The Springfield herald., 1907-01-25
COLORADO NEWS ITEMS

A commercial club has been organ
lied at Steamboat Springs, with M. E.
Houston for president and Archie
| Withers, secretary.
JEFF Noonam, an old time prospector,
| was found dead in front of his cabin
in Leadville on the 18th inst. HIS
death is attributed to heart disease.
A new market has been opened to
Colorado for it's onions. Five thous-
and sacks, making a total of eighteen
carloads, were shipped last week to
New York.
A gang of convicts at the Colorado
State Penitentiary is cutting and stor-
ing 400 tons of ice from the lakes IN
Grape creek canon, three miles from
the prison.
The Colorado & Southern Railroad
Company will expend $15o,OOo In re-
building and eQuipping its coach shops
and wood working mill in Denver,
which were burned last year.
Representative Bonynge has recon-
mended the appointment of Mrs. Car
rie James as postmistress at Loveland.
She is the widow of the former lncuHl-
bent of the office, David Jones.
The Pixies Peak Cog road has aban-
doned it's project of using Oil instead
of coal for fuel, and will continue the
present methods. Oil burning tests
have proven decidedly unsuccessful.
Miss Katherine Craig, state superin-
tendent of public instruction, Will ad-
dress the state superintendent s de-
partment of the National Educatlonal
Association, which meets in Chicago,
February 26th to 2Sth.
A parrot, two squirrels and guinea
pig were burned to death. and mon
key so badly injured that it VIII die,
as a result of a fire which destroyed
monkey house belonging to DR.. A.
Blackman at Colorado Springs.
Within the next few weeks the
Santa Fe railroad company Will begin
opening coal mines on several large
veins in different parts OF Fremont
county. The company has decided, 1t
is said, to supply its entire system
with coal from Fremont county.
Mayor Speer of Denver was thrown
from his carriage on the 14th inst,
and received some bad, but not dam
gerous bruises on his head. Mrs
Speer, who was with him, escaped
without serious injury. The mayors
spirited horses We're frightened by an
automobile.
st. Mary's Academy, one of the old
est schools in Denver, conducted py
the Sisters of Loretto, Is to be re-
moved from its site at Fourteenth and
California streets to Fourteenth av-
enue and Pennsylvania, where six lots
have been purchased on which TO erect
a handsome new building.
The Santa Fe railroad is completing
plans to transform Its present passen-
ger depot in Colorado Springs, at the
intersection of Pixies Peak avenue
with the tracks, into freight depot.
and to build a s50,000 hotel and depot
two blocks further south, between Gu
charas and Vermijo streets.
1t is stated that Pueblo's Japanese
colony will be depleted considerably
before spring. Sixty employed at the
Ellers smelter are said to have quit,
saying they were obliged to pay COM
missions to countrymen and that the
cost of living was higher than ex-
pected, leaving them little at the end
of the month.
The Colorado City Chamber of Com
merce will co operate with the Colo
RADIO Springs Chamber of Commerce in
constructing a sugar palace in Colo
RADIO Springs. The plan Is to call on
the sugar factories of the state to
contribute about twenty tons of beet
sugar and coat the blocks with
waterproof mineral veneer.
1t is expected that Boggs Flat,
large arid section of land about ten
miles southeast of Florence, will be
brought under irrigation by system
of artesian wells which are % be
drilled at various depths within the
next few weeks. The plans for the
campaign have been finished and der
ricks and drilling machinery ordered
ARRANGEMENTS have been completed
for the fifth annual bench show OF TIE
Colorado Kennel Club, to be held at
Coliseum hall in Denver on February
26th, 27th and 2Sth. About $1,000 IN
cash prizes will be given away, and
James Mortimer will officiate as Judge
of all breeds. The entries to the show
will close on February 18th. ii. &.
Bryan of 533 Seventeenth street, Den
yer, is secretary of the club.
The members of both houses of the
General Assembly at Denver nave ac
cepted the invitation of Governor
Henry A. Buchtel to a good fellow
ship" dinner at the Savoy hotel on the
night of January 31st. The invitation
also includes the justices of the Su-
preme Court and the state officers, and
the heads of the various institutions
in the state, and of some of the COM
mercial organizations of Denver.
Charles Warren Dake. founder of
Pine Grove, Colorado, and author of
the state game law, died on the 18th
inst. at his ranch near Pine Grove. at
the age of sixty-eight years. Mr.. Dake
was formerly member of the state
Legislature, being elected member of
the lower house from Jefferson county
in 1892 While in the Legislature he
framed The state game law, anu did
much for the State School of Mines at
Golden.
At last the water has been turned
into the new c. F., and l. canal near
Adobe station, thirty miles west of
Pueblo This is the canal which cost
about 81 900, 900, and was built for the
purpose of furnishing the Minnequa
steel works with water owned by
the company in the Arkansas river
and Turquoise Lake, near Leadville.
The water will be turned into reser-
voir No. 2, which is double the size
of Lake Minnequa.
highly imDOrtant Colorado land