The Springfield herald., 1904-04-29
COLORADO NEWS ITEMS

| The Colorado Telephone Company
has completed extensive improvements
1t La Junta.
Kiowa county is u nave hand
some new court house, two stories in
height and constructed of pressed
brick.
' Leonard Cutshaw. well-known
Denver architect and engineer and
prominent Grand Army man. died at
Denver April 22d at the age of sixty
one years. :
Thomas Hamilton, aged seventy-six,
locomotive engineer who had lived
in the county for twenty-five years,
dropped dead IN Pueblo April 18th OF
heart failure.
! "Shanty," a handsome Irish setter,
fell 100 feet down the shaft of the Gold
King mine, in the Cripple Creek dis
trict. a few days ago, and still lives, not
exactly to tell the tale but to wag the
tail.
The Rev. George Edward Young
dahl, pastor of the Swedish Evangeli-
cal Lutheren Church of Colorado
Springs. and president of the Colorado
Luther league, died of consumption on
the 18th inst.
| Bert Keller was accidentally wound
ed near Lake Minnequa at Pueblo on
the 10th inst, by a stot from gun IN
the hands of man who was shooting
at pelicans, and who was mile away
from where Kellar stood.
The principal business of the Colo
| rado Springs Police Court appears to
be fining Otto Fehringer for infraction
of the law in regard to selling liquor.
by druggists. Mr.. Fehringer makes it
hi f,,,,t TO
1t is believed in Boston that DR.. w.
F. Mcdowell. former chancellor of the
University of Denver. will be elected
bishop at the Methodist conference in
Los Angeles next month. He is re-
garded as one of the best speakers in
the church.
Trembling and on the verge OF col
lapse Seymour B. Wacaster, who shot
and killed his young wife at the Glen,
arm hotel April 7th, pleaded not guilty
when arraigned before Judge Carpen-
ter in the West Side Court at Denver.
I.ne trial was set for May 18th.
Judge b. B. Lindsey who conducts
the Denver juvenile court. has con-
ferred with Mr.. C. S. Morey in regard
to the work for boys in the beet fields.
Mr.. Morey, as president of the Great
Western Sugar Company promised to
do all he could to help place the boys.
State Live Stock Inspector Lebbey
and NJ. S. Tillery and T. W. Monnell.
president and secretary respectively
of the Western Slope Cattle Growers
Association, have completed an exam
ination of the stock of Montrose coun-
ty and report that it is in excellent
condition.
The Colorado Promotion and Pub
licity committee seems to be meeting
with good success in collecting fund
TO advertise the state. Greeley and
Cripple Creek are recent liberal con-
tributors. Colorado Outdoor Life"
and Mineral Resources" are being
sent out in large numbers.
Bishop Henry w. Warren sailed
from France April 10th for New York
on his way home from visit to
China, Japan, India. Korea and the
Philippines. He expected to arrive in
Denver April 9th and will go on from
Denver to California to preside at the
Methodist conference in Los Angeles.
The United States Court at Pueblo
adjourned April 21st and will meet
again about October 10th by special cr-
der, as Congress provides for but one
session annually in Pueblo. a number
of criminal cases are carried over from
this term and several indictments by
the grand jury did not receive the at
tention of the court.
Active steps are being taken at Pu-
eblo to locate the parties who have
sent Police Matron Hoover several
threatening letters. The letters re-
ceived were unsigned. and threatened
Mrs. Hoover with death of she at
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conducting Of dances at the Board of
Trade hall.
The News-Dispatch of Leadville sus-
pended It's daily publication April 18th.
announcing that only the Sunday
morning edition would be issued for
the next thirty days. pending changes
in the plant The Herald-Democrat ex-
presses its belief that the suspension
of the last daily rival of its two edi-
tions, the Herald-Democrat and Chron-
icle. will be permanent.
Mrs. Minnie Sterrett. mother of
Harry Sterrett. who was injured on
Stratton's Independence, limited, last
January, has sued the company for
$4,000. There is hardly another case
on record where person received
such numerous and serious injuries
and lived to tell it. as Sterrett. He
was buried under mass of rock and
dirt and received injuries from his
I head to his feet.
\ Oil has been struck at depth Of
twenty feet in lot at the corner OF
First and Washington street. Colorado
City, and if expert analysis warrants.
shafts will be sunk by adjoining prop
erty owners. Adam Geiger and George
and Tony Michaels, Colorado City resi-
dents. are engaged in the erection of a
SIS, 900 ice house, and while drilling for
water to supply the plant. struck oil
in such quantities that the water is un-
| fit for use.
| Fire destroyed the Rio Grande
bridge across the Uncompahgre river
at Colona April 18th. The structure
was 200 feet long and the loss amounts
| to $4,000. Sparks from the engine of
| a freight train are thought to have
| started the fire. AS the bridge was
ruined the Ouray. Telluride and San
Juan districts we're cut off from access
by rail awaiting its repair. Passen-
gers could only be transferred by de-
, tour of about mile and half.
The Standard Milling Company has
| heap incOrDOrated with q Capital stock