The Springfield herald., 1907-05-03


school oratorical contest at Colorado
springs. and will represent the school
at the interscholastic contest TO be
held in Boulder, May 10th.
After being confined in the county
Jail at Grand Junction for nearly
week, James F. Goddard, prominent
contractor, whose arrest on the charge
of robbery caused sensation here,
was liberated
Mrs. Mary Quisenberry of Trinidad,
70 years old, has gone to Oregon to
be married to the sweetheart of her
youth. Obstinate parents had side
tracked the match many years ago, but
now the barriers are buried away.
"Christianity has wasted much
time and energy in justifying God and
making the devil responsible for evil
declared Denver preacher, and some
of his listeners are wondering who he
was 'luding to.
Little packs of garden seed,
Little plats of ground,
Little early rising,
And little scratching round
VIII supply hungry family
And overflow their cup
In this land of Colorado
If the hens don't scratch it up.
A cheap and delightful way in which
TO spend ones vacation is entertain
iagly described in booklet, Camping
III the Rocky Mountains" just issued
by the Passenger Department of the
Denver & Rio Grande railroad. This
little book tells where to go, what to
wear, what to take and what it will
cost.
While attempting to arrest four men
whom he had detected stealing wire
from the traction company's barn, at
Pueblo, Thomas Self, a private watch
man, was struck with stone, and
deep cash inflicted in the right side of
his head. Self succeeded in capturing
one of the trio, who gave the name OF
Peter Doyle.
The Boulder Oil Refining Company
will build a refinery on Dabney place,
east of town. The plant will cost $1O,-
900. The stills and other machinery
have already been purchased. ID. b.
Burton of Denver will be the superin-
tendent. The main object of the COM
pany is to make by-products of oil
rather than paraftin.
The Pioneers Society of Colorado
raises vigorous protest against the
design for the proposed monument to
be erected in their honor at Denver.
The artist suggests the statue of
vicious Indian poised on top of the
pedestal, and the pioneers object to
having such prominence given the
enemy they had to conquer.
After ten years of patient waiting
the widow of the late II. A. w. Tabor
expects to realize her dream of wealth
which has occupied her mind since her
husbands death. In the Matchless
mine, near Leadyille, the one asset
which Mr. Tabor valued more than
anything else. rich body of ore has
been discovered during the last week.
Several hundred lives were endan-
gered and property valued at 100000
threatened when fire broke out in the
basement of the First Baptist church.
corner of Ninth street and Grant ave-
nue., at Pueblo. Several fire companies
responded to the alarm and the blaze
was extinguished with small loss. The
church was crowded and several were
slightly bruised in their hurry to get
out.
William Dunno, after whom the town
of Dunneville was named, died at the
county hospital. Death resulted from
heart disease. superinduced by alco-
holism. Dunno was siXty-one years
WAS employed on the section by the
Florence & Cripple Creek road. In
1904, just before the battle of Dunno
vile. several section men christened
the town after their fellow workman.
A fortune estimated at $4,000 has
been hunting Tom Thomas, a former
resident of Grand Junction, for six
months. Postmaster Price received a
letter recently from Joseph Neuville of
Wellington, New Zealand urging him
to make an effort to find Thomas. Neu-
vile said he was grubstaked by
Thomas and thus enabled to make a
rich strike in Goldfield, Nevada. He
says he sold his claim for $4,000 and
wants to share this wealth with his
friend.
The wool growers in the vicinity of
Montrose say they will raise $4,000
to be used for the purpose of ferret
ing out the men who murdered Peter
SwenSon, the sheepman who was driv-
ing flock of 5000 sheep between
Grand Junction and Delta to the sum
ner range on the Cimmaron river.
Grover Cornett, who was with the
sheep at the time Swanson was killed,
and who was tied by the attacking
party, says he was able to recognize at
least three members Oh lne party ne
believes it will be an easy matter TO
locate the murderers and says that no
expense will be shared by the sheep
men TO see that they have n right to
pass through the country without mo-
lestation. City Marshal Tillery, n
noted man-hunter of this section, will
likely be sent to White Water to col
lect evidence.
c. H. Patterson, labor commissioner
for the Great Western Sugar Company
at Loveland has gone to Nebraska to
engage 1000 Russians for the coming
beet campaign. The acreage this year,
in spite of the silo clause, is greater
than before.
Seventy-five men and nearly as many
teams are making the dirt fly on the
construction of La Junta's new City
park, which covers twenty acres, and
will contain five artificial lakes.
bandstand. pavilion and driveways.
The sum of $4,000 has been expended
In the purchase of shrubbery.