The Springfield herald., 1905-06-16
COLORADO NEWS ITEMS


to boost Pueblo.
Adjt. Gen. Bulkley Wells left Denver
June 9th for short visit to California
He will be away week or ten days.
Gilpin county has thirteen school
districts and 1.G77 children of school
age, decrease Of eighty as compared
with last year.
BY the action of the Salt Lake con.
vention permanent headquarters of the
Western Federation of Miners will be
continued at Denver.
The Tivoli- Union brewery in Denver
was set on fire by a stroke of lightning
June I'd and burned to the ground. The
loss of building and contents is esti-
mated at about 100000.
In the Western Baseball League the
Denevr team manages to hold pretty
steadily to third place, while Colorado
Springs seems to be safely anchored
at the bottom of the list.
George w. Beardslee of Pyramid,
Colorado. has been granted permission
by the Forestry Bureau to construct
three small reservoirs within the limits
of the White River forest reserve.
Money is being raised for the con-
struction of woman's pavilion at the
tives. The sum of $4,000 is wanted,
over SIS 900 of which has already been
subscribed.
Pueblo cackles as follows in tele-
graphic dispatch r. c. Welch of East
Second street has hen which yester-
day produced an egg measuring nine
and three-fourths inches at its greatest
circumference and eight inches around
the center.
AT a conference between Director of
the Mint Roberts and Superintendent
Downer of Denver, the appointment of
Fred Fl. Chaffin as cashier of the Den
yer mint was decided upon and his
commission was made out to take ef-
feet July list.
Charles Swaney. who was sentenced
to a sixty-days'. term in the county
Jail at Grand Junction for assaulting
Judge w. A. Marsh in the office of the
latter. has been pardoned by Governor
Mcdonald. He had served one-half of
his sentence.
The Philippine veterans OF Colorado
will hold their annual reunion at Colo
RADIO Springs July 22d and 23d. There
are a large number of the boys. in the
state who belonged to the Firss Colo
other organizations.
During the last sixty days twenty
two cases of violent deaths have been
handled by the coroner of Las Animas
county and this number does not in
clude the numerous persons killed in
the mines. Murder. suicide and the
railroads contribute to the list.
Forest Supervisor ]. H. Clark is In
Colorado Springs preparatory to in
auguarating the work of planting 50,-
900 Nebraska seedlings in the Pixies
Peak forest reserve. Approximately
1000, 900 feet of dead timber will be
sold of the south reserve this year.
The Board of County Commissioners
OF Pueblo county has formally ac-
cepted the offer of Orman & Crook.
bondsmen. to pay to the county treas
urer the sum of $3.3l2.90, which is the
amount Pueblo county actually lost by
the failure of the Bank of Pueblo in
1893.
Mike Hanak, the four-year-old son OF
Mr.. and Mrs. Clyde Hanak of Marshall,
in Boulder county. while picking flow
ers for the commencement exercises
on hill near Marshall, was fatally bit
ten by rattlesnake. He was bitten
about 12 O'Clock Saturday morning,
June Sd, and died at . O'Clock the same
evening.
A contribution of 81 500 has been
made jointly by the Denver & Rio
Grande, the Colorado & Southern and
the Colorado Midland railroads TO the
Grand Army general executive com
mittee for the fund to be used in the
entertainment of the delegates to the
National G. A. II. encampment at Den
yer next September.
The following Colorado postmasters
have been appointed: Richard T.
Shockley aHaswell, Kiowa county, vice
]. C. Allen. resigned; James f. Jones
Howbert, Pitliin county, vice A. b
Hale, removed; Ira B. kutch, Sanborn
Lincoln county, vice G. Harrison, re.
moved; Matte Mott. Watkins, Adams
county, vice NJ. A. o'Reilly, resigned.
Chief Game Warden F. A. Gordon, To-
Gated at Glenwood Springs, has writ
ten to Commissioner Woodland that he
has caused the arrest of A. F. Koehler
on a charge of polluting the Frying
Pan river by dumping lime into it at
his lime kilns. Koehler was taken be-
fore justice at Meredith and fined $25
and costs, amounting to $3G.75.
Carl Chamberlain, one of the execu'
tors of the Stratton estate, was Sc
verely but not dangerously injured in
an automobile accident two miles north
of Sedalia. He was on his way home
from Denver when bolt of lightning
stunned him and before he could stop
the machine it went off bridge and
landed upon its side in the creek nine
feet below.
May Wood and Ethel Robinson. two
girls nineteen and twenty years of age
respectively, who escaped from the In
dustral school near Denver during the
recent fracas, were caught by Sheriff
Thomas and Marshal Russell at La
mar and sent back to the institution,
When arrested they were dressed in
boys clothing and had been beating
| their way in box car.
| The board of control has decided
that any measures. no matter how