The Springfield herald., 1905-09-08
COLORADO NEWS ITEMS

Twenty men enlisted in the United
States army at the recruiting station
IN Pueblo during the month of August.
Judge Lindsey of the Denver County
Court has decided that the ordinance
prohibiting brickyards inside the city
limits of Denver is unconstitutional.
John Walker of Columbus, Nebraska,
who is seventy-nine years of age, re-
Gently walked from Manitou Springs
to the summit of Pixies Peak and back.
Burglars blew open the safe in the
postofiice at Falcon in El Paso county
on the night of August 29th and Sc
cuerd about $500 in stamps and money.
The Convention Amusement Com
pany has been organized in Denver to
give entertainments and exhibitions
during the conventions held in the
city.
Forest Inspector Smith Riley, who
has been temporarily placed in charge
of the Holy Cross forest reserve in Col
orado, has established headquarters at
Glenwood Springs.
Mrs. Emma Herey-Meyer has retired
from the office of county superintend
ent of schools in Denver, Judge Palmer
having decided that Miss Lillian Field
is the lawful incumbent.
The harvest festival parade at Gree
ley on the Both ult. was twenty-four
blocks long and consisted OF decorated
automobiles, carriages. bicycles and
floats. The festival drew an immense
crowd.
A party of hunters from Iowa few
days ago paid the game warden at
Denver $125 for hunting licenses. They
proposed to enter the mountains from
Buford. Routt county, for thirty
days hunt.
Miss Ruby L. Carstens of Longmont,
a graduate of the University of Colo
RADIO last June, has received an ap.
pointment of fellowship in the de-
partment of mathematics in the State
University.
The Denver e. Rio Grande railroad
will build a new machine shop. 63x297
feet in size. at its shops in Denver, to-
gether with large addition to tho
blacksmith shop. The whole is to cost
about $4,000.
The general committee of the Boul-
der Commercial Association has de-
cided to make safe passageway to
Boulder falls, one of the scenic at
fractions in the foothills above the city
up Boulder canon.
Attorney General Miller has an
nounced an opinion to the effect that
the exemption of $500 of personal prop
erty from taxation under the law
passed last winter does not apply to
non-residents.
At Pueblo, on the 31st ult., Mrs.
Maud Finch Haver, wife of f. b.
Haver. real estate dealer, drowned
herself and five-yearold son in the Bes-
semer ditch. The act is attributed to
ill health and dependency.
When finished, the reservoir of the
San Luis Land, Irrigation and Power
Company on the Alamosa river above
Monte Vista will be four miles long
and half mile wide and the dam will
be 500 feet long and 1856 feet high.
Owing to the threatened epidemic
of scarlet fever at Leadville, the State
Board of Health has notified the local
authorities that the city must be thor
oughly cleaned. Otherwise the State
Board will take the matter in hand.
The comptroller of the currency has
authorized the Commercial National
Bank of Salida, Colorado, to begin bus
mess with capital of 100000. j. w.
Calhoun is president, S. w. Sandusky.
vice president, and C. w. Erdlen, cash
ier
There will be an examination for
stenographers and typewriters in the
federal building at Denver October
10th. For departmental stenographers
the salaries range from 500 to $1,000
year, but for the Philippine service
they run from $1,000 to $1,000.
A contract has been let to Francis
Pastorus of Colorado Springs for the
construction of an irrigation storage
reservoir on Florida mesa, near Du-
range, designed to irrigate 1000 acres
of land in the C. NJ. Williams estate.
c. NJ. Williams died few months ago
in Colorado Springs. The reservoir
will hold 1000 acre feet of water.
The State Land Board has acted ia
vorably upon the request of the Colo
RADIO Springs Merchants Association
and the chamber of commerce. seeking
to purchase 100 acres of state land
near the Union Printers Home. to be
offered to the National Letter Car.
rers' Association. soon to convene at
Portland, as site for the national
home.
The State Land Board has issued
deed to the land recently granted the
Beecher Island Memorial Association.
The land comprises lbO acres IN una |
county, and covers the site of the fam
Gus Indian fight between Colonel For
syth and the hordes Under Roman |
Nose, in September, 1865. The Legis- |
latures of Colorado and Kansas ap- |
propriated $4,000 each last winter to
build a monument on the site, where |
Lieutenant Beecher and the other he 1
roes who died there lie buried.
Dave Parks an employe of the Clyde |
Lumber Company, at Clyde. on the |
Short Line, was arrested August 2Sth |
by Deputy Sheriff Underwood and |
placed in the county jail TO await the
outcome of the injury that he inflicted |
on William Snyder proprietor of
store at Clyde. Parks is said to have
struck Snyder with scale weights. frac-
turing his skull, after which he
jumped on him with both feet and it
is alleged was only kept from killing
him through the efforts OF the wife
and son-in-law of Snyder.
The new chapel and dining room
building at the State Industrial School
for Boys near Golden was formally
dedicated On the night of August 2Sth.
The building is handsome brick
structure two stories and basement;