The Springfield herald., 1908-04-03
COLORADO NEWS

are organizing a golf club and will, lay
out links on the Country club grounds.
C. E. Granger, manager of the Gree
ley, Eaton and Windsor sugar factor
les, has gone to Europe 10 get treat
ment for failing sight
A 100000 apartment house is to be
built at Greeley within the next three
months and fifty new residences are in
process OF construction.
Indications are that the summer
school which will open June 18th at
the state university will be the larg
est and most successful in the history
of the institution.
Mayor Rose, of Leadville, took
prompt steps to quarantine the city
against the immoral hordes driven out
of Market street. Denver, by the ac-
ton of Sheriff Nisbet.
Salvatro Camille, the nineteen-year.
old boy injured in the mine at Catcino,
near Trinidad, Saturday, died Monday.
His father was one of the twenty-five
victims of the Tercio disaster of two
years ago.
S. B. Scholz of Colorado Springs.
and associates have purchased $50
lots in Alamosa, and will, it is said,
erect fifty modern cottages at n cost
of more than 100000, during the
spring and summer
Governor Henry A. Buchtel has ap-
pointed committee of three experts
to examine the books and accounts of
the state treasurer and the board of
land commissioners. They are John
l.. Fetzer, c. f. Allen and J. NJ. Wood.
Two large bears have been added to
the geological collection of the city at
Mineral Park palace in Pueblo. The
bears are part of Il collection which the
commissioners say they will in time
make one of the best in the West.
In the District Court at Colorado
Springs Clarence Massey pleaded
guilty to the charge of grand larceny,
confessing to the theft of seven BIZ
cycles and two saddles. He has served
term in the industrial school at
Golden.
The Ohio Society of Boulder will
send invitations to all Orleans who at
tend the Democratic national conven-
tion in Denver to be present at an
"Ohio Day" at the Chautauqua grounds
Immediately after adjournment of the
convention.
The interstate debate between the
universities of Colorado and Missouri
will be held in Boulder April 2ith. The
question is: Resolved, That All Elec-
tive, State, District, County and City
Officers Should Be Nominated By the
Direct Primary"
Lewis Shaw. Herman Crutz and j.
Lee Fleming, all under age, have been
sentenced to the reformatory by Judge
w. S. Morris at Colorado Springs.
They We're convicted of setting fire
TO 1,,,i IN
.'just for fun"
Patrick McEwen, miner. forty-fve
years of age, was caught III Il rock
slide in the Stratton Independence
mine at Victor Sunday morning and
had his right leg SO badly crushed that
omputation was necessary. He is mar
ried and lives at Victor.
On his way from Trinidad to La
Junta, with his wife and baby inside
the passenger coach. James Hunter. De-
ing unable to pay his own passage,
stole ride on the top of the car. At
La Junta he missed his footing, fell
from the car and was killed.
The Uaited States Geographic Beard,
which some time ago undertook to
change the orthography of Canon City,
Colorado, to Canyon City," has re-
dams can now write it Canon City. as
they have always done, without con
tlicting with Uncle SANS edict.
An invitation has been extended to
the state of Colorado to send one dele
gate to the International Wo-
mans Suffrage congress which meets
this summer at Amsterdam, Hol-
land, and at which prominent suf-
f,,,, ,;-t,, he.
tries as well as America will be pres
ent
Alleging defamation of character,
w. w. Degge of the Wellington AS
socation, has filed suit in the district
court against the publishers of the
Daily Mining Record of Denver, ask
ing S25,O 900 actual and $4,000 eXem-
pary damages. The suit is the result
of accusations alleged to have been
made in the Defendants paper.
Work on the irrigation system of the
Montezuma Valley Irrigation district
has been resumed and is being pushed
rapidly 1t is now believed by the con
tractors in charge that the system will
be ready for operation May LIST. The
lien suits which tied up the project last
fall will be disposed of at a special
term of the District Court TO be held
April 25th.
A challenge has been issued today
to all the miners of Fremont county
by John DeSlavo, a Coal Creek italian.
inviting them to participate in coal
mining contest with him, and he of
fers a purse of 81 900 for the winner.
He claims to be the best coal digger
in the county and during his seven
teen years residence has averaged be
tween Sc and 81 a day.
Harry b. Kerr of Denver has been
chosen to fill the position of superin-
tendent of Chcago's anticruelty So
ciety at salary of $4,000 Mr.. Kerr
received his training as a humane Of
ficer under E. X Whitehead, secre-
tary of the Colorado Bureau of Child
and Animal Protection, and the reC5rd
he made in this state has brought to
him offers from many OF the big East
ern cities.
J. C. Hanna, Colorado college
youth, has been sentenced to the re-
formatory by Judge Morris in the Dis
trict Court at Colorado Springs. He
was convicted of larceny. the complain