The Springfield herald., 1906-03-16
COLORADO NEWS ITEMS

will raise $500 for the purpose of en-
tertaining visitors during the coming
season.
The State Supreme Court has again
decided that the law abolishing the
fee system in county Offices is consu'
tutional.
The county officers of Arapahoe
county have been moved Into the new
building at Littleton erected for them
by j. j. Lilley.
The new Gilpin County Chamber of
Commerce was successfully launched
on the 7th inst with paid member
ship of about 200.
The Ministers association of Boul-
der has passed resolutions discoun-
tenancing Sunday funerals, except on
urgent occasions.
The City Council OF Boulder will
offer to furnish AN appropriation of
100000 under the Bonynge bill is
pending in Congress.
The taxpayers of La .Junta have
voted by n majority OF over six tn one
to bond the city for the sum of $780,
900 for the purpose of putting in new
water works.
Since November list of last year Pc
ter Haldi has brought to Boulder from
Altoona III Boulder county the heads oil
nineteen coyotes, three dead and one
live wild cat and one live eagle.
In the District Court at Cripple
Creek Clayte Watt, Same Haas and
Jack Frame were found guilty of as
saulting p. l.. Dattlcbaum, saloon
keeper. with intent to rob and kill.
James Unteriner. Il miner at the
Great Western coal mine at Heathton,
six miles south of Canon City, fell
167 feet down the shaft of the mine
and was instantly killed on the 9th
inst.
Thomas Finn, serving n sentence OF
from five to six years at Canon City
for assault to murder has had his SEN
tence committed to from two to six
years. This will release him within
few weeks.
Charles Johnson, employed in one
of the mines OF the Big Five in
Boulder county, was fatally injured by
either falling drill or a rock on the
night of the 5th inst, his skull being
badly crushed.
Walter Rock. who was reported TO
have been murdered in Goldheld, Ne
vada. several months ago, has re-
turned to Cripple Creek and says he
was not at Goldfeld at the time the
story started
The tax valuation of Fremont county
property this year is S6.424,O3S, and
of this amount 105 taxpayers pay on
$4,249.625. The remaining S2,l75,4l3
is divided among 5000 taxpayers, aver
aging si35 each
The sentence of Rachel Lcarell oil
Montezuma county to serve for from
to, 4 in ha n
itentiary for perjury has been COM
muted to eleven months. AS she was
sentenced in April, 1905, she will be re-
leased soon.
There are eighty-one applications
for divorce to be disposed of during
the present term of the County and
District Courts N Pueblo. Why not
decree a blanket divorce to cover the
entire population-or at least all who
want TO unhitch?
E v Brake. deputy labor commits
sioner. is making strenuous efforts 10
enforce the law requiring semi
monthly payday on the part of all
kinds of corporations. He will send
out a letter TO all the mining com
panies in the state.
County Judge Mirick. of Pueblo has
appointed a commission of six persons
whose duty ii shall be TO assist the
juvenile court in keeping track of the
county's charitable and reformatory
institutions. Three are Republicans
and three Democrats.
'rhe commissioner of Indian affairs
has appointed John S. Spear TO sue
ceed William NJ. Peterson as superin-
tendent Of Fort Lewis Indian school
r..,.t Il ff
that post from the school at Fort
service.
The House of Representatives has
passed n bill allowing the Denver mint
to coin nickels and pennies. This
coinage has heretofore been done en-
tirely at Philadelphia. but the other
mints of the country will make the
minor coins hereafter If the Senate
passes the bill.
Charles Hallack, one of the pioneer
lumber merchants of Denver and one
of the founders of the Hallack & How
ard Lumber Company, died at Denver
on the Sd inst. at the age of seventy
eight years. He amassed a consider
able fortune and was highly esteemed
by all who knew him.
Charged withmurder alleged TO have
been committed nearly four years ago
at Aguilar, Antonio Mastello, an Itai-
ian, was arrested at Louisville few
days ago by Frank 1rujillo, deputy
sheriff ard special officer for the Colo
RADIO & Southern railroad, and taken
to Trinidad, where he was placed in
Jail.
Governor Mcdonald has appointed
three accountants TO audit he books
of the state treasurer and the board
Of land commissioners. The commit
tee is composed of C. F. Allen. f. X,
Harper and Charles C. Hendrie. The
law requires that the books of the
treasurer and land commissioners be
audited twice a year.
Contractors have finished over
twenty miles OF the Colorado Fuel L.
Iron Companys million dollar canal
under construction between Florence
and Pueblo, for carrying water from
the Arkansas river to the steel works.
Between six and seven hundred men
are employed and the canal will be
completed for the summer high water.
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