The Springfield herald., 1906-01-19
COLORADO NEWS ITEMS

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Score one more for Colorado. John
Sanders, the siX-months-old son of
Justice of the Peace John G. Sanders
of Florence, has cut both his eye
teeth.
The place of b. II. Freeman, COM
missioner of Phillips county. who re-
signed recently, has been filled by
Governor Mcdonald by the appoint
ment of Henry Mitchell.
The Colorado Springs Humane So
ciety has affiliated with the State
Bureau of Child and Animal Protec-
tion. DR.. w. +. Slocum is president
and w. F. Richards, secretary.
The Colorado Conference of Chari-
ties and Corrections will be in session
at Pueblo January 21st to 23d. 1t will
be an important gathering with many
delegates and prominent speakers.
Louis r. Smith, the timber warden
| charged with carelessness and ineffl-
cheney in connection with the Gylles-
ten land deal, has been discharged
from Office by the State Land Board.
The secretary of agriculture has au-
thorized the issuance of permits for
the grazing of 10000 cattle on the
I Colorado part of the Medicine Bow
forest reserve and 10000 in Wyoming.
The Fort Collins Pioneer Association
was organized on the 18th inst. with
seventy-fve charter members. John
G. Mccoy was elected president; Rob
ert S. Fedder. secretary; and Mrs. w.
w. Taylor, historian.
The bell boys in the different Den
Yer hotels propose to form club and
endeavor to build hotel, to be known
as 1.-The Bells" for the use of bell
boys and other male hotel employees
exclusively.
The cases against forty-one saloon
keepers of Cripple Creek and Victor
were dismissed on agreement of the
defendants not to be open Sunday, to
pay all costs and to aid in the enforce
ment of saloon and gambling laws.
The weather bureau at Denver re-
ports that during the siXty-eight days
Intervening between October 30th and
January 9Th, there was no precipita-
tion, and only four days during that
period when bright Colorado sunshine
did not prevail.
A verdict of suicide was rendered at
Colorado Springs by the jury in the
case of e. Crane Wilson, the wealthy
Chicago shirt manufacturer who was
found dead with bullet in his brain
on the Franceville road. eight miles
east of the city.
The law library of the late Senator
e. o. Wolcott, consisting of 10000 vol
umes, has been purchased for the new
Symes block. now in course of CON
struction in Denver 1t is considered
the best collection of law books in
Colorado.
In n
known Colorado hotel man, having
been manager of the Denver Club, as
sistant manager of the Antlers at Colo
rado Springs, and manager of Hotel
Colorado at GleRwood. died at Canton,
Ohio, January 6th,
The farmers in the Arkansas valley.
north and west of Lamar, and north or
Las Animas, are rejoicing in the pros
pect of new railroad, which will be
commenced this spring and pass
through the northern part OF Prowers,
Bent and Otero counties.
While skating on Hayden's lake near
Boulder on the night of the 5th inst,
Irvine Finney, aged seventeen, broke
through the ice and was drowned.
Young Finney's father was killed by
an explosion of giant powder at Neder-
laIll Ouly uDout tNp NCthS ptioic.
Postmasters appointed: Edward b.
Wise, Cuatro, Las Animas county,
vice c. c. McWilliams, resigned;
Charles L. Huggins, Pallas, Routt
county, vice b. c. Myers, resigned;
Ollie j. Wilford, Pearl, Larimer
county. vice NJ. Crawford, resigned
January goth has been set as the
date for the farewell reception to the
a.. 90 . hn Int mt n
given by the Denver Chamber of Com
merce. The affair is to be rendered as
a testimonial 10 the officers prior to
their departure for the Philippines.
Among the commissioners selected
to test and examine the weight and
/ fneness of the coins reserved TO the
several mints during the calendar year
1905, pursuant to the provisions of sec
tion 3547 of the revised statutes, is
John l.. McNeill, Durango, Colorado.
A conference of western colleges
will be held at Colorado Springs Feb
ruary 22d and 23d. Among the main
topics discussed, in addition to foot
ball and school discipline. will be the
support of colleges which are depend
ent upon neither church nor state
treasures, but rather upon individuals.
In the District Court at Greeley
Judge Garrigues handed down an i'm
portant opinion He holds that sec
tion IA of the revenue act, exemptins
all notes secured by mortgage or trust
deeds from taxation unconstitutional,
and that it is the duty of all assessors
in the state to list such property for
taxation. The case will probably be
taken to the Supreme Court.
Governor Mcdonald has appointed
Mrs. Helen NJ. Grenfell as a member
of the board of control of the State
Home for Neglected and Dependent
Children to fill the vacancy caused by
the resignation of Mrs. Louise l.. Ar
kins. Mrs Atkins wrote a letter De
cember 18th Tesiguiug from the board,
stating that she would be unable to at
tend any OF its meetings for at least
year as she is going ont of Denver
in which the home is located.
The State Bureau of Child and Ami
NAL Protection will endeavor to have
bill passed by Congress, through the
offices OF one Of more of the Colorado
members of that body. compelling the
railroads to give live stock shipments
the right CT way over dead freight and