The Springfield herald., 1906-06-08
COLORADO NEWS ITEMS

Florence.
The Colorado Teachers Association
has donated 500 for the relief OF the
needy teachers in San Francisco.
The annual state convention of the
society of Christian Endeavor will be
held at Colorado Springs. June 14th
to 18th.
The c. d. Griffith Shoe Company
proposes to erect a large shoe factory
at Denver, which will employ between
200 and 800 men.
Strawberry Day at Glenwood Springs
will be on Saturday, June 18th. There
will be free strawberries and free
baths in the big pool
The Loveland Chamber of Commerce
has inaugurated series OF luncheons
like those SO popular in Denver, and Is
increasing its membership.
A destructive hailstorm visited Sun
flower valley, eight miles east of Trini-
dad, June list, and practically ruined
the fruit crop as well as the first crop
oil alfalfa.
The class Of boys belonging to the
Colorado Springs Young Mems Chris
tian Association will start on gypsy
camping trip June 11th, visiting the
Cripple Creek district and Canon City.
Ed Rowe, a bartender in the Sara
tcga saloon at Leadville, was shot
about midnight May 29th and instantly
Killed by two masked men who at
tempted to hold up the saloon. The
men escaped.
The Colorado Canning Company of
Canon City has increased its capital
stock and is adding a large two-story
brick building to its plant. During
The canning season it expects to en-
ploy seventy-tive persons.
Trainsoads of structural steel are be-
ing received daily at the MinneQua
works to be used in the construction
of the new buildings, which will in,
clude new roundhouse and machine
shop for the Colorado & Wyoming
road, six new open hearth furnaces,
etc.
Marks Whiteman, prominent Jew
lsh merchant at Roswell, New Mexico.
who committed suicide at Alamogordo
n few days since, formerly resided in
Denver and Pueblo. He was the origi-
Eal of 'Whiteman, the Jew Merchant"
In Emerson Hough's novel, Hearts
Desire"
John Seidler, a packing house EN-,
Dloye at Denver, went insane and at
tackled numerous people. He was ar
rested by Policeman Higdon, who had
to club him into submission. But the
demented man died at the county hos.
pital from injuries received in one OF
his fights.
Mrs. Lucretia l.. Hall, aged seventy
FIVE. and the oldest woman pioneer of
Ell Paso county, died May 26th, at the
Hall ranch, near Fountain. She is sur
vived byahusband, Benjamin Hall, aged
eighty, and by two sons. A daughter.
Mrs. A. L. Hatcher, was killed a year
ngo by train.
The West Side Neighborhood House
Association in Denver has begun work
on a new building to cost $4,000. 1t
will be the home of day nursery, kin
dergarten, various clubs, night schools.
and classes in sewing, cooking, bas''et
weaving, hand and tool work, mecL.-i-
cal drawing, etc.
Officers of the Colorado State Grange
still hope that Denver will get the Ma
tional Grange convention, which Is to
meet November 10th to oath next, and
which it was feared would be lost to
the state on account of the failure to
get as low railroad rates as had been
expected and thought necessary.
George A. Reese of Trinidad has re-
ceived telegram from the captain of
the battleship Maine, stating that his
son. Dwight Austin Reese, had fallen
overheard and was drowned. The boy
was born and raised in Trinidad and
was seventeen years old. He was en-
pected home this month for vacation.
Passenger agents from various Colo
dc to hnn Jln
larger tourist business this season
than they have had for years. With
each successive year. according to the
records, tourist travel his increased,
and 1906, it is believed, will almost
double the amount of business handled
in any previous year.
On Memorial Day the convention of
the Western Federation of Miners in
session at Denver held services in
memory of Rev Myron W. Reed. An
euogy was read by John NJ. O'Neill.
editor of the Miners Magazine, and
afterward a committee from the Or
ganiZation went to Fairmount GENE.
terry and decorated Mr.. Reeds grave.
For damage done to uniforms and
equipment of the Colorado National
Guard at the first call to arms in the
Spanish-American War in 1898, Gov
ernor Mcdonald has just received a
check for S1,302.30 from Treasurer Ell
lis II. Roberts of the federal govern
ment The check was turned over by
the governor to the adjutant general.
David X. Wall of Denver, who came
to Colorado in 1859 with good supply
of garden seeds and who was the first
man to demonstrate the agricultural
possibilities of the state, celebrated
his eightieth birthday May Goth. He is
still strong and active. Before coming
to Colorado he was a forty-niner in
California and made money in mining
and gardening.
Sufficient funds have been raised at
Trinidad to establish an experimental
dry farm in Sunhower valley, about
eight miles east of the city. The
money was raised by popular subscrip-
tion and through committee ap-
pointed by the chamber of commerce
1t is expected that the farm will he
started with impressive ceremonies
and an invitation will be sent to Gov
ernor Mcdonald to be present.
The Northern Colorado Power Com
pany has filed with the county clerk
William Mayher of Greeley. one of its