The Springfield herald., 1907-06-14
COLORADO NEWS ITEMS

| unto himself wife.
Normal diplomas were awarded to
2O2 graduates at Greeley.
Canon City is to have country club
| in order to put on city airs.
Colorado Springs turned out forty
nine high school graduates.
Arvada Commercial Club is still
sfter cent street car rate to Denver.
Every teacher employed in the
| Boulder graded schools has been reap
pointed for next term.
Cripple Creek will celebate the ma
tional holiday with twoday jollifi-
cation July 4th and 5th.
Work has been started on the new
Santa Fe hospital at La Junta. The
| building is TO cost 100000.
A shaft is being sunk on the Rock
! wall coal vein in the vicinity of Flor
ence by an independent company.
Colorado has been trying
With all her might and main
| To duplicate Ohio
With mud and slush and rain.
A horse( which ran away on one of
the main streets of Grand Junction the
other day, was badly injured by run
ming into a bunch of tree stumps.
The infant son of Max C. Overholt
of Loveland swallowed a safety pin.
and the child was taken to Denver to
| insure the safety of the child's life.
]. w. Kelly, passenger agent for the
Moffat road, and Miss Eselyn Brown.
society editor of the Denver Post,
hitched up in double blessedness re-
Gently.
Mrs. Cynthia M. Marshall, wife of
the money order clerk at the post
office in Colorado Springs, died at the
family residence, 412 East Huerfano
street.
A car containing bottled beer was
broken into at Eaton and 10 bottles
stolen Today Sheriff Florence recov-
cred all but thirty bottles. Tramps are
suspected.
Major Otis Remick, pioneer of Col
orado Springs of the West, died at
st. Francis hospital. He had been ill
for several months, suffering from
general decline.
Louis II. Kephard of Holly shipped
2,G00 sheep, which brought the highest
price in the Kansas City market ever
paid for sheep. Shorn lambs brought
cents, and the wool lambs 7.9 cents.
The ladies of Eaton now use fine
stationery with their monograms en-
bossed on it, When it comes to know
ing how to do the proper thing Eaton
isn't so very far behind New York,
after ALL
John Peabody, half-brother of ex-
Governor James Fl. Peabody, died at
the Place sanitarium at Boulder. He
had been a resident there for three
years and part of that time was store
keeper.
The Pueblo City Council has side
tracked an ordinance which was re-
Gently introduced providing that deal
ers in Colorado Fuel and Iron and
smelter scrip take out license for
$500 annually.
Acting upon the complaint of numer
Gus citizens of Grand Junction, the
City Council instructed the chief of
police and city attorney to arrest and
prosecute all druggists who are selling
liquor other than in original bottles or
packages.
Henry Stuart, colored, who was ar
rested at Trinidad, told the police that
he had recently killed Ben Harrison,
also colored at Ration and had burned
the body in the fire box of n locomo-
tive. The police are investigating the
story, but believe Stuart is not respon-
sible.
Mrs. Zoa Gillespie, sixteen-year-old
bride of John Gillespie, at Grand juno
ton, was committed by jury in the
Juvenile Court. Mrs. Rosetta Johnson
alleged that one of her dresses had
been taken by the girl when she went
to Delta to get married. The girl said
she merely meant to borrow the gar
ment to be married in and then to re-
turn it.
Miss Flossie Moore, valedictorian of
the 1907 class of the Florence high
high school, graduates with a perfect
record. She stands highest in scolar-
ship and during the entire four years
course has never been absent or tardy.
She is eighteen years old and is the
daughter of former State Senator
Frank Moore. She was born and reared
in that section.
Two irrigation cases were settled at
Fort Collins in Judge Garrigues'
Court, in which Larimer Coun-
right to take water from the
Poudre river through what is known
as the old city ditch, and the Arthur
ditch is allowed to change its point of
diversion OF the river water. These
cases have been pending in the courts
here for sixteen years.
The merchants of Colorado Springs
are beginning an advertising campaign
to work up trade among the farmers.
Excursions will be run to towns along
the line of railroads and other means
will be employed to interest the rancn-
men living in the more isolated sec
tions. The repairing of the roads, by
the county commissioners, will, it is
expected. encourage the ranchmen TO
do their trading in Colorado Springs.
Mario Gallina, an eight-year-old
Italian boy, was instantly killed at the
Huetfano mine in Remy canon, near
Trinidad The boy was taking a short
cut to his home and while on small
brideg was caught by a string of mine
cars and frightfully mangled. A six
year-old girl was the only witness 10
the accident. The trip rider in charge
of the cars knew nothing of the acci-
dent until told by the little girl. He
took the body to the home of the boys
parents.
There has been recorded at Canon
City the charter of the Great Western
Wool Cprpnrotip- rpcaptly