The Springfield herald., 1905-02-24
COLORADO NEWS ITEMS

On lue fdTulnSlON TallrOau SOuLn Ol
Durango.
The Rio Grande railroad paid over
$5000O to its employees at Pueblo on
its last monthly pay day, February
Ilth.
The Pixies peak climbing contest for
automobiles next August is attracting
a good deal of attention all over the
country.
Isaac Rosskam. who died at Phlla-
delphia recently. left $4,000 for the Ma
tional Jewish Hospital for Consump-
tives at Denver.
The annual exhibition of the Colo
rado Kennel Club will be held at
Denver March I'd to 4th. Some IA
nous dogs will be shown.
William +. Jones, auditor of the Mof
fat road, who has recently returned
from the East. states positively that
the road has not been sold,
1t is said that creamery men
throughout the state propose to take
active steps to enforce the law in re-
lation to oleomargarlne and butterine.
The name, San Cristobal," as ap-
piled to a body of water in Hinsdale
county. has received the approval OF
the United States Board on Geograph-
ical Names.
Chris Laib Of Longmont was badly
frozen while trying to walk from Ned
erland to Caribou on the 18th inst, and
it may be necessary to amputate some
of his limbs.
A. NJ. Stevenson. Republican ma
tional committeeman from Colorado,
has been notified that he has been ap-
pointed member of the presidential
inaugural reception committee.
J. c. Boosinger. the Pueblo engin'
eer who was injured in n Denver &
Rio Grande collision near Portland,
in Fremont county, some months since.
died in the Salida hospital on the 18th
inst.
Engineer Sullivan of the Colorado e
Southern, in charge Of engine 425, was
badly scalded at Loveland on the 18th
inst. by the loosening of rivet in the
boiler. He was taken to the Loyeland
hospital.
Numerous robins and meadow larks
made their appearance in many parts
of Colorado previous to the recent ex-
tremely cold weather and it is feared
that some of them may have been
killed by 1t.
Oscar C. Reitze. former president of
the Reitze Wall Paper and Paint Com
pany at Denver, committed suicide by
shooting himself through the head in
his room at the Baltimore hotel at Vic
tor FEBRUARY 18th.
Mrs. Jennie Peabody, widow of the
late Jesse Peabody, and sister-in-law
of Gov. James II. Peabody. died at her
home in Canon City February nth,
eight days after having suffered a
stroke of paralysis.
The late F. A. FalkenburG will be
succeeded as head consul of the Wood
men of the World by John II. Foley,
head adviser of the order, until meet
ing of the head board of managers
can be held to make a permanent Sc
lection.
Mrs. Elizabeth Sopris, widow Of
Richard Sopris, former mayor of Den
yer. celebrated her 90th birthday ami
versary at Denver on the 18th inst.
Richard Sopris. was the first represen-
tative of the pixies Peak country" il
the Kansas Legislature.
Fifty-fve carloads of lambs, num-
bering 1900 head, left the depot at
Greeley for Omaha, St. Joseph and
Chicago February 10th. 1t is estimated
that about one-half of the sheep being
fattened for market in northern Colo
rado have been sold.
Tine application of Morton Jones of
Denver J. NJ. Herbert, A. c. Foster,
NJ. Y. Osborn, j. j. Meade and l.. L.
Fauver, to organize the First National
Bank of Loveland, Colorado, with $780,
900 capital, has been approved by the
comptroller of the currency.
Miss Margaret Prendergast, first as
sistant in the Department of Domestic
Art at the Colorado Agricultural Col
lege has ben elected to the professor
ship of domestic science and art at the
Wyoming Agricultural College and will
begin her duties there next Septem-
ger.
The trial of Charles Wynn, alleged
to be Wellington Llewellyn. for the
murder of Policemen Thomas Clifford
and William Grifilths, will be held at
Denver during the second week in
March. 1t is claimed that many wit
nesses will swear to the identity of
Wynn and Llewellyn, which the de-
fense will deny.
The secretary of the treasury to-day
requested Congress to appropriate
100000 to supply the deficiency in the
appropriation for new machinery for
the Denver mint. The cost of ma
chinery has been greater than was
estimated, and that amount is needed
in order to have the mint ready for
coinage June 1st.
Treasurer Holmberg's deputies have
been engaged the past month hunting
up druggists. saloons, bottling houses
and others who sell liquor. and collect
ing the state tax. In Denver, since
the list of February, they have found
100 unpaid licenses. Out in the state
the discoveries are even larger. 1t
is all to be collected. The state tax
is S25 a year.
Judge Moses Hallett of the United
States District Court refused to review
the evidence in the Pueblo case of the
seven French girls alleged to have
been brought from France to the
United States for immoral purposes,
and the lnree men charged with entic-
ing the girls to America and issued an
order that the girls and men be imme-
diately returned to New York City,
where the trial will be held.
Miss RoZene e. Meeker of Greeley
has filed suits in the District Court at
Denver against the. Republican Pub
hn ri,,,D