The Springfield herald., 1906-10-05
COLORADO NEWS ITEMS

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come a member of the United States
National Amateur Athletic Association.
| A cabbage exhibited by w. S. Brown
at Florence is five feet in circumfer-
ence and weighs nearly forty-hve
pounds.
Col. James w. Penrose. for many
years special agent for the Union Pa
cific, and !. veteran of the Civil War,
died at Denver on the 2Gth ult
Paul Hentchel, a saloon keeper of
counts of violating the state law
against selling liquor on Sunday.
The director of the mint at Washing
ton on the 2Gth ult., purchased 200.-
900 ounces of fine silver at 6S.76 cents,
to be delivered at the Denver mint.
| The girl students at the State Nor
NAL School at Greeley still quite gen
orally keep up the custom, inaugurated
| some two years ago, of going without
hats.
l.. N. Zalinger, formerly publisher Of
the Denver Eye, has started new
| weekly paper In Denver. the South
Denver Sun. which will advocate Re-
publican politics.
A good many cases of typhoid fever
|
the past month Diphther,a and scar
let fever have been less prevalent than
usual at this season of the year.
The application of w. A. Merriell, X.
F. Shelley, A. A. Belts, e. j. Dalton
and o. d. Belts. to organize the First
National Bank of Fruita, with $4,000
| capital, has been approved by the
comptroller of the currency.
Walter L. Barnes. for four years IL
brarian at Albany, New York has been
appointed assistant librarian at the
Buckingham library, University of Col
| who has rendered her resignation after
serving three hears as assistant.
On complaint of the State Bureau of
| Child and Animal Protection Harry
Mulholland of Denver. was fined SIS
| and costs for restricting his horse to
diet of six quarts of oats a day with
out any hay or other ''roughness."
Mrs. Rebecca Eaton. wife of the late
| ex-Gov. B. II. Eaton, will give a $4,000
pipe organ to the Park Congregational
Church at Greeley, to commemorate
the life and character of her daughter,
Mrs. Jennie Eaton-Petrikin, who died
recently.
Supervising Architect Taylor, of the
Treasury Department. is expected to
arrive in Denver December list to ex-
anime the sites that have been offered
for the new Denver postoffice building.
Congress has appropriated $5OO,OOO for
the purchase of a site.
By the use Of y team of forty-eight
| oxen. Senator Clayton has constructed
bitches on marshy land north of Gree
ley, whereby $50 acres of land has
been drained. This laad will now be
valuable for garden purposes and will
be plated in five-acre tracts.
William Dalton, the 16-year-old boy
, accused of the murder of his uncle, j.
| NJ. Gard. in a quarrel at Palmer Lake,
| was convicted of involuntary man
| slaughter in the District Court at Colo
| rado Springs. Sentence, which was
deferred, may be from one day to one
year in the county jail.
Mrs. Emma Craig, wife of the Rev.
| William Bayard Craig, pastor of the
Central Christian Church at Denver.
| died at Denver September 2Gth after
an illness of more than d year. She
| was the victim of stomach trouble and
| died after an operation which was un-
| dertaken as last resort.
The Carbon Coal & Coke Company
which is opening extensive mines in
Riley canon near Trinidad. has let
contract for construction of fifty cot
tages for miners. Cement blocks will
| be used in construction. but instead of
gravel being ground for the manufac-
ture of the blocks, coke e'aze will be
used.
| Leonard Imboden and James A. Hill,
convicted of wrecking the Denver Saw
| ingS Bank, and now serving time in
| the penitentiary at Canon City, have
| through their attorney, l.. S. Smith,
| filed a brief in the Supreme Court sup
Elementary to those already filed in
support of their motion fol a super
| sedeas
The Henry Baab and Baub Brothers
ranch in Reebe Draw dist.ict, fifteen
miles south of Greeley, l.7G0 acres,
with all live stock and fai ming imple-
ments has been sold to II. Martyr,
retired banker of Columbus, Ne
braska. for $4,000 Mr.. Martyn owns
A big cattle and sheep ranch near
Deer Trail.
Through orders of Director of the
Mint Roberts from Washington. the
output of subsidiary coin will be
doubled at the Denver mint, necessi
tatins an increased capacity and work
ing force frank NJ. Downer, super
intendent of the Denver i1int, is eX-
pecting instructions to cease his coin
age of silver dollars but to double his
capacity for smaller coins.
At the annual meeting of the Cripple
Creek Central Railway Company, held
at Portland, Maine, September 25th
Spencer Penrose of Colorado Springs
was elected a director to fill va
cancy in the board. All Of the retiring
directors were reelected. Quarterly
dividends Of u per cent. on the com
mon stock, and l per cent on the pre-.
ferred were declared, payable october
Goth.
J. C. Lawrence, aged siXty-eight, a
wealthy and successful veterinary sur
geon, died at Canon City Monday un-
der circumstances that have caused
talk of suicide. Lawrence, 1t is said,
became intoxicated during the fair the
previous week and renamed from that
time until his death in stupor. In
his room was found a bottle labeled
laudanum and it is believed that he
took about four ounces of the drug our
ing the week.
Albert Lawrence, living four miles
east of Greeley on land near the river,