The Springfield herald., 1906-08-10
COLORADO NEWS ITEMS

ION, oCtODeT ou, ftl anu oll.
The Teachers institute for the
| Twelfth district opened at Gunnison
July 3Oth with good attendance.
Santa Fe officials have approved the
plans for new $4,000 hospital to be
built at La Junta, and work will be
| commenced Immediately.
A. G. Teachout, proprietor of the
Egerton House at Gunnison and one
of the pioneers of Gunnison county,
died July 31st after short illness.
The Denver Baseball Club of the
Western League has dropped down TO
fourth place and still sliding. Pueblo
seems to be securely anchored at the
bottom.
A horse valued at $500 and owned
by j. L. Afford, Trinidad real estate
man, was stung to death in five min
utes by a swarm of bees that alighted
OIL its head.
A Civil Service examination will be
held August 18th at Leadville; August
18th at Grand Junction and Pueblo, foi
the positions of clerk and carrier in
the postoifice service.
Work of completing blast furnace F
of the MinneQua plant at Pueblo VIII
soon be started again. Work on this
furnace was commenced about Tour
years ago, but was stopped when tAe
plant closed down.
The State School for the Deaf and
Blind will purchase l20 acres of land
adjoining the Printers Home, near
Colorado Springs at so per acre. The
purchase will be made from the state,
through the Land Board.
Dan McKinnie, who terrorized the
guests at a party at the Bodkin home
in Highland Lake some two weeks ago,
assaulted Constable Coates, escaped
and was captured. was sentenced 10
sixty days in Jail at Greeley
Chester Seger, seven-year-old
child was crushed under the wheels
of an ice wagon in Denver a few days
ago and died within two hours. He
vas climbing on the wagon for ice and
his clothing caught in wheel.
While l.. r. Warren was attending
the band concert at Colorado Springs
on the night of the goth ult. his nome
at 231 North Wahsatch avenue was
robbed of 5000 in diamonds and jew
elry, $50 in cash being overlooked.
1t is stated that the two hundred
houses to be built at Riley Gulch, near
Trinidad, for the men employed by
the Carbon Coal and Coke Company,
an auxiliary of the American smelling
and Refining Company, will all be OF
brick
The corporate life of the Society OF
Colorado Pioneers has been made per
petual through the filing OF renewal
papers in the office of the secretary OF
state at Denver The papers are signed
by President ~ S. Hurd and Secretary
Michael Storms.
While attempting to light fire with
gasoline.l Mrs. Frank Lubb, an Aua-
trian woman thirty years old, was
burned to death at her home in Pu-
eblo. Her little child. eleven months
old, was so badly burned that it died
an hour after being removed TO the
hospital.
The business of the Pueblo Land Of
fee for July shows slight increase over
that of the corresponding month last
wear. The filings cover 25,777 acres OF
land and consist of twenty-four cash
entries, eighteen desert claim entries.
1OT homestead entries and fifty mis-
oellaneouS entries.
With the exception of the letters
"A-V,' tattooed on his right arm, there
was no Identification marks upon the
body of the tramp who was killed by
q Rio Grande train at Fountain July
Goth The head was mashed beyond
recognition, and no papers or cards on
the body served TO identify the un-
known victim.
The twelfth annual banquet of the
Teachers Institute of Huerfano and
Las Animas counties was held in the
high school building at Trinidad oii
the night of August lst. as climax to
the session Nearly 200 were present.
Among the speakers were Prof. j. b.
Treat, County Commissioner j. b. Ma
drid and Rev. II. s. Lawler.
The annual session of the normal in
stitute of district No. 2. embracing
Larimer. Weld and Boulder counties,
convened at the Normal school July
goth. One hundred and thirty teach
ers were enrolled, an increase of near
ly thirty over the opening day of last
year. The institute will be in session
two weeks, and total enrolment of
175 is expected.
Members of the Official board of the
Vincent Methodist Episcopal Church of
Spokane, Washington, have voted
unanimously to request Bishop War
rem, who is to preside at the next ses-
sion of the Columbia River conference,
to appoint Rev Clarence o. kimball,
pastor of the First Methodist Church
of Trinidad, Colorado, to the pastorate
of the Vincent Church.
Thomas Mcneil, who was deported
from Victor and dumped on the Kan
sas plains two years ago, claims to
have struck it rich in the new gold
fields of Nevada In a letter to his
wife at Victor, he states he has opened
up a five-foot vein in the Pixies Peak
Four claim, which carries values rang,
ing from $500 to $500 to the ton and
that there is plenty of ore in sight.
At the meeting of the State Board
of Pardons August Sd clemency was
extended to Herman Anderson, who
was sentenced from Lake county by
Judge Overs February 10, 1908, to a
term OF fifteen to twenty years for
murder in the second degree. His sen
tence was commuted to four to twenty
years, under which commutation he
will obtain his liberty as soon as the
papers reach the penitentiary.
Charles Johnson, colored aged
twelve, and the most desperate juvenile
delinouent with whom the Colorado