The Springfield herald., 1904-09-30
COLORADO NEWS ITEMS

has secured contract to equip
smelter in Japan.
At Golden, September 21st, Earle
Peck, aged twenty-three years. was in
stantly killed in runaway accident.
Pumpkin Pie Day will be celebrated
this year at Longmont. October 18th
and 14th. There will also be races by
the Longmont Driving Association.
When the sheriff of Weld county
catches a tramp. he sets him at work
on the county road. Six in one day
were sentenced to seventeen days
work each.
The law school of the University OF
Denver has established department,
or dispensary. where people too poor
to pay attorneys fees can obtain le-
gal advice free.
Six freshmen of Colorado College at
Colorado Springs, were recently CON
victed In the Police Court of an at
tempt to rush sophomore party and
fined IS and costs each for assault.
The officers of the American Mining
Congress. which at the recent meeting
in Portland, Oregon. voted to estab'
lish permanent headquarters in Denver
will be located in the Denver Chamber
of Commerce building.
The firm of Orman & Crook. OF Pu-
eblo, has been awarded a big contract
on the new Gunnison tunnel project.
The contract was let In nine sections
and the Pueblo firm has secured three
of these.
George Hit and Harvey Beaumont,
two Of the eight prisoners who escaped
from the county Jail at Trinidad Sep
tember 18th, were recaptured on the
goth at Clayton, New Mexico. by Dep
uty Sheriff Wootton.
Mrs. r. A. Curtis, aged sixty years.
was struck by Midland engine at
| Victor September Gath and almost in
stantly killed. She was walking on
| the track in cut where the road
curved. Mrs. Curtis had family of
nine children.
At the recent convention of the
United Brotherhood of Carpenters and
Joiners in Milwaukee, a resolution was
passed requesting the executive board
to investigate the matter OF establish
ing a home at Denver and report at the
next biennial convention.
The widows and children of the Den
yer firemen who died, or may die, from
the effects OF their exposure to the
fumes of nitric acid at the fire in the
rooms of the Denver Post, will receive
pensions from the city. The pension
is one-half the amount of the f1remans
pay for the widow and ten per cent.
for each child under fifteen years of
age.
| There are three outfits of men pros
pecting for coal in the fields south OF
Durango between the La Plata and San
Juan rivers. One outfit numbering
about forty men is supposed to be en-
| IcIo
about the same size is said to be work
ing for the Colorado Fuel and Iron
Company A third company has about
twenty men at work.
! Orman & Crook have been awarded
the contract for grading the roadbed
of the Moffat line from Arrowhead to
Hot Sulphur Springs, a distance of
about twenty-three and one-half miles.
The cost will be about 100000. About
| 500 men will be put to work immedi-
ately. Chief Engineer Sumner thinks
the grading will be completed long be-
for the time limit, next June 1st.
The Denver, Northwestern and Pa
cific railroad (the new "Moffat Short
Line'O, from Denver: Colorado, to Salt
Lake City, Utah, will construct its own
telegraph line, and thus be independ'
ent of the telegraph companies. Later
contracts probably will be entered
into with one of the big companies for
service, and the cost of construction
assessed against the company receiv-
ing the contract.
Steps have been taken to annex the
National Union Printers Home, near
Colorado Springs, to the city. This
will be an advantage TO both the in
stitution and the municipality. The
trustees of the home have accepted
plans for the Cummings Memorial Lii
/ brary and work will begin on the
structure as soon as the remaining
$4,000 necessary to complete the
building fund is secured.
Fifteen days which Judge Lewis of
the District Court at Colorado Springs
granted to counsel for Patrick Coyne
/ in order that writ of supersedeas
might be secured from the Supreme
Court having elapsed, he was taken
back to Canon City by Sheriff Grimes
under a writ of mittimus issued by the
|, court and must serve the life sentence
\ imposed by Judge Lewis for completely
y in the murder of Policeman Bish eight
years ago.
Sheriff Edward Bell of Teller county
returned to Cripple Creek September
cath from his visit to Topeka, Kansas,
WlGre ne went 10 investigate Aie al
legged confession of Robert Romaine.
Mr.. Bell returned satisfied that the
confession is fake. The sheriff is of
the opinion that Romaine made the
confession in order to escape the
charge now hanging over him at To
peka, believing that when brought
back he could prove an alibi and get
clear.
The Boulder correspondent of the
Denver Republican says: For several
nights the residents in the west end
of town near Sixth and Hill streets,
have been awakened by some wild ami
NAL The sound reused people from
their sleep, and some of them thought
1t was the cry of some person in dis
tress. The prevailing opinion is that
lynx or wildcat, which makes its
home in the mountains. comes into
| town at night and serenades the peo-
| pie of the west end.
Seven men escaped from the county
| Jail at Trinidad shortly after l o'clock
on the morning of the 18th. Charles
Halles and James Hasty were soon re-
captured and are again behind the
bars. All efforts for the immediate