The Springfield herald., 1907-06-21
COLORADO NEWS ITEMS

Mr.. and Mrs Henry T. West recent
ly celebrated their G2nd wedding an
adversary at Greeley.
Ex-Governor Peabody and daughter
are witnesses in the famous Haywood
murder trial at Boise.
Denver and Greeley are to be con
nected by an electric line. Articles of
Importance have been filed.
o. w. Yeager died of Brights dis
ease, aged tifty-one. He had been an
honored citizen of Longmont for years.
J. B. Bailey, coal miner at Flor
ence, fell dead the other night. He
had been complaining of not feeling
well for several days.
The Sisters in charge of st. Fran
els Seminary at Longmont are super
intending the furnishing of the build
Ing, and expect to open the school Sep
tember LIST.
The new hotel committee at Boulder
has decided to name the new structure
the "Boulderado," being made out Of
the words Boulder and Colorado.
Work is beieng pushed rapidly.
Pueblo captured the 1908 convention
of the State Federation of Colored
=, un4,u ymbs. president lda-Joyce
Jackson of Colorado Springs, and other
officers, hold over until next year.
Gov. Buchtel has received the resig-
nation of Senator NJ. Il. Lewis of Ere
mont county. He has just been ap-
| pointed postmaster of Florence and
resigned before the expiration of his
term.
John Corne, probation officer Of
Weld county for the last five years,
resigned and p. Tisdel, known as
Father Tisdel, who devotes his life
| to looking after the unfortunate in
! Weld county, was appointed to the va
| cancy.
Costello and Stevenson, two Oak
| Creek merchants before the County
| Court charged with the illegal sale of
| liquor, We're discharged, the jury CON
sidering the evidence against them in
sufficient to sustain the charge. The
defense offered no evidence.
| Lucille Murtis. one of the most prom
inent graduates of the Trinidad High
school this year. was thrown from
buggy and fatally injured at Berint-
Vile, Ia She was prominent in the
young society set and the sad news
is received with great regret.
| While aiding the other farmers Of
Fountain valley to eXterminate the
magpies of that section, Gus Wilson,
| living near Little Buttes, fell from
tree, dislocating three vertebrae. His
recovery is doubtful. The ranchmen
killed exactly 1000 maspies.
The Wellington association is CON
structing n dam for the purpose Of
storing water on the high ground north
west of Boulder for irrigating pur-
poses. The dam is to be about 600 feet
| hav hos of
fifty feet high. The reservoir will
cover about thirty acres and will irri-
gate several thousand acres.
Workmen eXcavating for the lake to
be used in connection with the shoot
the chutes" at the Zoo, near Colorado
Springs, have unearthed the skeleton
of a giant Indian and horse at Il
depth of about ten feet. With the
skeleton were found the remains of d
| bow and arrow and half decayed
| fragment of blanket. The supposi-
| ton is that the Indian was a Cheyenne
and was carried from the cliffs in a
| landslide.
What is said to have been the first
frame building erected in Fort Col
Inns, is being moved to make room for
hardware store, 75xl25 feet, which
1
! old building was erected in the win
ter of 1928 by Judge Boughton, he
doing most of the work on it. 1t was
built for the use of the secretary of
the colony, and later used as printing
| office. When Judge Boughton was
elected county judge in 1876 he occu-
pied it as court room and office.
The AntiSaloon League claims to
/ nf
the gambling and Sunday-closing laws
against nearly every saioonkeeper in
Arapahoe county, and District Attor-
ney Smith filed twenty-nine complaints
in the County Court. The men for
whom warrants were issued are:
Charles Lawlin, Fort Logan, four
cases; Harry Livingston, Fort Logan,
four cases; II. Ulind Fort Logan, two
cases; Patrick Slyney, Fort Logan;
| James Buck, Petersburg; c. A. Hort
man, Petersburg, five cases; Frank a.
Beandle, Petersburg, seven cases; j. e.
Crawford Littleton, two cases; Henry
Heiney, Littleton, two cases; Lewis
Steckline, Sullivan.
In appears from investigation that
much of the fruit thought to have
been killed by the early May storms
is alive and flourishing, and reports
from around Grand Junction indicate
that a large amount of apples and
pears will be harvested this year,
though the crop will not be a full one.
Peaches seem to have suffered the
most from the freeze, and berries,
grapes. plums and other small fruits,
will produce only a fair crop. Late
cherries are an exception to the latter
group, and it is anticipated that this
crop will snow up well at the end OF
the season The growers are not at
all discouraged over the prospect and
are keeping their trees in good shape
by spraying, whether they viii! bear
this year or not.
new forage plant has been intro
duced in Boulder, which, it is claimed,
Is even better than alfalfa, especially
on sandy and dry soil. It's botanical
name is papsalum dilatatum, the com
mon name being large water grass,
and also golden crown grass. 1t is
} claimed this grass, which is native
of South America, has transformed
the sandy, barren coast of northern
New South Wales into a thriving coun.
try. 1t is said to grow bunchy, about
four to six feet high, bears grazing well