The Springfield herald., 1904-01-22

the entire pump house and engine dis
appeared The well was twelve feet
square and 800 feet deep.
John Peterson was killed and Charles
Benson dangerously injured by an ex-
| plosion OF dynamite which they were
thawing out at the Grant smelter dump
in Denver on the 18th inst.
| j. c. Craig was reelected president
OF the Denver Citizens Alliance at the
recent annual meeting. The Alliance
iias now 5000 working members be-
sides many associate members.
The postoffice at University Park, in
the suburbs of Denver, near the Uni
versity of Denver. has been discontin-
ued and the Park people will hereafter
| get their letters from the Denver office
by carrier.
The second smallest baby born in
this state arrived at the home OF MT.
and Mrs. James w. Graham OF Coal
Creek a few days ago. 1t weighs Just
two pounds. but apparently is strong
and healthy.
John F.. Shafroth, Jr., son of Con-
Eressman Shafroth. is about to enter
the preparatory school of the United
States Naval Academy at Annapolis.
He has been student in the East Den
| Nei HiEh sthool.
| DIR. L. j. Mason, the Denver physi-
clan who was found wandering about
the streets of Julesburg in an uncon-
scious condition last month. was still
unconscious in St. JOseph's hospital at
Denver on the 1lth inst.
Henry Frey. a Denver tailor. likes to
be in jail. Whenever he is discharged
he smashes a window somewhere, SO
us to be sent back His last feat was
to break $3.50 plate glass window In
the Joslin dry goods store.
The Farmer Club of Longmont has
asked the City Council for a franchise
to run the apparatus for an inaepend-
ent telephone company in the streets
of the city. An exchange covering the
city and a large farming territory is
] proposed.
| Arrangements are being made for a
big coyote roundup in the neighbor-
hood of Evans January 27th. II is ex-
| pected that upwards of a thousand peo-
| pie will cover an area of some fifteen
square miles in section where coy
otes abound.
Denver newsboys have several times
assaulted congregations OF the Pente-
costal Union, called Jumpers" The
boys allege that these religionists
prayed for the death OF Policeman As
| kew, who had arrested them, and who
died recently.
| In a quarrel over a question OF rent.
| George A. Morrison, owner of El Jebel
farm, shot and killed Harvey White at
! the ranch owned by Morrison and
leased by White, near Basalt, on the
! llth inst. 1t is reported that White had
| threatened to kill Morrison.
. Jake Zipperian, tried at Durango for
the murder of Matt Luxsinger at Pine
River last November, was found guilty
and sentenced to the penitentiary for
! life. Motion for new trial was de-
MED. Fifty days time was allowed the
defense to file a bill of exceptions.
William A. Ellis, formerly night cap
J tain at the Canon City penitentiary.
1 under Governor James B. Orman's ad-
ministration and recently a member of
/ the fire department at Pueblo, commit
ted suicide by taking carbolic acid at
| Denver rooming house on the 14th
| inst
]. Rogers, who was arrested at Red
| Cliff under the belief that he was
| George Seigrist. wanted in Clear Greek
| county as one of the defendants in the
| Sun and Moon conspiracy case, estab-
| ilished his identity and was discharged
from custody with many apologies for
the mistake.
The Denver Real Estate Exchange
!, has ratified the action OF its advertising
committee in merging the Colorado
Press Bureau of Information with the
newly-formed Colorado Bureau of Pub
| licity which is raising a fund of S25,-
900 to advertise the state at the st
, Louis Exposition.
The supervising architect of the
| Treasury Department expects that the
Denver Mint will be turned over to The
department about July 1st, when the
) present government assay office il
Denver will be moved into it. The
| coinage machinery will be exhibited a
the St Louis Exposition before beint
installed in the mint.
Alexander Bracci, the Italian scuIp
tor who killed John Bogota, bartend
| 'er in front of a Market street saloor
in Denver last November, has been sen
fenced to life Imprisonment. The cas-,
seems to be hard one, as the quarre
appears to have been the result of ;
feud between the inhabitants of two
Italian provinces and Bracci had beer
in Denver but two days
b. Martinez. the Trinidad saloon
keeper, who shot Solomon Alberado
was tried in the District Court ant
acquitted. Six weeks ago Alberad'
went into Martinez saloon and asket
for a drink of whisky. Martinez re
fused the whisky and Alberado said tc
him. Give me drink or shoot me.
Martinez took him at his request ant
picking up revolver. shot Alberad,
between the eyes. Martinez's defens
was that he didn't know that the gul
was loaded. Hence the verdict of th
jury.
r. r. McGregor. for nine years chic
of the Fort Collins Fire Depart ment
has retired from the position and il
succeeded by John Cameron. A valuable
gold watch and chain were presented t.
Mr.. McGregor as a token of the higl
esteem in which he was held by th
members of the department.
Eastern capital has recently iakeI
hold of the Fleming oil prospect. TWEEN
ty-nne miles west of Holyoke. and ha
contracted with Correll & Harris o
| HolNoke to sink this well to n dcptl