The Springfield herald., 1905-10-27
COLORADO NEWS ITEMS

meet at Florence next year.
The Greeley Starch and Potato Com
pany has been Incorporated to manu-
facture starch from potatoes.
A sea gull, measuring more THAI
| four feet from tip to tip of Its wings
| was recently shot near Florence.
The new sugar factory at Holly ha!
begun operations and 1t is expected tt
handle over 10000 tons of beets thi.
| season.
Martin z. Turpin. who died at Lead
VILE ON the 18th Inst, was Civil Wal
veteran and one of the pioneers u
the camp.
west portal of the Gunnison tunnel, tt
be called Lutane, with r. e. McCollun
as postmaster.
| The Denver Republican says thai
Joel F. Vale will be candidate be
fore the next Legislature for election
to the United States Senate.
Simon Guggenheim has given $1,000
to the West Side Neighborhood house
In Denver. 1t will be made the nucleus
for fund to erect new building.
Fred l.. Paddleford has resigned as
a member of the board of control of the
State Industrial School for Girls. Ii
doing SO he did not make his reasons
public.
A Settlers Forest Reserve conven
ton, under the auspices of the Roaring
Fork and Eagle River Stockgrowers
Association has been called to meet al
GlenwOod Springs, December 1st.
John Doyle. employed in the rail
mill at the Bessemer steel works, was
drawn into the machinery. and in
stantly Killed He was twenty-five
years OF age, unmarried, and had for
merly lived In Denver. ,..Ei
Thomas C. Clayton believes he has a
good prospect for placer mining on
some land the state owns near Castle
Rock. The State Land Board has
leased him 100 acres. on the terms of a
ten per cent royalty on the gross out.
put.
The first report of the new Weather
Bureau station at Lake Moraine, on
Pixies Peak, 10000 feet above sea
level, was issued October 18th. The
instruments were imported from
France through the generosity of Gen.
w. ]. Palmer.
Fifty dollars reward is offered by
State Game and Fish Commissioner J,
w. Woodward for Information leading
to the conviction of the person or per
sons who killed two fine elk on Sleepy
Cat mountain in Rio Blanco county re-
Gently
Ex-Mayor II. c. Watsoni of Greeley
accompanied by his wife. has started
for trip around the world. A crowd
of friends met at his house the even
Ing before his departure and presented
him with a valuable pair of field
glasses.
Judge Moses Hallett, of the Federal
Court, has refused to modify an in.
junction recently issued restraining
the Ute Coal & Coke Company, OF
Durango. from trespassing on govern
ment land from which the company has
been mining coal. a..
Colorado militiamen are to be trained
In athletics, Sergeant Mckay of Troop
c. First squadron cstfairy, has been as
signed to conduct the athletic work
He will visit the various armories and
put the men through training exer-
cises. This will include various forms
of athletics. leaping, running, sword
exercises, etc.
Through the generosity of Simon
Guggenheim the State University has
acquired an. important set of plants
from Routt" connty-a region hitherto
little known to botaniSts.- He re-
Gently placed a sum of money at the
I.hisposal:of the regents for the par!
chase of museum specimens and the
collection of plants.
The favorite rife of Daniel Boone
carried by him during his hunting and
tr,lI,r II ~ in Il {- In
possession of Mrs. c. F. Perkins oi
FLORENCE She secured it through her
father. Daniel Pruitt, who was q part.
ner Of the famous hunter. On the rifle
stock is. engraved the name of Boone
| The gun is an old muZzle loader, cap
and ball weapon, and is highly pol
| ished.
| This is the way Fremont county
cackles in fhe Denver Republican:
III. A. TennisAof Florence has the most
productive hens ever raised in Ere
mont county He has one hen that has
brought off three settings of young
ones this year. four that laid every day
during the summer, spring chicken
! that is not five months old that is the
mother of thirteen young chickens, and
three that are not four months old
! that have begun to. lay"
Typhoid fever was responsible fol
forty-one deaths, In Colorado in Sep
tember, according to the health bulle
tin for that month. issued from the
office of the State Board. of Health. The
total number of deaths from all causes
was $40. There We're four fatal casas
of diphtheria and three of scarlet fever
AS compared with August, there was
an increase of eighty-siX cases of ty
phoid and a decrease of seventeen
cases of smallpox. four OF scarlet fever
and one of rdiphtheria.
Plans for escape of twenty-five pris-
oners at the Weld county jail at Gree
ley were frustrated by Sheriff Florence
and his deputies, who watched the
Jail at night and heard the prisoners
discussing the scheme. The Officers
then made. a thorough search and dis
covered foursbars gone from the top OF
the main cage and in their place bars
I of wood closely resembling the iron.
The bars haI Been sawed off by John
CumHins. the La Sale hold-up, who
had fourteen steel ! six-inch saws,
doubtless furnished by parties from
outside.
AT its last meeting. the State Board
of Audit allowed the bill of the Banks