The Springfield herald., 1905-11-17
COLORADO NEWS ITEMS

the 10th inst.
Henry |. Higgins, for many years
prominent Leadville mining and smelt-
ing operator, died at Denver on the
10th inst.
| Receiver Stevick OF the defunct
Denver Savings Bank, estimates that
he will be able to pay depositors about
10 cents on the dollar.
The State School of Mines has ac.
quired the Hemberger residence prop
erty adjoining the new Guggenheim
hall on the east at a cost of $4,000.
In the Pelican mine, near Silver
Plume, on the 9th inst. John Vergano
an Italian miner. was caught under
slide of rock and instantly killed.
A fire in the lumber yards of McPhee
& McGinnity at Denver just after mid
night on the 9Th inst. destroyed lumber
and other property valued at $S5,OOO.
At Sugano. young Japanese, lost
his left eye by the twisting of red
hot steel rod in the rod mill of the
steel works at Pueblo on the 5th inst.
In the District Court at Greeley
Thomas Ryan and Jack Harris were
given penitentiary sentences for steal
ing groceries from a Union Pacific box
car.
Fire on the 10th inst, destroyed the
ore house and blacksmith shop at the
Champion mine on Sultan mountain
The loss is about $1,000, covered by in
Surance.
The $4,000 appropriated at the last
session of the Legislature for the con-
struction of state fish hatchery at
Glenwood Springs is now available for
| use.
State Game and Fish Commissioner
Woodland has put in some time at
Meeker and vicinity trying to stop the
unlawful killing of deer on the western
slope
| The Las Anmas County Medical So
ciety has decided TO create medical
library in Trinidad for the use of the
physicians in the various counties OF
southern Colorado.
The Logan County National Bank
of Sterling has been authorized to be
! gin business with $4,000 capital. J.
j. Cheairs. president; A. G. Sherwin
vice president, E. NJ. Gillett, cashier.
There was a very successful meet
ing of the Gunnison County Farmers
institute at Gunnison on the 10th
| inst. Many able speakers being
present from within and without the
| state.
Governor Mcdonald has issued an
order prohibiting the transfer of GER
tain timber rights in Grand county to
Frank Gyllensten of Denver, until the
saia of the timber has been closely in
vestlgated.
In the case of The contest over the
office of coroner in the city and county
of Denver the state Supreme Court has
decided in favor of Robert p. Rollins,
the Republican contestant, against w.
p. Horan, Democrat.
James McPhillips, aged forty five
years, committed suicide near the
Lake George mine. in the vicinity OF
Lake George, on the Colorado Midland,
twenty-five miles north of Cripple
| Creek on the 9th inst
The state Supreme Court has decided
that the Preferred Accident Insurance
| Company must pay the $1,000 policy on
the life of the late William II. Eman-
uel of Denver. the well known dealer
in mining machinery.
The state engineer has rejected all
bids for the building of the bridge at
Monte Vista. The sum of $4,000 was
appropriated and the bids ranged
from $4,S50 to $5.24o. II will be
necessary to modify the plans.
J. w Lee ol Lie
Rocky Mountain Rescue Home Asso-
citation at Colorado Springs states that
homes will be ol-nned in Denver anc
Pueblo soon More than 800 member
are enrolled from all parts of tins
| state
George s. Welch. formerly welt
known real estate man and building
and loan association manager in Den
yer. died at the Colorado Sanitarium
| in Boulder on the 9TH inst of Brignt's
| disease after an illness of several
months.
The application of John Bunyan.
| Thomas C. Bunyan, Thomas kerley
| William c. Bunyan and>. Julia Bunyan
to organize the Berthoud National
| Bank of Berthoud. with $4,000 CAPT
tal has been approved. by the comp
troller of the currency.
The following postofiice changes
have been announced: Gypsum, Ea
| gle county. Theodore Stremme. vice
| Rose Norgaard, resigned. Hastings
Las Animas county, Arthur c. Wood
ward. vice George +. Purdum, re-
signed: Pikeview. FL Paso county. An
drew j. Kelly. vice X. NJ. Aitkin. re-
signed.
The reward of 50 900 offered by the
county commissioners of Ell Paso
| county and which furnished the incen-
tive that finally resulted in the trap
ping of Milton Franklin Andrews
slayer OF Bessie Bouton, is not payable
to the officers who found his dead
body. The reward was Tor the arrest
and conviction of the murderer
The largest Colorado incorporation
of the year was filed in the office OF
| Secretary of State Cowie on the 9th
inst. The company incorporated has
capitalization of s5.000.000 and is
known as the Mountain Queen Mining
and Milling Company. The concern
will operate in the Cripple Creek dis
| trict, the incorporators being State
Senator James Owen, A. A. Rollestone,
A. 7. Holman, L. II. Hill and F.
Bodhsh
Judge Riner in the United States
| Court at Denver has ruled that the
statutes of Colorado which bar a for
eign corporation that has not paid a
state license from prosecuting a suit
in a court of the state until it has paid
! the tax do not apply to a federal