The Springfield herald., 1905-07-28
COLORADO NEWS ITEMS

himself. He leaves a widow and two
small children.
During the week ending July 18th.
| 1900 tourists visited the Cripple
| Creek district. Most Of them were Ep-
| worth League tourists.
The Denver Chamber OF Commerce
| is planning a big excursion over the
Moffat road when the line is completed
/ to Hot Sulphur Springs.
Greedy is to have new city hall at
/ a cost of $4,000 and a new armory
building costing $1,000. to be rented
by the builder to the state.
Company of the First infantry. N.
G. c., was mustered out at Pueblo
| July goth. A new company to take its
| place will be organized next fall.
DIR. Charles G. Lamb. state veterin-
| arian, reports that 1t was not anthrax
but bad feed and water that killed ff-
teen head Of cattle at Amity recently
Miss Rosa NJ. Layton of Denver has
been appointed stenographer and type
| writer, and assigned to duty in tho
Denver Office of the reclamation ser
vice.
Colorado Springs and eastern capi-
'talists are interested In the develop
ment of $500 acres of promising coal
| land in La Plata and Archuleta coun.
ties.
| At Brookside, Fremont county. on
the afternoon of July 18th, Felix MOS
| chetti shot and killed Camilla Yer
| lengia, whom he accused Of having in
| suited his wife.
The old Palisades hotel at Gunnison
was burned on the morning OF the l1th
inst 1t was built about twenty-five
years ago at a reported cost of $50, 600
and was insured for considerable
| sum.
Leroy Triplett, convicted at Denver
| of the murder of Lafayette Marsh
banks on the night Of June 10th. was
sentenced by Judge Booth Malone to
term of from twenty to twenty-five
years in the penitentiary.
| E. A. Frish. senior conductor In the
Salida division. Order Of Railway Con
| ductors, committed suicide at Salida,
July 21st, by cutting his throat with
razor. His wife died last October and
he leaves one child. four-year-old
daughter.
| The new city directory now being
printed for Florence contains the
| names of 2.25S people. There are 1.200
school children in addition to LOO
young people whose names do not ap.
|
a population of 1900.
The state memorial statue to be
erected in honor of the Coloradans
who served in the Civil War. for which
$4,000 was appropriated by the last
Legislature. will be placed In front oi
the capitol building in Denver. where
the f1agpole now stands.
| Mrs Ben Davis and her two-year-old
baby boy and sixteen-year-old daughter
Alga, were hurled over a seventy-fve'
foot cliff to the bottom of the gulch in
a runaway, near Carbondale July 21st
all of them being seriously, but 1t is
hoped not dangerously, injured.
Melvin Acorn. the eager employed in
| the 10 Dandy mine on Raven hill at
| Cripple Creek, was killed on the 18th
inst, by falling off the cage and going
down the shaft 120 feet. He had gone
down to the fourth level to bring the
miners up to surface for dinner
The cornerstone of the new Simon
| Guggenheim hall, to be used as the
administration building for the State
| School of Mines at Golden, will be
laid September Both. Mr.. Guggenheim's
first donation for this building was
$4,000, which was recently raised to
$4,000.
i Pueblo people have purchased the
Western League baseball franchise SO
long held by Colorado Springs, and the
fans" at the Springs will now have to
content themselves with amateur
games. The Pueblo club begins way
down next to the bottom, where 1t left
OF at Colorado Springs.
Col. C. w. Barker. for many years
proprietor of the Barker house at Man
tou, and widely known throughout the
state, died of heart disease at Manitou
July 18th, at the age of siXty-six years.
Colonel Barker was veteran of the
Civil War, having served as comman-
der of the First Indiana cavalry.
John w. HOLES of Bradner. Ohio.
Ohio, has written to the governor that
he is coming to the G. A. r. encamp-
ment and is bringing an excellent por-
trait of Gen. James w. Denver, after
whom the city was named. He was a
soldier under General Denver, whom
he pronounces to have been capable
and efficient officer.
Governor Mcdonald has appointed
Mrs B. F. Stickley of Leadville and
Mrs. ]. d. Whitmore of Denver to be
members of the board in control
| of the Travelling Library Association
The other members of the board are
Mrs. u. y. snyder OF Greeley, Mrs "A.
NJ. Welles of Denver and Mrs. NJ. E.
Churchill of Greeley.
Word has been received at the office
of the state game and fish commits
sioner in Denver, that two prosecutions
for violation of the game laws have
been successful before a magistrate at
Paonia.5 .,Robert l.. Young was fined
$50 antl'.cSats for killing a deer out of
season.. apd A.. McAdams has been
fined $25for killing a beaver.
For the first time in nine years the
ordinances of the city of Pueblo are
being compiled. Associate City Attor-
ney John A. Martin has charge of the
work of compiling the ordinances.
Near.y 1000 have been passed since
| the consolidation of the towns which
comprise Pueblo. Little more than
| half of this number are in book form.
June was healthy month in Colo
! ! RADIO. according to the bulletin issued
by the State Board of Health. There
were G49 deaths during the month in
a population. estimated at G43A66. OF
these eix3rt-sWere from diphtheria,
seven h1Tfrn fvplfGidN and. three from