The Springfield herald., 1906-02-09
COLORADO NEWS ITEMS


| Commerce gave a complimentary din
ner to the visiting livestock men
The carpenters employed by the in.
dependent mill owners of Denver have
been granted an eight-hour work day,
beginning May |, 1906, and continuing
one year.
The jury in the case OF Mrs. T. Pearl
Ebert at Cripple Creek, who was
charged with having murdered Mrs.
Sarah Alt several weeks ago, brought
in verdict of voluntary manslaughter.
The Cripple Creek Short Line ran n
winter excursion from Colorado
Springs to Cripple Creek on the list
inst. Next thing they will be adver-
tising Cripple Creek as winter re-
| sort.
During the first two months of the
present year the collections by the
state treasurer's Office for state liquor
licenses amounted to $500. In 1905
only $l,925 was collected in the same
period.
Enoch and Barbara Hipp, the father
and mother of John Hipp of Denver,
the prominent Colorado prohibition
leader, celebrated their golden we'd
ding at their sons home in Denver Jan
uary 29th.
The foreign missionary box in the
Presbyterian church at Florence was
robbed of 81, mostly in pennies, by an
unknown thief. A hammer that had
been used in breaking open the cab
met was left behind.
l.. A. Lane, proprietor OF the Ger
mania house at Longmont. committed
suicide January 27th by shooting him
he. L. f,,t tl,n
last stages of consumption and com
mitted the act in a fit of despondency.
The executive committee of the
Pixies Peak Centennial Association at
Colorado Springs has arranged the pro-
gram for the celebration of the discov-
cry of Pixies Peak by Lieutenant Zebu-
Ion Pike, to be held September 9th to
18th.
President Roosevelt has sent a mes
sage to Congress urging the payment
of claim of $25,000 to William Rad
cliffe, a British subject, on account OF
the destruction by mob of fish
hatchery in Colorado which was owned
by Radcliffe.
Charles Copeland, brother of Prof.
A. ID. Copeland. superintendent of the
Eaton schools, was instantly killed on
runaway accident short distance
from his home in Pleasant Valley, six
miles northeast of Greeley.
AS result of the preliminary exam
ination of Jesse Stansel, the police.
man charged with the murder of Sher.
III w. j. Thompson at Durango Janu-
ary 9th, the accused was held for trial
in the District Court. but he was ad-
mitted to bail in the sum of $4,000.
+. w. Morrison, prominent pio-
neer resident of Evans, was fatally in
jured in runaway accident near Ev-
ans January 30th and died the same
day. His team took fright at a train
and overturned the carriage. He was
seventy-one years of age.
In answer to query from an eastern
newspaper, Governor Mcdonald has
placed himself on record as favoring
a proposition to call constitutional
convention to provide for an amend
ment by which United States senators
shall be elected by vote of the peo-
pie.
Denver Republican correspondent
states that more than fifty Greeks, res
identS OF Pueblo's foreign quarter, are
preparing to go to Athens for the pur-
pose of taking part in the Olympian
games which will take place there be-
tween April 10th and 26th They are
practicing every day.
The case against r. A Bradley,
Warren Russell, G. NJ. Williams and
DR.. Jackson, prominent young men of
Fort Collins, for shooting deer in the
mountains near Livermore, was settled
in the County Court by the defendants
paying Il fine of s525 for the killing of
Il deer
At a meeting of the State Board of
Land Commissioners there was or
dered an easement of 1000 acres of
land in Conejos county to the La lara
Meadows Irrigation Company, at the
rate of 50 per acre. The company Sc
cured thc land. which is located about
twenty-five miles west of La lara, for
the purpose of building upon it a large
reservoir.
Business at the Pueblo Land Office
has been greater during the past six
months than at any previous time dur
ing it's history. The average of home
stead entries has run seventy-siN
per month since last July. This busi-
ness will be considerably increased
with the consolidation OF the Lamar
district with the Pueblo office, which
takes place February 2Sth.
Near Sugar Loaf, in Boulder county,
while Mrs. John Orvis was milking her
COW her house took fire. Embers from
the roof fell upon the bed where her
three-months-old baby was lying, the
bed clothing caught fire and the baby
was so badly burned that 1t died the
next day. The burning OF the house
left the father and mother and six
children in destitute circumstances.
Patents have been issued TO the fol
lowing Coloradans: Frank d, Gid
dings, Fort Collins, water headgate;
Henry w. Hildebrand, Denver. auto
matically operating fire eXtinguisher;
Edwin T. Hughes, Gladstone, air
brake: Ira G. Mitchell. Mseker, adjust
able crank disk; Frank Fl. Paradice
Denver system for sprinkling lawns,
gardens, greenhouses, parks. etc;
| James A. Skinner, Denver. fed bag.
The jury in the case = Joe Mattel
at Trinidad returned verdict of mur.
der in the second degree. Mattel was
accused of the murder of an old MeXi-
can sheep .herder near SeGundo four
years ago, this being the second time
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