The Springfield herald., 1907-07-05
COLORADO NEWS ITEMS

start work on the building before the
first of the year.
Mrs. William Cooke Daniels Of Den
yer has taken Wolhurst, the beautiful
country seat of former senator Edward
o. Wolcott, for the winter.
The Indians who came into Colorado
from the Utah reservation on their an
nual hunt have been persuaded to re-
turn after killing a few deer
The project of constructing a speed
way between Glenwood Springs and
Carbondale has been revived and the
Legislature may be asked to assist.
AS soon as the st. Louis Exposition
closes the mining machinery in opera
ton in the government building will
be shipped to Denver and set up.
Frank A. Wadleigh has assumed his
duties as assistant general passenger
and ticket agent of the Denver & Rio
Grande railroad system at Denver.
Twenty-one marriage licenses were
issued in Denver on the day before
Thanksgiving and it is hoped that for
ty-two people had cause for giving
thanks.
At Cripple Greek November 23rd the
jury in the case of J. r. Lewis, charged
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Joplin saloon in Victor. September
18th, brought in verdict of acquit-
tai.
DR.. Jacob Eisenhut, aged 1O4 years,
made speech and sang two songs at
the celebration of the anniversary OF
Swiss independence held by the people
Of that nationality in Denver few
days ago.
Active preparations are already In
progress in Denver for the national Ep-
NArth League convention to convene
on the 5th of next July. 1t is expected
to bring more than $1,000 visitors into
the state.
The sum paid to employees at the Pu-
eblo steel works on November 18th and
18th amounted to $250OO0. This is sNthe
largest pay day since October. 1903. The
largest in the history Of the company
was 100000.
w. H. Tuttle. conductor on the Col
orado Midland, paid an election bet by
grinding a hand-organ for an hour In
front OF the Mesa County Bank at
Grand Junction. He had a cup and col
iected $2134 for charity.
The chapel at the Cakes Consumpt-
ives Home in Denver has been pre-
!
which Mr.. Oakes and Miss Lewis, the
organist, play many charming tunes
that can be heard for a mile or more.
File maps of the new town OF Min
turn, in Eagle county, have been filed
with the secretary of state. The filing
was made by the commissioners, who
are Frank Steacy, H. G. Keck, M. J..
Henry. D. J. Maynard and A. H. Laub.
The county commissioners of Weld
county have appropriated $3.50 to the
Colorado State Realty Association for
the purpose of advertising the Greeley
district by the Gilbert McClurg lee
lures, which are said to have benefited
the district.
Samuel P. CLOSER, formerly Of Trini-
dad, patient in the county insane asy-
lum for the insane at Dunning, near Chi
cago, was choked to death in struggle
with the guards on the night Of Mo-
vember 22d Closer had assaulted an
other patient.
The Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific
Is placing in a telephone line between
Denver and Colorado Springs and
Goodland, Kansas. the latter being the
end of the division, for the handling of
trains and also for the transaction of
railroad business.
The State Forestry Association as
serts that since the first settlement of
Colorado the forest area of the state
has been reduced from 10000 square
miles to 5000 square miles, princi-
pally by fire and wanton waste. though
much has been used.
OF the 27O voters registered in the
Estes Park precinct only seventy-eight
east their ballots. Some voters live
twenty miles from the polling place.
Of those who voted fifty were Republi-
cans, twenty-five Democrats, five Pro
hibitionists and one Socialist.
Attorney w. R. Ramsay. who was
appointed assistant to Attorney Gen
eral N. C. Miller, assumed his duties
November 21st. He takes the place
vacated by Attorney H. ]. Hershey,
who was retained by the Republican
party managers to prosecute the fraud
cases.
Miss Nellie Montgomery wife OF
thomas j. Montgomery, a well-known
real estate and insurance man of Fort
Collins, committed suicide November
23rd by drowning herself in Terry lake,
a small body of water near Fort Col
Inns. She left an incoherent note, indi-
eating temporary insanity.
A remarkable dinner was served re-
Gently by farmer near Ault. The ta-
Bile was set for twelve, and the menu
consisted of one five and one-half-
pound potato, one flfteen-pound cab
bage, one ten-pound chicken. one six
pound turnip, one two-pound onion.
and three pies made from one and
pne-half-pound apple.
Tent life is much in vogue at the In
ternational Printers Home at Colorado
| Springs. There are ten steam-heated
canvas houses, equipped with electric
lights and having electric-bell connec-
ton with the drug room of the hospi-
tai. These probably are the only
steam-heated tents in the world, and
they are occupied the year through.
The following statistics are given in
the sanitary bulletin for October by the
State Board of Health: Total number
OF deaths for October, 1904, 1926; still
births, %; estimated population. $751;
1856; annual death rate per 1000, ex-
cluding still birth, 14.72; deaths from
diphtheria 15; deaths from typhoid fe-
yer, 81; deaths from scarlet fever, l,
The State Board of PardOnS has COM