The Springfield herald., 1906-12-21
COLORADO NEWS ITEMS

at :'ueblo. These are the first Asiatics
given employment by the smelling
company.
Kansas City papers announce that
F. G. Bonfis of the Denver Post Ia
preparing to build twenty-story Office
building in that city. to be fireproof
and cost from 100000 to 100000.
DR.. l.. F. Ingersoll. u pioneer physi.
clan Of Grand Junction. and one of the
most prominent doctors in western
Colorado, died suddenly in his office
on the Sth inst. of heart disease.
The colored orphanage at the Old
Folks Home in Pueblo was formally
dedicated with elaborate ceremonies
on Sunday, the 9th inst A number
of prominent colored people from Den
yer and other cities of the state were
present.
Harry Lee of Colorado Springs. who
has made considerable reputation by
photographing wild animals in their
native haunts. has gone to the Pacific
coast and proposes before he returns to
attempt the ascent of Mount Mckin-
ley in Alaska.
The Denver Chamber of Commerce
has appointed committee consisting
of James T. Callbreath. Jr,, George
lritch, Charles F. Onderdonk and II.
A. Lindsle! to confer with other com.
mittees In regard to a celebration or
Denyer's semi-centennial In 1908.
Boulder is ready to maintain its
own high school free from connection
with the State Preparatory School and
an effort will be made to have the in
coming Legislature do away with the
State. Preparatory School altogether,
as the university no longer needs 1t.
Ten years Imprisonment and fine of
$500 was the sentence imposed in the
federal court at Denver by Judge Rob-
ert f. Lewis on DIR. James Denslow Egg
gleston, son of President Eggleston Of
the Pacific Express Company, who was
convicted of counterfeiting and MAX
ing Photographic negatives of $40
bill.
T. S. McMurray of Denver, vice pres
ident and general manager of the
Fort Collins Electric Street Railway
Company, and G. ]. Hartman. superin-
tendent nf the electrical department OF
the Colorado & Southern. have been at
Fort Collins outlining plans for start
ing work on the Fort Collins street
railway.
A number of eastern physicians.
with d. A. Garfield and Greeley bust
ness men, are planning to build $780,
900 sanitarium on the hill south OF
Greeley. II the project succeeds DR..
George Pogue Of Greeley, who has had
long and successful experience in the
treatment of tuberculosis, will have
charge of the institution.
Frank Miller, fifteen-year-old or
phan boy, living with II. E. Keller. on
a ranch three miles northwest of
Brighton. was found dead on the 8th
inst. He is believed to have swallowed
strychnine because he feared he
would be arrested for stealing, as it
was alleged that he broke into
satchel belonging to workman and
took clothes.
Fifty Japanese arrived at the Pueblo
steel works few days ago in charge
CT one Of the Japanese employment
agents who have been bringing Asiat-
,cs recently from Pacific coast points.
lost of these men are common labor
rs, but a few are skilled in certain
ways and command fairly good wages.
This makes n total of nearly 600 Japs
IN the BE SSemer colony.
David Babb, who is charged with the
-
at Earl. thirty miles east of
i .:,ha was arraigned before Justice
of the Peace Coney at Trinidad, where
- entered a plea of not guilty and
waived a prenn,rui. hearing. He was
removed back to the county jail ana
his bond was fixed at $4,000, which he
was not able to furnish.
Word has been received of the es-
cape from the Jackson. Missouri, Jail
in Kansas City, of Henry Hurley, alias
Ed. Foley, the notorious lone high
wayman" who terrorized scores of drug
stores in Denver three years ago, and
who was sentenced last spring by the
Kansas City authorities to serve six
years for highway robbery. A reward
of 800 is offered for his arrest.
A few days ago what is known as
the w. e. Pabor house, on Seventh
street near Ninth avenue. one of the
Oldest landmarks in Greeley was
moved from where it had stood for
thirty-six years by the use of trac-
lion engine. The house, which is
two-story frame, was the handsomest
residence in Greeley when built by w,
e. Pabor, secretary Of Union Colony,
now of Florida. in 1871. 1t has lately
been used as blacksmith shop.
The Colorado-Yale Association w!il
hold its twenty-sixth annual meetlns
1t the University Club in Denver, De
cember 29th. The officers of the club
IRE anxious to obtain the names and
addresses of all Yale men who have
come to Colorado recently AMI are mo-
members Of the club. as it was desired
% have all those who have attended
Yale present at the banquet. Theron
r. Field Of the Colorado National Bank
president of the club and Frederick
H. Morley is secretary.
rhe Santa Fe Railway Company has
let contract for the extension and i'm
provement of the depot and eating
house at La Junta The depot will be
extended 100 feet, the lower portion
20 be used for waiting rooms and Of
Gee. and the two upper stories by the
Harvey company as hotel. The bag
gage shed will be built west of the de
pot. The size of the employees read
ing room will be doubled. The Wells
Fargo Express Office building will be
doubled In size.
In common with the citizens of the
other western states, the people o
| Colorado have been asked to partici
pate in the Seattle exposition Of 100!
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