The Springfield herald., 1907-05-10
COLORADO NEWS ITEMS

Fort Collins has graduated from the
village grade and will now comb her
front hair with $4,000 steam
grader.
A double track is being built on the
railroad between Canon City and
J 'orence in order to take care of the
Ltavy traffic.
Gen. William j. Palmer has sent TO
tic Civic Improvement lcagne Of
| Canon City several hundred shrubs for
the state park.
+. n. b. Scott has been elected pres
ident of the North Poudre Irrigation
| Company 10 fill vacancy caused by
resignation of Watson Zeisler.
The base ball season opened in Den
yer last Saturday in a snowstorm.
Those who couldn't see the base ball
amused themselves throwing snow
balls.
complaint has been made against
Z. f. Bequeath, at North Longmont,
charging him with killing a fine horse
~ forcibly administering the water
,ure.
Gold has been discovered in the VI
Unity of Semper-"out on the plains"
Another evidence that all you've got II
| 10 in Colorado is dig, and wealth is
| )ours.
The interior of the Lowell school,
| Colorado Springs, is being decorated
| with copies of famous paintings. Busts
of famous men have also been pur.
| chased.
Walter Cunliffe, a director off the
Bank of England, and private car
| party, spent several days in the Pixies
Peak region. The party also visited
Cripple Creek.
1t is officially announced that in all
probability homeseekers' rates, hither-
to given only to Denver, Pueblo and
Colorado Springs, will hereafter be
| given TO Greeley.
| r. F. Milford, the caretaKer OF the
Silver Lake reservoir, telephoned the
city clerk at Boulder that eighteen feet
OF snow had fallen at that place this
winter and five feet this month.
Mrs. w. II. Miller of Gunnison blew
her brains out with a pistol because
OF dependency over her husband los
ing his position as station agent. She
had been an invalid for years.
The low temperature of the past two
weeks has frozen the leaves
on the trees and there is strong
likelihood that the sugar beets viii
have TO be replanted in the vicinity OF
Holly.
| The chared body of Henry Godfrey,
| foreman of the calcination department
of the Portland cement works al
Florence was found in the white-hct
tank recently. 1t is thought he com
miited suicide.
Colorado's unusual spring weather"
kpt the Smile and Push" Club very
busy during the waning days of April
and the front end of May, explaining
to visitors that it never happened this
way before"
Emma Goldman, the female alarm
| ist, has been in Denver for a few days
and none the daily papers actually
| found it necessary TO put on an extra
lleg of red ink in order 20 properly
handle her warm remarks.
Sterling is too busy getting in her
| spring crops and driving her COWS to
pasture to be bothered with a spring
/ term of court, and the few cases on the
| docket may be sent TO Denver where
| the mills ever grind.
Boulder children between the ages
of sixteen and twenty-one may now
play pool and billiards upon written
| permission of their papas and nam.
mas, according to revised ordinance.
And this is Better Boulder"
An engine on the Colorado & North.
western railroad overturned while
| bucliing snow near Ward, on Sunday,
| ard tumbled down the mountain side
| 400 feet, killing Engineer Robt. Cook
| The engine was torn into pieces.
A meeting of the Ouray Development.
club was held at the city hall 1t is
| proposed to raise $4,000 to be eX
pended in advertising resources, co
pecially mineral, during the next two
months. In addition plans are on fCo'
for big tourist hotel, sanitarium ane
a swimming pool, which will utilize the
water from the natural hot springs.
At a meeting of local No. sc, West
ern Federation of Miners, at Central
City, it was unanimously decided &c
| ask an increase of so cents for machine
| men in the mines. The present scale
is So The increase is not asked to be
come effective until the first of June.
| AS the demand is reasonable there Il
| no doubt that it will be granted by ths
operators.
Frederic Boughton, Santa Fe engi-
neer, and his fireman, Ben Abbott, are
| lying at the point of death and score
of passengers suffered broken bones
and other injuries as the result of
wreck of eastbound Santa Fe passen,
| ger train No, S, which occurred twenty.
eight miles south of La Junta May Sd.
| The wreck was caused by spreading
rails. The engineer stuck TO his post
until the locomotive turned over on its
side.
Miss Jane Adams of Hullhouse, Chi.
cago, who will give the commencement
| GRAFTON at the University of Colorado
commencement exercises, Wednesday,
June 5th, in the Chautauqua audito,
| rum at Boulder will speak on Chang
| ing Ideals in Education \ new fea-
| ture of the commencement exercises
| this year will be the Sigma ST exer,
cises. which will be held in the lecture
| rom of the new chemistry building.
| May 1st. The address will be made by
DIR. Regis Chauyenet on uses and
Dangers of Scientific Theories"
J. Pierpont Morgan, together with