The Springfield herald., 1905-05-12
COLORADO NEWS ITEMS


30th.
The school census just taken at Fort
Collins shows 2.O66 persons of school
age, being an Increase of 224 over last
year.
The Colorado & Southern railroad
has decided to extend its line to Apex,
distance of seven miles from Black
! Hawk, this summer.
corporation has been formed to
build a large block in Longmont, in
which there will be plenty of room for
an enlarged postofIice.
A miners drilling contest will be
one of the features OF the Boulder
ChautauQua on the Fourth of July. Au-
tomobile races will be another attrac-
ton.
A movement is on foot In Denver
to build a gymnasium, bath house and
free reading room for boys. adjoining
Rev. Thos. II. UZzels Peoples Taber-
nackle.
Joel F. Vale, at recent meeting of
| the directors of the Denver & Rio
Grande held in New York city, was
| elected to succeed the late Edward o.
| Wolcott.
| 1t is said to be definitely decided
that the Colorado & Southern will
| operate motor cars between Denver
and Boulder some time between now
and fall.
C. E. Mcconnell, the newly elected
mayor of Durango. has taken a firm
stand for municipal ownership of the
lighting plant, street railway and
| sewer system.
Ex-Governor John L. Routt, whose
health has been quite precarious of
late, is said to be getting much
stronger. He lives at the Metropole
hotel in Denver.
The case involving the right of
the city of Denver to issue bonds for
the building of an auditorium will be
argued before the Supreme Court Of
the state May 10Th.
Judge Riner in the federal court at
Denver has decided that the Pullman
Car Company is not liable for the state
fee sought to be imposed on itS in
crease of capital stock.
For the third time since the first
of the year Donado Fata. prominent
Italian storekeeper at Trinidad, has
been taken to the State Insane Asylum.
He became violent and attempted to
hurt his family.
John O'Neill. pit boss, and Frank
Carmaletto and James Roe. miners.
were killed by the caving of great
mass of rock in the Starkville mine of
the Colorado Fuel & Iron Company on
the morning of May 5th.
E. H. Wilson. tried in the district
court at Pueblo on the charge of false
registration. was found guilty. The
case will be taken to the Supreme
! Court on the plea that the Booth regis
| tration law acts as bar to convic-
ton.
An offer has been received by the
Denver Juvenile Improvement Associa-
ton from E. p. George to give large
| plot of ground, between Eleventh and
| Twelfth avenues, two blocks south of
| City Park, as a playground for chill
| dren.
Mrs. Eldora Steele. &c years of age,
who has lived in Elyria for several
years, recently made the 1,00O-mile
| journey from Denver to Santa Ana.
Cal, to be married to II. w. Hill of
Los Angeles, who is three years her
senior.
Receipts at the Denver mint for the
month of April amounted to $2.2S6.916.
The government is preparing to begin
the coinage of money at the mint in
August or September. Gold and silver
are now being stored in anticipation
of this.
The great religious revival at Canon
City closed on the night of April Gath.
There were 934 conversions reported
and 81, 400 in money was contributed.
The Rev. Mr.. Sunday was given free
will offering Of $2,100 before leaving
for Chicago.
w. r. Armstrong, secretary of the
Durango Board of Trade, has had
rubber expert investigating the coun-
try around Durango, and finds that
the rubber plant grows extensively
there. In one place there is more than
10000 acres of it.
At the annual meeting of the Denver
Union Depot and Railway Company,
$500 was voted towards the fund for
the Welcome" arch to face the depot
at the foot of Seventeenth street. The
old officers and directors of the COM
pany were reelected.
The government has purchased from
John w. Springer $40 acres OF land
near Parker, twenty miles south OF
Denver, on Cherry creek, to be used
as a target range for soldiers stationed
at Fort Logan. A new range will be
installed next year.
BY the collapse or the west COl1ax
bridge over the Platte river in Denver
May I'd. three wagons loaded with
brick, together with the teams and
drivers, were precipitated into the
stream. Two horses were caught in
the ruins of the bridge and drowned.
State Senator Fred w. Parks has
filed quo warranto proceedings in the
Supreme Court against Lieutenant
Governor Cornforth. The fight is over
the office OF lieutenant governor, which
Senator Parks claims by virtue of be-
ing president pro TEN of the Senate.
The court has decided to take original
jurisdiction in the matter and the re-
turn is set for May 4th.
BY an order of the Supreme Court
in the Parks-Cornforth contest suit
over the lieutenant governorship, Sen
ator Cornforth is given until May 25th
to file his brief and Senator Parks
has until June 1st to file his. Senator
Cornforth will then have until June 5th
to reply If he so desires. On the 25th
of May the court will announce the
date for the oral arguments.
The following new Colorado patents