The Springfield herald., 1905-07-14
COLORADO NEWS ITEMS


Telegraph Company will establish a
station at Trinidad.
The mountains surrounding Breck-
enridge were covered with snow on
the morning of the Sd of July.
Idaho Springs is preparing for a
great inter-mountain festival, August
22d. to which all Colorado is invited.
The Denver Typographical union
has donated 500 to the Grand Army
of the Republic national encampment
fund.
Miss Josie E. Gibson of Missouri has
been appointed nurse at the Grand
Junction Indian School at q salary OF
5000 yesr.
The Denver Chamber of Commerce
is arranging to offer cash prizes for az
ricultural products for both irrigated
and non-irrlgated lands.
Alexander Gordon, foreman of Ten
Mile Mining Company at Robinson
was instantly killed on the Sth inst. by
falling down a shaft.
Hereafter the State Capitol building
at Denver is to be kept open on Sat.
urday afternoons and holidays, at least
during the summer months.
Mrs. Clida NJ Adams, wife of Alva
B. Adams and daughter-in-law of for
mer Governor Adams. died at Pueblo
July 4th. after short illness.
The woman's Civic Society OF Trini.
dad proposes to enforce the Sunday
closing ordinances and to prosecute tho
gambling houses and wine rooms.
The floral parade at the Boulder Fes-
tival on the 7th inst. was one of the
finest ever seen In the state. Both car
riages and automobiles took part in 1t.
AT Denver, July Sth. Mrs. w. d.
Schmidlap shot and killed her husband
at the place where he was rooming.
They had been separated for about a
year.
There were fourteen fires in Denver
on the Fourth of July. but the loss in
each case was small except at Hurl-
butts store, where the damage may
reach nearly 100000.
In the Western Baseball League Des
Moines and Denver are close competi-
tors for first place and Colorado
Springs and st. Joseph are nip and
tuck for the BOBBY prize.
Probation officers of Pueblo will at
tend the national conference of the
Charities and Corrections Association,
which will be held in Portland. Ore
gon. July 18th to 22d.
Mrs. Bert White OF Longmont was
fatally burned on the morning of the
I'd inst. by an explosion of kerosene.
She was about twentyfour years of
age and leaves three small children.
James R. Mcclure. formerly miner
at Goldfield. Colorado, committed sui
eide at Trinidad June 27th by shooting
himself through the head. He was
ffty-five years Of age and leaves a
wife, son and daughter.
The Boulder Farmers mill at Boul.
der has been burned to the ground, in.
volving loss of about $4,000, with
$4,000 insurance. Previous to the fire
the safe at the mill was broken open
but 1t contained no money.
June proved very good month for
collections by the State Land Board,
and shows that the business of the OF
flee is increasing steadily year by year.
The June collections for the past three
years have been as follows: 1903, $40.
19l; 1904, $1S,293; 1905, $21 ,639.02.
Three hundred and sixty acres OF
land near the Union Printers Home on
Mob hill, and $1,000 in cash for the
construction of the building has been
pledged respectively by two citizens of
Colorado Springs for the National Let
ter Carriers Home, should the national
convention at Portland, Oregon, next
September, choose the Springs as the
site.
The directors of the Colorado Springs
Public Library have presented Gen.
w. j. Palmer and Andrew Carnegie
each with a handsome Morocco bound
album, fifteen by twenty-five inches in
size, and containing twenty views of
the library's interior. General Palmer
donated the site for the library, Mr..
Carnegie giving 100000 for the con-
struction of the building.
Crop conditions all over the state
are extremely good, according to the
weekly crop bulletin issued by Section
Director f. Fl. Brandenburg of the
Weather Bureau at Denver. Haying is
nearly general and the alfalfa crop
has been secured in good condition in
many parts OF the state. with fair to
good yield. The second crop OF alfalfa
has started in many localities.
Judge b. B. Lindsey and Secretary
j. T. Burns of the Colorado State
Realty Association, who is also
of the Portland fair commits
sion, will make an effort to secure
next years convention of the National
OF Charities and Correc-
tion for Denver. The convention this
year will be held at Portland, Oregon,
July 15-17th. Judge Lindsey is a dele
gate and member of the executive
committee.
According to the Colorado crop bull
letin fall wheat is filling well, and
spring wheat. oats, barley and rye are
heading in places. Corn is growing
rapidly, especially in the north-central
and eastern counties. Sugar beets are
doing well and are generally thinned.
Potatoes are doing well and some of
the early planting are being dug.
Grasses are generally good and live
stock is in fine condition. Fruit pros
poets continue good. Cherries are be-
ing marketed and raspberries promise
well.
The Colorado Supreme Court has de-
cided that the fiat tax law passed by
the Thirteenth General Assembly is
valid. The law places tax of two
cents on each $1,000 of capital stock
in domestic corporations capitalized in
excess of $25,000 and four cents per