The Springfield herald., 1906-03-23
COLORADO NEWS ITEMS

The Battlement Mesa forest reserve
will be opened to cattle growers April
| list instead of May as was at first
announced by Forester Pinchot.
The Idaho Springs Chamber of Com
| merce proposes to raise a fund FOR
the purpose of advertising the Springs
rs summer resort and IL mining and
business center.
The secretary OF the interior has
withdrawn from public entry section
13, township IA south, range SO west,
in connection with the Uncompahgre
valley project in Colorado.
For the first time in the history OF
Teller county both the county and
every school district is paying cash,
the last OF the county and school war
rants having been called in.
Joseph Weir, ranchman, was shot
and killed on Thursday, March sth,
in Blanco basin, Archuleta county, by
his nephew. Oral Weir, who claims
that the shooting was the result OF
quarrel.
The Denver Real Estate Exchange
and Colorado Manufacturers Assocla-
tion are very much troubled over the
closing of the Rocky Mountain paper
mills and have appointed commit
tee to consider some plan for retaining
the plant.
Three camps have been established
on the Holly & Swink railroad grade
at the Holly end of the line. They
are located five, eight and twelve
miles, respectively, from Holly, and
have over 200 teams and similar
number of men engaged.
The executive committee of the Citi-
r,t,,, IN 70
decided to establish an employment bu-
reau for its members. The club rooms
will be reopened. The president will
appoint large advisory committee to
consist of employees of the mines.
The Colorado Springs Telegraph. to-
gether with its Associated Press fran
chise. has been purchased from c. p.
Dodge by c. F. Yeager, E. F. Mckay
and C. e. Perry, all of whom have been
identified with the paper in the past.
The consideration is not made public,
but is understood TO approximate 500,
900.
Leonard Imboden and James A. Hill,
under sentence of from nine to ten
years for wrecking the Denver Saw
ings bank, were committed to the state
penitentiary at Canon City March 18Th.
They were received by Warden Cleg-
horn and enrolled on the prison rec
ords Imboden will be known as No.
$3.50 and Hill as No. 6.54O.
At meeting of the county COM
missioners of Delta county and
Gunnison county, at Delta, an
agreement was reached for the set
tlement of the county line dispute.
They will have the line surveyed by
the surveyors of both counties. work
ing Jointly, and their starting point Is
to be the northeast corner of Montrose
county, along the 107th parallel.
The State Land Board has awarded
G5,3Sl acres of indemnity school land,
all the indemnity land to which the
state at the present time is entitled.
The property lies in thirteen different
counties. The land in question Is
taken in exchange for that upon gov
eminent reserves and the board re-
reived application for 100000 acres.
Adolph Berrich, an old German scout
and trapper, who had been wandering
about in the cold near Edgerton, north
of Colorado Springs. was fnally located
by County Physician Richardson Sher-
iff Grimes and Deputy Scofield in Il
cave at Edgerton. The aged man was
unconscious. both feet and legs were
had he lain exposed many hours.
Col. F. T. Davis. adjutant of the de-
partment of the Colorado, has re-
ceived orders from General Baldwin TO
inspect the state militia companies of
Colorado. 1t is General Baldwin's
preference that field officer do this
work and the colonel will personally
conduct it during April. These inspec-
tions are made by the army in all
states that are working under the Dick
law and receiving support from the
government.
An enthusiastic meeting was held at
Aguilar on the 18th inst. to push the
proposed formation of new county
out of the northern part of Las Animas
county and in which Aguilar is to be
the county seat Among the enthusias
tic advocates of the new county, who
made speeches were Senator Cashmere
Barela and ]. r. Aguilar. The petition
to the Legislature is expected to be
ready for submission to that body at
the next session.
The Colorado Manufacturers Asso-
citation is preparing cards to be mailed
to teachers with request that they De
nut up in their school rooE,s. The
cards will contain data concerning the
manufactured products OF Colorado,
giving the articles of popular Use, sta
tistics. about the number Of factories,
capital invested, which exceeds $780,
OOO, 900 by members of the ASSOCIATION
alone, the number of employees, the
money spent annually for materials
and the wages paid.
AT the meeting of the state organiza-
tion of the Young Mems Christian AS
sociations at Colorado Springs. the fol-
lowing officers were elected for the en-
suing year: President, c. P. Dodge,
Colorado Springs; first vice president
A. C. Sechrist, Colorado Springs; sec
ond vice president, G. U. Hardy, Canon
City: recording secretary, j.. H. Tango
man, Denver; treasurer, w. E. Sweet
Denver; members of state committee,
]. H. Causey. Denver, and T. G. Wills
| Cripple Creek. A call was issued to
NJ N. Dillon of Indiana to accept the
assistant state secretaryship.
Beneath cave-in of hundreds OF
| tons of coal in the Williamaville mine.
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