The Springfield herald., 1905-03-24
COLORADO NEWS ITEMS

A Democratic club house Is to be
opened at Colorado Springs in the
rooms of the old Crescent club.
Rural route No. has been ordered
established April 18th at Collbran.
Mesa county, serving 3G4 people and
ninety-one houses.
State Treasurer Holmbers says that
county treasurers are making good
progress in collecting taxes.
On April 4th the Colorado Court OF
Appeals will go out of existence, being
consolidated with the state Supreme
Court.
A suit has been appealed to the state
Supreme Court which will test the
right OF a county judge to grant ali
mony in excess of $4,000.
The blacksmiths of Boulder have en-
tered into an agreement to raise the
price of work done by them, because
of the increased price of material.
Nicholas Miller, while at work on
the roof of the Capital Ice Company's
plant at Denver on the 18th inst,
touched a live wire and was instantly
killed.
The postoffice fight which has been
going on for several weeks at Pueblo
has been settled and Mr.. N. S. Wal
pole has finally received his commits
sion as postmaster.
The Colorado & Wyoming railroad Is
making arrangements to open num-
ber of new coal fields in Las Animas
county this summer preparatory to
opening them next fall.
William NJ. Danner has just been
elected as general secretary of the
Young Mems Christian Association of
Denver for the eighth year. The board
also voted to raise his salary.
The teachers institute of the Fifth
normal district, comprising the coun-
ties of Teller, Ell Paso, Douglas and
Elbert, will be held in Colorado
Springs during the week of July 31st.
The Greeley starch factory began
operations on the 18th inst. Four
tons of potatoes were consumed the
first day, but it is expected that up
wards of fifty tons day will be used
soon.
The Grand Valley Fair Association
has filed amended articles OF incorpor-
alton with the secretary of state
changing the name to the Mesa
County Industrial and Fruit Fair Asso
citation.
kid" Mccoy, local prize fighter,
and S. harrisburg, got into a fight at
Salida on the night of the 18th inst,
in which eleven shots were fired, but
nobody hit-not even an innocent by
stander.
II. Clay Cowles, one OF the oldest
and best known prospecto-s in Clear
Creek county. was found dead in bed
in a cabin at Georgetown on the morn
ing of the 18th inst. His death re-
suited from dropsy.
A Cheyenne dispatch says that that
city and Laramie are preparing to
send teams to the firemen's tourna.
ment at Fort Collins July 4th to COM
pete for the $1,000 in prizes to be of.
fered on that occasion.
The report of the State Board OF
Health shows that there were 8s1
deaths and 81 still births in Colorado
during the month of February last
past. This shows death rate of a
little over nineteen per thousand per
annum.
The city of Pueblo has become the
owner of the big tract of land known
as the Cranton claim, paying $10.7S5
for it. This land is situated near Min
eral Palace park and will be added
to the park. A part of it will be con
verted into lake.
The Bank of Eaton has consolidated
with the First National bank of Eaton.
A. C. Adams, formerly manager of the
Eaton sugar factory, has been elected
to the presidency of the bank to sue
ceed w. w. Sullivan. whose resigna-
tion takes effect April 1st.
The application of John S. Cusack
of Ames, Nebraska; c. Cusack, Robert
Scott, Joseph II. Scot, NJ. c. Cusack,
and others, to organize the First Ma
tional Bank of Wellington, Colorado,
with $25,OOO. has been approved by
the comptroller of the currency.
Mrs. Lillian NJ. N. Stevens and Miss
Anna A. Gordon, president and vice
president of the National Woman's
Christian Temperance Union, will
have a reception at Denver April 5th,
on their way to Los Angeles to ar
range for the national convention next
October.
On the night of March 10th at Buena
Vista, as result of an article in the
Colorado Republican. Editor Gilbert A.
Walker was waylaid at the corner of
the city park by Hugh Stewart sa-
loonkeeper, and terribly beaten about
the head with a rock and Stewards six
shooter.
Bob Womack, the Father of Cripple
Creek" Is said to be gradually dying
from paralysis at Colorado Springs and
physicians hold out but little hope for
his recovery. Womack was thought
to be dying some months ago, but re-
covered and until recently was thought
to be out of danger.
The first woman to be admitted to
the Union Printers home at Colorado
Springs Is Mrs. Anna V. Wilson, who
arrived there March 18th from Wash
ington, D. c., suffering from tubercu
losis. Her husband is an employe of
the government printing office in
Washington, both being members of
the International Typographical Union.
James H. Orr who is credited with
being the fifth man on the site Of
Greeley, and who was the first man
who ever turned a furrow in the soil
of Greeley. died at his ranch home just
north of Greeley on the 18th inst of
pneumonia. In the Civil War he was
a member of the crew of the United
States frigate Santee. He had lived
OF Grepley since 1870