The Springfield herald., 1908-10-02
COLORADO NEWS

OF advertising Colorado Springs as Il
winter resort.
Medical men of Morgan county held
meeting at Fort Morgan Saturday,
formed county association and
elected Dr.. j. A. Farnsworth president
and DIR. A. F. Williams secretary.
The town of Dacona has been in
corporated 1t is one of the new settle
ments In western Weld county estab-
lished as the result of rich coal strikes
which are being thoroughly developed.
The county clerk of Ell Paso county
has issued 2S5 hunting licenses for
the opening of the deer season, Oct.
1st, and ut least 200 additional appli-
cations are expected.
Contracts have been awarded by the
Ward Gold Cyanide Milling Company
for the erection of two unit miles of 25
tons each of the 15O-ton mill at Ward,
Colo. The mills will be in operation
early next year.
A peach seed planted by Mrs. Nancy
Oney in her dooryard at Greeley sew
en- years ago, when she was 79, has
produced tree from which she picked
II ripe peaches on her seth birthday,
a few days since.
The number of men, women. boys
and girls who made use of the swim
ming pool and shower baths at the
Denver public bath house in August
was 1880. 1t was patronized by $50
girls in one day recently.
Dr. Clough T. Burnett, a graduate
of Michigan University, has been ap-
lointed professor in bacteriolosy at
the University OF Colorado, succeed
ing to the chair held last year by DR..
Bessie Robertson, now Mrs. Frank l..
Barrows.
Twenty-Five children between the
age of and IL were taken from the
Fort Lupton canning factory by pro-
baton officer and placed in school.
Their parents. the school board and
their employers were notified that I'M
less they hereafter conform TO the re-
quirements of the compulsory educa-
tion law, they will be brought into
court to answer.
In the District Court at Leadville
Judge Cavender sentenced Sherman
w. Morris to 20 to 25 years in the pen
itentiary. Morris was found guilty by
a jury of the murder at Leadville of
John Walsh, saloon-keeper, in June,
1888 He was arrested at Lansing,
Mich, In May of this year, and brought
to Leadville by Sheriff Bonner.
The Navy Department is attempting
to secure custody of J. r. Roland, n
recruit who robbed companion and
deserted in Pueblo. The Pueblo civil
authorities. instead of turning the man
over to the navy, prosecuted him for
the theft and he Is now in the State Re
formatory at Bnena Vista. The state
authorities refuse to give him up.
DR.. William J. Baird of Boulder has
presented to the city of Boulder for
park purposes 100 acres of land ad-
joining the city on the west, lying at
the mouth of Gregory canon and at
the foot of Flagstaff mountain. The
city already owns in this vicinity some
thing over 1000 acres and all will
eventually form one of the most beau
tiful natural parks in the country.
In the United States Court at Denver
in the case of Harry Hokasono, a Jap
anese, against the Laramie-Poudre
Reservation G. Irrigation Company,
decided in favor of the plaintiff, award
ing him the full sum of s4.6S2.20, ac-
cording to the contract. Owing to dis
putes in regard to the completion of
the work the company had paid him
only $3,4S6.45.
The Southern Colorado Power &
Railway Company has filed a mort
gage for $1,500,O00 in favor of the st.
Louis Union Trust Company of st.
Louis. The mortgage covers the en-
tire plant and all the lines of the Trim
idad company, which is a merger of the
old Trinidad Electric Railway com
pany and the Stonewall Valley Elec-
trio Railway Company. OF the amount
named in the mortgage, 100000 is to
be used in improvements.
Because the two modern buildings
erected over year ago are not large
enough to meet the demands that the
rapid growth of Denver is raising,
Mayor Speer will recommend in his
budget for 1909 an appropriation TO
build commodious addition to Steele
hospital for contagious diseases. An
other appropriation will be asked for
the erection of a $4,000 pesthouse to
replace the Sand Creek hospital de-
stroyed by fire.
Mayor Speer is preparing a program
for the formal and official opening of
the Denver Auditorium when it shall
have been entirely finished in every
detail, shortly after the coming cleo
ton. The celebration, it is planned,
will last a week. each night being
marked by different features of revel-
ry and entertainment. The initial
night will probably open with grand
ball, to which society will give its sane
ton. A musical festival will mark an
other night, with famous artists on the
program. A mask ball will close the
week.
Another addition was made TO the
negro lime colony near Serber, twenty
miles north of Pueblo few days since,
when six negroes entered homestead
claims in the local land office. Much
interest is being taken in the colony by