The Springfield herald., 1905-12-01
COLORADO NEWS ITEMS

| Thousand Club. No paltry 400 Tor Pu
eblo.
The assessed value of taxable prop
| erty In Fremont county is given at Sc,
434.731.
More than 5000 tons of beets are
piled up at Delta awaiting Transports
tion to the sugar factory.
The Florence & Cripple Creek rail
way shops at Canon City, that were re-
Gently burned, will be Immediately re-
built.
S. l.. Brooks, former employe OF
the State Agricultural College, dropped
dead from heart failure on the streets
of Fort Collins, November Goth.
Governor Mcdonald has appointed R
A. Morrison of Denver delegate to the
National immigration Congress, which
meets in New York December 9th and
7th.
James P. True, pioneer of Colorado
and one of the first settlers of Poncha
Springs, was found dead in his room
at Denver November goth. He was
seventy years of age.
The Forest Service Bureau has
granted the privilege to the Colorado
Telephone Company of Fairplay of
the right of way for telephone within
the Pixies Peak forest reserve.
Montrose has voted to give o. NJ.
Clay and II. II. Washburn a twenty
five-year license for the construction
of gas plant. 1t is proposed to ex-
pend 100000 on the plant during the
next year.
The residents of the North Side Of
Trinidad and the country north of the
ri 1o nj, 1nta tnt, n
will be sent to the postmaster general
at Washington, asking for subpost-
office.
The jury in the District Court at
Greeley found Thomas NJ. Jones guilty
of mayhem on the person of John N.
Ryden. Mrs. Jones, who was jointly
accused with her husband of the crime,
was acquitted.
Work has been commenced on the
approach to the east portal of the great
tunnel of the Moffat road under the
Continental Divide. 1t will probably
tunneling begins.
The alfalfa meal mill at Sterling was
burned on the night of November gath.
it had a capacity of fifteen tons of al
falfa meal day, and was the only mill
OF tne klnu III tne Stdte, HaNluS Deeu
running since last August.
Out of the frying pan into the fire.
was the experience of o. H. Stevens,
in the District Court at Pueblo. After
being released from the insane asylum
he was sentenced to from two to three
years in the State Penitentiary for
perjury.
The new building which is to be
used for offices of the United States
reclamation service and the Uncom-
pahgre Valley Water Users Associa-
ton at Montrose has been completed
and the government officers have
moved in.
The body of Raymond Minister, the
Canon City boy who. on June 4th.
while catching wood floating down the
Arkansas river. fell into the water.
was found near Portland November
18th by ]. w. Thompson while hunting
wood The father identified the re-
mains.
w. I. Weaver of Florence, associated
with a number of Colorado Springs
wells on a large plateau twenty-four
miles east of Florence. They hold
leases on several thousand acres of
land with the privilege of buying il
they strike water.
The special inspector sent by the
Postofice Department to Investigate
the federal building at Denver will re-
port that the business of the Denver
postoffice has entirely outgrown the
accommodations and that a new build
ing ought to be provided for as soon
as possible.
Richard Andrews, well-known
miner of the Pine Creek district, was
instantly killed in the second east level
of the Mackey mine in Elk park, No
vember goth by the premature eX-
plosion of shot Andrews had been
married only ten days before to Mrs.
Jennie DORIS.
Work at the Gunnison tunnel is pro-
crossing from the three different open
ings. The total depth reported on the
18th inst is 5,327 feet. Thus is COM
pleted the first mile of the six and the
government officers in charge of the
work are confident of being able to
finish by the allotted time, April 10,
1908.
The Santa Fe Railway Company is
erecting a $4,000 building at La Junta
for an employees club. 1t will be AK
100 feet in size, three stories and base
ment, and will have such conveniences
for railroad men as bath rooms, read
ing room. bowling alley, billiard hall
and Office room, while the upper story
will contain sleeping rooms.
In the District Court at Telluride l..
w. Scoville, convicted of fmanslaughter,
was sentenced to from seven to eight
years in the penitentiary; Robert Nc
Fadden and Matt Spagnolia, convicted
of high grading, were sentenced to
from two to three years, in the peni-
tentiary; Fred Force, convicted of bur-
glary, was given one year.
District Clerk Van Dusen, at Steam
boat Springs, has received orders from
Judge Shumate to call special ses-
sion of the District Court for the pur-
pose of trying the Vincent brothers. al
legged horse thieves. instead of letting
them lie in Jail until next September.
The special session will be held De-
cember 2Sth. If Kunllleman, the burglar
who was shot by Sheriff Jones. is in
condition to stand trial, his case will
be called at the same time.