The Springfield herald., 1906-11-23
COLORADO NEWS ITEMS

the use of the city officials OF Denver.
The Colorado Fuel & Iron Company
recently shipped trainload of twenty
cars of fence wire TO Ottawa. Kansas.
The newly elected governors name
Is pronounced as il 1t were spelled
Booktle, with the accent on the book" !"
"Buck-tell' and "Buchtle" are both in
correct.
a sugar beet recently brought to
the Greeley factory by Gordie McMil-
Ian of La Sale weighed twenty-one
pounds when trimmed and ready for
grinding.
A reduction of twenty-five per cent
| on telephone charges will become ell
fective at Florence December list, and
the rate en- Canon City conversations
will be reduced.
The Grand Junction sugar factory
recently turned out 1929 bags OF
sugar in one day and the seasons pro
duction is expected to exceed 100000
bags, as against $4,000 last year.
A colonization syndicate of Geneseo.
Illinois. has bought $500 acres of land
in the San Luis valley, the. price being
stated at about $4,000. 1t is planned
to settle the tract with Sandinayians.
| Paymaster U. G. Amman, retired,
United States navy, has been ordered
to duty as pay officer, purchasing pay
officer and general storekeepeE at the
naval hospital at New Fort Lyon
| Colorado.
The Buckhorn plaster mill, about six
miles west of Loveland, was burned
before daylight on the morning OF the
10th inst, being total loss. The loss
on mill and stock is estimated at va
| i,,r
Levi Balm. aged twenty-three, while
oiling machinery at the Fort Collins
sugar factory, was caught by belt
on the 11th inst. and so injured that he
died the same day. One arm was torn
| from his body and one leg fractured
Most of the apparatus for the new
| Trojan powder works at OVerton,
| eight miles north of Pueblo, has ar
rived. The buildings are almost COM
pleted and it is thought the manufac-
ture of powder will be started before
December 1st.
James Mitchell was found on the
11th inst. In a starving condition In his
cabin at Picton, near Walsenburg, and
died after being taken to a hospital at
Pueblo. He was but little known and
had not been seen for eleven days be-
fore his death.
Mrs. Annie Duncan has brought suit
against the Denver G Rio Grande rail-
road, in the District Court at Colorado
Springs, to recover $1,000 for the loss
of her son. Leslie R. Duncan. who was
killed November 10. 1905, while EN-
ployed as switchman.
David Matthias, of the freshman
class of the State Agricultural College
at Fort Collins. lost all the fingers of
his left hand at the second joint on
the 14th inst, while at work with
blzz-saw in the college shops. Ma
thas is from Monte Vista.
Thomas Metcalf was found dead on
Mount Hayden, near Ouray. on the 1lth
inst. He was at work alone on n min
ing claim and is believed to have fallen
from the dump on account Of heart
disease. Metcalf was about sixty years
of age and had lived in Ouray for ten
years.
Mrs. James Weste, seventy years of
age, was robbed Of $50 on the road
between Victor and Goldfield on the
night of the 10th inst. Two brutal foot
pads led her away from the road and
roughly searched her person, finding
the money which she had secreted in
one of her stockings.
The applications of B. N. Freeman
| of Durango, w. C. Chapman, Frank
Eldredge, e. NJ Hampton, b. G. Hamp-
ton and A. T. Sullenberger to organ
ize the First National Bank of Pasosa
Springs, with a capital of $4,000, has
been approved by the comptroller of
the currency.
Charles Irvine. sixty years old and
an employe OF the Greeley sugar fac
! tory, who had been arrested on the
4 charge of assaulting an eight-yearold
! girl, committed suicide on the 18th
inst by shooting himself through the
head few minutes before the prelim-
I mary hearing was TO have begun.
| Patsey Butler, the nineteen-year-old
' son Of Adam Butler, pioneer of The
Cripple Creek disrrict, now located at
i Goldfield, Nevada, is said to have
| cleaned up $4,000 in stock deal in
, the Nevada camp. on an original in
vestment of few hundred dollars he
had saved Butler left the district
about nine months ago. +
Governor Mcdonald has appointed
Hon H. c. Stimson on the board of
control Of the State Industrial School
| for Girls, to succeed Attorney Freler-
| icl; S. Ellsworth, resigned. Mr.. Tits
| wort tn was Democratic appointee,
and his successor, Judge Stimson, was
candidate for governor On the Demo
cratic ticket several years ago.
State Game and Fish Commissioner
Woodland has been informed that GER
| tain hunters in Gunnison county mis-
construe the law and propose to kill
mountain sheep after January list. He
says that section one of division b of
the new law expressly forbds the kill
ing of mountain sheep at any time, and
| that it will be enforced.
John G; Canute, ranchman, was
| killed at Calnan on the nth inst.
Canute was feeding his team and was
standing in front of the animals, when
they became frightened. The horses
| knocked him down and trampled his
| PROSTATE body, also drawing heavy
wagon ever him. He died almost in
stantly of internal injuries.
4 man giving the name OF Jack Low
ney, aged about fifty, was found near
the railroad track, about 100 yards
from the depot at Marshall, in Boulder
county, on the morning of the roth
inst. with both feet crushed by the
cars. having apparently been over