The Springfield herald., 1905-02-10
COLORADO NEWS ITEMS


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The board of trade of La Junta pro
poses to secure Il site for Il city park.
The thirteenth annual banquet OF the
Denver Bar Association will be held
at the Brown Palace hotel February
2lst.
Grading will be commenced imme-
diatcly on the Pennington branch OF
the Lsnvcr 6; Rio Grande, below Dur
ango.
The National Civic Federation has
made Denver the headquarters of one
of the seven districts in which it will
open Offices.
George Bauer Of the Bauer Mercan-
tile Company and Bauer Bank at Man
COS. died at n sanitarium in Guadal2-
jara, Mexico, January 3lst.
The Monte Cristo Rubber Plant
Company has been formed at Greeley,
to buy and run big rubber plantation
In PaiemQue, Old Mexico.
Colorado College, at Colorado
Springs. has an endowment fund OF
S400 900. and will make a vigorous ef-
fort to increase it to sl,000,000.
George H. Crosby. formerly Of Den
yer, has been appointed freight ,railic
manager for the Burlington in place OF
the late Thomas Miller who died re
Gently.
The Pueblo police magistrates have
decided that the law prohibiting mi
| nors from entering saloons must be
| enforced against newsboys engaged in
selling papers.
George w. Berger, prominent
blacksmith of Greeley. committed sui
eide February I'd by taking chloroform.
| There was nothing in his business or
domestic relations to explain the act.
| John U. and Bruce e. Watkins of
the firm of Watkins Brothers at Pu-
eblo, are informed that they are heirs
with five others to an estate in Pitts
| burg, Pennsylvania, valued at S16,O0O,-
| 600.
Secretary of State John Hay is the
owner of Crystal park, the beautiful!
little vale or nook that lies on the slope
of Pixies Peak at the foot OF Cam
eron's cone, two or three miles above
| Manitou.
| The Denver Young Mems Building
| Association has purchased building
site, l25Xl25 feet in size, at Sixteenth
and Lincoln avenues, which is between
the Brown Palace hotel and the Cap.
itol building.
| The Interior Department has with
drawn from all forms or disposal what
| ever, six townships. embracing 13S,24O
acres of public lands. in the Glenwood
| Springs land district. on account OF
irrigation projects.
On the arrest of Alexander Z. Jack
son on the charge of robbery in Den
yer, about sl,S00 worth of jewelry and
| diamonds was recovered. Jackson is
n negro. and is said to he an extreme
ly successful sneak thief.
Dudley d. Sales. a Denver boy. now
studying at the Stanford University.
has chosen to participate in the con
test for the President Carnot prize, of
fered for he best speech on the gov
ernment or history Of France.
The flock of tame ducks in the City
park at Denver has been reinforced
this winter by many wild ducks that
| have alighLed among them. After be
| ing fed few times the wild ducks
become as tame as the others.
Walter Smith, colored, and his eiSh-
teen year old son, William, were found
guilty of burglary in robbing brick
| plant and the father sentenced to the
| pcnitentiary for three years. while the
son goes to the reform school.
Judge c. NJ. Miles and Jack" Kep-
pei, the famous cowboy cook, started
| for Washington IA few days ago To
return the visit of the President and
Washington correspondents who We're
entertained at Hugo on their western
| trip.
At Canon City few days ago
| twenty-seven drummers for all kinds
of business landed on the afternoon
and night trai;:s the same day. The
| inns of the place were able to take
care of them without unlocking the
| Hotel de Canon City.
The Salida Board of Trade recently
adopted resolutions indorsing the
scheme of A. &. Fitzgerald, who is
| driving a tunnel to tap the Poncha hot
| springs. 1t is expected that the tunnel
| will also tap deposits of gold and silver
ore and mica.
Sam Erickson was killed at the
| Camp Bird mine, Ouray January goth,
| by falling 100 feet down n shaft. He
was a Finn, 80 years of age. and sin
| gle Two sisters and brother reside
| in Michigan. and his father and mother
are still in Finland.
| Arthur Lewis. Missouri Pacific
| tranman, while going back to flag
! train after an accident near Eads,
| station east of Pueblo. was attacked
! by ravenous pack of coyotes and only
| escaped by brandishing II lighted fuse
and retreating to the caboose.
A convention Of the FL Paso county
Sunday school association will he
held at Colorado Springs March 23d.
9th and 25th. The annual convention
of the Colorado Sunday School asso
citation will also be held in Colorado
Springs May 3Oth. 31st and June LIST.
Mrs. Lucy Ann Crandail, a pioneer
of Denver, died December Both, within
two hours after jury had pronounced
her incapable of managing her busi-
ness affairs. She had property valued
at 10000 and the lunacy proceedings
were instituted by relatives.
At a ranch near Hayden. IN Routt
county, January 2Sth, Marsh Push was
shot and severely wounded in the side
by his nephew, Louis Pugh. The quar-
rel is said to have been over an old
family feud, and the two We're struG-
Cling with each other when the shot
was fired.
At a mass meeting held at Eads,
T.. aI Inv 1rb