The Springfield herald., 1907-07-26
COLORADO NEWS ITEMS

fuel famine is disproven.
The Salvation Army in Denver con-
verted $50 persons In June.
| Some Larimer county men have been
arrested on a charge of cattle rust
| ling.
The state lumber dealers held their
annual meet at Colorado Springs re-
Gently.
Mrs Robert w. Hearne was badly
hurt in driving accident at Central
City one evening last week.
Up to July Goth there had been
thirty-one divorces granted In the
courts of Denver this month.
The Denver papers are having
hard time finding the first capitol
building. They might ask Oliver Wig
gins.
While splitting kindling wood. Mrs.
Della Dodge at Grand Junction,
chopped off the foreinger of her left
hand.
The bite of gnat caused the death
of James Chase at Plateau. Blood
poisoning set in, caused by scratching
the bitten place.
Eugene f. Ware, former United
States commissioner of pensions, Is
taking his vacation at Camp Never
Mind in Ute pass.
A Trinidad street car conductor has
been fined for swearing. Evidently the
trial judge thought that prerogative
belonged to the patrons.
Students of the Golden School of
Mines are to be given practical knowl-
edge of mining by driving tunnel
into Mount Zion, near Golden.
Chief Delaney of Denver police force
has decided to stop the malignant
| form of murder now prevalent in that
city among automobile speed maniacs.
| The recklessness Of some of the driy-
ers was something fearful.
Search your dirty linn! A tramp
was stealing a ride in a linen closet on
| train that pulled into Pueblo found
a pocketbook containing $4,000. 1t
| had been gathered up from the birth
| by the porter. The owner took the
tramp home with him and will give
him a responsible position.
! A heavy rain west and north of Trim
| idad raised the Las Animas river six
| feet, the highest it has been since the
| flood of two years ago. Two Colorado
G. Wyoming railway bridges. one at
Madrid and another between Madrid
| and Segundo, are reported gone and
some damage is reported from Longs
| canon.
The last of the old landmarks In
| Greeley is to be torn down to make
way for two-story brick building to
be built by D. r. Macarthur for hard
ware store. The old one-story frame
building which stands on the south
side of Main street among row OF
brick blocks, was built in 1871 by John
| Abbott, an original Union colonist, now
a resident of Fort Collins.
Douglas Cler'nns, the eight-year-old
| son of Walter Clemens of jamestown.
was taken to the University hospital
where he must have three fingers and
| the first joint of the thumb, all on the
| left hand amputated. He with some
| other children had secured some giant
| caps at the Wano mill above James
| town. The little fellow tried to crack
one of the caps and the explosion ter
ribly laccrated his hand. He was also
| injured about the face and left thigh
| but not seriously.
]. H. Weisse & Co. of South Omaha
| have been awarded the contract for
building the new post Gioe at Colorado
Springs, the contract p.ice being $173.-
G73. 1t was recently reported that
this firms bid was $206,358, which
WOulu nave neCSSSltdtSu ltduNSl-
tisement for bids, since this amount,
with the cost for furnishings, would
have made tofal in excess of the
$21O,OO0 set aside for the building.
The site cost $G5, 900 and congress ap-
p.cp-.atcd $275,000 for building and
slto-
Garfield Williams, aged sven, son
of Ellis Williams, superintendent of
the La Belle mine at Jerryville, died
as the result of powder burns sus-
tained after throwing lighted match
into a can of blasting powder. The
lad, with two other boys, found the
powder and one of his older compan-
ions induced him to throw the match
into the can. terrific explosion
followed. his clothing was set on fire
and he ran screaming from the cabin
to a nearby pond. He was terribly
burned and soon became unconscious,
remaining so until he died.
1t was too good to last for the coun-
ties of the state AMI Attorney General
Dickson has announced that he will
end the practice of sending dependent
wards to the State Industrial School
by bringing suit against all counties
which fail to pay for their wards since
1905. In 1904 the county commission
ers were advised that 1t was not nee
essary to pay the expense of keeping
wards at the institution. The board Of
control recently sued the commission
ers of Summit county for $500 for
keep wards. Judge Cavender of the
Fifth judicial district ruled in favor
of the state institution and Attorney
General Dickson will begin suits. The
amount due from counties is about
$50 900, of which Denver county owes
SC, 900 and Ell Paso $4,000.
Deacon Harris, formerly Of Boulder.
died in Silver City, New Mexico, July
4th. Old timers of Boulder remem-
Der him. What his real name was is
not known and he always went by the
name of Deacon" He was born in
Sullivan county, Indiana, in 1886. and
reached Colorado in September, 1858.
He mined for awhile in Cherry creek
and the next year came to Boulder,
arriving soon after the discovery of
the Horsfal mine at Gold Hill. He was
one of the original town company of
Boulder and built the second house
there. He helped lay out the town
of Boulder using a saddle rope which
had been carefully measured with a