The Springfield herald., 1905-03-31
COLORADO NEWS ITEMS

lars on deposit in the banks Of Colo
do Springs.
The American De Forrest Wireless
Telegraph Company Is arranging to
establish a station at Pueblo.
The Colorado railroads are doing
large amount of advertising to attract
tourist travel next summer.
It is estimated that about II 900 peo-
pie will be entitled to vote at the
coming city election in Pueblo.
President C. p. Dodge of the Colo.
RADIO Springs Y. NJ. c. A. has received
a donation of $500 from Helen Gould.
The annual convention Of the Ma
tional Federation of Musical Clubs will
be held in Denver the week beginning
June 9Th.
Adjt. Gen. Sherman NJ. Bell has in
formed the governor that he will re-
tire April 1st, after service of ex-
actly two years.
A suit has been appealed to the state
Supreme Court which will test the
right of county judge to grant all
mony In excess Of $1,000.
Mrs. Helen Grenfell addressed six
ty teachers present at the meeting OF
the Weld County Teachers Associa-
tion at La Sale March 18th.
Active preparations are being made
for the annual convention OF the
American Stockgrowers' Association,
which meets at Denver May 9th.
According to the report of the horti-
cultural inspector cold weather has
destroyed nearly all of the peach and
apricot buds In Garfield county.
al, q
has been organized at Boulder with
and DIR. John B. Phillips as secretary.
1. w. Larimore, physical instructor
of the Y. NJ. C. A. at Denver. will have
charge of the physical culture depart
anent of the Boulder Chautauqua this
summer.
Herman Lesche, barber, commit
ted suicide at Cripple Creek few
days ago by shooting himself through
the body. He had barber shop in the
Masonic building.
A company has been organized with
$4,000 capital to build new bath
house at Manitou Springs. 1t will be
built on the site of the Norris hotel.
which burned last fall.
The annual state championships at
golf will be decided in Colorado
Springs on June 21st, 22d and 23d.
the dates having been accepted by the
golf players of the state.
Forged tickets over the Colorado &
Southern for points between Denver
and Fort Worth, Texas. are reported
to have been discovered and to have
been taken up by conductors.
Hugh Stewart. charged with assault
with intent to kill Editor G. A. Walker
at Salida. has been held for trial at
the July term of the District Court
his bond being fixed at $1,000.
On March oath William Wood.
miner, was precipitated 500 feet down
shaft In the Ajax mine at Victor by
the breaking of one of the rounds of
a ladder. Death was instantaneous.
James Ward. Colorado pioneer,
who died at Golden March 22d at the
age Of seventy-Ave years, was a stage
driver between Denver and the Mis-
souri, river before the advent of rail
roads.
The intercollegiate Association OF
Colorado has changed its title to the
Rocky Mountain Intercollegiate Ath-
lelic Association, designed eventually
10 cover Utah and Wyoming, as well
as Colorado.
The coroner's juSy in the case OF
Gus. e,eufeld, who was shot by Will
lam G. Smith March 18th in Denver,
brought In verdict discriminating
Smith, who has been held on the
charge of murder.
The Douglas County Ditch and Res
ervoir Company, capitalized at $780,
900, has been formed to construct two
large reservoirs, one being in Stone
canon and one just south of the Santa
Fe bridge at Larkspur.
After the hearing in Denver March
22d Commissioner Richardson of the
United States Supreme Court commits
sion in the Kansas Colorado water suit
adjourned the sessions to April 10, to
reconvene again in Denver.
Barney McQueeney. who was crush
ed between the cage and the station
roof in the Reindeer mine on the 18th
inst. and died the next day, was the
seventh victim of mine accidents in
Leadville since February 18th.
Complaint having been made to
State Engineer Carpenter that the
dam at Lake Jackson, near Fort Nor
gan, appeared to be in danger, orders
were issued for its repair and work
was Immediately commenced on re-
lieving bank.
Little three-year-old Earl Francis
Purcell, son of Mr.. and Mrs. William
Francis Purcell of Denver, awoke
March 23rd, after sleep that had
lasted seven days and nights. When
the sleep began he had been exhausted
by epileptic convulsions.
A donation of $500 has been made
to the Colorado Springs Carnegie
library by the Board of County Com
missioners of El Paso county. In con-
sideration of this gift the privilege of
the libary will be extended to all resi-
dents of the county.
Frank Sundberg, farmer who lives
nine miles northeast of Berthoud, had
heavy team of draft horses stolen
during the night of March 22d. He
traced them to Denver and recovered
the horses at livery stable, where the
t..ief had sold them for 5000.
Application of Orson Adams. Jr.;
George P. Smith, w. p. Ella, Albert b.
Sampliner James H. Smith and others
to organize the Mesa County National
bank. of Grand Junction, Colorado,
with $4,000 capital. has been ap-
proved by the comptroller of the cur
rency