The Springfield herald., 1905-03-17
COLORADO NEWS ITEMS

at Coliseum hall in Denver. April 18th
to 18th.
Twelve nurses were graduated at the
nurses training school of the Mercy
hospital In Denver on the 9Th inst.
The Mesa county fair will be held
at Grand Junction September 18th to
22d. the first day being entry day.
There are SS446 volumes in the Den
yer city library. By reading book
a day person could finish them. all in
a little more than 242 years-if he
lived that long.
An organization has been incorpor-
ated by prominent Swedes at Denver
to build large Swedish SanatorinHl
for consumptives. DR.. C. A. BrundseI
heads the list of trustees.
Geo. w. Baumhoff, who has secured
an electric railway franchise at Canon
City. will investigate the feasibility OF
constructing an electric line from
Canon City to Cripple Creek.
The First National Bank of Fowler,
In Otero county, has been authorized
to begin business with $4,000 capital.
7. M. Weiland is president; j. =. Nall.
vice president; and l.. butler, cashier.
The smokestack of the Grant smell
| ter in Denver, which Is 1853 feet high
and one of the tallest chimneya In the
world, will be used as receiving mast
by the DeForest Wireless Telegraph
Company.
Simon Guggenheim's check for $780,
900 has been formally presented TO the
Colorado School of Mines trustees, to
be used for the erection OF Il new ad-
ministration building, as mas been pre-
| Viously announced.
The Supreme Court Of Colorado has
denied the petition for rehearing in
the case of Newton Andrews. one of
the three young men convicted of the
murder of Mrs. Amanda Youngblood In
Denver. This decision sustains tine
capital punishment law.
The body Of Azel d. Galbraith, who
was hanged at the state penitentiary,
was buried in the prison plot OF the
old city cemetery at Canon City. His
relatives will be permitted to take
the body away later If they wish to
do SO.
1t is understood that the postofiice
inspectors will recommend the estab-
lishment of a new rural delivery route
south and east of Fort Collins by which
140 families will be served. This will
make four routes supplied from the
Fort Collins office.
Austin Marsh, the seventeen-year-
old son of the superintendent of the
Eyler smelter at Pueblo, fell sixty feet
from the top of a-cliff while out hunt
ing, on the 7tn inst, and hais one OF
his legs broken in two places besides
receiving other serious injuries.
The Colorado Springs Y. NJ. &. A..
with membership of 1,057 members,
is said to have the largest enrolment
In the world in proportion to ropnla-
ton. This distinction until recently
had been held by Jamestown. New
York, with membership of $1,040.
1t Is stated that Colorado people will
soon be able to talk to people ut Pa
cif1c coast points. an arrangement hav-
ing been made between the Rocky
Mountain Bell Telephone Company and
the Pacific States Telephone Company
to connect the lines in Utah and Ne
vada.
The members of the Pueblo Typo
graphical Union have prepared me-
mortal to the governor asking him to
select practical man when he ap-
points commissioner of printing. The
law requires the appointment of
printer who has served a full appren-
ticeship.
The different railroads in Colorado
will grant half fare to a number of
conventions to be held in Denver this
season, including the Stock Growers
convention, the Eagles national gath
ering. the Epworth League convention
and the Grand Army Of the Republic
encampment.
The contract for the construction of
the new sugar factory at Holly has
been let to C. Leonard of Los Angeles,
California. work to begin at once. The
building will cost about 100000. The
company which will construct the
plant is known as the Holly Beet Su.
gar Company and 1t has 6,000 acres of
beets contracted for next season.
The lecturers of the Colorado State
Realty Association are talking to big
audiences in the East and central West
about the state. The Iowa City Repub-
lican devotes several columns to Gil
bert McClurg's lecture there, and the
other speakers are also meeting with
fiattering receptions, which Indicate
Lat Colorado is "in the swim" this
year.
All a needing of the Farmers league
of Pleasant valley, in Weld county, the
following schedule OF wages was
adopted for the season OF 1905:
Monthly wages. for March, SIG: from
April 1st to October list, $50; fo- Oc-
tober, $40. Day wages. $1,25 for po-
tato cutting. $1.50 for ditch cleaning
and haying, and s1.75 for potato dig
ging.
The Mount of the Holy Cross forest
reserve has been created, withdrawing
from entry nearly 100000 acres of
valuable timber lands. This Will be
the seventh forest reserve TO be set
aside in Colorado. The others are The
BattlemeDt Mesa reserve. the Pixies
Peak, Plum Creek, South Platte, White
River and San Isabel reserves, cover
ing total of 2,S74,4s9 acres.
} A. D. Archuleta, treasurer of Archu-
leta county, has been charged with en-
| bezzling $12,6 900 of county funds. An
examination of the treasurer's books
| by experts is alleged to show this
shortage Archuleta was arrested and