The Springfield herald., 1905-09-15
COLORADO NEWS ITEMS

oe c!oseu al noon every SATURDAY dur
Ing the year.
Rev. Henry j. c, Gerland pastor of
The German Evangelical Lutheran
church on Evans avenue, died on the
9th inst.
w. Van Austen of Crested Butte
who marched in the Grand Army pa
radc at Denver. is past eighty-three
years OF age.
Victor was pretty badly flooded by
en electric storm on the night of the
9TH inst. There was heavy fall OF
both rain and hail.
Gilbert McClurg has been employed
by Denver business men to give
twenty lectures on Colorado at the
Portland exposition.
The success of the recent Harvest
Day festival at Greeley has resulted
In the formation Of ar organization 20
make 1t an annual affair
Mayor Connor of Cripple Creek ap-
pointed a committee of 500 citizens to
entertain the Visiting members of the
Grand Army OF the Republic.
James Alvord, i miner working the
Mammoth shaft at Lcadville. was
killed Oh the 6th inst. by the falling OF
a rock from car above him.
The City Council OF Colorado Springs
appropriated $500 for the entertain
ment OF visiting G. A. Il veterans and
the citizens raised $1,000 more.
Prizes have been awarded to chill
dren, schools and organizations for
successful competition in raising flow
ers and vegetables the past summer.
Major F. + Foote, a C. A. r. veteran
and pioneer resident OF El Paso county.
lell down an elevator shaft at Colorado
Springs on the I'd inst. and suffered a
fracture OF the left thigh.
Dean Richardson of the Harvard
Medical school has notified the author,
tiles of Colorado college that work
done in the college will be accepted in
the Harvard Medical school.
Walter G. Bradshaw. who WAS em-
ployed at the J. &. Reynolds livery.
was struck by lightning and killed on
the 9th inst. while walking IN East
Moreno street in Colorado Springs
w. II. Tabor, for several years head
of the police department at Florence,
died at Folsom, New Mexico, On he
9th inst. of straHgulation OF the gall
duct. He was forty-four years of age
Gen. a. ]. Sampson, formerly OF
Colorado and now envoy extraordinary
and minister plenipotentiary for the
United States to Ecuador, was present
at the Grand Army encampment in
Denver
Lightning struck the engine room of
the Pueblo Chieftan ON the morning OF
the 1st inst. and filled the composing
and editorial rooms with smoke from
burning fuses, hut the blaze was soon
extinguished.
The South Cheyenne Canon com
pany at Colorado Springs offers to re-
ducc its admission charges from SO
cents to % cents il the city will grant
a iranchise for . trolley line 10 the
entrance gate.
A run of the Denver fire department
on Fourteenth street. with red fire and
Roman candle accompaniinents. was
bne of the most striking features OF
the entertainments offered to the
Grand Army visitors at Denver.
The annual report of Commissioner
Of Pensions Warner shows that on
June 80, 1905, there were on the PEN
sion rolls S,IS4 residents Of Colorado,
who, during the fiscal year ended June
8Oth, drew pensions aggregating ST.
1874 ,4O2.
The application of o. H. Shoup OF
Colorado Springs, Max Buchanan, j.
l.. Warren, ]. r. Mckinnic. A. ]. Ben
die and " u. Reed to organize the
American National Bank of Alamosa,
with 0,0G0 capital, has been
by the comptroller OF the
and the bank authorized to
commence business.
At Durango on the Sth inst. Judge
Russell sentenced Robert j. Taylor to
not less than three years nor more
than Ave years in the pcnitentiary and
Mrs. May Wilson to not less than two
years nor more than three for the
crime of robbery. Taylor and Mrs.
Wilson last June held up l.. J. Parker
and took SIS from him.
The second annual fair of Mesa
county, September 18th to 22d inclu-
sive, promises to surpass all other
events of similar nature held at
Grand Junction. There will he horse
and bicycle races. baseball and trap
shooting There will be increased
prizes on fruits. tarm products and
stock.
The first section of Santa Fe west
bound passenger train was wrecked
one half mile east of Boone, twenty
miles east Of Pueblo, Monday after
noon Eight or nine persons were in
jured, but the railway officials claim
that their injuries were slight in every
case except two. and those will! soon
recover.
When Wilford Howard was dis
charge, from jail at Trinidad on the
Sth inst, after thirty days contine.
ment, he was again arrested and tried
for the same ottensc, being given sixty
days moro. lie was a deputy game
warden and It is alleged that he ex-
tortcd money from unsophisticated
persons whom lie found hunting with
out licenses.
William Van Brimer, father of Mrs.
j. L. Patton and Mrs. Frank Gooden
of Trinidad, former resident of Trim
idad for many years and now an in
mate o: the soldiers home at Leaven-
worth. Kansas. has fallen heir to for
tune OF $500 .0OU. He is one of twenty
four heir; to 10000, 900 lefe by rela-
tives In Holland. The settlement of
tho estate has been N the courts for
thirty years.
The county commissioners of San
Juan county have granted franchise
to S. II. Blair and associates to con