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

January 2Oth, VIA AlamOSa
1 Wagon Wheel Gap now rejbices in a
telephone line and can talk with all the
principal cities of the state. y.
The three lodges of the knights OF
1 Pythias at Colorado Springs are plan
ming for the erection of $4,000 lodge
building.
A contract has been let for the con.
struction of the new State Fish Hatch.
cry at Glenwood Springs. 1t is to cost
$1,70O and be ready for occupancy by
the first of April.
The trial of Abraham and Isaac
Schiller. alleged Alamosa bank wreck
| ers. comes up at Del Norte February
18th. with Judge Cunningham of Colo
RADIO Springs on the bench.
A battalion OF the Twenty ninth In.
fantry has arrived at Fort Logan in
| the suburbs of Denver to take the
| place of Second Infantry, which re-
Gently started for the Philippines.
1t is suggested that the Pike Centen-
nial Association request the govern
ment to issue n special edition of post
age stamps commemorative of the dis
covery OF Pixies Peak by Lieut.. Zeb-
ulon Pike.
The Rio Grande railroad will spend
large sum of money this spring in
Strengthening its line between Pueblo
and Florence. Other expensive i'm
provements are planned along the Ar
kansas valley.
Ten thousand and forty-four men
were taken into custody by the police
of Denver during the year 1905, and.
in the same period 1,127 women. Va
Srancy was the charge against 3,805 of
the prisoners.
In the case of Annie and Henry Wat
son VS.. the Short Line Company Judge
Seeds at Cripple Creek ordered judg-
ment to issue, Annie Watson thereby
receiving $4,000 and Henry Watson
$1,215 and costs.
George H. Bachenberg has been ap
pointed horticultural inspector of the
city and county Denver by the county
commissioners. Mr.. Bachenberg takes
the place of John T.. Phillips, who re-
signed to accept place in the govern
ment mint.
Albert Taylor, who tried to get a
second pension under the name of
AlonzO Nightingale, a dead comrade,
was sentenced in the federal court at
Denver to eighteen months at the
Leavenworth prison. Insanity was
pleaded in his defense.
Five Italians were killed on Monday,
January 22d, by IA snowslide at the
SunyBide mine, twelve miles northeast
of Silverton. Their names are:
Thomas Fala, Anton Vel, Dominick
Salla, Dominick Provilla and Tom Das-
tin Tasinapine, all single.
Dependency, caused by the feeling
that he was hopelessly in the grasp of
consumption. induced Arthur j. How
ard to commit suicide in the Alta
Vista hotel at Colorado Springs by
shooting himself through the head. He
leaves a widow and an eight-year-old
son.
j. j. McCochran, miner, was blown
to pieces at Lawrence, near Victor,
January 22d by an explosion. OF dyna-
mite. He was preparing caps and
fuse with which to fire round of
shots and it is thought thai the eXplo-
sion resulted from his crimping caps
with his teeth. -.
The jury in the case of Joe Mattel
at Trinidad returned verdict of muir
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
he was tried, the jury disagreeing at
his former trial.
NJ Fl. Okrhara, a Japanese working
at Delagua, Victor fuel camp eigh-
teen miles east of Trinidad, has been
appointed deputy sheriff and is be-
lieved to be the only Japanese in Colo
rado holding such commission. He
speaks excellent English and acts as
interpreter for the large number of
Japs who work at Delagua.
The franchise for the Florence
street railway system applied for by
F. S. Granger, of San Jose, California,
was passed on final reading by the
Florence City Council. Mr. Granger
has engaged Charles L. Mitten as en-
gineer for the system. About $22,500
has been raised as a bonus in the
county and the early commencement
ofT'work is expected.
A verdict for $500 in favor of Dr.
F. H. Welles of Grand junction has
been rendered against the lntermoun-
tain Improvement Company, owners of
the Bank block at Victor. The doctor,
who had an Office in the building. had
his left foot and leg crushed between
the elevator and the wall of the shaft
September 80, 1902. He asked for
s50O00.
Miss Jessie Hess, daughter of Abra-
ham Hess, former owner of the Mt.
Vernon ranch, nine miles northwest of
Golden, committed suicide at her room
in Denver January 25th by cutting her
throat. She was a girl of more than
common ability and had many friends,
having for several years made busi-
ness of preparing and selling books of
pressed flowers. 1t is believed that
her mind had become unbalanced.
Acting Governor Parks signed the par
don of Lulu Hill, aged eighteen. who
was sent to the penitentiary last fall,
and is about to become the mother of a
child. 1t is an unwritten law that no
children may be born in the peniten-
tiary, and the girl will be allowed to
go to her mother in Oklahoma. She
was sentenced with Patrick HILL or Il
man who goes under that name, they
being convicted of stealing horse
and buggy at Pueblo. They are not
married. Great interest has been
taken in the case of the girl by the
Colorado Federation of Women's clubs.
Mrs. Martha A. Hodges, widow of
James l.. Hodges, has been appointed
by Governor Mcdonald secretary of