The Springfield herald., 1904-06-03
COLORADO NEWS ITEMS

Land Office at salary of 81 200.
Judge Alvin Marsh. who was striken
with apoplexy few days before, died
n. the Homeopathic hospital in Denver
May Gath.
The Salida City Council has author
izer the issuance OF $4,000 in bonds Tor
the purpose of building new city res
ervoir and otherwise improving the
water service.
Harry c. Dunlap. rural letter carrier
at Arloa, MonteZuma county. Is IN the
county jail at Denver. charged with ap-
propriating $40 given him to be sent
by money order.
The Denver School Board has decid-
ed to erect new manual training
high school, the present high school
buildings being insufficient to accom-
modate all the students.
Dan Collins, who held up Pueblo
lawyer. II. E. Robinson, and robbed
him of $40 and gold watch. has been
sentenced by Judge Dixon to fourteen
years in the state penitentiary.
On May 25th the state engineer re-
ported that all the irrigation di.ches
connected with the Platte rivar. includ-
ing the Burlington and High Line, were
full of water for the first time within a
year.
Two men stopped the assistant city
physician in Pueblo a few nights ago
and were about to rob him, but when
he told them he was a doctor hurrying
to visit patient they politely let him
goon.
The cornerstone of the new Carnegie
library at Idaho Springs was laid May
25th, with Masonic ceremonies. An ad-
dress was delivered by Superintendent
Aaron Cove of the Denver public
schools.
The school census of Greeley. just
completed shows 1.673 persons between
the ages of six and twenty-one years,
being gain of 243 over last year
There are thirty one more girls than
boys.
+. H. Carr who with John Mulvihill
built the Carr hotel and corral in Den
yer in the early days of the city. died
at Longmont May 2lst aged seventy
nine years His wife, aged iifty-hve,
died the same day.
e. W. Rollins of Denver offers to be
one of seventy-fve persons to give
$1,000 each for the purchase of suit
able site for the new Denver auditorl-
um for which the people have Just Vot-
ed to expend 100000.
Charles De Moll has filed direct
information in the District Court at
Pueblo charging o. Pagnini and Paul
Gregory, formerly Denver deputy
sheriff and now a ranchman at La
Sale. with assault to kill.
Claude b. Lyte. for the past ten
months an employe of the Hefey-
Acularius Drug Company of Colorado
Springs, has been arrested on charge
of Systematically robbing the firm. 1t
is thought that he has stolen nearly
$4,000 worth of druggists supplies.
A special election will be held at
Fort Collins June 9th to vote on the
question of granting a franchise for
gas works. The the privilege is voted
Mr.. Frank English of Boulder. who pro-
poses to build the works, agrees to
complete the plant within two years.
The plaster factory at the cement
works, at Portland. near Florence, Will
be started up soon. after an idleness
of some duration. Tha Santa Fe road
has completed spur from the gypsum
beds to the factory. which insures
easy transportation of the product.
Incorporation papers for the Colo
RADIO Rubber and Improvement Com
pany. capitalized at $4,000. main, of
with the county clerk of Chaffee coun-
ty. 1t is the intention OF the company
to begin producing rubber by the first
of July.
The first municipal election OF
Bowerman. held May cath, resulted in
the election of the Citizens ticket. the
following named being the first OFF,
cials: Thomas ]. Kane. mayor; j. w.
White, f. o. McFall. Andrew Short.
Bert Beymer, John Chapman and A. F.
Dukeman. trustees.
A st. Louis dispatch of May 21st
says: Blowing out the gas resulted in
Charles Kimber of Louisville, Colorado
being found unconscious and almost as
phyxiated in his room here to-day. He
stated that he was unacquainted with
gas and blew out the flame OF the jet
upon retiring. He will recover.
The Fort Collins City Council has ap-
proved of an ordinance granting an
electric railway franchise to the North
ern Colorado Electric Railway Com
pany. The ordinance provides that
construction work on the line or lines
must be commenced within one year
and the railway completed within two
years.
Colorado College at Colorado Springs
young men and women this year. Great
preparations are being made for the
commencement exercises. which will
begin June 5th and last for three days.
Hon. Charles ]. Hughes, Jr.. of Denver,
will deliver the commencement address
June Srh.
Friday, May 9th. was commence
ment day in many of the high schools
of the state. Tt Fort Collins there were
eighteen graduates; at Grand junction,
nine: at the high school department of
the State Normal School at Greeley,
thirty-seven; at La Junta. thirty-six;
at Idaho Springs, eleven; at Aspen,
ten; at Glenwood Springs. four.
The Poncha hot springs, six miles
west of Salida, have been leased to e.
G. Holeman by the Poncha Hot Springs
Company. Mr.. Holeman will improve
the grounds and open summer resort
He will also supply Salida with mineral
water from the springs. By a recent
scientific test this water was declared
to be equal to that of the famous hot
spring of Arkansas.
A. F. Meyers has been awarded
contract to build a wagon road from