The Springfield herald., 1903-10-02
COLORADO BRIEFS.

fell and received some bad bruises
The Santa Fe has taken of lts Colo
lado and Missouri river flyers after
closing the most successful season yet
experienced. These trains are run, to
accommodate Skinner travel.
Acting Secretary Ryan of the Interi-
or department has approved the selec-
tion OF the Union Pacific Land Com
pany's list No. 81 to 1i4.4lS acres OF
land in the Denver land district
Allen b. Seaman. prominent attor-
rey of Denver. died of heart disease
on the night of Sept. 24th. He went
to bed apparently in his usual health
and was found dead in the morning.
Miss Alfredo Stobbins. late of Lin
coin, Nebraska. has been elected Ii
brarian at Fort Collins. She is an eX-
pcrienced librarian, having taken a
regular course in library work in Phil
adelpEia
| c. w. Wells, engineer in charge OF
the state wagon road to be built from
Durango to ORC Fino, has established
his camp midway between and has been
exploring the section 10 determine
| upon route.
The postofices at Hotchkiss and Pa
onia. Colorado. are among those or
|
tial grade October list, the postmas-
ters salaries being fixed at Sl,lOO and
$1,000 respectively.
BY the caving in of the earthen roof
Of a house eight miles east OF Aguilar,
n short time since Eferino Aguilar,
aged 10, was killed ard six grown peo-
pie more or less injured. The BOY
died from suffoCaton.
The march of improvement at Den
yer has driven the Volunteers OF Amer
lea out of their headquarters on Larl-
mer street. which the owners wish TO
remodel and the Volunteers are now
searching for a new location
In Justice Rubys court at Colorado
Springs, William Roberts was fined 50
and costs on each of three charges OF
selling tobacco to children under six
teen years of age. Roberts pleaded
guilty to all charges and paid total Oh
S33.75.
The Pueblo City Council has voted to
I spend each year an additional Sl,ooO
for the maintenance of the new Carne-
gle library. Carnegie having agreed TO
1 increase his donation of S6O,OoO to S'o,-
600 if the council would make this in
| crease.
The International Onyx and Marble
English capitalists. has purchased the
Big Bug onyx fields for Sl5OOOO. The
| beds are extensive and furnish the
translucent sea-green onyx. They are
, located near Mayer, Arizona.
In the District Court at Durango, on
| September 2lst, Judge Russell SEN
| fenced n negro named Pervis TO not
! less than four nor more than six years
( at hard labor, and Ralph Smalley to
! fourteen to sixteen months for shoot
i ing Ed Lazarus in the ankle.
Rocky Ford is soon to have new
| bank known as the First National
Bank of Rocky Ford. The charter has
been applied for to the Washington
| authorities and the bank will probably
be in operation inside of thirty days
1t will have capital of $4,000.
General Frank d. Baldwin, COM
mander of the Department OF the Col
| orado. has Just returned from attend
| ing a reunion of the Nineteenth Mich
! igan infantry at Otsego, Michigan.
| General Baldwin has been for twenty.
I years president OF the regimental asso-
| citation.
| The registers and receivers at Lead
| VILE and Gunnison have been ordered
| to withdraw from all forms of entry
! the following described lands, on ac-
| count OF irrigation projects: Lead
! ville-Sections 27. rs, 33 and "a, town
! ship II, range SO; Gunnison-Sections
| Z. s. II. is, 10 and 20, township IA
| south range 50; and sections 81 IS,
80 and "a, township IL south, range So
At Leadville a few days ago, In
| quarrei over a matter involving $775,
Joseph Coplin. white, emptied his re-
| volver at John Ragland, colored but
| failed to hit him or any of the people
on the street, who ran in all directions
TO escape the bullets. Ragland had
| Coplin arrested on the charge of as
sault with a deadly weapon, and Cop
! lin swore out a warrant charging the
negro with robbery.
Patents have recently been granted
| to residents OF Colorado as follows:
| Eugene H. Grubb. Carbondale, as
| signor to G.. w Bowen, Pueblo. COM
| bined land roller and corrugator; John
| G. Leyner, Denver, rock drilling sys-
| tenn Harvey C. Lowrie, Denver, means
| for securing circular doors or covers
| to castings; Edmund II. Lunken, Den,
yer, window; Philip X, Morcom and
| w G. Schatfcr. Denver, self-cleaning
| oil burner.
On the night of September goth Oil
| yer Crcswell, clerk in Barnum & Grisl
wold's hardware store at Trinidad, was
awakened by two burglars who had
| broken into the store, where he was
| sleeping. He shot and killed one OF
them with shotgun and wounded thd
other. who escaped. A file and some
steel saws were found on the person
| OF the dead burglar, but he was not
identified.
Moses Il. Kaufman of the large Colo
| rado Springs department store of
| Kaufman & Co, died at the Midland
| hotel in Kansas City. September 23rd.
/ Mr.. kaufman was on his way from
| Colorado Springs to St Joseph. Mis-
| souri,. to look into the affairs of the
| Gazette at that place, in which he was
interested He was taken suddenly i'll
I and stopped off at Kansas City, where
! he speedily grew worse and died as
| stated in the dispatch, of consumption,
A letter from one Of the officials of
| the Colorado. Oklahoma & Texas rail-
road to a friend in Denver gives the in
formation that the offices Of that COM
pany are to be removed to Lawrence