The Springfield herald., 1905-10-20
COLORADO NEWS ITEMS

OF erecting club building.
| Denver people are not all supersti-
tious. Four marriage licenses We're
taken out on Friday, the 18th inst.
Lewis II. Breeze, assessor of Mesa
county, died on the 18th inst. after four
months illness from appendicitis.
Mrs l.. E. Aumick was recently
drawn as a juror in the District Court
at Boulder but was excused from serV-
ing.
The interior of the state capitol
| building at Denver has been cleaned,
repaired and revarnished at cost OF
$500.
The Ell Paso County Horticultural So
! ciety has selected August 22d, 23d and
Gath of next year for the next annual
flower show.
Thomas Glieve of Colorado has been
| appointed photographic aid in the geo.
logical survey and assigned TO duty
in Washington.
The Denver Rio Grande railroad
will erect factory at Pueblo for the
manufacture of frogs-not for food,
but for railroad switches.
The people of Aspen at a special
election have voted in favor OF pur-
chasing the old water plant and
against erecting new one.
George Gouson a Denver dairyman,
had his house burned fsw days ago.
and with it 5000 in money that he had
been unwilling to trust to the banks.
Andy Adams, the famous cowboy
author of Colorado Springs. will
shortly issue a new book. Cattle
Brands dealing with his own Texas
range experiences.
Alvin Cummins, who escaped from
the State Reformatory at Buena Vista,
September 10th, was recaptured at st.
Louis and brought back by Deputy
Warden Richard l.. Shaw.
Bids will be received at the state
capitol October 21st for the construc-
tion of the Teller and Fremont county
state wagon road between the Cripple
Creek district and Canon City.
Frank Buster, charged with the muir
der of Martin O'Connor at Victor in
April last. has been released and the
case against him dismissed, there being
no evidence to warrant trial.
The State Board of Charities and
Corrections has elected DR.. Eleanor
Lawney delegate from the board to
the National soMCongress at Lin
coin, Nebraska, October 2lst to 10th.
| About 100000 was collected at the
United States internal revenue office
in Denver during the month of Septem-
Der. The territory covered by the of
flee includes Colorado and Wyoming.
good deal of damage was done in
the Uncompahgre valley by heavy
frost on the night of October 9Th.
Nearly all green vegetables were
killed and some kinds of apples badly
injured.
In order to stimulate good marks
manship in the Colorado National
! Guard Adjutant General Bulkeley
Wells is Offering handsome silver
cup as a trophy for excellence in sliir-
mish fire.
| James W.. Wilson, who was injured
by street car at Pueblo in February
of last year, has been awarded juds-
ment of $4,000 damages against the
Pueblo and Suburban Traction and
Lighting Company. The case will be
appealed.
The naval recruiting station in Den
yer has Just been closed after gather
ing in forty-six physically perfect
young men. Three-fourths of all those
who offered to enlist stood the eXamin-
| alton and were accepted. This is an
uncommonly large percentage.
The jury at Boulder in the case of
Jacinto Navarette, accused of murder
ing Yenes Was June 22d near Long
| mont brought in verdict of not guilty
| on the 10th instant. Was. Il Mexican,
was killed in fight resulting from Il
saloon quarrel in North Lonemont.
Governor Mcdonald has signed an
order for the organization of a second
section of Battery A of Victor. The
| battery will consist of thirty men with
two field pieces and will be commanded
by Major II. A. Naylor of the Second
regiment, who, it is said will resign TO
accept the captaincy.
Aaron Cove, the widely-known for
mer superintendent of Denver schools.
recently returned from the Philippines,
where he spent several months in in
| yestigating the prospects of the cane
sugar industry. Mr.. Cove thinks sugar
can be made there so cheaply that it
will eventually prove a serious menace
| to the makers of beet sugar in this
country.
At the request of DIR. William Will
son, surgeon of the batteship Colo
| RADIO, President C. w. Sells of the Man
itou & Pixies Peak Cog road has for
warded TO the ships officers an i'm
mense bas relief photograph of Pixies
peak, finished in natural coiors. Sec
retary Henry Russell Wray of the Col
orado Springs Chamber of Commerce
some time ago sent the officers a re-
| production of the famous painting of
| Lieut.. Zebulon Pike, the discoverer of
! Pixies peak.
A petition has been filed with the
state engineer by the commissioners
of Ouray county asking that a survey
| be made to determine the line which
forms the south boundary of Ouray
and the north boundary of San Juan.
| The law provides that after the engin-
eer has made the survey as requested
| the disputing counties shall so into
court and have the matter adjudicated.
There is mining property in the dis
| puted territory that neither county is
| able to assess.
Suffering from an attack of acute
| melancholia, James Mccartney, aged
sixty-eight years and farmer superin
tendent of the Ell Paso county poor
| farm, attempted suicide on the 9TH in
stant at Colorado Springs by cutting