The Springfield herald., 1907-01-31
COLORADO NEWS ITEMS

Another oil well north of Boulder
has struck oil.
E. J. Matthews of Paonia has bought
a block OF ground at Grand junction
and will erect canning factory to cost
$50, 900.
Nillard Walker, Garfield county
ranchman. accidentally shot himself
while cleaning his gun a few days
ago. and died instantly.
The Denver Chamber of Commerce
is to sell It's present building to the
city and make arrangements for erect
ing grand new structure.
The minstrel show given by the Den.
YER Press Club is reported to have
been q great success. Denver reporters
are all members of the club.
Mrs. Martha Cox of Gneeley recently
celebrated her ninety-third birthday.
She is still active and does consider
able light housework and sewing.
A farmers institute will be held at
Greeley in February. at which a num-
ber of teachers from the Agricultural
college will lecture on scientific farm
ing.
The report of the commissioner OF
patents shows that $50 patents were
| issued to residents of Colorado during
the past year, being one for every l.
400 Inhabitants.
A speedway is to be built entirely
around Lake Minnequa at Pueblo. The
road will be for the use Of automobiles
| and carriages and Will be about six
miles long and lined with trees.
DR.. H. w. Callahan, head master OF
| Mt
| der, has resigned, to take effect Febru
with the Hockey school at Tarrytown
! on the Hudson.
The Holly Construction Company
has been soliciting beet sugar acreage
among the farmers near Florence, and
| and 1t is understood that pledges OF
5000 acres would secure the erection
Of sugar factory.
The annual encampment of the De
partment of Colorado and Wyoming, G
A. R., will be held at Colorado
Springs, May 14th, 18th and 10th, the
dates being selected at meeting o1
the department council.
The Rev. F. ]. Bruno, who recently
resigned the pastorate of the Pilgrim
Congregational Church at Pueblo. has
been rendered and has accepted posi-
ton as head Of the Associated Chari
ties in Colorado Springs.
Despite the recent cold weather anG
the snow on the mountains, the her
on's bill," or "hemlock stork's BILL is
| blooming Just west of Manitou. This
establishes a new record for fioricul
ture in the Pixies Peak region.
The engine house and hoisting ap
paratus of the Fremont coal mine
near Florence, were burned soon aftel
midnight, January oath, occasioning 8
loss of about $1,000. Two hundred
men will be thrown out Of employment
for three or four weeks.
In the District Court at Trinidad
j. D. Romero, who. while deputy sher
| III at Starkville, shot and killed Louis
Bianchi, was convicted on the lStf
inst, of murder in the second degree
His defense was that he was forced
to shoot to quell disturbance.
A. T. Lewis, head of the great dr.!
goods firm of A. T. Lewis & Son o.
Denver, died at his villa in Greenwich
Connecticut, on the goth inst, at tbs
! age of seventy-five years. Mr.. Lewis
is survived by wife and three sons
Aaron D., John R., and Frederick T.
Joseph Morgan of Lafayette. brother
of State Senator Morgan, has beer
placed in the insane ward at Boulder
Saturday Morgan attempted to com
nit suicide at Lafayette and was taker
to the University hospital at Boulder
Sunday for treatment, but developed
such symptoms that it was deemed un
safe to keep him there.
Rev. Samuel William Byrd, negro
minister at Pueblo, fell dead of apo
plexy few days ago, while building
a kitchen fire for his wife at O'Clock
in the morning. Mr.. Byrd was col
lege graduate, had been in the minis
| try thirty-five years and has held the
offices in the African M. E. Church Of
bishop, presiding elder and genera
missionary.
Ex-Governor Adams and wife of Pu
eblo will probably circumnavigate the
globe After brief visit with rela
tives in Pasadena, California, they will
sail from San Francisco, February 5th
on the steamship Corea. They will
first go to Honolulu and then to Japan
| They will later proceed to China
whence they will go to Manila and pos
sibly to India.
Claims aggregallng more tnal
$4,000, it is said, will be presented
against the Stratton estate by E
E. Whitted, Judge Luther M. God
dard and Henry McAlister, Jr.
all of Denver, for legal services in con
nection with the suit brought against
the estate by the Venture corporation
of London, in the United States court
The attorneys have already received
large fees.
| More than 200 girl students of Colo
RADIO Springs escorted from the college
| grounds in carriages to General W. J
Palmer's residence at Glen Eyrie or
the 18th inst and rendered reception
by the general and Miss Palmer. Tea
and light refreshments were served
General Palmer is so far recovered
from his recent injury that he is able
to sit up and is wheeled about in a
chair through the grounds surround
ing Glen Eyrie.
| DIR. M. Beshoar of Trinidad has been
elected vice president of the Tubercu
losis League, which recently closed Its
annual session at Atlanta, Georgia
The next meeting of the league will be
held at Atlantic City, New Jersey. DR.
Beshoar is a graduate of Ann Arbor
and five years ago attended the gradu