The Springfield herald., 1907-03-08
COLORADO NEWS ITEMS

Mr.. and Mrs. A. l.. Barr of Long
mont were divorced on the 2Gth after
thirty years Of married life.
The fifth annual dog show at Denver
lase week was the most successful!
ever held by the association.
A new Masonic temple was dedi
Gated at Fruita on the 2Gth. One hun
dred and fifty visiting Masons as
sisted
Mike Marchard is in the hospital at
Telluride. probably fatally injured, by
cave-in at the Smuggler-union mine
on the 26th
Louis Padllo was killed in head-on
collision on the Santa Fe at Thatcher
on the 26th while riding brake BEAM
He had SIT on his person.
Jerry Harmon, an old time res'au.
rant man and an early settler of Las
Animas county, died on the 26th a.
Trinidad of pneumonia. aged sixty.
seven years.
Mrs. Alice Moore and GrippJn
Turner, a negro, have been placed in
murder of Manuel Charez, preferred
against them by the authorities Of
Starkville.
| armory at Fort Collins. 1t will be 50x
| 100 feet in size ana will cost $4,000.
| The contract has also been let for the
new Y. NJ. c. A. building, to cost So5,-
| BOO.
The cornerstone of the new Chris
tian church at Canon City was laid on
| the Goth The building, which Will
cost about $4,000, will be of Grecian
style of architecture. and is to be com
pleted by August 1st
The Wa,ssnburs and Western Rail
way Company was incorporated at Den'
| yer on the 27th; capital stock 100000;
L. w. Griffith. l.. Il. Rowland, F. h.
Guy, George C. Barnard, +. j. jackson,
| incorpora;ors; Denver.
John DeBaker, who died at Boulder
on the 26til. and who went to that city
| in 1853. was the first man to erect a
quartz mill at Gold hill in Boulder
county. II proved failure. lie was
| also the first man to erect Touring
mill in that county, in 1852.
The locomotive of a Colorado Mid
land passenger train on the night of the
| 18th inst. struck and killed large
buck deer near Woodland Park. The
train was stopped and the carcass OF
| the deer carried to Colorado Springs in
| the baggage car.
"A county bridge four miles north OF
Salida collapsed and N. c. Laws, a
ranchman. who was driving over the
| bridge with a load, was precipltated
| In, the Arkansas river and seriously
| injured. The bridge was condemned
| BIZ the county commissioners several
years ago, but had never been closed
10 traffic.
William Derry and Charles Green
| colored aged ten and twelve years
respectively, are in Jail at La Junta
charged with the murder OF Freeman
| Henry Austin. aged six. by beating him
on the head with a brick, during an al
teIcation which arose while the three
boys were going home from school, on
the 26th.
One Thousand acres of land lying be
tween Greeley and l.oveland, above
the Greeley and Loveland ditch, WIZ!
be plowed this spring and sowed to
fail wheat next September This land
belongs to Dr. ]. 7. Youtsey and
George A. Jackson of London. anu
will be cultivated by the dry-farmins
method.
February proved a record breaker
IN the building line at Denver. DURING
the largest number on record. The
increase ever those issued during the
same period last year was 50, while
the cost of the buildings erected was
| Sl393O more than the aggregate
amount expended in January, being
S427,700.
The annual breakfast and election
| of officer; of the Denver Press Cldb
! has been arranged for Sunday morn
! ing, March 10, at the Albany hotel IN
Denver. Among the important mat
| ters to be discussed are the removal
| of the headquarters of the club to 4
more desirable location the establish
E,ent of Il permanent building fund and
the securing Of an extensive library.
rke dates for the next livestock
| show in Denver have been set. and IL
has been decided to make it national
| she W, throwing the competition open
to the world. with special classiiica'
tim and premiums for the territory
| covered by the last show, the short
g.iss country. The executive commit
tee of the Western Stock Show Asso'
citation yesterday set the dates for the
next show for the week of January
| 2Oth-25th. 1908.
w. Harold Stewart twenty years
| old. son nj w II. Stewart, postmaster
and ranch owner. Ironton. Colorado
killed himself at his lodgings in Den
YER at about 3 O'Clock Thursday
morning. Fighting eff an imaginary
assalant while in his sleep he turned
he muz2le of the weapon 10 his hea'
nd fired. Circumstances that sur
ound the affair show that he was be
ing ter urcd by wild visions of aia
H'ccD. and this alone was responsible
| The February business in the United
| ~tatfs lanu Office at Pueblo Is record
! breaker. showing 227 homestead en-
tries, the largest number ever recorded
in month, and thirty more than for
| January. In February, 1906, the cas-
entries numbered fifteen. and this yea
wenty-sevcn. In February last yea
there wore fortv-two. The number OF
homestead entries in February, 1906,
was but n'nety-three. The total
amount of land appropriated in Febru
ary. 1906 was 21.292 acres and thil
year 44,709, more than double that
| taken up a year ago.
II is reported that Gen. w. j. Palmer
will shortly purchase an electric auto
mobile. fitted with large swinging
chrir to minimize jolting. General
Palmer has steadily improved in
strength since his recent horseback ac
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