The Springfield herald., 1908-01-03
COLORADO NEWS ITEMS

An organization is being effected in
Denver for the study of Esperanto. the
new universal language.
AS the result of days hunt near
Fort Morgan $50 jackrabbits were
shipped to Parson UzZell for distribu-
tion among the poor of Denver.
Twenty large bald eagles are said to
have taken up winter quarters In the
tall timber round the river east OF
Hardin. Weld county, in the locality
known as Eagles nest.
The Ault Bachelors club Is arrang-
ing for novel ball. Only dances pop
ular fifty years ago will take place
and each bachelor is expected to eX-
ecute Fishers hornpipe.
Two little boys, both under eight
years of age, were recently arrested
in Pueblo on the charge of stealing BIZ
cycles. Several valuable wheels are
said to have been found in their pos
session.
/. A construction force has resumed
work on the double track of the main
line of the d. & r. G. between Flor
ence and Canon City. The work will
be pushed and rails will be laid in six
weeks.
A company capitalized at $4,000 is
being organized by John b. Taylor for
the purpose of erecting canning plant
in Pueblo. Contracts will be made
with farmers in the Arkansas valley
for vegetables and fruit.
An early morning fire December
9th at Eureka, small town eight
miles from SilverLon, destroyed four
buildings, the Eureka hotel. the Eu-
reka saloon and two livery stables,
with loss OF $4,000. The total insur-
ance Is only $1,000.
On Christmas night at midnight the
night shift OF 100 men at the Greeley
Sugar factory were served fine tur-
key dinner in the factory by their en-
ployers. When the men went to eat
their midnight luncheon they found
the feast spread for them.
Ell Paso, Texas, people have incorpo-
rated the New Mexico Development
Company in New Mexico, to build a
railroad from Columbus, New Mexico,
near Ell Paso, to the coal fields of San
Juan county, New Mexico, and La
! Plata and Montezuma counties in Colo
RADIO.
Captain Augustus Paddock. father Of
L. C. Paddock, editor of the Boulder
Camera. died at Boulder. December
oath, from pneumonia. He was in his
SD year. Up to 1873 he was one OF
the leading lumbermen of Michigan.
For the last four years he lived in
Boulder.
Judge Ben b. Lindsey has returned
from his lecture trip. and VIII take
charge of the proceedings OF the Ju-
venile Court of Denver from this on
Judge Alexander, county judge oil
Arapahoe county, wt.o has been filling
will
his own county.
AS the states portion of the sale OF
government lands during the year just
4 passed. S17,O46.S1 has been turned over
to State Treasurer Alfred Bent. The
state is allowed five per cent of the
total sum realized by the federal au-
thorities from the sale of government
lands in lieu of taxes.
During the national Democratic con
vention next July meeting of the
| Single Takers of the United States
will also be held in Denver. Among
those who will attend the convention
are Louis Post of Chicago, Bolton Hall
of New York, Mayor Tom johnson OF
Cleveland, and Henry George, Jr., OF
| New York.
| Finding that the Denver & Rio
! Grande Railway Company, through the
negligence of its employees, responsible
for thu famous Adobe wreck, jury in
Judge Shattuck's division of the Dis
trict Court at Denver, has awarded
Pat Brennan $500 damages for the
death of his son, who was killed in
the wreck.
A large force is at work for the Den
yer & Interurban road in and near
Boulder, setting poles for the trolley
wire. The company hopes to be able
to run cars between Boulder and Den
yer within a few months. Most of the
grading is done. The new grade will
be used by the steam cars and the old
grade by the electric cars.
There is now stored in the Greeley
starch factory 0,000 pounds of potato
| starch in 1000 sacks, awaiting ship
ment to market The starch campaign
has fairly begun and potatoes are COM
ing in freely at 20 cents sack. Ihese
are unmarketable, and 1t is expected
that by spring six times the amount OF
starch now on hand will be ready for
market.
In a report Just completed by Cash
| ier Broderick the business done by the
| Denver postoffice during the past year
ending with November 3Oth shows an
| increasc of SIS per cent. or $76,lOG.3S
]
of stamps, boxes, etc, the receipts
amounted to s939,1S4.S6 against $685.
| O77.GS in 1906. Altogether, Uncle Sam
will get $500, O,S63.20 from the Denver
] postohlce this year.
Judge Ben B. Lindsey of Denver. re
turned recently from lecturing tour
in South Dakota and resumed his du-
ties on the Juvenile Court bench. He
will start out in two weeks for an eX-
tended trip through. the South, partlc-
ularly Oklahoma and Texas, where the
legislatures will create juvenile laws
this winter Instead of remaining
away for six months, however, he will
return to Denver about May list.
Captain Seth Baker, secretary. treas
urer and manager of the Hallett &
Baker Undertaking Company at Colo
RADIO Springs. died at his home in the
Springs. December 26th. of diabetes,
having only been confined to his room
for twenty-four hours. AT the time OF
his death he was secretary of the
grand lodge of Odd Fellows in Colo
RADIO and member of the Elks, A. o
U. w. and Royal Arcanum. He was a
charter member of Pixies Peak lodge,
l. o. o F. of Color ado Springs.