The Springfield herald., 1905-12-15
COLORADO NEWS ITEMS

1 while out duck hunting November Goth
and died Instantly.
William c. Thomas, assistant cash
Ter of the First National Bank at Den
yer, died on the 4th inst, from an at
tack OF pneumonia.
The high school students of Colorado
Springs have been ordered to disband
all their fraternities on pain of eXpul-
sion from the school.
| Customs revenue collected in Colo
rado during the past fiscal year
amounted to sl39,9Ss. while land Office
receipts reached $292,1GS.
One hundred teachers were in at
tendance at the meeting of the Arkan-
sas Valley. Teachers Association in
Pueblo, which closed December I'd.
T. ]. Dugan. president of the Ma
tional Bank of Commerce of Denver,
has decided to drill wells for artesian
water on the Gale ranch in Beaver
The comptroller of the currency has
authorized the Berthoud National
Bank to begin business with $4,000
capital. T. c. Bunyan, president; John
Bunyan, cashier.
At a special election to vote upon
the refunding of the Lake City water
in favor of the proposition, two voting
against and 210 for it.
The office building at the mouth of
the Cave of the Winds, near Manitou,
was burned on the night of the 9th inst.
1t contained a small stock of valuable
curios, which were destroyed.
The contract for the erection of the
sugar beet factory to be built at Brush
f1p tI,x, .,f ~ ,I,,,
Cd to Byhre & Co of Cleveland, Ohio.
Work will begin December goth.
The State Supreme Court has de-
cided that life insurance companies
are not subject to money judgment
unless the insured personally makes
revocation in favor of his creditors.
Albert H. Branch, formerly manager
of the Denver Gas Company and one
Of the most prominent members of the
Masonic order in Colorado, died at
Denver on the 9Th inst, of disease of
the lungs.
Some boys who were refused a ride
on the electric cars at Trinidad are
believed to have heaped rocks on the
track. throwing car off the track and
injuring one of the passengers. Miss
Gladys Bent.
Crude oil by the bucketful has been
struck at the Gwillim ranch, twelve
miles northeast of Colorado Springs,
at 800 feet. The second oil stratum
has been penetrated, and rapid prog
ress is expected.
William H. Dixon of Denver, an old
time mining man and inventor of the
Dixon ccncentrator and other mining
machinery, was killed by fall in the
C-sl -, ~ -.
county. On the Sth inst.
An election will be called at Fort
Morgan to vote bonds to construct an
electric light plant to be owned and
managed by the city of Fort Morgan
and run in connection with the water
works plant in the same building.
A New York dispatch states that the
Colorado fuel and Iron Company has
sold its c>4tire output of steel rails for
the year 1906 and practically all of the
product for the year 1907. The dis
patch estimated the output of rails at
100000 tons.
The dead body of George Lines, a
wolfer and trapper, was found in his
cabin on Lone Tree, seven miles south
of Gillette on Sunday, the Sd inst. A
coroner's jury was summoned and
acute alcoholism.
Five men were badly scalded at the
Fort Collins sugar factory on the 7th
inst. by steam from heating drum.
Charles Anderson of Chino, California,
died from his burns and Nesbit Els
more was seriously injured. The other
three were not dangerously hurt.
The receipts of the Canon City post
Office for the month of November ex-
coed that of any month during the
fiscal year and exceeded by $500 the re-
ceipts for November. 1904. Every
month of the present year has ex
ceeded the same month last year.
Harrison r. Martin, one of the best
known and most highly esteemed col
ored men of Denver, who has been en-
ployed in the office of the Board of
Public Works for the past fifteen
years December 1st. He leaves a
widow and eleven surviving children.
The Durango City Council passed a
resolution commencing President
Roosevelt for his message and another
resolution to be forwarded to Colorado
senator's and representatives, asking
them to aid the President in his eff
forts to secure railway rate legisla-
ton.
DR.. Harlan A. Trask of Colorado
Springs. who has been in the El Paso
county Jail eighteen months awaiting
action upon his application for a writ
of snpersedeas, after having been SEN
fenced to the penitentiary for six to
eight years for larceny of jewels from
a patient, has been granted new
trial.
Clifton Lowe, a Washington attor-
ney, offers to collect the sum of s13,-
$50, due the state of Colorado under
the United States laws as five per cent.
commission on sale of lands taken up
on land script. If he succeeds he will
be allowed twenty-five per cent. COM
mission on all the money secured for
the state.
Preparations are being made for the
state annual horticultural convention,
to be held Decembers27 and 29th at the
capitol building in Denver. Mrs. Shute,
secretary of the horticultural depart
ment, is receiving reports from various
parts of the state where preliminary
meetings are being held and delegates |
appointed.
The Colorado Sauatarium at BOul- |