The Springfield herald., 1904-02-19
COLORADO BRIEFS.


appointed chief engineer of the Great
Arrowhead Reservoir Company in Cali
fornia.
So far as has been reported no in
surance companies doing business in
Colorado have been crippled by the
Baltimore fire.
4he loss of many valuable dogs in
Grand Junction by poisoning has in
uuced the mayor and the Humane So
ciety to offer rewards for the detection
of the poisoner.
II is estimated that japanese to the
number OF 200 or more have been re-
called from different points in Colorado
to join the army of Japan in its cam
paign against Russia.
City Physician c. F. Taylor of Pu-
eblo has discovered typhoid fever
germs in the water of the Arkansas
river and advises consumers to boil the
water before drinking it.
John II. Howry OF Logan has pre-
senteu to the Denver Park Commission
for City Park, a pair of prairie hawks,
a rare type of bird, the nearest to the
falcon family to be found in the West.
Erskine Mcclellan, one of the Oldest
pioneers of Clear Creek county. died
at Georgetown on the 10th inst. at the
age OF eightyfour years. He was for
merly proprietor of Mcclellan Opera
house.
'-he Colorado promotion and pub
licity committee Is now installed in its
new headquarters at Sl3 Seventeenth
street. Denver. where Secretary Thorn
as ID. Parker is already beginning to
send out advertising literature.
The Longmont sugar factory sliced
the last beet of the season on the morn
ing of the 18th inst. Work began De-
cember 18th and $4,000 tons of beets
were made into about $1,000 sacks of
sugar.
NJ. Goldberg, an orthodox Jew, died
at Denver February 18th at the age OF
ninety years. He was the father of
six sons and three daughters, having
eighty grandchildren. $50 great-grand-
children and one great-great-g grand
child
DR.. Charles O. Rice of Pueblo. who
was acquitted of the murder of Police
man Marts on the plea of insanity and
afterward confined at the Woodcraft
Sanitarium. has been given into the
custody of his wife to be removed to
lower altitude.
The effort to incorporate saloon
sugar factory has failed, not enough
names having been signed to the petit
ton. The proposed town was to have
been called Buckingham. so much
for Buckingham.
Jesse H. Hall, well known Boulder
valley farmer and veteran of the Civil
War. died at Boulder on the 10th inst.
at the age of sixty-six, leaving wild
ow. He was the father of Professor
Horace Hall of Boulder and Mrs f. Y.
Moseley of Loveand.
John Near. one of the pioneer resi-
dents of Ruena Vista and Chaffee coun-
ty, died at Buena Vista on the 10th inst
at the age of siXty-four. Mr.. Near
served as deputy sheriff for several
years and was prominently connected
win the county seat war in 1880.
A post mortem examination held on
the body of Walter S. Noltie, the Den
yer boy who died in Hamilton, Ohio.
February Sd, gives the cause of the
death as heart failure brought on by
the excessive use of cigarettes. 1t was
first reported as case of suicide by
carbolic acid,
State Superintendent of instruction
Mrs. Helen NJ. Grenfell has accepted an
invitation to attend the convention of
the National Association at Atlanta.
Georgia, which convenes in that city
in March. She will deliver an address
on Increasing the Efficiency of the
Rural Schools
Dale Cleaves, eleven years old, who
is sem-imbecile and has been confined
in the insane ward of the county hos
pital at Denver since September 4, 1902.
will be sent to the private asylum of
nr of
teacher provided for him at the expense
of the state under the provisions of tho
law of 1901.
Harry Davies. the Denver snake deal
er. says that the snake crop in Colo
RADIO last year was far below the aver
age, owing TO the late spring and early
fall, which kept the ground cold and
prevented many of the snakes from
coming out of their holes at all. He
expects to see them all out this year il
the season is hot.
The city engineer of Colorado
Springs estimates the amount of water
taken from reservoir No. S by the city
of Victor some weeks ago at 234, ,O5O,OOO
gallons 1t is understood that damages
will be demanded at the rate of seven
cents per thousand gallons. This
amount. added to the damages to tho
dam and values, will bring the Springs
demand to approximately 100000.
A verdict of not guilty in the sec
ond charge of assault with intent 10
kill preferred against John M. Glover
was ordered by Judge Lewis at Grip.
pic Creek without the jury leaving
their seats. The plea of Glovers at:
torney Mr.. Hangs, that the two caseI
were Identical and that he would thus
be placed in jeopardy twice for the
same offense contrary to the statutes,
was sustained by the court.
Robert c. Mccartney, former post
master at Silverton, and one of the
best known and most prominent mill
men in the San Juan district. died a;
the Silver Lakes mill, two miles above
Silverton. February 9th. from sudden
hemorrhage of the lungs. He had been
suffering for several days with la gripo
but had been attending to his duties es
superintendent of the Silver Lakes
Mines Company's mill. Mrs. Matilda
Mccartney his wife, is postmistress at
Silverton.
All cases against officers of the Ma
tional Guard of Colorado, brought by
the Western Federation of Miners, that