The Springfield herald., 1906-01-12
COLORADO NEWS ITEMS

1t is estimated that 1000 skaters
disported themselves on the lake in the
City park at Denver on New Years
Day.
Judge j. M. Minor, prominent pio'
neer of Fremont county, died at Canon
City on the I'd inst, at the age of
eighty-four years.
Twenty-eight persons had small
pox in Denver last year, every one OF
whom recovered, and eighty-one cases
of erysipelas resulted in no deaths.
/ The Boulder oil refinery has been
leased for long term of years to
Harry Casaday, the agent of the
Standard OIL Company in Boulder.
Simon B. Sutherland, resident of
Boulder county for thirty-eight years
and pioneer miner and gardener,
died January LIST at the age of sixty
eight years.
The Second Infantry, now stationed
at Fort Logan, has been ordered to the
Philippines. The troops must be at
San Francisco. ready to embark, be
, fore January 9th.
The fifth annual meeting of the
Colorado Horticultural Society will be
held in the Chamber of Commerce
building at Denver the latter part OF
January and first OF February.
DIR. U. d. Mcdowell, well known
physician OF Longmont, died January
Sd of consumption. He was brother
of Bishop w. F. Mcdowell. formerly
chancellor of the University of Den
YER
The First National Bank of Ber.
thoud has been authorized to begin
business with $25.G00. Thomas Fl.
Robertson, president; John A. Cross,
, vice president; Guy L. Loomis,
cashier.
Mrs. Booker T. Washington of Tus-
kegee Institute, Alabama. is coming to
Colorado Springs to speak under the
auspices of the Colored Woman's Club.
1.-The Advancement of Colored
Women" will be her subject.
Judge Moses Hallett, executor of
the Clayton estate in Denver, has au-
thorized the announcement that early
in the spring he will begin the erec-
tion of the Clayton Memorial college
on the eighty-acre tract belonging to
the estate near the City Park.
The application of w. Il. Combe.
Lewis Linebarger, NJ. l. LinebarSer,
II. n. Linbarger, Mark Burke and
C. F. Parker to organize the
First National Bank of Julesburg,
with $4,000 capital. has been ap-
proved by the comptroller of the cur
rency.
Henry T. Rogers, of the firm OF
Rogers, Cuthbert & Ellis of Denver,
has been appointed general solicitor
for the Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe
Railway Company for Colorado to sue
ceed Charles f.. Cast of Pueblo. Mr.
Rogers entered upon his duties Janu-
airy 1st.
Alderman J. ]. Coughlin of Chicago,
Illinois, will spend approximately
$50 900 in transforming his Cheyenne
Springs ranch at Broadmoor, south OF
Colorado Springs, into zoo and
recreation grounds. Work has been
started and the improvements will be
completed about July list.
The body of Claude A. Bagby, the Du-
range student who was recently killed
at Notre Dame, while attempting to
play joke on fellow student there.
was brought to Durango for interment.
Bagby. as a practical joke. imperson-
ated a hold-up, but the victim thought
he was in earnest and shot and killed
him.
An interurban electric railroad to
connect Canon City with Florence and
the coal camps of the. county is prac-
tically assured. The same company
will build an electric line to the top OF
the famous Royal Gorge. which will be
hardly less attractive to tourists than
the cog road to the summit of Pixies
Peak.
The new Burlington five-stall brick
roundhouse at Sterling will soon be
commenced, the stone and concrete
for the foundation being now on the
ground The Union Pacific will begin
construction on seven-stall similar
structure In the spring The Burling-
ton also Is to erect repair machine
shops at Sterling.
Denver had added largely to its park
area the past year and the end is not
yet. There were over 400 acres pur-
chased during 1905. the greater portion
being in Highlands, and the intention
Is to purchase 160 acres of school land
adjoining the City Park and forty-fye
acres to round out Washington Park.
The total park acreage OF Denver at
the present time is 1,O12.63.
Following is a statement of the bust
ness done in the United States Land
Office at GunnlSOn during the year
1905: Number of entries made, 274;
number of acres entered, 3.s4O;
amount received for fees and commits
sions, 81, ,3O0.94; amount received from
sales of land, s9,663.20; number OF
acres in the district to be disposed or
2,29s,495.
Ground has been broken for the Mof-
, fat road terminals in River Front
park, Denver, and the tracks will be
constructed as rapidly as possible. Be
sides the numerous tracks to be used
for handling the freight cars. large
building will be erected for the storage
of coal. Mr. Moffat says that they will
have the terminals completed early In
the spring and then will be running in
and out on their owntracks.
Governor Mcdonald has pardoned
Simon Ephriam, a youth who had been
sentenced to, the State penitentiary for
two and one-half to three years for the
theft of a secondhand bicycle. He
had already served a year and three
months of the time, and was pardoned
in time to attend his mothers funeral,
! she having died at Denver of an over
dose of morphine. The governor list
ened to the intercession of the young
la n.l boranypd father