The Springfield herald., 1908-04-10
COLORADO NEWS

lAlS year.
The State Normal school faculty will
furnish a room in the Greeley hospital
for the use principally of Normal
school students.
There has been approved to the state
of Colorado indemnity school land Sc
lections aggregating 47,03S.9G acres
within the Pueblo land district.
Louis Weir, North Longmont sa-
loonkeeper, was sentenced to six
months in the county Jail and fined
5000 for keeping disorderly house.
Pedro J. Perea, one OF the most
prominent Mexican pioneers of Las
Animas county, and veteran of the
Civil War, died March 29th of pneu
monia. He was seventy-five years OF
age.
Samuel Richards, who has been run
ing a hack line from the coal camps
to Florence for twenty years. has dis
continued the service because of Ill
health and the fact that the line does
not pay.
New patents issued to Coloradans
include the following: ]. R. De Remer,
Glenwood, water wheel; l.. Chapman,
Berwind, wrench; II. Lutz, Denver,
friction clutch; NJ. B. Smith, Gunnison.
folding umbrella.
Orders for SIS carloads of coal per
month for the next three months have
been placed by Kansas and Nebraska
dealers with the Colorado Fuel & Iron
Company and will be filled from the
Roclivale mine at Florence.
Two hours after she had sold an old
mattress to secondhand dealer at
Florence, Mrs. Minnie Layland OF
Rockvale rushed excitedly back to the
store, tore open the mattress and ex-
tracted roll of 5000 in bills.
Trinidad was victorious in debate
and oratory and Pueblo won the con-
test in reading at Trinidad in the sec
ond annual literary contest between
representatives of the Trinidad and the
Pueblo Centennial high schools.
There were sixteen mining claims
located in one day recently in eastern
Weld county by Fort Morgan men who
believe that the gold mining district
said to have been discovered in the
Wildcat region in Morgan county ex-
tends over into Weld.
The school house at Watervale,
in Las Animas county, was de-
stroyed by fire on the night of March
3Oth, causing loss of $500. The school
building was completed and opened
five weeks before. and was the only
school house at that place.
Robert l.. Addington of Gardner,
Colorado, has been appointed forest
guard on the Wet mountain national
forest reserve, and Frank J. BIOL of
Sapinero, Colorado, has been appointed
pv, eicfn ny,t ~
nison national forest reserve.
The grain elevator at Erie was de-
stroyed by fire April 1st, causing loss
of $4,000. Three freight cars of the
Union Pacific, standing on the siding,
were also consumed. No grain was
stored in the building, the only con-
'tents being 10000 grain sacks.
From Monte Vista and vicinity alone
over 500 cars of hogs have been
shipped since the first of the year. 1t
is estimated that there are still about
10000 hogs in the vicinity. The recent
advance will mean thousands of dol
lars to the raisers Of these hogs.
The city of Denver maintains large
collection of wild animals at the City
Park and the park board has engaged
j. Alden Loring at a salary of $1,000
to take charge of them. Three beav-
ers, lately added to the zoo, are at
tracing a great deal of attention.
Workmen who were unloading car
of coal at Victor, consigned to the
Strong mine. found five sticks of dy-
Mantle in the bottom of the car. The
coal came from Broadhead, near Wal
senburg, and the dynamite is supposed
to have been placed in the car there
by some former employe.
Fifty convicts are employed on road
work in the eastern end OF Fremont
county. New roads are being graded
and old ones improved. The state gives
the free use of the convict labor and
all the expense to the county is for
their board and guards while on duty.
They will be worked all summer.
Fruit growers of the Arkansas val
ley are alarmed over the early budding
of trees in the lower part of the val
ley. Plums have already blossomed
and even apples are showing signs of
coming out. The warm weather of the
last few weeks has caused the trees
to come out early and the growers are
fearful of killing frosts.
Farm products to the value of $1,000
were raised on the Denver poor farm
of $50 acres by Superintendent w. j.
Phillips last year. The farm itself con
sumed about two-thirds of this product
last year and the rest was sent to the
county hospital or sold. The vegetable
plot yielded over sixty tons of vege-
tables. None of the inmates do any
of the farm work, although they are
set to light work about the house and
yards.
One of the largest irrigation and
power projects started in Colorado this
year was incorporated at Denver, April
1st, under the name of the Blue River
Irrigation & Power Company with an
authorized capital stock of $3,000,000.
The water rights are located in the
northern corner of Summit county, the
water being obtained from the Blue
river, which empties into the Grand at
Gore canon. According to the incor-
porators from $4,000 to 10000 acres OF
land will be irrigated by the system
of reservoirs which 1t proposes to es-
tablsh, and considerable power will
also be obtained.
Claire Young, tried at Montrose for
the murder of Charles Wilson in the
Paradox valley last fall was acquitted
on the 10th ult. the jury finding that