The Springfield herald., 1907-08-16
COLORADO NEWS ITEMS


strike has worked many hardships on
small towns dependent on Denver for
supplies.
There promises to be a shake-up in
the revenue collectors Office at Den
ver Some startling disclos ares are
promised.
William d. Haywood is back at his
old desk in Denver, after a forced va
cation of seventeen months spent in
Boise. Idaho.
Cashier w. H. Allison of the First
National bank of Boulder says trust
company is to be run in connection
with the bank. A room for this pur-
pose is being prepared.
Ed Andrew, by his mother, Betty An
drew, has sued the Parkdale Fuel Com
pany for $4,000, for injuries sustained
while he was working in the coal mine
owned by the company near Boulder.
After a delay of fifteen years settle
ment of the estate OF James Williams
at Georgetown has been perfected,
certified copy of the decree having
been filed with the county clerk and
recorder.
Miss Mary Bales, resident of Boul-
der, died in Winchester, Ind, Friday,
August .. She had been in Boulder
for eighteen months and went East
two weeks ago with the body of her
brother, expecting TO return after his
funeral.
B. l.. Morey was found dead in lit
tie dugout near Pueblo. in which he
had been sleeping during the warm
weather. Morey had been an engineer
at the South Side waterworRs. Morey
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widow and two children.
Miss Ruth Owens, pretty maid of
Denver has been instrumental in
forming colony of girls in the Lit
tie Snake River Valley reclamation
district. The colony will comprise at
least ,2S0 acres and will be taken up
under the Carey act.
The teachers normal institute for
the counties of Boulder, Larimer and
Weld has closed, having been by far
the most successful ever held in that
district. The attendance was 226. The
attendance last year, when the insti-
tute was held at Fort Collins. was lS5,
which had exceeded all previous years.
County Treasurer E. B. Simmons, at
Colorado Springs. has found sum ag-
gregating Sl.525.05 that he is in doubt
to know what to do with. The money
has accumulated from unclaimed es-
tates. and has come into the treasury
through the coroner. Part of the fund
has been standing for a period of
twenty-five years.
The annual normal institute of Pu-
eblo and Custer counties closed after
two weeks successful session. The
attendance this year has been above
the average. Among the special fea-
lures of the closing day was an ad-
dress by Professor Thomas of the
State Agricultural College on pioneer
History, and Its Relation to National
Affairs"
Information was filed in the District
Court against the alleged keeper of
gambling house which it is alleged has
been in operation on Santa Fe avenue
at Pueblo. The raid on the place was
made and it is alleged a roulette
wheel was found in full swing. The
sheriff gave out the statement that
gambling will not be permitted any
where within Pueblo county.
The coroner of Montrose county was
called to Olathe to investigate the sud
den death of S. Armstrong of that
place. who was found dead there. He
had been dead for several hours.
physician pronounced death to be due
to apoplexy, and the coroner decided
an inquest unnecessary. Mr.. Arm
strong was sixty-five, pioneer OF
Montrose county. and prominent in the
Baptist Church.
AS the result of collision with NJ.
D. Thatcher's automobile, c. ]. Heine.
lneman for the Denver & Rio
Grande. who was riding on his BIZ
cycle, was seriously, II not fatally, in
jured at Pueblo. The accident oc-
Cured In front of st. Mary's Hospital,
where he was taken at once. He was
badly bruised about the hips and back
and received several deep scalp
wounds 1t is also said he was inter
nally injured.
Cary Culver recently died at his
home on the Little Thompson, near
i.ongmont of paralysis, aged sixty
seven years. Mr.. Culver was born in
New York, came with his wife to Colo
RADIO in 1860 and has been Identified
with this section ever since. He ell
gagged in stock raising, for many years,
devoted his time to raising and breed
Ing blooded horses, and later con
Quoted livery DuSlHeSS III l-oASHioht.
He leaves a large estate. Mr.. Culver
leaves widow and five children, II.
A., Henry r., Frederick W., Roland
and Mrs. Amelia Cole.
News reached Glenwood Springs of
homicide committed near the Cen
tral Colorado Company's Power plant
at Shoshone A man named James has
been living for some time in tent.
near the company's plant, with his
wife and son. The woman has been
driving the stage between Shoshone
and Glenwood. James is said to have
been of a quarrelsome disposition and
report says that he attempted to shoot
the occupants of the tent. His son,
boy of about eighteen years. took down
his rifle and shot his father. killing
him almost instantly. The boy has
been placed under arrest by deputy
sheriff.
A sensation was sprung in the ju
venie court at Colorado Springs,
when Judge Kerr. in sentencing Is
year-old Alice Rickard, daughter of
Mrs. Mary Richard, to the Girls In
dustrial school at Morrison. for incor
rigibility, was informed that the de
fendant was married three months
ago. This circumstance in nowise af-
i. ts-s. 81.