The Springfield herald., 1905-11-24
COLORADO NEWS ITEMS

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will hold its national convention at
Denver next August.
An attempt will be made to pass an
ordinance in Denver requiring the use
! of wide tires on freight wagons.
All of the old directors of the Colo
rado & Southern railroad were re-
| elected at the annual meeting held in
Denver.
| Montrose has become a city of the
second class by action of Governor Nc
Donald, a recent census showing
| population of 2,30S.
Arthur ]. Ventress, who was injured
by being thrown from a trolley car in
the Newhouse tunnel at Idaho Springs.
died on the 18th inst.
| Work was recently commenced on
the two miles OF track which will run
| from Gina, on the Rio Grand South
ern, to the terminal of the May Day
| tram.
| The Las Animas County Medical So
ciety has decided to create medical
library in Trinidad for the use OF the
physicians in the various counties OF
southern Colorado.
1t is estimated that ten months will
be required to build the Moffat road
|
reaches the entrance, which will be in
a week or two.
Bishop Cranston of the NJ. z.
| Church, formerly of Denver, was mar
ried to Miss Lucia NJ. Parker at Gin
cinnati, Ohio, on the 18th inst, Bishop
Moore officiating.
Eliza Thomas. convicted at Golden OF
criminal assault on his wife's fourteen
| II tetn cnr,fn Iuhpa
France to three years in the State Pen
| itentiary at Canon City.
Henry ]. Teller, son of Senator Tel
| Ter, was married to Miss Minnie Trum-
bull at Grand Junction on the 14th
| inst. They will live on fruit ranch
near Grand Junction.
Five new tents have been dedicated
| by the Jewish Consumptives' Relief
| Society at their sanitarium at Edge
| water in the suburbs of Denver. Forty
| patients have been enrolled.
Camp Henry w. Lawton. No. 2, Of
| the Society of the Army of the Phil
| ippines, will erect monument in
| memory of departed soldiers in Ever
| green cemetery at Colorado Springs.
James E. Burgess, a prominent
| farmer living in the Box Elder valley,
six miles northeast of Fort Collins.
died on the 14th inst, as the result OF
| injuries received in runaway.
Aaron Woods, pioneer ranchman
| and miner of Golden and a veteran OF
the Civil War, died at Gallup, New
| Mexico on the 18th inst, while on his
| return from a trip to California.
The Sunday closing law was en-
| forced in Victor for the first time on
the 18th inst, effectively, the officers
| claim. The saloons in the whole Grip
| pie Creek district were shut up tight.
Charles Reardon, Rio Grande Sec
| tion foreman near Buena Vista, was
struck by passenger train and killed
| November 18th. He had been a section
| foreman on the road for sixteen years.
Percy Ellis, the three-year-old son of
| Normal Ellis, was instantly killed near
| Berthoud on the 10th inst, by falling
under the wheels of loaded beet
| wagon, which passed over the child's
head.
President c. w. Sells of the Mani
tou & Pixies Peak cog road has closed
! centracts.for several glass cars. Glass
will be used exclusively from the floor
| to the roof The ends will be-
rounded
The residents and ditch companies
| of Chaffee and Fremont counties are
| preparing to contest the use of the wa
| ter rights from the Arkansas river,
near Buena Vista, which were recently
acquired by the Otero district.
William Jennings Bryan is the
grandfather of young Coloradan,
whose mother is Mrs. w. H. Leavitt,
Mr.. Bryan's daughter. The youthful
statesman was born at the Lafayette
hotel in Denver on the 10th inst.
A special election will be held in
Greeley, Tuesday, December 2Gth, for
the purpose of voting on the question
of issuing 100000 bonds to supple
ment the $25O,000 bond issue voted last
| spring to be used in increasing the
city's water supply.
William Ehrenfeld. the Colorado
| Springs young man who was thought
| to have been murdered near Durango
| four years ago. but who appeared at
| Whiting, Kansas, about a month ago
in the last stages of consumption, died
in that city on the 9th inst.
Governor Mcdonald of Colorado and
| Governor Brooks of Wyoming eX-
changed greetings on the completion
of the wireless telegraph station at
Cheyenne last week. Their messages
| were HOl 81 NtlSHtN " Wv ci taA tiiS
| light air of Colorado and Wyoming.
w. B. Lewis, general manager of the
| South Canon Coal Company, with Of
fees in Denver. has been appointed by
Governor Mcdonald to succeed the late
| James j. Cone as member of the
| board Of trustees of the State School
of Mines. Mr.. Lewis is a graduate of
the school.
A new German benevolent society
with hard name has been organized
| in Denver 1t is called the Oestreicher
| Kranken Unterstutzungs Verein, and
| is organized for the care of the sick,
| the establishment of brotherly love,
consideration for the unfortunate and
| for general charitable and fraternal
| work.
Miss Katherine Nanbaugh. the aged
woman who is now in the Sisters hos
| pital at Trinidad, after working for
more than forty years in mans
clothing and being known as a man,
has declined an offer of free home in