The Springfield herald., 1905-12-29
COLORADO NEWS ITEMS

The second trial of Mrs. Helen
Schmidlap at Denver on the charge of
numbering her husband has been set
for January 10th.
John Leigh, aged ffty-four, was
killed on the 10th inst. between Lafay-
ette and Louisville by being thrown
from his buggy in runaway.
Sixteen designs for the proposed SOL
diers' monument at the capitol in Den
yer have been submitted and are now
on exhibition at the governors Office.
William Van Horn was sentenced In
the District Court at Pueblo to from
one to two years in the penitentiary
for murderous assault on n colored
porter.
A big clock is to be installed in the
clock tower of the city hall at Den
yer, on which the handless dials have
long reproached the folly of the mu-
nicipal builders.
Former State Labor Commissioner
]. w. Brentlinger died at Pueblo few
days ago. His funeral was held in the
Fountain Presbyterian church and was
largely attended.
There were 736 deaths In Colorado
during the month of November. or
this number twerty.six were caused by
typhoid fever, which is much less than
during the previous month.
The annual report of the Denver
Board of Public Works ending Decem-
ber 10th has been made public. In
that time $60O,7S9.5 had been ex-
pended in public improvements.
Charles G. Kennison. former presi-
dent of Miners Union No. 40, and an
active participant in labor troubles in
the Cripple Creek district. died at To.
nopah, Nevada, December 10th, OF
pneumonia.
Representative Brooks has intro
duced a bill authorizing the resurvey
of fifty townships in Baca county.
These lands were surveyed many years
ago, but the old markings are practi-
cally obliterated.
Wilson Finney, foreman for w. s.
Scott of Nederland, on the Graham
killed December 18th by an explosion
of dynamite which he was handling.
He leaves a widow and three children.
A Washington dispatch says that
Lyman L. Pierce. formerly of Denver,
for the past five years general secre-
tary of the Young Mems Christian As
sociation, has resigned, to take enect
December 81, on account Of impaired
health.
Ten loaded coal cars at the Garfield
coal mine at Coal creek in some man
ner started down the tipple into the
mine, and after travelling at almost
lightning speed for nearly 1000 feet.
struck the face OF the coal and most
of them were demolished.
The citizens of Boulder have just fin-
ished raising funds amounting to more
than $4,000, for the erection of
Young Mems Christian Association
building Boulder has never had an
association, but is preparing to start
in the right way with an adequate
home for its young men. This will be
the second building to be owned by a
Y. NJ. c. A. in Colorado.
The Greeley correspondent Of the
Denver Republican says: The people
in Ault and vicinity are agitating the
propriety of dividing Weld county into
two parts. The proposed division
would be made few miles north OF
Greeley. All the country north Of that
line would be known as Ault county,
with Ault as the county seat. and Gree.
ley would remain the county seat OF
the southern tract.
Nearly twenty-eight miles of sewers
have been constructed in Denver this
year. There are now fifty-seven miles
of streets surfaced with disintegrated
granite. The paved streets OF Denver
measure 35.f4 miles. And there are
nearly 219 miles Of sidewalks In the
city limits. The total value of the pub
lie improvements in the city under the
- H. Il Nf Dbl, yo
is placed at 3s,5S5 ,S04.32.
A Cheyenne dispatch says that 81
mon Smith, the richest colored man
in Wyoming; ]. r. Booth and Albert
Jones have purchased the Half-Dia-
mond-Dot ranch, in South Park. Colo
RADIO, for $105,375. and will take charge
of the property July 1st Smith, who
started his fortune at Cheyenne few
years ago as city garbage removal con-
tractor, has $4,000 interest in the
deal. The ranch is to be managed by
Smiths twenty-year-old son Carl, who
is the champion negro broncho buster
of Wyoming.
Is Denver a seaport? Charles l..
Tut of Colorado Springs has named
Denver as the port of entry OF his
yacht, the Anemone. On the 14th Inst.
mile trip around the Horn to San
Diego, California. 1t will arrive there
about April and Mr.. and Mrs. Tutt and
party will take n three months cruise
around the waters of southern Califor-
mia. In June and July they u go far
ther north to Puget sound, where Mr..
Tut can oversee his great copper
property at Waldo, Oregon.
The following new patents have been
issued to Coloradans: Robert Fl. Bow
man, Canon City, combination tool;
Peabody A. Brown, Denver. thermo-
stat; Walter C. Cunningham and w. A.
Stebbins, Denver, edge ironing and
shaping machine; Frank II. Franken-
burg, Pueblo, lawn mower; Henry w.
Gremmels. Denver, combined socket
and plug for incandescent lamps; Kate
Mercer, Greeley. attachment for pickle
casters: Herman p. Neptune, Boulder.
shingle gage; David Plattner, Denver,
hay stacker; George w. Skinner, Jr.,
Denver. centrifugal pump.
Mrs. Mary Weston died at her home,
near Buena Vista, December 18th, at
the age of ninety years. She was the
oldest settler living in the valley, hav-
ing lived in the stone house where she
died for nearly forty years. She came
to Colorado in the early sixties, cross