The Springfield herald., 1905-08-25
COLORADO NEWS ITEMS

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Two shallow wells have struck oil
near Peyton, east of Colorado Springs.
Fort Collins has 2,191 children Of
school age. of whom 1852 are enrolled
in the schools.
Colorado Springs druggists have Oh
tanned damages for the seizure of Ii
uors by the city officials.
The Farmers National Bank of Ster.
ling has been authorized to begin bust
ness with capital OF $4,000.
A new society, known as the Sons
of Colorado and embracing the
younger native-born residents OF the
state, has been organized at Denver.
C. H. Ramsey. Greeley man. has
offered to pay all the expenses of a
special election to vote on PROPOSE
tion to grant him telephone fran
chise.
The widows OF three Denver firemen
who lost their lives by the deadly eff
fects of chemicals at fire in the Post
Office, have each sued the Post COM
pahy for $4,000 damages.
For more than an hour Thursday
morning the entire town of ST. Thomas,
a suburb of Sopris, was threatened
with destruction by fire. A bucket
brigade saved 1t after hard work.
The State Land Board inserted in a
deed of sale of state lands a provision
that the people of the state should
never be debarred from fishing along
the stream that runs through the land.
Engineer G. w. Thompson was killed
on the 18th inst. by the oycrturning Of
! his engine between Red Mountain and
| Silverton. The train remained on the
track and no one else was hurt.
One hundred and sixty people at
Boulder have subscribed an aggregate
of $14, 800 toward the erection of Y.
NJ. c. A. building. and there are 200
more people for the committee TO see.
George H. Whiteley, son of Former
Mayor NJ. S. Whiteley of Boulder. has
started for Oxford. England. to enter
the university there. he having been
granted a Rhodes scholarship last
spring.
Col. w. w. Ferguson, assistant quar-.
termaster general of the G. A. II. at
Denver and custodian of the war NIL
scum in the capitol building, has had
a siege of typhoid fever from which he
now seems to be recovering.
William f. Johnson. aged twenty
years. was instantly killed by the nc.
cidental discharge of Winchester
rife at Baxters station. five miles east
of Pueblo. on Saturday, the 21st inst
He had been shooting at mark.
On a petition filed before Judge Hal
lett in the federal court the independ-
ent Smelling and Refining Company at
Golden was adjudged bankrupt. The
request of the company for the ap-
pointment of a receiver was referred
to Referee Harrison.
With reservoir No. l full. and Nos. 2
and two-thirds full the city of Flor
ence has enough mountain water for
domestic use for n full year. Tho
water is secured from the head OF
Newlin creek distance OF twenty
miles from Florence.
Sixty tons of hay. valued at 5000. was
totally destroyed by fire at the STRAIT
ton ranch, south of Colorado Springs.
on the 14th inst, as n result of the
carelessness of some small boys who
threw the lighted stubs of their cigar
cites on the haystack.
John Egelin, workman in the rod
mill of the steel works at Pueblo had
his left leg burned off on the 18th inst.
by a red hot rod that became coiled
around it in coming from the rolls.
pital and the leg amputated.
A party of twenty-three boys and
girls bound for Hoehne on moonlight
picnic at late hour Thursday night
met with an accident which may cause
the death of one of the party. They
were riding on hay rack and the
team ran away.
The Colorado starch factory at Gree
ley has been sold for $4,000 to w. D.
Boutwell, of Waupeca, Wisconsin. Mr..
Boutwell, has been engaged in the
manufacture of potato starch for the
last fifteen years in different parts OF
Wisconsin. He will enlarge the Gree.
ley plant.
Leon Lenhart. aged thirtyfive years.
son of one Of the wealthiest residents
of Trinidad. was found dead under a
tree at Trinidad August goth. the top
of his head having been blown off by
bullet. All indications point to sui.
eide. although no cause for such an
act is known.
No more timber cutting will be per.
mitted on North and South Hardscrab-
Bile creeks, Fremont county. gov.
ernment ranger appeared on the
creeks recently and ordered timber
cutters 10 ueSlSt. fOf several years
timber sections have been devastated
by the choppers.
Judge Cunningham, in the District
Court at Colorado Springs. has denied
the motion for a new trial in the case
of j. b. Belford VS.. the Stratton estate,
and entered judgment for the plaintiff
in the sum of $4,000 An appeal was
granted to the Supreme Court. Judge
Bclfords claim is for services as at
torney during Mr.. Stratton's lifetime.
Seven of the twenty-one members of
the Uintah drawing pool comprised OF
Colorado Springs and Pueblo police
men and railroad men, drew numbers
at Provo County Commissioner j. B.
Rush of Pueblo drawing No. &C. The
next number was 335. the next s3S,
and larger numbers in quick success
sion. The members of the pool, who
agreed before the drawing to share all
lands secured will endeavor to secure
an entire townsite by relinquishing
crtain numbers.
The commission of MILFORD How
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