The Springfield herald., 1908-03-27
COLORADO NEWS

build $4,000 hospital at Fort Nor
| gan.
Fraternities and sororities will here
after be barred by the South Side
school board of Pueblo.
Out of forty-five applicants to take
the Weld county teachers spring ex-
animation, only five were men.
Some Of the young men of Greeley
are organizing golf club and will lay
out links on the Country club grounds.
The automobile show at Denver will
be held April 9th, 7th and Sth in the
Mammoth skating rink on Clarkson
street.
The contract for the construction OF
the public building at Colorado Springs
has been awarder to ]. H. Wiesse of
Omaha, at $1S0,944.
New postofHces have been estab-
lished in Colorado as follows: Hart
man, Prowers county. James f.
Moore, postmaster; Plains. Prowers
county. Jesse N. Sheets. postmaster.
The following Colorado rural routes
have been ordered established June
list: Austin, Delta county, route 1,
population 800, families 160; La Sale,
Weld county, route 2, population 500,
families 67.
A contract for a sewer system LOT
Sterling was let on the 18th inst. TO
c. G.. Shelley of Denver for $4,000. 1t
Is to be completed in six months and
will be nine and half miles long, Gov
ering the entire town.
The Rio Grande has laid about two
miles of its double track between
Adobe and Canon City. Another month
will finish the work. The object is TO
relieve the congestion of traffic ana
avoid holding trains.
In the suit of ]. A. Eddy against Ben
jamin Kobey in the District Court at
Aspen for $25,O00 damages for de-
famation of character, the jury re-
turned a verdict for $1,000. kobey
filed q motion for a new trial.
Buena Vista is to have new theateI
to cost $4,000. 1t will be constructed
of concrete by Edward Kruger. now
with the Pyle theater; will be half
block long, facing on Railroad street,
and will be completed August 1st.
The new city hall at Greeley, costing
S33, 1000, is just finished. 1t has two
stories with a basement in which is
located the jail The other floors VIII
be occupied by officials. In the rear
are quarters for the fire department.
On the night bf March 18th at Colo
RADIO Springs, Charles Rosenthal, an
election Judge at the Republican pri-
maries. dropped dead OF heart disease
in Republican headquarters after deliV-
ering the returns from his precinct
Sterling is going in for amusements
One skating rink is in process OF con-
struction and another planned An
electric theatorium has been opened
and Glacomini brothers are erecting
an opera house at cost off $l5,Ooo.
A spiral fire escape was tested at
the new Central high school in Pu-
eblo. A large number of children from
other school We're present and the
building was emptied so quickly that
there would be no danger of any one
being hurt in case of fire.
Denver capitalists are starting fish
hatcheries in Craig park, Jefferson
county. They will have three lakes and
build fine driveway to the park on a
ridge of mountains between Brookside
and Grousemont. Their first deposit
OF brook trout fry, 10000, has been
made.
The four high schools of Routt
county have recently completed an in
teresting spelling contest. Each
by the county superintendent, and the
result was: Craig, S4 14-l5 per cent;
Hayden, SO 7-1O: Yampa, S31a; Steam
boat Springs, SO 81.
Joseph Murphy. who slugged and
robbed Sylvester Howell November
2Sth. and was convicted in the District
Court at Fort Collins. has been SEN
fenced to five to seven years in the
penitentiary. The robbery was shown
to have been coolly planned and a
brutal one. Howell is built like a pugil-
ist.
The Model Land and Irrigation Com
pany has filed at Trinidad map OF
it's reservoir to be constructed four
miles north of Hoehne. Las Animas
county. The reservoir will cost $500,
600, and cover two square miles of
territory. 1t will irrigate 20,4S0 acres
of land. In the project are interested
thirty of the leading business men of
Trinidad.
While plowing his garden at Fort
Collins George w. Dilts found an old
fashioned two-hole brass bullet mould
| which had lain in the ground nobody
knows how long. One of the holes
contained lead bullet. 1t is probably
relic of old Indian times, or may have
Deen dropped by an early uaS hun'ei
1t is almost half century since
moulds were used for casting bullets.
At meeting of the Loveland Cham
Der of Commerce the date of the annual
Loveland corn roast was changed from
September to August 18th, and the
dates of the annual races and live stock
| show were changed from September
7th, Sth and 9th to August 10Th, 2Oth
and 21st These changes were made
so as not to conflict with the dates OF
the Interstate fair to be held in Den
yer.
Caught in the act of robbing Colo
RADIO & Southern refrigerator car of a
sack of meat, presumably for his fam
ily Philip II. Foley, aged thirty-eight,
a Ria Grande switchman, was shot and
killed at 6 O'Clock on the morning off
the 10th inst. by Ira Wiedman, aged
thirty-five, special officer for the c. &
s., in the c. & s. switching yards,
Fourteenth and Delgany streets, in
| Denver.
Adolph Fehringer, brother of Otto
Fehringer, the Colorado Springs drug
| gist who was shot by holdup, has
I been appointed administrator of the