depot building will be torn
down and new switches placed where
it now stands. The new depot will be
placed on the east side of the track
next to the business blocks. between
Fourth and Fifth streets.
Congressman Bell his filed With the.l
postofiice department an application
for n rural delivery route from Paonia
to Hotchkiss. Tliis route. as stated,
is about six miles long, and the petition
contained the signatures of about 100
people living along it. Judge Bell re
quested that an inspector be sent out
DIS soon as possible to locate the same
I Colorado Springs has just completed
the donation of 40,0OO.0OO gallons of
water to the town ofyyictor but reports,
state that that district has barely
enough water to last for another month.
Another gift of w:lter will probably
be necessary. Colorado Springs,is pre-
pared TO give 35.000,000 GALLONS more.
when further steps would nccessitate
additional action by the City Council.
Harry n. Zimmerman of Colorado
Springs. who ranked first in the re-
cent examination for the West Point
cadetship, has received instructions
from Washington,to report at Fort Lo-
gan on May 1st for physical examina-
ton. Mr.. Zimmerman is. a nephew of
Captain j. NJ. johnson. an attorney of
the Springs. Captain johnson is n West
Point man and served in the Civil
War
Petitions have been reaching WASH
ington from the citizens of Florence,
asking the Postoflice' Department to in
terfere in the matter of the, removal
of the Florence postotfice. tits claimed
the postmaster has'i0cated itdn an In i
accessible part of the town. The de |
partment informed. Senator Teller that
the protests came too late that per-
mission had been given tho postmas- /,
ter to establish his Office where he has
and that the case would not be re
| opened. 'gH -.t
The-Biennial reports of the state au-
ditor. which is now being prepared,
| Will show that there are 4.2S6.477
acres of agricultural and grazing land
| in the STATE. valued at $J0.3S1 ,GSS. The
| classifications are as follows: Agricul-
| tural land, 3.255. .107 acres, valued at
| $50. .971 HOS; grazing land. 1O.S6S,290
acres, valued at $14,S47 400; coal lands,
163, 300 acres, valued at 4,542,SI9. The
returns made by the assessors in the
| hfty-seven counties of the state show
that there are coal deposits in nineteen
counties.
/ &t,its meeting in Pueblo February
10th, the Retail Grocers and Butchers
| Association of Colorado elected the fol
lowing named officers: George n. Ord
way of Denver, president; ]. A. Gal
hraith of Fort Collins, first vice presi-
dent; j. r. Gardner of Victor, second
vice president; w. f. Hazen of LAW
son. third vice president: a. Z. Nelson
| of Canon CITY fourth vice president;