The Springfield herald., 1906-02-23
COLORADO NEWS ITEMS

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Two companies of cadets have been
organized at the University OF Denver:
Golden will make bid for. the loca-
ton of the Colorado & Southern's new
car shops.
A national golf tournament is beins
planned for the Pixies Peak centen-
NAL celebration at Colorado Springs.
Mai. Aaron Cove of Denver has been
before the Senate committee on the
Philippines in opposition to the pro-
posed reduction in the sugar tarin.
Wallace Elliott Of La Junta was
Birled: 8r.JiuaHs Jffato- Mexico, by con
tact with a live. electric wire: HIS re:
mains We're bsught home for Inter
| ment. '.'...
T. A. Gunnell, father Of Judge A. I.
Gunnell of Colorado Springs, died az
his home In Colorado Springs on the
18th. instant at the age OF eighty-hVe'
| years.
A company of Durango men belne
organized to build a. $4,000 hotel 70
headed by Giles 7. yandergrift, rom
Lofts and Charles E. Herr. Thirty
thousand dollars has been pledged.
q. George F. Doane, the man VINO TO-
| Gated Aspen, and who later located the
Roane- Rambler mine near Battle LAKE
Wyoming, which he sold for $4,000
900, died at Denver on the l4th III
stant of heart failure.
A collision between a Santa Fe train
and Pueblo fire apparatus resulted IN
the smashing OF Pueblo's newest and
best steam fire engine, which cost $6,-
500. In running to a fire the driver
| got in front of d freight tra,l.
Charles C. Welch. an employe OF the
| Globe smelter in Denver, committed
suicide. on the 18th instant by swal-
lowing strychnine and laudanum. Ill
health, by reason of inhaling gas
fumes, is supposed to be the cause
The city and the Rio Grande rail
road will Jointly build new bridge
across the Arkansas at Salida, which
will cost $4,000. 1t will be a modern
structure of concrete, sixty feet wide
and 100 feet long, with center pier
George Marshmann, who held up
ranchman at Henderson in broad day
light three weeks ago, pleaded guilty
to highway robbery and was sentenced
in the District Court at Brighton to
from eight to ten years in the peniten-
tiary.
j. u. Vigil Democratic candidate for
county clerk of Las Animas county,
and whose Office was contested for by
Eugene Garcia, Republican candidate
the latter having been given the Office
by the Supreme Court, has hled mo-
tion for rehearing.
Governor Mcdonald has received a
handsome diploma from the manage
ment of the Lewis and Clark Exposi-
ton for distinguished services the
governor helped in making the COLO
and made "a
speech on Colorado Day.
To test the constitutionality of the
law and decide the question whether a
horse with docked tail can be I'M
ported to Colorado the cases against
Charles +. Stubbs and Nehemiah Fit
zell in the District Court at Denver
will be appealed to the Supreme Court
The yacht Anemone, which c. l.
Tut of Colorado Springs has entered
for the New York Yacht Clubs race
from San Francisco to Honolulu, has O
Denver registry Mr.. Tut wanted tC
give the boat n Colorado Springs reg
istry, but that city not being port oi
entry, he was compelled to register the
yacht at Denver. or go outside of Col
orado, which he would not do.
Because some one had real or fan
cied grievance against Candido Barela
Republican member. of the last Legis
lature, an attempt was made to blow
his saloon and another building ad
joining off the face of the earth with
dynamite. at Weston. sixteen miles
west of Trinidad, on the night Of the
18th instant. The principal damage
done was shattering the windows.
Patents have been issued to the fol
lowing Colorado people: John A.. Fer
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building. blotksl James F. Ferryt Lead
1 Vile. cooking utensils; Eli Forester
Denver, railway rail joint; Frank w
jacques, Victor. ore sorting belt: d. C
Mosher, Manitou, barrel filter; James
e. Pitman. Gold Hill, trap; Paul H
Widman, Denver, acetylene gas appar
atus. ~.
The fact that F. ]. Sachs was. .inten
tionally or otherwise, Il very bat
marksman probably saved him from a
penitentiary sentence. in the District
T. Court at Pueblo. He was accused oil
assault with intent to kill Edward
Russell. at whom he fired fourteen
shots without effect, but was permit
ted to plead guilty to assault with. a
deadly weapon and got off with about
5000 fine and costs.
Another and still more unique plan
has been proposed in connection with
the movement to start Il library in this
National Union Printers Home at Col
t. orado Springs. 1t was at first planned
, to have each delegate to the Interna
tional Typographical Union convention
in this city next August bring at leas'
. one work of fiction. The scheme was
D enthusiastically adopted. and more
, than 1000 volumes are thus assured.
: BY the decision of Judge Riner ir
! the federal court at Denver the gov
] ernment has failed in collecting ar
extra $4,000 in revenue stamps which
the revenue officials held should have
been affixed by the late w. S: Strattor
to his deed to the Venture corporation
. of London. They sued the executors or
t the ground that the consideration ol
, $5,OOO,000 named in the deed was only
half the sum really paid. Judge Rinei
held that the collection of taxes of that
Ikind is not in the power of the govern
> ment by such proceedings.
Company II of the First Colorado
: infantry was mustered out of service