The Springfield herald., 1908-04-17


900 for resurvey of ninety townships
OF land in Rio Blanco and Routt coun'
ties.
The President has appointed Pres
ton Holbrook postmaster at Black
Hawk, and Warren Geiger has been ap-
pointed postmaster at Bowen. Las AMI
mas county, vice A. T.. Stream, re-
signed.
The Laramie. Hahn's Peak & Pa
cifc has resumed grading from Cen
tennial, Wyoming. toward Walden. Col
orado, and it Is announced that the
line will be built as far as Walden be-
fore Christmas next.
w. L. Hoover has organized n STOCK
company at Boulder 10 manufacture
the new breakfast food. "Dastamyl,
that is being placed on the market.
The company is capitalized at SloO.-
900. and IS preparing to erect a large
plant.
The application of II. Preston, j.
G. Hollanback, V. c. Davenport. Frank
Churcher and James B l.azier 10 or
sanize the La Plata National Bank oil
Durango, with 100000 capital. has
been approved by the comptroller oil
the currency.
An order has been received by w. Il.
Musgrove, proprietor of private lake
near Lcadville, for large consish'
ment of mountain trout TO be sent 10
San Francisco for the banquet 10 be
given to Admiral Evans and the Off
GERS of his fleet May Sth.
The Elks' club of Canon City has
won victory in the Supreme court
when the court holding that the city
authorities had no right under the TO-
cal option law TO close the buffet bar
of the club without first proving IN
court that it is public nuisance.
Over 500 carloads of baled alfalfa
hay has left the Greeley district since
December LIST. representing returns Oh
over $4,000. The hay has all been
shipped south to New Orleans and
Atlanta, Georgia, and it is estimated
that 900 carloads will have gone TO
market by June lst.
Deputy State Dairy Commissioner
Girardet has completed test of the
Soldiers Home dairy herd at Monte
Vista for tuberculosis. according 10
government requirements, and mas
the herd entirely free from tubercu-
lar disease. He has issued his GER
tificate to this effect TO the commander.
The largest bridge in Weld county.
costing $7,9G1, built by the county
and the state, the latter furnishing
$500, across the Cache la Poudre
river one mile east of Greeley, was
accepted by the state engineer and the
commissioners on the Sth inst. The
bridge replaces what was known as
the Oak Street bridge, built in 1870,
and is of reinforced concrete. with
united steel girders.
Sheriff Monteith of Saguache county
removed the three prisoners in the
county Jail at Sasuache to Chaffee
county for safe keeping while the new
Jail building has been erected. The
old jail in Saguache has been in use tor
thirty years and is being torn down.
All the county bonded Indebtedness
has been paid off and the commission
ers have inaugurated the policy OF bet
ter buildings and better roads.
Secretary Teller has introduced
resolution directing the secretary OF
the interior to declare the line estab-
lished as the thirty-seventh parallel
by the re-survey made two years ago,
the official boundary line between Colo
RADIO and New Mexico. The actual
status of several towns close to the
the dividing line is officially accepted
by the general government and by the
state anu territorial governments OF
Colorado and New Mexico respec-
lively.
In the local option elections in Colo
RADIO April 7th the anti-saloon element
won in the following named places,
voting the towns dry" Evans. Ar
llpt IN rhnnigl
Palisades, Englewood, Edgewater, La
fayette. Lyons. Wellington, Johns
town and Hotchkiss. The following
towns went wet" Littleton, Buena
Vista, Steamboat, Manitou, North
Longmont, Sheridan. Lamar. George
town, Brighton Morrison, Erie, Holly,
Granada, Glenwood, Gunnison, Louis
vile, Lakeside and Newcastle.
Head, Consul A. r. Talbot and D-
rector E. E. Murphy of Rock Island,
Illinois, officials of the Modern Wood
men of America, arrived at Colorado
Springs few days ago to
make final arrangements for the
commencement of work on the
new national sanitarium for the order,
to be erected five miles north of the
city. The Woodmen have $4,000 in
the treasury for the work. and the site,
costing $4,000, has been paid for.
fine two-story stone administration
building will be erected this summer
and it is expected that within year
about 100000 will be expended on
buildings and improvements.
Arrangements have been completed
for the laying of the cornerstone of
the proposed $4,000 Masonic temple
at Colorado Springs during the first
week of May. The ceremony will be
performed by Joseph A. Davis of Boul-
der, grand master of Colorado Masons,
and the entire grand lodge. as well as
prominent Masons from all parts of
the state will be present. The work
on the foundation is now in progress
and it is expected that the building
will be finished by October 1st, when
the dedication ceremonies will take
place.
Abbott l.. Lowe, twentythree years
old, of Denver. an assistant engineer
of the Northern Colorado Power Com
pany, was instantly killed at the sub
station at Greeley on the night of
April 10th. He was working with
some wires and fell against one of
them, 1900 volts passing through his