The Springfield herald., 1906-04-20
COLORADO NEWS ITEMS

SUBSCRIPTIONS to the STOCK OF tne new
Boulder hotel are coming in rapidly.
A case of trichinosis is reported in
Bolder. Cook your pork thoroughly II
you would be immune.
The trustees of the Methodist church
at Fort Collins have placed an order
for $4,000 pipe organ.
The bodies of eight unidentified VIC
tins of the Adobe railroad wreck were
buried at Pueblo on the 7th inst.
General Nelson a. Miles, comman.
der-in-chief of the American army. is
to deliver the commencement address
at the State University in Boulder
June 9th.
d. Carolus Duran has finished paint
ing his portrait of the Pope, which ex-
Empress Eugenia will present as
wedding gift to Princess Ena, fiance OF
King Alfonso of Spain.
James Cannon, Jr, formerly presi-
dent of the Northern Coal Company,
died at Denver on the 10th inst. after
q lingering illness. He is survived by
his widow and two children.
A case of leprosy is reported to have
been discovered in Las Animas county,
the victim being Japanese miner EN-
ployed in the Majestic coal mine, six
teen miles north of Trinidad. He was
promptly isolated and will probably be
deported.
Prince William of Schaumburg-
Lippe died of heart failure April 4th,
at his castle at Nachod, Bohemia. His
daughter-in-law. Princess Louise,
daughter of the King of Denmark,
died fi.e hours later Of meningitis at
the same castle.
Triplets, all girls, were born to Mr..
and Mrs C. Gonzales Of WaterVale in
Las Animas county April 9Th. A pic
ture of the family will be taken and
sent to President Roosevelt. Each OF
the children weighed seven pounds and
all are strong and healthy.
The Santa Fe Railroad Company at
Canon City is building three mile eX-
tension to its branch line that now
runs to the United States Smelling IL
Refining Company, north of the city, IN
order to reach the mines of the Royal
Gorge Coal S5mpany.
Representative Brooks has appointed
Joseph T.. McCoombs, captain of the
high school battalion Of Colorado
Springs, as cadet in the West Point
Military Academy. AS alternates he
appointed George d. Kimbroush of
Central City and Lyman T. Elwell OF
Pueblo.
The Business Mems Association of
Pueblo has decided to call conven-
tion of delegates from all the CONNER
cial clubs and kindred organizations in
Colorado within thirty days to con
slider having a law enacted at the next
session of the Legislature providing
for a railroad commission and defining
its duties.
The Colorado Portland Cement Com
pany has accepted so many orders
from the government and railroads
that 1t has been obliged to order new
engines, boilers, kilns and mills that
will increase the capacity to about
100000 barrels per year. This new
machinery will be in place inside of
ninety days.
The body of d. Il. Hickey, foreman
of the Green Mountain mill at Silver
ton, was found April 7th in the engine
room of the mill, where it had lain
buried under twenty-five feet of snow
since March 10th, when the great slide
came down. Death was evidently in
stantaneous, the dead man still clutch
ing his pipe in his hand.
A tariff reduction of % cents ton
on coal mined by the Colorado Fuel &
Iron Company in Fremont county to
points outside of the state, went into
effect on the Santa Fe April 7th. The
new tariff, together with the order for
millions of tons from the East, insures
steady employment of nearly 1000 men
IN Fremont county this year.
Governor Stokes of New Jersey has
signed the bill passed by the Legisla-
ture to substitute electrocution for
hanging. The measure takes effect
March IL, 1907. AT the instance of
Prison Keeper Osborne, who declared
he would resign rather than take hu-
man life, the bill was so amended to
enable the principal keeper to employ
deputy.
Virgil G. Bogue. chief engineer of
the Western Pacific railway, has is.
sued a circular letter. asking contrac-
tors throughout the United States to
submit Lids for the immediate con
struction of 10 miles of road bed and
track. This section is to begin at the
point where Nevada and Utah join and
run to Deeth. a small settlement on
the Humboldt river.
The latest railroad company to file
incorporation papers with the secre-
tary of state is the Golden Pacific
Railroad Company. which proposes to
build a line of railroad from Golden
in jefferson county, to Bergen park.
Interested in the project are George
~ Davenport, Charles l.. Dyer, James
r. Mitchell and e. A. Stephens. The
capitalization is S1,000,000.
Over 700 applications for liquor Ii
censes were received in the office OF
the state treasurer in the week ending
April 9TH and before the month closes
1t is believed 1000 will be in. With
each application comes S25, the license
the state requires from all who sell
Intoxicating liquor. This rush of bus!'
ness is due to the fact that about half
the licenses issued in the state eX-
pired on April lst.
Charges of fraud, malice and willful
deceit in appropriating S6,415 from the
treasury of the Fidelity Savings Asso-
citation of Denver have been made
against Gibson w, Campbell, who was
secretary of the defunct concern few
months before its failure in July, 1904
The allegations of the use of the funds
of the association without the knowl-
edge or consent of the officers and di-
Tectors are made by Receiver r. II.
6IaI in hn District