The Springfield herald., 1904-07-01
COLORADO NEWS ITEMS

The school census just competed III
Pueblo county shows 1879 persons OF
school age, being 451 less than last
year.
An immense cinnamon bear from
Pagosa Springs Is one of the Colorado
exhibits at the St. Louis Exposition.
Bruin weighs over 800 pounds.
Subscriptions to the Gunnis>n tunnel
have been coming in rapidly and the
full 10000 acres Will, it is confidently
expected, be pledged in few days.
The labor unions of Denver are ar
ranging for picnic on July 3D. for the
leneft of the wives and children of the
deported miners of the Cripple Creek
district.
Strawberries and cream for all and
a free swim in the big pool at the hot
springs were the great attractions at
Glenwood Springs on Strawberry Day,
June 18th.
The heavy rain In Prowers county
on the night of June 21st did consider
able damage to bitches and fumes in
some places, but 1t wet the ground
thoroughly.
The d. & R. C. railway eating house,
round house and machine shop at Sar-
gents, in Saguache county. were burned
June oath. Two locomotives in the ma
chine shop were ruined.
The annual death rate per thousand
for the month of May. as reported by
the State Board of Health was sixteen
ard one-third, or 809 out OF an estl-
mated population of SCI ,136.
A large excursion of Denver printers
with their families and friends visited
the printers home at Colorado Springs
on Sunday the 18th inst. 1t was great
event in the history OF the institution.
The Santa Fe Railway Company is
making plans to relay its tracks be-
tween Pueblo and Florence. The pres
ont f1fty-two--pound rails. laid hfteen
years ago. will be replaced with eighty
five-pound steel rails.
Mrs. A. L. Clark and daughter, Flor
ence, aged sixteen. drove into the Larl-
aer and Weld canal near Fort Collins,
June 23rd, and were both drowned. Mr.
Clark was in Ohio at the time. TWO
children are left motherlcss.
A movement is on foot to hold
northern Colorado fair in Fort Collins
next fall and temporary organization,
of which Professor Carlyle OF the Ag-
ricultural College is president, has
been effected for this purpose.
The saw mill industry has been re-
vived in the vicinity of Monument. Ell
lott and Danks have contract to saw
1,0OO. 900 feet of lumber for the Highly
Mercantile Company. which has bought
several thousand acres of timber.
The report reached Wray June 23rd
that Ira Lamb, ranchman residing
lust over the line in Nebraska. lost
thirty-one head of cattle by lightning
in thunder storm the day before.
From appearances all were killed by
enc bolt.
Russell Boles. convicted of the muir
der of Harold Fridborn at Denver, is
now in the penitentiary. Unless some
outside force interferes or Boles Is re-
prieved or pardoned he is doomed to
remain behind prison bars for the rest
CT his natural life.
Canon City is entering upon street
improvements on a large scale. 1t is
proposed to lay about twenty-five miles
of artificial stone sidewalks. The work
is to be paid for in ten annual Install
ments, bonds bearing five per cent. in
terest being issued on that account.
R. A. Leigh, general superintendent
OF the American Crude Rubber Com
pany. states that work will soon be
commenced on the water power and
factory of the company at Buena Vis-
ta and that he expects to have 100 men
at work in the factory by October LIST.
Requests for the special literature be-
ing issued by the Colorado Promotion
and Publicity Committee in its efforts
to make the resources. attractions and
industries of the Centennial State bet
ter known are being received from all
over the United States, and even from
Europe.
Delos F. Powell cemetery superintend-
ent of Colorado Springs, former
member of the City Council and a
prominent figure in local politics, COM
lnitted suicide at the cemetery June
23rd, rather than face the disgrace re-
sulting from the charge of padding OF
cemetery pay rolls. He shot himself
through the head with revolver
Musser and Toogood. who were re-
Gently sentenced by County Judge Orr
of Ell Paso county to the Golden Re
form School for burglary and forgery,
were returned to Colorado Springs be-
cause they are over the age limit or
sixteen years. Both boys are nineteen
years old. The refusal to accept them
was under an opinion by Attorney Cen
eral Miller.
Bowerman has organized a Chamber
of Commerce with p. E. Snow of Den
yer as its president. Mr.. Snow is a
business man of Bowerman and Den
YER Mayor Thomas ]. Kane is vice
president; E. b. Morris, treasurer; Ar
thur Beymer, secretary. and +. j. Bar
en-, financial secretary An anniversary
celebration is to be heeld in Bowerman
on July 18th. when it will be one year
cid. Reduced rates are being procured
on all railroads.
A. A. Stewart. president of the Tay-
lor Park Railroad Company. when in
Ruena Vista a few days ago, stated that
all arrangements had been made and
that work would be commenced in the
course of a short time. The first work
to be done is the boring of the tunnel
which is to pierce the Continental Di-
vide between st. Elmo and the park.
which will be about 1000 feet long. 1t
is expected to have trains running into
Tin Cup in few months.
Judge Peter l.. Palmer in the District
Court at Denver refused the motion of
The Rocky Mountain News Publishing
Company for a new trial in the suit