The Springfield herald., 1906-06-22
COLORADO NEWS ITEMS


Timberlake to be receiver of pubic
moneys at Sterling.
The gross receipts of the Denver
postoGice for May were s7l ,463. against
$50, ,i59 for the same month last year
an increase of Sll,004.
Albert Abernathy has been APP
pointed regular and James c. Rose
brough substitute rural carrier on
route 3 at Monte Vista.
The large cyanide mill of the Myrtle
Mining and Milling Company near
Ward was burned to the ground on
the morning of June 9th.
Mrs. A. E. Hensen of Denver took
a teaspoonful of carbOlic acid by ms
take, in place of paregoric, and died
within fifteen minutes.
The sandstone depot of the Colorado
Midland railroad at Ute Park was de-
stroyed by fire Saturday night, June
10th, the damage approXimatlnS
$1,000.
The American Association of Coop
erative Mutual Insurance Companies,
at their convention just closed in Bos-
ton selected Denver as the next meet
ing place.
The State Board of Equalization al
IlS ldSl meeting IA i,'H''i' 'hiN 'ANt''
adjourned until october 1st, when 1t
will hear complaints concerning the
assessment of property.
Ida, the two-year-old daughter OF
Jacob Brotherson. was drowned in
barrel of water at the ranch home oil
the family, five miles northeast OF
Black hawk. on the 18th inst.
The carpenters scale of 81 day, an
Of former
schedule. has gone into effect at Colo
RADIO Springs, and plumbers wages will
be raised from $3.50 day TO So July
LIST.
Ii the District Court at Colorado
Springs. Judge Seeds ruled that the
City Council has full power to revoke
liquor license. The case was that OF
druggist who appealed from the
County Court
The County Commissioners of Boul-
der county have promised $1,000 to
help the people of Boulder to build
good road up Flagstaff hill, west OF the
city. This will make accessible some
of the finest scenic attractions in the
foothills.
The ninth annual meeting of the Ar
kansas Valley Press Association was
held at Salida on the 9th instant. Guy
L. Hardy of the Canon City Record
was elected president and p. Byrne of
the Bessemer Nindicator secretary and
treasurer. The location of the next
meeting was left to the executive com
mittee.
Manuel Martinez, who is charged
with setting fire TO the Engleville mine,
which threatened the destruction of
that entire property, had his prelimi-
nary hearing at Trinidad and was
bound over for trial in the sum OF SIOo.
Three witnesses testified that Martinez
had told them he had set the mine on
fire.
Byron BufOrd was recently taken to
the county jail at Canon City on the
charge of insanity. He was possessed
with the idea that people were burning
him with electricity and paraded the
town of Portland without clothing, car
rying quantity of nitro glycerine.
Under the influence of his delusion he
walked all the way from Pueblo to
Portland.
AT the convention of the colored
women of Colorado in Denver, Mrs.
Joyce-Jackson was reelected presi-
dent. The following named delegates
were elected TO the national convention
at Detroit. Michigan, July goth: Mrs.
Helen Gatewood of Pueblo. Mrs. kath-
arine d. Tillman of Colorado Springs,
Mrs Ida Depris and Mrs. Eliza B.
Butler of Denver.
At the department encampment of
the Grand Army of the Republic at
Greeley, on the 18th inst. a resolution
was unanimously adopted expressing
their desire that Brig. Gen. Frank d.
Baldwin, U. S. A.. should receive, in
recognition from the government and
as a reward for his long services, the
.ank and pay for n major general be-
fore his retirement on June 2Gth.
The annual meeting of the Denver G.
Intermountain Railroad Company,
formerly the Denver. Lakewood
Golden, was held at Denver, June 18th.
The officers elected are as follows:
Samuel Newhouse, president; c. c.
Parsons, first vice president; II. X.
Brown, second vice president; Frank
w. Loveland, treasurer; William Nor
rison, secretary; Caldwell Yeaman, at
torrey.
In a letter to Warden Cleghorn. An
tone Wood, or Charles Howard, as he
has been known since his parole from
the Colorado Penitentiary, announces
his marriage at Newburgh, New York
to Miss Mabel ESteila lerry, daughter
of former Judge Henry P. Terry of
Newburgh. Woode has been widely
known as the "boy murderer" having
been sent to the penitentiary fJr muir
der when only about ten years old.
That the output of goods manufac-
tured in Colorado has increased
twenty per cent. annually during the
Last four years is a claim made in a
statistical statement issued by Gen
eral Manager Thomas C. Scott of the
Colorado Manufacturers Association.
The entire output of manufactured
goods during 1905, according to the
statement. amounted to sl33, 1921 900;
the capital invested was S1O0.0OO,OOO.
Two new instructors for the School
of Mines were elected at the trustees
regular monthly meeting on the 14th
inst. A. C. Smith was chosen instruc-
tor of mathematics, and F. II. Cronin
assistant professor of mechanical en-
gineering. Professor Cronin at pres
ent is chief engineer of the Chicago dis
trict for the American Steel and Wire
Company. He is a graduate of Johns