The Springfield herald., 1903-10-09
COLORADO BRIEFS.

The Pueblo drug stores have all put
In nickel-in-the-sIot telephones and
the instruments are now devoted more
to business and less to gossip.
A telephone line has been established
from the top of the range on the Moffat
! line to the company's offices In the Ma
jestic building at Denver. The length
4, of the line is sixty miles.
! ID. Fl. Moffat emphatically denies the
! rumOr that his line is In some way to
be connected with the Western Pacific
railway project. He has no thought
of any extension beyond Salt Lake.
Allen B. Seaman, prominent attor-
ney 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.
Edwin ]. Eaton of Colorado Springs
has been appointed by Governor Pea
body as trustee of the State Home
for the Deaf and Blind. He takes the
place OF W. G. Rice, recently deceased.
John Crump. negro who claimed to
be 104 years old, died at the Denver
county poor farm and was buried un-
der the auspices of the G. A. r.. Octo-
ber list. He was in the service at Mo-
bile
Miss Alfredo Stebbins. late of Linz
coin. Nebraska, has been elected Ii
brarian at Fort Collins. She is an ex-
perienced librarian. having taken
regular course in library work In Phil
adelphia.
BY the caving in of the earthen roof
OF house eight miles east of Aguilar.
a short time since, Elferino Aguilar.
aged Is, was killed and six grown peo-
NIL ;,,i, Thn
died from suffocation.
A commission appointed by Mayor
Wright Is at work in Denver investi-
eating titles to land along Cherry
creek. 1t is proposed to wall the banks
least one of the walls.
Mrs. Samuel e. Ward of Boston, died
at the home of her sister, Mrs. r. II.
Wh.lely. in Boulder. September 3Oth
Mrs. Ward. formerly Miss Lillian Ty-
Ter, was the first woman graduate of
the University of Colorado.
C. M. Bader. formerly an oil pro-
moter and real estate man. was de-
clared insane by a jury In the County
Court at Boulder, October I'd. At times
Bader has been SO irrational as to
threaten to shoot people.
William F.. Wallace and Lawrence
P. Korr have been appointed
rural letter carriers at Rocky Ford,
Colorado. to begin service November
I'd. and Mabel Wallace and Jennie
Korr are named as substitutes.
During the month of August twenty
three men were enlisted for the regu-
lar army in Denver and seventy-six
rejected At Pueblo eight were en-
listed and forty-two rejected. and at
Trinidad three were enlisted and
twenty-three rejected.
James Hugo, foreman of the Mar
tells & Mcdonald gang of graders on
the Moffat road, while at work about
six miles northwest of Marshall, Sep
tember Both, was killed by falling
rock from blast. having failed to go
far enough away for safety.
The Live Stock Company, a corpo-
ration, has sold its ranch lands, six
miles northwest of Fort Collins, to S.
H. Clammer and John Schwartz. The
total embraces 1920 acres of pasture.
meadow and cultivated land, carrying
water rights for all the meadow and
cultivated land.
Word was received few days ago
at the Denver office of the Santa Fe
Zine that four new 143-ton engines were
tween Denver and Palmer Lake. The
new engines will pull seven coaches
up the grade there at the rate Of fly
miles an hour.
Loveland calls attention to the fkct
that the foundations are being laid for
two large business blocks, new
church building and $1,000 residence
within the radius of less than two
blocks. The old town hall is being
torn down and plans are being pre-
pared for new one.
The Democratic judicial district con-
vention at Colorado Springs nominated
c. L. Mckesson for district judge by
acclamation and unanimously adopted
the report of the committee on resolu-
tions condemning Governor Peabody
for his action in sending the troops to
the Cripple Creek district.
Ray r. Jackson, employed in the
wire mill of the C. F. & l. company
at Pueblo, died September 29th. on his
nineteenth birthday, of injuries re-
ceived by contact with the machinery.
He was a graduate of the Colorado
Springs high school, his father being j.
M. Jackson, former treasurer Of Ell
Paso county.
Father j. II. Malone left Denver Oc-
toDer "a on trip OF lnVeSuSatlOn IN
the different penal and charitable insti-
tutions of the state. Father Malone is
a member of che State Board of Char
tiles and Correction, and it is in con-
nection with this that he makes the
trip He arranged to visit the state
penitentiary, the state reformatories
and the insane asylum before return
ing.
The following well-known men of
Colorado Springs have been appointed
appraisers by Judge j. A. Elstun to
determine valuations in the Stratton
estate. E. l., Della Vergne and Ed
ward Samuel Johnson for the mines
for real estate, Charles T. Fritz and l..
c, Perkins; street railway, w. A. Otis
Philip Benjamin Stewart; household
goods, ]. l. Franklin and c. w. Fair
ley.
Union Depot Agent Carroll at Greeley
says that at least 5000 cars will be re-
quired this season to move the potato
crop of the Greeley district, the princi-
pal shipping points being Greeley, Eat
on and Windsor. Thirty carloads per
day can be loaded at Greeley for the
next three weeks. and after that fifty
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