The Springfield herald., 1907-01-04
COLORADO NEWS ITEMS

1t is now expected that the electric
railway line from Canon City to the tor
OF the Royal Gorge will be completed
by July 1st.
Forester Pinchot has apportioned tc
the La Sale. Colorado. and Utah re
serve. 6,100 acres cattle and horses
| 81 600 acres sheep.
The postoffice business at Greeley
has increased so much that another
carrier has been added to the force
making four in all.
Ottoman O'Donnell, son of T. j
| O'Donnell, Denver, has been appointed
cadet midshipman at Annapolis Naval
Academy by Senator Teller.
Earl England, a linesman of the
Colorado Telephone Company, was in
stantly killed at Manitou, December
2Sth. by coming in contact with live
wire of the Pixies Peak Hydro-Electric
Company.
j. ID. Kenworthy. general freight
agent of the Denver & Rio Grande at
Salt Lake City, has been appointed
general freight and passenger agent
for the system in Pueblo, assuming his
duties January 1st.
State Auditor A. e. Bent has an
nounced the appointment Of George
Birdsall, for the past eight years chief
of police of Colorado City, to be liquor
license inspector for the next two
years. There are three inspectors for
the state.
In his annual report, State Treasurer
Holmberg recommends that the com
ing Legislature issue bonds to redeem
the certificates of indebtedness
amounting to s7i0,00O issued by the
state during the Peabody administra-
ton in dealing with labor troubles
Extensive improvements planned for
the coming year by the Colorado Mid
land road will entail the expenditure
of 100000 in re-equipping and enlars-
ing the company's shops at Colorado
City. The monthly payroll at the shops
will be increased $4,000 and larger
number of men employed. Electric
power will be installed.
II. B. Kerr, travelling state agent OF
the Colorado bureau of Child and Ami
NAL Protection, has announced his in
tention of resigning the first OF the
year, to take place in the office of Dis
trict Attorney Stidger at Denver, and
o. e. Tuft, another prominent agent
wholesale glove house.
The acting commissioner of the land
Office has announced the withdrawal oil
31S,7 ,720 acres in Routt county, In north
west Colorado, west of the Continental
divide. for forest reserve purposes. He
also withdrew for forest reserve pur'
poses 4S3,000 acres lying in southwest
ern Colorado north and east of the
Southern Ute reservation, near the
town of Durango.
An appropriation of 100000 will be
asked of The General Assembly TINS
year by the board of trustees OF the
Colorado State School of Mines. Forty
thousand dollars of this money will be
used if secured, for the erection of an
up-todate natatorium and gymnasium,
and 100000 will be used to help wipe
out the Indebtedness OF $37,021.S1 now
hanging over the school,
Mr.. and Mrs. Gilbert McClurg have
returned to the state for the holiday
season. after representing and descrlb-
ing Colorado in their illustrated lee
ture and travelogue, for the past three
month, from northern Wisconsin to
Mexico. During this tour they have
been the personal representatives OF
the Denver Chamber Of Commerce and
of leading sections OF Colorado. =
Assistant Secretary Edwards of the
Treasury Department has selected
what is known as the HicoX corner as
the site for the proposed public build
ing at Boulder. This site is 100 by 149
feet in area, on the northwest corner
Of Walnut and Fifteenth streets. AND
was offered by c. G. Hicox and c. II
McAlester for 100000. Ten other sites
were offered, but the one selected was
recommended by the agent of the de-
partment who made an examination OF
all offered. !
Special Agent C. l.. Henderson, oi
the General Land Office, in charge OF
the Pueblo district, recently resigned
with the request that he be relieved
January 1st. Mr. IIendershot has been
in the service cf the land Office for
eight years. He will go to Walsenburg
where he will take up the practice OF
law. His successor has not been named
but Special Agent NJ. j. O'Brien, who
has supervision over this district, will
be in temporary charge of the Office un'
til regular appointment is made.
1t is understood that the Santa Fe
railroad VIII next year eSpenu appioN
imately 100000 in improvements In
and about its station at Colorado
Springs. A new three-story depot and
hotel will be built, concrete conduits
will be constructed on either side oil
the depot and a subway Will be built
under the tracks at Huerfano street.
The street cars going east will pass un-
der the railroad tracks through the
present subway at Kiowa street. In
stead of the grade crossing at Pike S
Peak avenue.
In the United States Court at Den
yer, December 2Sth, Judge Lewis SEN
fenced George H. Suttle TO pay $500
fine and $500 costs for Illegally cutting
timber on government land. and of-
dered that he be confined in the county
| Jail unhl the amount is paid. Suttle
| lives twelve miles from Clark, In
| Routt county. 1t was shown that he
had caused his son to take up a home
stead near the Park Range forest re-
serve, set up a sawmill on it and cut
thousands of feet over the line. He
also was proved to have set fire to the
stumps so as to cover up the traces oi
his offense. He pleaded. in defense
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