The Springfield herald., 1906-11-16
COLORADO NEWS ITEMS

was run Sunday, the 4th inst.
The Denver branch of the Needle
work Guild of America will distribute
G.600 garments among unfortunate and
needy families in Denver this year.
Thanksgiving day concerted effort
will be made at Colorado Springs to
raise fund for the proposed 100000
deaconess hospital. A genera collec'
tion will be taken in all the churches.
The Jewish Free Loan Society at
Denver, organized to lend money with.
out interest to needy and worthy per.
sons, has loaned over 1000 during
the past three years without losing Il
cent.
The Presbytery of Denver at a re-
cent meeting adopted resolutions in
honor of the late Prof Thomas Nelson
Haskell, the founder of Cutler Acad-
emy and Colorado College at Colorado
Springs.
A movement is on foot to secure
the erection of a $4,000 Y. NJ. C. A.
building in Canon City next summer.
A bequest of S25,000 by the late F. A.
Reynolds will serve as a nucleus for
the fund.
The Northern Colorado Poultry AS.
scciation. which will give a show at
Boulder December 18th to 18th, in
elusive, has already secured the prom
ise of twenty silver cups to be
awarded as prizes
The Denver & Rio Grande railroad
will erect n handsome new depot at
Canon City next spring at a cost OF
about $4,000. The present building
will be removed to another site and
used as freight depot.
Harrison Parks, town marshal of La
fayette committed suicide on the 1th
inst. by shooting himself through the
head. Domestic trouble is supposed
to have been the cause of his action.
He was fifty-two years old and leaves
wife and five children.
On the Sth inst. Andrien Adamson, a
driver in the mine at Tertio. near Trim
idad was killed while going out with a
train of cars. He fell off the driveway
and broke his neck. Andriccon Jar
milo. Mexican working in Tertio.
was killed the same day by fall of
rock.
According to report which has
somehow gained circulation in the Jap
anese colony at Denver. NJ. Yakutom',
the Japanese leper who escaped from
quarantine near Majestic. Colorado.
and was spirited out OF the United
States by his countrymen, fell or
Jumped overheard while en- route to
Yokohama, and was drowned
Frank Job. night boss at the Hast
ings mine of the Victor Fuel Company
near Trinidad, was killed on the 3d
inst. by lump of coal crushing his
breast He was standing fifty rect
from the explosion of a shot, which
has always been regarded Il safe dis
lance. He was thirty-eight years old
and leaves Il widow and two children.
An Albuquerque, New Mexico, dis
patcn of the 7th inst. says: A sheep
man named Charles w. Darnell. from
Windsor, Colorado, was run over ana
killed in the Santa Fe yards at Belen,
New Mexico, this morning. He was
walking along the track with com
panion when he was knocked down by
train and ground to death under the
wheels.
Every Coloradan away from nome
in the state will be offered an oppor-
tunity to go home for the Christmas
holidays, through the action of the
Colorado Passenger Association,
which has arranged for holiday rates
VARYING from one fare for the round
trip on the mountain roads to fare
and a third for the round trip on the
prairie roads.
Thomas Freel of Eaton died at the
Greeley hospital on the 4th INST. OF
stomach trouble. He had resided in
Weld county for thirty years and
twenty years ago he was one OF the
most daring cowboy riders of the
range. During the last ten years OF
his life he has been in the stock
business and owned a string of valu-
able running horses.
A report was made TO Governor Nc
Donald on the Sth inst. by the snccial
examining committee appointed 10
make regular examination ol th@
state treasurer's books. The eXamlna'
ton extended over a period from May
LIST to October 18th. the present bal
ance on hand being S2.751 .1Gs.3S. Tine
committee is composed of II. b. Mri-
nix, a. s. Wilson and Richard X. Kirk
The state fish and game department
has received notice of one of the big
gest payments of fine ever sent mo
the office The case was tried twice
in Meeker. the first jury disagreeinS'
and the defendant, J. d. Clark. was
forced to pay SDO all CuStS, liie ih'''i
amounting to $l76.90. He was con
victed by jury of having Illegally i'll
his possession the parts of five deer.
f. X. Smith and a number of other
Fort Lupton capitalists will build a
big reservoir costing $4,000 in the Vi
clnity of Fort Lupton. from which
some $4,000 acres of now non-irrigab.c
land will be brought under cultivation.
Tho reservoir is intended to conserve
the surplus over appropriated waters
Of the Fulton ditch and draw on thH
food and seepagc water OF the streams
in that vicinity.
The body of the man found dead on
the Union Pacific railway tracks near
tAe deDot at Evans has been Identified
AS that of Adam Cock, potato picker,
who had worked for w. w. Fisher.
Cocks head and upper part OF his
Bcdv was crushed by Il freight. Marks
or the legs, which We're uniniured by
the cars. indicate that the man had
bcen stabbed with a knife. and there
are indications that he was murdered
and thrown on the track 10 avoid sus-
picion.
As soon as Adjutant Albert NJ
Southworth of the Denver division of
the Salvation Army is able to collect
$500 he will establish in this city the
only Salvation Army industrial home