The Springfield herald., 1904-09-09
COLORADO NEWS ITEMS

facture OF wire fence at their steel
works at Pueblo.
September 18th will be Colorado
Day at the Worlds Fair In st. Louis.
1t is proposed to give away ten car
loads Of melons.
One hundred thousand brook trout
fry from the state hatcherIes have
ben placed in South Boulder creek
above Rollinsville.
District No. 25 of the United Nine
Workers of America at Kansas City
has voted to give 1000 to the striking
coal miners of Colorado.
The University OF Colorado at Boul-
der will be opened for the next term
September 18th. Registration OF stu
dents begins on the 9th.
George c. Cobb, Confederate vet
eran, who has been In Leadville since
70. and in the county hospital two
symptoms and was ent to the Pueblo
asylum.
BY direction of President Roosevelt.
II. Weiss was appointed receiver of the
land office at Del Norte. vice Percy
Bobkirk. removed on account of physi-
cal disability.
A fine of $50 and imprisonment for
thirty days was the sentence imposed
on a Denver restaurant employe who
trained bulldog to kill cats. He was
prosecuted for cruelty to animals.
Walker Morris. a boy living in Spring
Valley canon, near Aguilar. in Las An
imas county, was dangerously injured
by stroke of lightning August 2Sth,
while riding horse. The horse was in
stantly killed.
c. B. Monroe of Sterling had leg
.roken in the wild horse race at the
Cheyenne Frontier Day celebration, his
lorse running into fence. Even after
ne was hurt he kept the saddle until
the animal stopped bucking.
The arbitrary action of the postofRce
officials at Washington in changing the
name of Canon City TO Canyon City
has occasioned a strong remonstrance
of the part of the municipal officers and
civic organizations Of Canon City.
Harry Devins. a young man seven
teen years Of age. was drowned in
Horse creek about eight miles north
of Sugar City August 9th. He was
watering a horse, when the animal
plunged into the stream with him.
William d. Richardson OF Park City
v.ah, was the only man out of eight
applicants who was successful in Sc
curing an embalmer's license from the
state. as the result of the recent ex-
aminations conducted by the State
Board of Health. Seven failed.
A large number of members Of the
Interparliamentary Arbitration league.
a European organization to prevent
future warfare. which will close its ses.
sion at the Worlds Fair September
14th, are expected to visit Colorado.
arriving in Denver on the 18th inst.
Sheriff o. T. Clark of Las Animas
county has offered a reward of 800
for the arrest of Luz Apodaca. charged
with having murdered Josefa Madrid
at her home near Trinchera Friday
morning, August 18th. A description
of the murderer has been sent in all
directions.
Another cottage is to be built at the
State Industrial School for Girls. The
contract has already been let. 1t will
cost $4,000. The cottage will be large
enough to accommodate about thirty
OF the inmates of the institution and
will be surrounded by beautiful
grounds.
At the recent Denver civil service
examination for patrolmen for the po-
lice force sixty-fve applied. thirty-six
were found to be physically disquali'
fed, twenty-nine took the examination
and nineteen passed. Thirteen took
the examination for sergeant and
eight OF them passed.
The Rev. Kerr B. Tupper of Phila-
delphia, former pastor OF the First
BAPTIST Church at Denver, who has re-
Gently been visiting in Denver. has be-
come much interested in the success OF
the Y. M. C. A. health farm and will
hold meetings in Philadelphia to raise
money for Its support.
George William Veditz, member OF
the faculty of the State School for the
Deaf and Blind at Colorado Springs,
has returned from the Worlds Con-
gress of the Deaf, the largest congress
of the deaf ever held. Professor We
ditz was elected president of the con-
gress and also of the national associa-
ton
At the meeting of the State Board
of Pardons September I'd, although
many applications were presented,
clemency was extended in but one in
stance, that being in the case OF
George N Guercovich, whose sentence
was commuted from five years to three
and one-fourth years. Guercovich was
sentenced from Lake county, Decem.
ber 13, 1901, for burglary and larceny.
After having his arm torn completely
off between the elbow and the shoul'
der by being caught in an elevator F.
E. Nissen, a workman employed in the
factory of the Denver Bar and Office
Fixture Company In Denver, dressed
the injury and walked down three
flights of stairs. When the doctors
performed an operation on his arm al
the hospital he refused to take an
anaesthetic.
]. L. Atkinson, referee in the matter
of the proposed change Of points OF
diversion of water under certain water
rights, which has been pending in Mon.
trose county for the last six months,
has filed his report and findings. He
holds that such changes would be in
furious to other water users along the
Uncompahgre river. The report will
come up for confirmation at the Oc'
tober term of the District Court at
Montrose.
The first run of water from Union
reservoir, situated near Longmont, was
made August Goth. to the entire salts
faction of the state and Greeley engi-
neers and others interested. The res
ervoir has been in process of construc-