The Springfield herald., 1906-09-07
COLORADO NEWS ITEMS

La Junta postoffice September LIST, be-
ginning with two carriers.
The Republican convention for the
Second congressional district will be
held at Colorado Springs September
18th.
| On August 31st for the first time in
the history of the health department OF
Denver, there was not single case
of diphtheria in the city.
| Frank P. Peabody of Denver. a brake
man on the Union Pacific railroad,
was killed by falling from the top of a
ca" near Fort Lupton August 9th.
The Democratic candidate in Maine
for governor, Cyrus w. Davis of Wa
terville, has made his fortune largely
| in Colorado mines. He has been in
terested in various Colorado properties
for many years.
Little Herman Campbell, the year
! old child of Lode Campbell, living near
Littleton, got into a swarm of hornets
a few days since and was stung on the
head sixty times, barely escaping with
life after terrible suffering.
Denver will have an assessed valu-
alton of $115,750,00O for the coming
year. AS Denver is credited with over
one hundred millionaires, 1t is appar-
ent that they are the only people in
the city who own taxable property.
Elro n. Clark has been appointed
general attorney for the Denver & Rio
Grande railroad. Senator Wolcott was
the general counsel of the road up to
the time of his death and is succeeded
by Joel F. Vale. Mr.. Clark, the newly
appointed general attorney, has been
with the firm of Wolcott, Vaile & Wa
terman for number of years past.
Helen Thomas, daughter of Calvin
Thomas of Greeley, has been appointed
assistan librarian in the reference and
cataloguing department of the library
of the state University of Michigan,
located at Ann Arbor. Miss Thomas is
graduate of the Greeley High school.
State Normal School, Wellesley, and
Albany, New York, Library School.
The date of the eleventh conven-
ton of the State Federation of Labor,
which will meet at Colorado Springs,
has been changed from Sept. 10 to
Sept. "a, in order that the delegates
can be present during the Pike cen
tennial celebration. The election of Of
ticers and other important business
will come up during the four days ses
sion.
James F. Callbreath, Jr., secretary.
at Denver, has mailed to President
Roosevelt, governors of all states and
territories, mayors and other states,
city and county officials in the United
States notification of the official call
for the ninth annual session of the
American Mining congress, naming
Denver as the place and Oct. 1G, II,
is and 19 next as the dates.
BY express few days ago Governor
three dozen fine mountain trout. The
gift came from George Roosevelt,
nephew of President Roosevelt. who.
the United States army, has been fish
ing in the Gunnison. The fish sent
to the governor at Denver represented
IA two days catch of George Roose-
velt and party.
Enveloped in flames through the ig
milton of matches which he carried
in his pocket, William A. Haffey,
substitute elevator pilot at the state
capitol, in Denver. barely escaped a
horrible death, and the sight of his
burning clothing created panic among
numerous passengers in the car where
the incident occurred. Joseph Boyd,
the regular pilot, snatched off his own
coat and eXtinguished the flames.
At meeting of the State Board of
Equalization to be held at Denver Sep
temper 10th, representatives of the va
ricus railroads of the state will appear
before the State Board of Equalization
to make objection ~ the assessment
made by the assessors. They will
claim that the assessments are too
high and will present their reasons for
making the claims. Their complaints
have already been filed.
Denver merchants have arranged
trade excursion to the western part
of the state on Sept 1G. The trip will
consume one week exactly. Among the
towns included in the itinerary are
Leadville. Glenwood Springs, Aspen,
Carbondale, New Castle, Salida, Pa
onia, Buena Vista, Grand Junction. The
excursion is under the charge of
Thomas Scott, manager of the Colo
RADIO Manufacturers association.
John Zimmerman, conducting hotel
at Home. in Larimer county, sixty
miles northwest of Fort Collins, caught
a bear in a trap one night recently at
his ranch, and the bear escaped by
gnawing off the foot by which he was
held prisoner in the trap. From the
size of the foot in the trap the bear
must have been huge one, and is sup
posed to be the slayer of many young
cows and colts which rancnmen in that
vicinity have lost during the last
month.
In the District Court at La Junta
George II. Harrington, alias Frank
King, of Leadville, pleaded guilty to
burglary and was sentenced by Judge
Voorhees, to serve a term OF not less
than five nor more than seven years at
the penitentiary. Harrington attempted
TO blow open a safe belonging to l.. S.
Gee June 2Oth last, but was caught in
the building. The next day he was
made to remove a charge from the safe
which had not been fired. The pris-
oner claimed that he was drunk at the
time and that he had accomplices He
also claimed to have been with Dewey
at Manila and to have seen service
with the regular army in the Philip
pines.
At the inquest into the death Of
Bonito Borego who was killed at e.
Moro by Denver & Rio Grande en-
CINE a verdict was returned by the
jury stating that the death of the man
was due to the negligence of Pietro Pa