The Springfield herald., 1907-01-18
COLORADO NEWS ITEMS

The depoSitors and creditors OF the
failed Canon City Savings bank have
been paid in full.
The state Supreme Court has de-
clared the law against the use of trad
Ing stamps to be invalid.
The Denver Press Club will give a
minstrel show at the Broadway the
ater in Denver on the night of Janu-
ary 25th.
1t is probable that a six months
course in cooking will be introduced
in the medical department of the Uni
versity of Colorado.
The adjourned meeting of the Colo
RADIO Baptist state convention will be
held at the Galilee Baptist church in
Denver on January cath and 25th.
Mr. A. C. butcher of the State Re
formatory at Buena Vista, has paid
the State Agricultural College $3.50
for yearing Holstein bull.
Thomas Kneale will represent the
Boulder Commercial Association in Sc
curing beet acreage for the proposed
new sugar factory at Boulder.
The Retail Merchants Association
Of Colorado will hold their convention
at Pueblo, January 18th and 10th, the
Bishop Henry w. Warren celebrated
his seventy-siXth birthday at his home
in Denver few days ago. He is one
of the youngest men for his age in
America.
John W. Seaman. one of the best
known citizens of Loveland, formerly
postmaster and assessor, died on the
9th inst of Bright's disease at the
age of sixty-five.
Cant. Thomas NJ. Anderson, Jr., Of
the Seventh U. S. infantry. who has
been drilling the cadets at the Agri-
cultural college, has been ordered to
reioin his regiment at Detroit, Michi-
gan.
Harry Riddle, Carlton NJ. Bliss,
George w. Allen, Greeley w. Whit
ford and Hubert l.. Shattuck, the new
judges of the District Court at Denver,
were sworn in by Chief Justice Cab
bert on the 7th inst.
Negotiations have been taken up
with the railroads running into Den
yer for the purpose of securing reduced
rates to the annual tournament of the
Western Bowling Congress to be held
in Denver in March.
The Colorado Springs & Interurban
Railway Company, owning the Colo
rado Springs street car system, have
announced an increase in wages OF 2
cents to 2l2 cents an hour to all motor
men and conductors.
]. NJ Hover, general manager of
the Dorcas Mining. Milling & Develop
ment Company. died at Florence on
the 9th inst. of pneumonia, at the age
of sixty-seven years. He had recently
returned from a trip to Nevada.
Alexander Jackson, one of the Oldest
railroad men of Pueblo, who left three
years ago to take a position with the
Rock Island. has been promoted to
general European agent for that sys'
TEN, with headquarters in London.
The preliminary for the University
of Colorado oratorical contest will be
held February 1st. The final contest
will take place February 22d. Prizes
of S25 and SIS have been offered for
the winners of the first two places.
Andrew Thompson or Johnson, un-
der arrest and held as a suspect in
connection with the murder of Mar
shal Frisbie at Lamar, has been re-
moved TO Pueblo, where he will be held
until the investigation has been COM
pleted.
Mr.. Susan Bierbower. superintendent
of the Pueblo Hospital Association for
fifteen years, has filed her resignation,
which has been accepted to take place
next month at the annual meeting.
Her management has been very sue
cessful.
Representative Hogg has recon-
mended the appointment of Mrs.
Maude Evans Mclean as postmaster at
Breckenridge. Also the reappointment
of John F. Squire as register of the
United States Land Office at Glenwood
Springs.
The lifeless body of William A.
Walter, who had not been heard from
for several weeks. was found on the
9Th inst. by party of searchers at
the bottom of a 70-foot shaft at his
mine on Red mountain. nine miles
from Silverton.
Last month was the warmest De
cember in Colorado Springs in twenty
six years, according to the report of
the United States weather bureau
at Colorado College. The highest
temperature was 6S degrees, the lowest
being ) degrees.
While East recently Judge Lindsey
of the juvenile court in Denver was
invited to Ottawa, the capital of CAN
ada, to assist in framing a law SINH
lar to that in force in Colorado.
While there he was the guest OF Lord
Grey, governor general of Canada.
The measure is now before the Cana
dian Parliament,
Headquarters for the Transmissouri
Dry Farming Congress, to be held in
Denver January oath and 25th, have
been established in room at the AL
bany hotel, in Denver, in charge OF
C. c. Williams, Chairman of the press
committee. Any information in regard
to the coming meeting viii be issued
from the headquarters.
John Speer. who died in Denver re
Gently at the age of eighty-four years,
was one of the most prominent OF the
Kansas pioneers and an associate of
John Brown and his sons. and of Gen.
Jim Lane. He was a man of high char
acter and ability and took a prominent
part in the great struggle which
made Kansas a free state.
The Keene Improvement Company,
which has recently been Incorporated,
has purchased 25.O00 acres of land in
southeastern Weld county and pro-
poses to inaugurate an immense irri-