The Springfield herald., 1906-04-13
COLORADO NEWS ITEMS


the proposition to issue bonds by a
majority of IA.
George b. Walker. a well known min
eral surveyor died suddenly of heart
disease at his home in Breckenridge
on the night of April I'd.
E. l.. Phillips of Longmont, has been
awarded the contract for grading the
new Colorado & Southern branch from
Plummer's beet dump to Black Hollow.
nine miles.
Attorney James ID. Merwin, who was
a candidate for governor of Colorado
on the Populist ticket in 1904. died at
his residence in Denver April 9th, OF
acute pneumonia.
The Las Animas County Bar Asso-
citation gave banquet March 3lst to
Judge Jesse G. Northcutt, who has re-
signed to his successor, Henry Hunter
of Walsenburg.
AT recent meeting at Colorado
Springs the executive committee of the
Pixies Peak Centennial celebration
elected Thomas F. Walsh director gen
eral OF the celebration.
Lieutenant General Miles, formerly
commander-in-chief of the United
States army, will make the commence
ment address at the University of Col
orado June 9th of commencement
week.
On the night of April LIST the safe in
the Union Pacific depot at Fort Lup-
ton was blown open by dynamite and
robbed of $50. Railway tickets and
other valuable papers were unmo-
Tested.
Bills raised from the denomination
of 81 TO so have been circulated at
Trinidad and officers of the secret ser
vice in Denver were notified. Many OF
these bills have also been circulated
in Las Vegas and Ration.
Five extraordinary candidate We're
initiated by the Florence aerie OF
Eagles one night recently. Each was
six feet CIR more in height their aggre-
gate length being thirty-one feet one
inch. and their aggregate weight 1,lUo
pounds.
L. r. Harper of Gunnison county and
John SaXton of Pueblo have been con
stituted commission to go into Cone
jos county and check up on behalf OF
the state the books of the defaultlns
treasurer of the county, Charles ii.
Brickerstein.
A record automobile run from Pu-
eblo and Colorado Springs to Denver is
one of the features planned by the an
tomobile enthusiasts of these cities,
who will visit Denver for the annual
automobile show to be held at Coli
scum hall April 18th TO 2lst.
Congressman Bonynge has appointed
Robert C. Mulnix, son of Harry Mul-
nix. of Denver, as IA candidate for al
mission TO the Annapolis naval acad-
emy. If young Mulnix passes the en-
animation he will succeed Thomas
Withers. who graduates this spring.
Miss Maude Heinze of Creede COM
mitted suicide by shooting herself
through the heart in room at the
Windsor hotel in Del Norte, April I'd
Miss HeinZe, who WAS twenty-three
years Of age, was somewhat noted
volinist. broken marriage engage
ment and accompanying despondency
is believed to have been the cause OF
her suicide.
That hen can live twenty-five days
without food was proven by the liber-
atine of Two Plymouth Rock chickens
entombed in big snowdrift in the
storm of March 1st. to which success
sive storms had added. When released
they Immediately began eating and
seemed none the worse for their i'm
prisonment, save that they were re
duced almost TO skeletons.
A. d. Jones died at Colorado Springs
April Sd of paralysis. Mr.. Jones was
one of the locators of the famous Phar-
macist mine in Cripple Creek and was
prominent in its management until his
death. He was one of the best known
Democratic politicians of Colorado
Springs and was well known among
the Masons and knights Templar, with
whome he was affiliated.
Plans for the extension of the Union
depot at Denver for an increase OF
trackage are now being completed by
the Union Pacific's chief engineer Mt
Omaha. II is expected that they will
be forwarded to Denver within thirty
days and contracts let for the enlarge
ment of the terminal facilities. The
purchase of the Union Pacific of prop
orty on Nineteenth and Wewatta
streets for 100000 completes the nee
essary amount of ground needed for
the improvements.
The report of the United State Land
Office at Hugo for March shows that
the record was again broken for the
number of filings, there being total
of 2G2 as compared with 225 for Febru-
airy, the greatest number in any pre-
vious month For the first quarter of
1906 there was total OF b3l nnnSs, as
compared with 500 at the Pueblo Land
Office. During the first five days OF
this month there We're fifty-nine HI
.nss. which is a good indication that
the record will be broken again this
month.
Patents have been issued to inven-
tors residing in Colorado as follows; 5.
f. and VIII Card, Denver. lubricator
for slide gearings: Arthur h. Curtis,
Golden, igniter for internal combustion
engine; Ed I. Forester, Denver, rall
fastener: Richard c. Hills. Denver,
conveyor; Frederick C. Knight and IL.
V. Pearce. Denver. assignor of one
third to Pearce, natural draft regener-
ator for furnace fiues; Jesse r. Moler,
Heinsley and S. L. Phillips, Denver,
garbage can; William Squirer, Denver
door nolder.
Fourteen and fifteen-pound Canadian
geese are being brought into Cheyenne
by hunters from Pine Bluff and
Smeed. stations on the Union Pacific
east of that place. The goose flight
this year is exceptionally heavy. Hun
dreds of ducks are also being brought
in from the stations mentioned.