The Springfield herald., 1904-05-27
COLORADO NEWS ITEMS

tentluTy III canon Clty.
The Denver High School Cadets will
hold their summer encampment at
Crystal Lake in the Platte canoI.
Professor w. l.. Carlyle of the Agri-
cultural College has been appointed
deputy stock inspector at Fort Collins.
Tho annual convention OF the Colo
rado State Realty Association will be
held In Denver on June 7th and 8th.
Rural free delivery service has been
ordered established June 18th at Car
bondale, Garfield county, with one car
rier.
The officers of the Western Fedora.
tion of Miners are making arrange.
ments for representation of 300 un-
ions at the convention in Denver May
29th.
Mrs. Martha Taft, member of the
governing board of the Industrial
School for Girls at Morrison, has been
appointed president of the institution
by the board.
Edward r. Scott has been arrested
in Denver for forging passes on the
Denver & Rio Grande railroad. He is
said to have had large number OF
blank forms printed.
Hearing on the claim of Leslie w.
Popejoy for $S,000000 of the estate OF
w. S. Stratton was brought up in the
County Court at Colorado Springs and
continued until June 18th.
Steps are being taken at Durango to
annex Brookside, a suburb between the
town and Animas City. With the rapid
growth of the town. Animas City will
naturally come in soon.
On May 18th the people of Morrison
in Jefferson county voted by MAORI
ty of 76 to incorporate the town. A
protest was entered by several persons
i'll the County Court contesting the le-
gality of the proceedings.
George o. Beal committed suicide at
Colorado Springs on the 18th inst, by
taking carbolic acid He was only
twenty-four years of age, but had re-
Gently been in financial difficulties and
was separated from his wife.
Fifty Colorado Springs high school
cadets will attend the annual encamp-
ment, presumably at Palmer Lake,
from June 4th to 14th. The boys viii.
go in special train and have secured
equipment from the state armory at
Denver.
Judge Frost of the County Court at
Cripple Creek is planning to send all
boys who desire employment during
the summer vacation to Rocky Ford to
work in the beet, watermelon and can't
aloupe fields. 1t is thought that from
so to 100 boys will go.
Bert Melen. the bank teller, who
was recently sent to the state peniten-
tiary from Denver is now Deputy War
den Granger's clerk. His duties are
typewriting making out the reports
of the deputy. answering telephone
calls and acting as messenger.
According to letter received by
Walter C. Smith of Colorado Springs
from Superintendent Baker of the Ma
tional Geological park at Washington,
d. c., the golden eagle sent there by
the former has grown to be one of the
finest eagles in the cage. Young Smith
caught the eagle in a scrub pine on a
cliff in North Cheyenne canon and sent
it to the Smithsonian Institution.
Judge John l. Mullins of the District
Court in Denver has had Crawford
Hill, president, and William Stapleton,
editor, OF the Denver Republican, ar
rested for contempt of court in
printing statement which says:
"The Supreme Court assumes jurisdic-
ton. and no tool Judge on the District
Court bench can hereafter interfere in
behalf of the election thieves"
A. C. Giller, T. P. Jackson and P. F.
Kaiser. three well known railroad men,
were drowned on the night of May 18th
in Owens Lake near Boulder by the
upsetting of a boat from which they
were fishing. Mr.. Giller, who was with
the Rough Riders in Cuba, leaves
wife and one child. 7. P. Jackson
leaves wife and grown son. 7. P.
Kaiser leaves a wife and three chill
dren.
Thomas Tobin, noted scout and In
dian fighter of the early days of Colo
rado died at Fort Garland, few days
ago at the age of eighty-seven. He
srent the declining years of his life on
his farm four miles from Fort Gar
lend, where his children were born.
They are Mrs. Breen of Silverton, Mrs
William Carson of Fort Garland, who
married Kit Carson's eldest son; Mrs.
Newton of Alamosa, and John Tobin of
San Luis valley, who has been blind
for some time.
During the year ending the first of
May, buildings to the value Of $353,3OO
We're erected or put in process of con-
struction at Greeley. The public build
ings and business houses erected, and
their cost, are as follows: West wing
State Normal School, $4,000; new
grade school, $4,000; Wolf building,
$4,000; Hawes building. $4,000; Will
liams block. $4,000; Sutor building,
$1,000; Greeley hospital. $4,000; Weld
county, $4,000; Willis Hill building,
s3,5O0; Potter building, $1,000.
The board of control will send a
track team from the University of Col
.orado to St Louis to compete in the
Junior A. A. U. contest on June 3rd,
senior contest on June 4th, and the in
Intercollegiate meet of western colleges
on June 11th. On account of thesis
work Captain Bell will be unable to go
The team will probably be composed of
Johnson, Kingsbury, Fowler, Pratt,
Ourand, Law Jordan and Welch.
Coach Cropp will have charge of the
team and Manager Fry will accompany
the boys.
The State Epworth League conven-
ton will be held at Golden June 9th
to 18th. Some of the leaders of the
Epworth League who are expected to
be present and address the convention
are Bishop Moore, just back from Chi