The Springfield herald., 1907-09-13

dad, was killed recently by siding
rock.
The National Association OF the
Deaf will be held in Colorado Springs
in 1910.
Lust for speed resulted in the death
of two automobilists at Denver on La
Dor Day.
Over six thousand people ate corn
from the cob on Roasting Ear Day at
Loveland.
Mrs. David Henry. pioneer of Colo
RADIO, aged ~, died at Trinidad
recently.
The sheep feeders in Weld county
are beginning to feed field peas and ex-
pect profitable results.
Obe Croft, famous stallion owned
by DR.. Kelly at Pueblo, is dead. He
leaves n record of 2:16.
The Western slope veterans of the
Civil War are having their annual en-
campment at Delta this week.
The contracts have been let to To-
cal men for the erection of the Empson
canning factory at Greeley.
Anna Hensted, aged 30. is dead at
Colorado Springs as result of being
burned by the explosion of gasoline.
Golden pulled off bronocho busting
contest on Labor Day that made Chey-
cnne busting look like hobby-horse
race.
Every town in the state where labor
ers are employed to any extent OBJ
served Labor Day with proper cere-
mony.
This gambling dens at Boulder were
raided a few nights ago and the way
the chips flew would have made an old
woodsman green with envy.
Mrs. John Race, highly respected
pioneer. GO years of age, has disap-
peared from her home at Greeley and
search is being made for her.
The two-year-old-child of DIR. and
Mrs. B. A. Murray, at Victor, ate sew
eral strychnine tablets she found in
her papa's Office, and died in terrible
agony.
kid" Wallace, sent to the peniten-
tiary as confederate of Antoine Wood
in the murder of Capt. Rooney, was
pordoned by Governor Buchtel on La
Dor Day.
Governor Buchtel, in recent speech
at Grand Junction, said: IF the SUI
preme Court of this state knocks out
the railway commission act, shall call
n special session OF the Legislature for
the purpose of having a new and ef-
fective law passed"
Adalbert Kalh. aged sixty-eight was
found dead at his home by neighbors
in Colorado City. Death was due to
heart trouble. Kalh lived alone and
was found on the floor of his front
room. A daughter. Mrs. Bert Bates
wife of n Colorado Midland conductor,
survives him.
1t has remained for Lake City jury
to disregard the unwritten law of justi-
fication for murder and after listening
TO the unbosoming of the soul of the
wife of Patrick E. Donnelan, slayer of
Anderson Nordquist, who confessed
her shame in the hope of freeing her
husband, twelve men brought in ver-
dict of murder in the first degree and
fixing the sentence at life imprison-
ment.
Edward Silva, representative of the
Colorado State Fair Association, has
collected a large exhibit of Montrose
>@.-'''-
ton at the state fair in Pueblo. Mr..
Silva is confident of carrying not only
the first prizes. but also the premiums
for the best and largest display of asri-
cultural products from any county in
the state. Last year Montrose was
awarded second premium for the larg-
est exhibit, and he is not satisfied to
take second place this year.
Frank Kiser and John w. Reeve
were bound over without bail to the
October term of the District Court, on
the charge of setting fire to the depot
at Boulder and numbering Ira Wilson.
Oscar r. lie Fevre and A. E. Weeks,
by Magistrate Holiday. The men were
represented by w. G.. Houston of Boul-
der and W. NJ. Appel of Denver. They
were tried jointly, as the same evil
dence was used in both cases. Assist
ant District Attorney 7. A. McHarg of
Boulder was in charge for the state,
and was assisted by Ralph Talbot Of
Denver, the special prosecutor. who
took but little part in the examination
of the Witnesses.
Richard C. Sayles. 40 years old, col
ored, dropped dead at Greeley while
putting on his shoes, and an autopsy
made by Coroner Macy shows that
heart failure induced by an overdose
OF acetylene, was the cause of death.
Indications from letters are that the
medicine was prescibed by an Eastern
physician, with whom Sayles was CON
sulting. both in regard to his health and
love affairs. and that possibly the medi-
cine was taken as a love potion. All
knew Sayles as a respectable negro,
working as porter in shop here, and
no one dreamed that he was the owner
of two good farms in Kansas and
small ranch near the sugar factory,
which was found to be the case.
John Ziler, living nine miles south
east of Greeley, has threshed 912
bushels of wheat or seventy-six bush
els from each of twelve acres. This
field was part of fifty acres whose av
erage crop was fifty-four bushels. The
twelve-acre field was planted to pota-
toes last year. Five years ago Ziler
offered his farm of 100 acres for s3,500.
Today he refused 100000 for it. AT
Eaton, Levi Mitchell's wheat averaged
sixty-three and one-half bushels an
acre from thirty-eight and one-half
acres of measured land and twelve
acres of 1t had been planted to beets
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