The Springfield herald., 1904-12-16
COLORADO NEWS ITEMS

30th Otero county spent $3,S23.5O in
caring for its poor
Lester Mclean, n prominent Den
yer lawyer, died suddenly on the night
! of December 4th of heart disease.
Manual training departments are be-
inb established In many of the larger
district schools throughout the state.
There Is a serious egg famine in the
| Denver market and eggs have been re-
failing at thirty-flve to forty cents
| dozen.
President Theodore Roosevelt car
ried the state of Colorado by a plural
| ity of 34.5S2 votes. Four years ago
Bryan carried the state by 30,694.
The Colorado & Northwestern is al
most into Eldora. and it is officially
announced that the road will be COM
pleted and trains running to Eldora by
Christmas day.
Edward f. Gilman, superintendent
of the Silverton railroad, stated while
in Denver recently that the road
would be built over to Ouray during
the coming year.
The school at Marshall in Boulder
county, has been closed because of the
prevalence of diphtheria. Marshall is
a coal mining camp and is inhabited
mostly by Italians.
John Hipp. state chairman of the
Prohibition party, was somewhat badly
injured on the 7th inst. at his home
in Denver by falling through trap
doorway into the cellar.
Four thousand one hundred men are
now employed in the Minnequa steel
works at Pueblo, and the force will
probably be increased to 1000 or more
during the next six months.
President Slocum and the trustees
of Colorado College at Colorado
Springs are starting movement by
which they hope to secure an endow-
ment of 100000 for the college.
A movement has been started in
| Denver to arrange for an extensive
display of electrical appliances dur
ing the convention of the National
Electric Light Association in June.
1t is stated at Pueblo that John D..
| ID. Rockefeller intends to build homes
in the Lake Minnequa reservation for
the steel workers, of whom there will
be a large influx within the next six
months.
The First National bank of Arvada.
Colorado, has been authorized to begin
business. with $4,000 as capital.
George c. Swadley is president, A. IL.
Barth vice-president and d. H. Staley
cashier
The United States Weather Bureau
in Denver is to be the central point
of river and flood signal service,
which will be established in New
Mexico, western Texas and southeast
ern Colorado.
The following new postmasters have
! in, nj In
Montezuma county, Henry Wagner.
vice ]. r. Millspaugh, resigned; Mesa
Mesa county, Lee l.. Prewitt, vice 7. I.
| Carr, removed.
w. W. Womack, aged fifty-nine
years, was seriously injured in an acci-
dent while at work in the Valley Forge
mine near Salina in Boulder county a
few days ago. A piece of rock fell and
fractured his skull.
| In quarrel over the sale Of some
chickens, which took place on the road
near Littleton, December 9th, Simon
Miller was fatally stabbed by Elmer
| Cobb. The affray took place just in
| the edge of Jefferson county and Cobb
was taken to the Jail at Golden.
1t is claimed that one million pieces
of mail matter each telling about Colo
RADIO and Denver, will be sent out to
| boom the convention of the National
Electric Light Association, which will
be held in Denver in June. Excursions
| will be run to different parts of the
state.
Judge Lindsey of Denver has re-
ceived personal letter from Presi-
| dent Roosevelt. commencing the work
of the Denver Juvenile Court and ask
ing him to come to Washington and
deliver an address on the. work accom-
| plished by the court among the boys of
Denver.
Francis Droney, who was elected
city clerk of Salida fifteen years ago
and had served the city in that capac-
ity continuously since that time, pre-
sented his resignation to the council
few days ago. He was forced to re-
sign on account of i'll health and will
so to California to recuperate.
| The sugar company now running a
beet road from the Colorado & South
ern track to the new town of Johns
town, east of Berthoud, has begun
work on an extension of the road from
Johnstown to point on the Colorado
& Southern about five miles north of
Longmont, thus completing a loop for
| the road.
systematic pan Will De put Ill Op-
| GRAFTON by the Board of Charities and
| Corrections of Denver county TO re-
lieve the congested condition of the
county poor farm. Nearly 200 pa
tients are there nov. Many of them
have been sent in from Pueblo, Gilpin
and other counties for care, and these
will be sent back.
Fire on the night of December 9th
destroyed the engine house at the No.
3 shaft of the Matchless mine at Lead
vile, causing loss of about $4,000.
The Matchless is one of the bonanza
mines from which the late Senator
| Tabor obtained his millions. The
Matchless No. 5, where the fire oc-
Cured is being operated under lease
by his widow.
The town council of Glenwood
Springs has set January 10th as the
date for the special town election on
the question of renewal of the light
and water franchises of the Glenwood
Light and Water Company. which ex
pires in July. 1907 The question, as
| submitted will be on twenty-year
renewal of water and five-year renewal
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