The Springfield herald., 1906-06-15
COLORADO NEWS ITEMS

The State Christian Endeavor con.
vention will be held at Colorado
Springs. June 14th to 18th.
Thomas McCasland, formerly agent
of The Equitable Life at Denver. died
| at st. Louis, June 1st of dropsy.
Their was big snowslide near Mon
tezuma, in Summit county, June 5th.
1t leveled considerable strip of pine
forest.
Rural Route No. . will be estab-
lished AT Monte Vista after July 10th.
1t will serve 2s7 people and eighty.two
houses.
A strong commercial club has been
organized at Elbert. with A. G. Corn
forth. as president and j. E. Meyer as
secretary.
Inc annual picnic of the Colorado
Pioneers Ladies' Aid society will be
held at Elitch's Gardens in Denver,
June 23d.
. Twenty-Five marriage licenses were
issueu at Denver in one day recently,
but this is still below the record,
which is twenty-nine for day.
The dioce cesan council of the Episco-
| pal Church of Colorado. at its session
in Denver, voted to add $1,000 to the
| annual salary of Bishop Charles S.
OlHlSlt. u.
The Moor, one of the most famous
saddle horses of Kentucky, has been
| recently purchased by Gen. w. j. Pal
mer of Colorado Springs from Mai. Da-
| vid Castleman, the consideration be-
| ing $500.
The citizens of Kremmling are pre-
| pairing to celebrate the advent OF the
| Moffat road by giving a three-days eel
ebration on July 4th, 5th and 9th.
There will be horse racing, broncho
busting. baseball, fishbake and other
amusements.
The Colorado Fuel and Iron Com
| pany has been installing automatic
| dumping cages on the Fremont coal
mine in Fremont The mine will re-
| sume operations with force of more
than 800 men.
The oldest and largest tree in Gree
| ley is "A cottonwood that was planted
in 1871 by Mrs. Abigail Dunkam, who
| is now the oldest woman in Greeley.
being in her ninetieth year. The tree
| Is fifteen feet in circumference and
seventy-five feet high.
The beet growers of Lone Tree, eight
miles east of Greeley. have organized
a Beet Growers association. with q
| large membership for the purpose o!
securing a railroad for that section anu
avoiding long and arduous hauls in
| getting beets to market.
A temporary home for the members
of the National Letter Carriers AsSo-
citation will shortly be established at
Colorado Springs to demonstrate by
years test the adaptability of the loca-
ton as permanent site for the pro-
| jected natioanl home of the associh
| ton.
The miners drilling contest at Boul-
der will begin on the afternoon of July
Sd and will be held in the ChautauQua
auditorium, because the seating capac-
ity and the general conveniences,
Prizes for doublehand drilling will be
s2CO to first, then s125. s75. $50 and
s25: for sngle-hand, 800, $75, $50, $50
and $40.
The alumni reunion of the State Nor
NAL School at Greeley was held on the
night of June 9Th, with $50 persons in
attendance, including the senior class.
| Among those present were the cover
nor, state superintendent and all the
members of the Normal school board.
| The alumni of the school now number
nearly 900, of whom $50 were pres-
| cnt.
| Ddl Dp pMeCSe, WHO HAS IL Id sc l's'i'
yoir in Grape creek, near its headwa-
ters, west of Canon City, has just lib
| Grated co, 600 trout above the dam and
TO- 900 in the creek below the dam
Last year he planted 100000 fish in the
| reservoir and 10000 below the dam.
The varieties are the rainbow and the
native brook. He will distribute 1OS,-
coo more this season.
An aerial tramway which will carry
passengers in basket-cars up the side
of Leavenworth mountain above Silver
Plume, is one of the features of a
100000 new summer entertainment
proposition upon which work has al
| ready been commenced at Silver
! Plume The contracts for the tram
way were let several months ago and
it will be finished by July 10th.
While on a straw ride out from
Pueblo Saturday to Fishers ranch on
the ST. Charles Howard Moore was
badly shocked by lightning. which
struck a tree, breaking off large por-
ton of the top. After working over
him for some time, Moore's compan'
ions succeeded in restoring him to CON
sciousness. Three other members OF
the party received slight shocks.
The faculty of the East Denver high
school have awarded the following
scholarships: Gala McCausland. to
the University of Colorado: Edith
Sawyer. two years scholarship to
Colorado college; Joseph Weinberger
and Jacob j. Lieberman, to the Uni
versity of Denver. The Methodist
churches of Denver have awarded
scholarships at the University of Den
yer to Irene Lloyd and Roy Correa.
During the month of May work pro
gressed rapidly upon the Gunnison tun-
mel. about 1900 feet being excavated
during that period. On that date the
total excavation was 12,454 lineal feet,
or five-twelfths of the whole. Work
was begun upon the tunnel on January
II, 1905, and has been maintained
without interruption ever since. hay
ing been carried on by the government
under force account since May 81.
1905, when the work was taken out
of the hands of the contractors.
E. H. Asmussen, saloonkeeper of
Cripple Creek, who was convicted of
violating the Sunday closing ordinance
and sentenced by Judge Seeds to pay a
fine of $500 and costs and serve six