The Springfield herald., 1906-08-03
COLORADO NEWS ITEMS

30th
The United. States treasurer las or
dered deposit of $25,000 in the First
National Bank of Alamosa.
Rural route No. l is ordered estab'
lisned October 1st at Oiney, otero
county, Colorado, serving 320 people
and nInety-siX houses.
The new Roman Catholic church of
| St. John the Baptist was dedicated at
Longmont Sunday, July 22d. The
building is a fine one and cost over
$4,000.
The Pixies Peak Press Club OF Colo
RADIO Springs will give dramatic en-
tertainment August 18th for the benefit
of the entertainment fund of the Inter
national League of Press Clubs.
Tie Western Stock Show Associa'
tion is preparing a program and pre-
Inium list for the next exhibition,
which Will be held at Denver, January
oath next, lasting the entire week.
new and gorgeous Chinese joss
Eouse, or temple of worship, has been
opened on Market street between
Twentieth and Twenty-iirst in Denver
1t is full of expensive images and dec
| orations.
Gently of pneumonia, was one of the
largest land owners and stock grow
ers of Park county, having lived on
the Cottage Grove ranch near Alma
since 1873
Bids for a new Denver postofhce
site will be opened al the Office Of the
secretary of the treasury, Leslie NJ.
Shaw, in Washington on August l4th.
| All bids must come within the limit OF
100000.
Escaping only with the clothes they
were wearing, David F. How, chlet IL
cense inspector, and family, and a
party of friends camping near Anto'
nito. suffered the loss of their entire
camp by fire.
G. p. Miller. employed on the Mer.
rita lease of the Reno property on Gold
mill in the Cripple Creek district, was
killed by an explosion on the moining
of July 27th. The accident was due to
missed shot.
From a thirty-acre apple orchard
upon his farm. nine and one-half miles
west of Denver, c. E. Parfet will ship
this year 10000 boxes of apples. II the
present indications of a ninety-two per
cent. crop are fulfilled.
The comptroller of the currency has
approved the application of j. H.
Slater, j. w. Boiling, w. Bailey. George
Weisbad. Charles Wansled and Diners
to organize the First National bank OF
Eads. with $4,000 capital.
L. s. Barnes, an old soldier and n
pioneer resident of Colorado, has been
appointed superintendent of the state
fish hatchery at Durango to take the
place of W.. E. Patrick, who recently
1. -t,.fs, n
fish commissioner.
Fortimo Naveretto, the Mexican
who shot the hat off another MeXican's
head at North Longmont, was bound
over to the District Court. Naveretto
is brother of the .Naveretto who
stabbed to death Yenes Dais near the
Longmont cemetery year ago.
Because of the Mexican law which
prohibits the removal of BODY from
that country in less than three years,
Stanley Pearce, the metallurgical ex-
pert, of Denver. who died at Magda-
lena, Sonora July 10th, will be buried
there.
BY a proclamation of Governor Nc
Donald Wednesday, August list, the
thirtieth anniversary of the admission
of Colorado into the Union, was de-
clared half holiday. and the state Of
fees ordered closed during the after
noon.
The cornerstone of the new woman's
pavilion of the National Jewish Hos.
pital for Consumptives at Denver was
laid Sunday, July 22d, under the aus
pices of the Independent Order of B'nai
Birth. Rabbi Friedman delivering the
principal address.
The value of the peach crop Of
Grand valley for the season of
1906 will exceed last years crop
by s250.000. This is said to be con-
servative estimate made by the most
experienced fruit growers in Grand
Junction. Many assert that it will ex-
ceed last years crop by 100000.
Private George S. Smith, Company
F, Twenty-ninth United States infan-
try, was drowned in the Pike View
reservoir, near Roswell, in Eel Paso
county, July 2lst. He was one of the
soldiers marching overland from Pu-
eblo to Cheyenne, and was taken with
cramps while in swimming.
The Grand Junction Chamber OF
Commerce has telegraphed the secre'
tary of the Colorado State Commercial
Association that it will take con
siderable amount of space in the pro-
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be sent East this fall to exhibit the
products of Colorado at state fairs.
John F. Gamsby, in charge of the
Emerald lakes fish hatchery. in the
southwestern part of the state, has
taken large amount of spawn this
year. The season began June 29th and
ended July 21st, and they took 1881, :
! coo eggs. The largest amount taken
in one day was 100000 on July 10th.
OF the eggs taken 4,524,000 go to fill
the state hatcheries at Durango, Den
yer, Gunnison and Emerald lakes.
j. r. De Remer. a noted civil Ell
gineer. died at Denver, July 26th, from
a stroke of paralysis. Mr. De Remer
was in charge of the construction OF
the Denver & Rio Grande Railroad
through the Royal Gorge and built the
remarkable swinging bridge. He was
also builder of the old De Remer opera
house in Pueblo. His work will long
be seen in many of the most important
pieces of engineering in Colorado.
The geological survey has made an
allotment of money for and will soon
commence the topographic survey OF
the Fort Collins, Livermore and Love