The Springfield herald., 1907-12-13
COLORADO NEWS ITEMS

1907 amounts to $456,619, which is
the heaviest ever levied.
The First Bank of Montezuma Val
ley has been incorporated, the capital
stock being placed at $4,000. The
bank will be located at Montezuma.
The Merchants's National bank of
Salida has been authorized to begin
business with $4,000 capital. James
J. Mckenna is president and D. H.
Craig cashier.
The Democratic club at Denver
voted to donate $500 to the fund for Sc
curing the Democratic national conven-
tional convention next year. The en-
tire sum called for is 100000.
The women Of Eaton raised funds to
erect library on ground donated by
Governor Eaton, and since then have
secured the money to purchase books
and pay the running expenses.
DR.. Charles Hendrick, an eminent
New York physician and surgeon and
founder of large sanitarium in Ard
more, L. l., is at Colorado Springs max
ing plans to erect sanitarium at
cost of $150,000.
There are now thirty-two dwellings
under construction at Fort Morgan,
varying in cost from 81 900 to $4,000
with few under the $4,000 mark. A
number of public buildings are also
going up.
]. ]. Dean, farmer living twelve
miles southeast of Greeley, was killed
on the End inst by being thrown from
load of coal, one wheel passing over
his body. He lived only two hours
after the accident.
At recent meeting OF the city coun-
Gil of Aguilar twenty-year franchise
was granted to Hawkins & Barnett of
Trinidad to furnish electric light and
power. They also expect to furnish
light and power to several coal mines.
The school board of district No. 1,
Pueblo, has closed negotiations by
which they obtained an option from
NJ. d. Thatcher on block in north
Pueblo. which will be used as site
for new high school building, to cost
100000.
Richard Fl. Malone, receiver of the
defunct Fidelity Savings association
of Denver, has declared five per cent.
dividend, amounting to $4,000. This
brings the dividends, so far, up
to twenty-five per cent. and he expects
to pay fifteen per cent. more.
A. NJ. Copeland, who had made two
previous attempts to kill himself, COM
mitted suicide in the city jail at
Kremmling on the night of the 30th ult.
by tying a silk muffler about his neck
ard hanging himself by attaching 1t to
the iron grating of the window.
At La Junta on Sunday the 1st. inst,
after shooting and instantly killing his
mother-in-law, Mrs. Jose Lusero, and
firing one bullet at his wife, E. E. Ad-
deyta, Mexican, turned his revolver
upon himself and committed suicide.
Mrs. Mrs. Addeyta was not harmed.
The largest family gathering at
Thanksgiving dinner in northern Colo
rado was probably that of Tom Beas-
ley, farmer living south of Longmont,
who entertained his uncles, aunts,
brothers and sisters with their fam
lilies. numbering seventy-one persons.
Juan Tafoya, charged with the muir
der of Andreas Arguello at Segundo
last September has been found guilty
In the District Court at Trinidad, the
jury recommending life sentance.
Arguello was killed in free-for-all sa-
loon fight following a Mexican dance.
If Senator Nelson's bill, pending in
Congress, becomes law, Colorado
City will have free delivery. The
bill provides free delivery for all
towns having postal revenue OF vs.
900. The Colorado City postoffice nov
has an annual revenue of more than
$4,000.
In the District Court at Fort Nor
gan Vera Moon and John Asmus, the
young ranchman in the Wild Cat sec
ton, were found guilty on the End inst
of murder in the first degree for the
killing of Robert Mcdowell, an &C.
centric ranchman, several years ago.
The jury fixed the punishment at life
imprisonment.
F. o. Stanley, a prominent automo-
bile enthusiast, is having plans drawn
at Denver for three-story summer
hotel to be built at Estes Park. 1t will
contain over 100 guests rooms and $50
people can be accommodated at one
time. The hotel is to be known as
the "Dunraven." The plan includes
outlying cottages, casino, stage and
ballroom.
Escaping an attack of whooping
cough for seventy-one years, E. j. Car
yer, who was personal friend of
Horace Greeley and N. C. Meeker, one
of the founders of Greeley, and for
thirty years publisher of the Greeley
Tribune, is enjoying" that juvenile
disease. Mr.. Carver and his wife have
arranged to remove to Riverside,
California.
The county commissioners of Ere
mont county have awarded contract
to the Pueblo Bridge Company, for the
erection of steel bridge across the
Arkansas river at TEXAS creek, forty
miles west of here. 1t will cost $1,7O0
and must be completed by March l,
1908. There are now sixteen public
bridges across the Arkansas river in
Fremont county which cost 100000.
ID. A. Camfield has recently put 800
men and teams on the work of enlarg-
in gthe Riverside reservoir and build
ing eighty miles of ditch. Nearly half
of the work is completed. 1t will cost
S1,500,O00. 1t was first planned to
build fifty miles of ditch, but was
recently decided to increase its length
thirty miles. The Riverside reservoir
is in Weld county, the ditch in Morgan
and the system will irrigate 10000
acres.
The mountain stage which left Fort
Collins at o'clock on the morning of
December I'd was overturned nine miles
west while descending hill, the four
passengers and the driver being thrown
out Leo Miller, the driver, was scri-