The Springfield herald., 1908-11-06
STATE NEWS ITEMS


pany Is being organized in Boulder.
The students Of the University OF
Colorado have organized brass band.
Miss Adele Fowle, Denver stenog-
rapher. was sixth In the international
and third In the amateur typewriting
contes. held recently in New York.
At the present rate of progress In
building the new Denver public library
1t will be finished and ready for use
early next spring.
8. ]. Peterson OF Dunlap, Iowa, will
build the Parva ditch and reservoir.
north of Windsor, to irrigate several
hundred acres.
The community Of Mennonites. four
miles west OF La Junta dedicated their
new sanitarium Sunday. There were
about 500 people at the services, which
lasted through the entire day.
Paul Frazier, who cached whisky In
an alley and an irrigation ditch and
sold 1t. was fined $500 In the police
court at Greeley, and on the same day
charges were preferred against him in
the county court and he was fined $1O0
and costs there.
One hundred and ten tons of dried
brewery grain was shipped from Trim.
idad few days since for London, Eng.
land, by way of Galveston. The grain
was purchased by King Edward VII
through Sir Charles Willoughby and
will be used In the private stables OF
his majesty.
II. X. Potter has filed plans with the
county clerk of Pueblo county for an
extensive irrigating system in the
northwestern part of the county, In
the Turkey Creek region. The pro
jected reservoir will have a capacity OF
425.00O,000 cubic feet. Preliminary
work has already been commenced.
1t now appears that the statement.
first made in the Denver Republican
and copied in many of the papers OF
the state, that the late Col. Fred W..
Gross. who recently committed suicide
in Denver. had been divorced from his
wife was mistake. The unfortunate
error has been the cause of much grief
to Mrs. Gross.
According to reports reaching ID. E.
Farr. state game and fish commission
er. the flight of ducks this year is the
greatest ever known. Wild geese are
also said to be uncommonly numerous.
Denver hunters, some five hundred of
them, are going out to the lakes in the
vicinity every day and bringing in i'm
mense numbers of ducks.
Ground was broken at Greeley Mon.
day for a Catholic church building to
\ tutl nf ha
finest in northern Colorado and will
be of gray brick and stone. The tow
er will be 145 feet high. The church
was established four years ago as n reg
ular parish under Father Casey, and
has 800 members.
The removal of Dean w. l.. Carlyle
and Professor w. H. Olin from the
State Agricultural college was made
against the urgent protest of Governor
Buchtel. who wrote circular letter,
expressing his opinions very strongly
in answer to the appeals of prominent
citizens and organizations, but stating
that he was powerless to prevent the
action of the state board.
John Whitemore's livery barn, con-
Quoted by Dode Wykert at Severance
in Weld county, burned October Goth,
;entailing loss of $4,000 with insur
ance of only $500. All animals were
taken from the barn and corral ex-
cept colt, which was burned. Men,
women and children turned out and
fought the flames, thus saving the lum-
ber yard of George Schillig of Greeley.
At the Colorado School of Mines
the Walsh bureau of original research,
established last summer. is making a
collection of rare mineral ores and con-
centrates for Thomas F. Walsh. 1t will
be in compact and convenient form.
so that it can easily be carried for ex-
hibition purposes from place to place,
thus forming valuable advertisement
for the mineral resources of the state.
To furnish electric power to indus
trial centers and towns within a ra-
dius of twenty to forty miles on all
sides of Trinidad, Colorado, and prac-
tically Danish stationery steam engines
from the district, is the object of the
Southern Colorado Power & Railway
Company. Following out enlargement
plans the money has been raised to in
stall generators to furnish total of
10000 horsepower.
The body of John Lynch was found
lying beside the state road five miles
west of Tin Cup, Taylor Park district,
few days since, by Mail Carrier Haw-
kins, who took it into Tin Cup. 1t is
reported that Lynch fell or was thrown
from his buggy and his neck broken.
He came to the district in 1879 and
had been prominently identified with
the development of the mineral re-
sources of Taylor Park. two large min
ing companies having been organized
by him. He leaves a widow and
son.
There was s2,S20,311 increase in the
cost of buildings erected in Denver
from January list up to October 31st
over those erected in the same period
last year, and AIS more permits issued.
The report of Building Inspector Will
lison shows an increase of S37S,590 in
cost of buildings erected during Octo-
ber over the corresponding month last
year The cost was $957.400 against
$57S,S10 in October, 1907.
Twenty-Five convicts from the peni.
tentiary were brought to Pueblo Tues