The Springfield herald., 1907-10-11
CULURAD0 NEWS ITEMS

There is not vacant house In Love
land.
Eaton is to have a new electrical
company.
Pueblo is to have big cold stor
age plant
a Greeley cowboy roped coyote
and lead it into town
The Gunnison tunnel is within TO-.
900 feet of completion.
Grand Junction peaches were sold
for $2.37h a box in Boston.
Telluride, Ouray and Silverton-that
great mining triangle-are beating
best records.
Land in Palisade, bought three years
ago for $40 an acre, was sold, recent
ly, for $l,05O an acre.
Forty-tive carloads of fruit netted
Grand Junction growers G0,l99.20.
This is world record.
Grand Junction fruit growers say
that good crop of high-class pears is
better than gold mine.
Claim is set up by indicted drug
gists at Fort Collins. that the grand
jury was Illegally serving.
Pueblo hopes to add nailless horse
shoe factory to its already long list
of manufacturing industries.
Robert E. Cunningham shot and
killed himself on the grave of his wife
at Leadville because of dependency.
A mentally deranged Slav at Trin-
dad cleared roominS house of its
inmates and smashed up the furniture.
He was finally subdued.
o. Hall, who was in business at one
time at Idaho Springs and well known
died at Stamford, Connecticut. His
brother, Albert Hall, is a prominent
mine operator.
H. w. Moore near Brush, harvested
fifteen acres of potatoes which went
10 sacks to the acre. weighing 10
pounds to the sack. This is the record
for this vicinity.
A petition signed by Postmaster
Walpole and officers of the Pueblo
Business Mems Association was for
warded to Washington requesting that
railway mail service be established on
Santa Fee trains No. Col and COZ be-
tween Denver and La Junta
Peter Sprohesa. rancher, and for
twenty-five years resident of Las
Animas county, died at his home near
Johns lake. east of Trinidad. De
ceased was seventy years old and
native of England. He is survived by
his widow and three sons.
Mrs. Augusta Cuthbertson of Oak
land, California, seventy-nine years
old, died on board Denver & Rio
Grande train No. while the train
was passing De Beque, of hemorrhage
of the brain. With her daughter, Mrs.
Kate c. Black, she was on her way
TO visit relatives in the east. The body
will be taken back to California by
Mrs. Black.
Robert II. Gore, city editor of the
Chronicle-News of Trinidad. and Miss
Lorena HAIRY of Owensboro, Ken
lucky, were married in the chapel of
the Catholic church by the Rev.
Father Drummer. The bridegroom
went to Trinidad five months ago from
Kentucky, where he was engaged in
newspaper work. The bride arrived
from Kentucky later.
Old timers are predicting an un-
usually early and nard winter owing
to the fact that SO many porcupines
are seeking civilization. Not in many
years have SO many of these little ami
mails made their appearance in Golden
and 1t is no strange sight to see one
numbering along through the street.
One was so bold as to venture out on
Washington avenue in front of the
business houses. where it was quickly
killed.
The Portland Gold Mining Com
pany, it is expected, will declare
four-cent dividend at the regular quar-
terly meeting to be held Saturday.
The amount will be 100000, payable
October 18th to stockholders of record
October 9th. Officials of the company
are reticent about divulginS their
plans, but from outside sources it was
learned that they contemplate making
the dividend four cents. The disburse-
ment will be one of the largest OF the
year in mining circles.
Will C. Ferrill, curator. State His
torical ard Natural History Society OF
Colorado, gave lecture last week be-
fore the Julesburg high school on
Colorado Birds which he illustrated
with large number of bird skins
from the museum of the society al
the state house. In addition to hav
ing lectured to about 1000 Denver
school children on historical and sci
entitic subjects free of charge, he
sometimes gives his services also to
the schools in other parts of the state.
DR.. Amos Bourquin of Denver, who
owns valuable grazing and agricui-
tural land and water rights in Web
ster park and Copper sulch canon,
which he acquired from the Canon
Cattle Company, few months ago.
has secured from the District Court an
injunction against Antoine Adamic pre-
venting Adamic from developing
water right from the undertiow of
Copper gulch and conducting the
water across Bourquin's land to
lC0-acre tract on which Adamic pro
posed locating an Austrian settlement.
Bourquin alleged that the natural and
underflcw water OF Copper gulch had
previously been decreed 10 the Canon
Cattle Company.
At the first fall banquet of the
Greeley Commercial club over 100
members were present for the cele-
bration of the completion of Greeley's
new water system. Hon. James w.
said the climax to continued
effort had been reached by the entry
of a decree in the District Court OF
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