The Springfield herald., 1906-11-30
COLORADO NEWS TIMES

Inc santa = Z ftallTOau company VIII
spend 100000 on the yards OF the COM
paEy in Trinidad. The freight depot
will be moved up near the passenger
depot and enlarged.
Six thousand eight hundred and
sixty-seven books have been added to
the library Of the University of Colo
rcdo during the last year. Two wings
are n be added to the present library
building.
Chancellor Buchtel, governor-elect,
made the principal address at the deii-
cation of the new Methodist church at
Greeley on Sunday, the 18th inst. The
building is fine one and will seat
thousand people.
The Denver Fire and Police Board
has passed resolution that there shall
be no increase of the number of sa-
looms in the city. New licenses will be
granted only us old ones are reln-
quished OF revoked.
DR.. Duren ]. Ward, anthropologist in
the State University of Iowa, will move
TO Boulder next winter, to continue his
Investigations of the American Indian.
He will be affiliated with the Unitarian
movement near Boulder.
The Crystal River G San Juan rail
road was completed to Marble. Gunni-
son county, November 23d, and the
people of Marble celebrated the event
with no little jubiation. This means
the opening up of vast deposits Of val
liable marble.
The Durango alleged horse and cat
tie thieves, Red Satriano and Edward
Ducgan. who were trailed by the Du-
range sheriff into New Mexico. went to
Gallup. The sheriff at Gallup captured
the horses and camping outfit, but the
men got away.
Lieut.. L. L. Scranton. U. S. N. has
been detached from duty in charge of
the navy recruiting station at Denver
and ordered 20 the naval station at
Tutui.a. Samoa for duty He will be
relieved at Denver by Lieut.. ]. II. Com
fort.
Actuated. 1t is believed. by jealousy,
David Babb shot and killed his cousin.
Bennett Berlus. at the ranch of the
latter near Earl, about twenty miles
east of Trinidad. on the Santa Fe rail-
road, on November 21st. Babb
mounted his horse and escaped.
Resolutions upon the discharge of
the colored companies of the Twenty
fifth United States infantry were
passed at meeting in Zion church,
Denver, attended by about 600 colored
people, A copy was sent to President
Roosevelt, asking a modification OF the
order.
COY. Jesse F. Mcdonald. with the
consent of the pardoning board. has
issued an unconditional pardon to
Eugene Scott, wellknown mining
man of Victor, who was convicted in
the District court of Teller county a
year ago of murder. 1t is claimed that
the evidence against Scott was not
fully reliable.
A peculiar accident occurred on the
18th inst, ten miles north of Central
City. The fourteen-year-old son OF Mr..
and Mrs. Tom Tresay, while out hunt
ing rabbits, leaned his shotgun against
stump and his dog knocked 1t down.
causinP its discharge. The shot struck
the boys right arm above the wrist in
ficting a very bad wound.
There seems to be no room for doubt
that Judge James NJ. Ellis of Denver
as burned to death in the recent hotel
fire at Goldfield, Nevada. Judge Ellis
cume to Denver in 1856 as receiver OF
the land office and afterward served as
city attorney and as police magistrate.
He was horn in Mississippi and served
in the Confederate army during the
civil war.
Mr.. Fred A. Gordon. game warden
at Glenwood Springs, reports to the
state game and fish commissioner that
he Ute Indians have now been driven
back out of Colorado. About forty
Utes broke over the line into Routt
and Rio Blapco counties and killed
few deer, but all have now departed
and no further trouble is feared.
For many years, in fact, ever since the
.own was started, there have been in
Denver a number of tents occupied by
consumptives, summer and winter, and
there has always been some complaint
by persons afraid of infection. Now
the Fire and Police Board has ordered
that all tents must be removed from
within the city limits by December 1st,
which will be serious hardship to
many people.
A marble column bearing bronze
state and set up on the capitol
Grounds at Denver by the Society OF
Colonial Danes of America in Colo
RADIO. Mrs. Elizabeth G. Goddard of
Colorado Springs, president of the So
ciety. made the presentation speech.
which was responded to by Governor
Mcdonald.
1t is reported on what Is claimed to
be good authority that work will begin
two weeks on the new steam rail
way to be built ir>,o the country east
of Greeley by the Greeley Railway
company. Workimen now employed to
the number of 400, with teams. on the
Empire resrvoir in eastern Weld
county and in Morgan county, will be
brought here to grade and build the
road.
Judge Melvin. grand exalted ruler
of the Elks, has appointed Maj. A. V.
Bohn, deputy grand exalted ruler for
Colorado, Major Bohn is one of the
best known mining men of Leadville
and has been an Elk for the last fif-
teen years, having been representa-
i've of the grand lodge on several oc-
casions. He was recently elected
state senator from Lake county on
the Republican ticket.
BY a collision of two light engines
with passenger train No. G. on the
Colorado Midland, near the crest OF
the continental divide west of Lead