The Springfield herald., 1906-01-26
COLORADO NEWS ITEMS

county last year.
Gen w. J. Palmer is building a mag
,niiicent driveway at Wagon Wheel
Zap at cost of $4,000.
, The International Typographical
Union will meet at Colorado Springs
lin August. An immense gathering is
expected.
Il In a quarrel over Il woman at Pue-
bio on the 18th inst, Gus Matthews, a
colored man, shot and killed Frank
Smith, also colored. Matthews got
away.
The city physician of Victor has re-
Gently examined milk from fifty
dairies and reports that he found many
cans of watered milk and some bad
cases of adulteration.
Mason Weems has been sentenced to
the Buena Vista reformatory for eight
cen months by the County Court at
Golden, for stealing bicycles in Denver
and selling them in Golden.
William T.. Sweet has donated $685.
900 toward the erection of a $2OO,O00
~ NJ. C. A. building in Denver, pro-
vided the rest of the amount can be
raised by February 13. 1906.
Mrs. Gottesleben, wife of Peter
lGottesleben, pioneer and for many
years the leading jeweler in Denver,
died on the 18th inst. from injuries
received in getting OFF a street car.
Supervising Architect Taylor has
assigned Lee Ullery, superintendent
of construction of the Denver mint,
to take charge of the construction of
the federal building at Colorado
| Springs.
A company of Cripple Creek men,
headed by F. J. Burk, has closed long
term lease for 1G0 acres of state land
one mile south of Rockvale, in Fire.
mont county, on which they will de-
velop the coal veins.
The Fort Collins Pioneer Association
was organized on the 18th inst. with
,seventy-five charter members. John
G. Mccoy was elected president; Rob
ert S. Feeder, secretary; and Mrs. w.
| w. Taylor, historian.
John Meany, an employe at the
Workman mine, twelve miles from
.Leadville, on the South Park line. fell
from scaffolding sixty feet into the
shaft as he was going to work and only
received slight injuries.
The applicattHiT of u. G. Forrest,
! j. A. Johns tor. u Easy Duffy, George
II. Chessaiaffa and others to organize
the First sAat16pnl Bank of Ault, with
| $25, 900 CAPITAL, has been approved by
the comptroller .of the currency.
Governor Mcdonald has appoined
| three delegates to the convention to
be held in Washington, d. C., February
| 18th, for the drawing up of uniform di-
vorce laws. The delegates are Mrs.
| C. C. Bradford, John DeWeese and r.
w. Bonynge, :&
The LohEroht Electric Light and
! Power Company has made arrange
ments wifi Lafayette coal fields to sup
ply itsspower, and the Dlantsht .tl-ong-
mont will be put out of commission as
soon as arrangements can be 9made
and the line built.
Gen. w. J. Palmer has granted a
lease for five years of block OF
| ground to be used for athletic pur-
poses by the Colorado Springs high
school. A club house, quarter-mile
cinder track and baseball diamond will
be built before spring.
w. H. Howard, retiring superintend-
| ent of the Pueblo plant of the Ameri-
can Smelling & Refining Company,
was presented with Il handsome gold
watch by the employees of the plant,
who also presented Mrs. Howard with
| fine pair of opera glasses.
| The state is now expending 7,00e
in building roads and bridges in the
southeastern counties. Charles w.
| Wells of the state engineers office
recently started on an inspection tour
of the work in the vicinity of La
Junta, Las Animas, Lamar and Holly.
Mrs. Martha A. Hodges, widow, of
James l.. Hodges, has been appointed
by Governor Mcdonald secretary of
hn Not rI nf
place carries a salary of $1,000 year.
The appointment is TO fill the unex-
pred term of Mr.. Hodges, who died
recently.
Sheriff o. p. Grimes of Ell Paso
county has announced the offer OF
500 reward for the recovery of the
$3.50 Swiss repeater watch owned by
The late e. Crane Wilson, which was
not found upon the body of the sui
eide. Wilson's two sons want the
| watch as remembrance of their
father.
The secretary OF the interior is ad
vertising for proposals for furnishing
| 10000 barrels of Portland cement on
| cars at stations on the Denver & Rio
| Grande railroad between Cedar Greek
| and Uncompahgre, Colorado, for use
in connection with lba' I!necs-srahgre
yalley r7Ss1lon project. Bids will
be opened February 9th at Montrose
The following government survey
| ors are engaged in carrying out the
new survey in western Routt county
| William II. Clark, Benjamin. F. ClarA,
James NJ. Clark, William S. Taylor, G.
| c. Schrontz, Alonzo H. Adams, Albion
X. Vickery. William c. O'Brien
| Charles S, Booth. lie Roy E. Young,
Frank e :ayhitney. Fred C. Carstar-
| phen and John +. Wilson.
The State Board OF Equalization has
granted the county commissioners of
San Juan county authority to lower
| he ass6ssments on three railroads, the
| Silverton railway, the Silverton North
| IN railway and the Silverton, Glad
stone & Northerly railway. The
, ounty commissioners complained that
| he assessments had always been too
nigh, being about $1,000 her mile in
| comparison with $3.50 pei mile paid
| by the Denver & Rio Grande in Ehe
same county. d
The jury in the case of Joe Mattel
| 1t Trinidad returned verdict of mur.
| der in the second degree. Mattel was
tccused of the murder of. an old Mexi-