The Springfield herald., 1908-03-06
COLORADO NEWS

The National Association of Credit
Men will hold its annual convention in
Denver June 23d to 2Gth.
Fort Morgan has been declared a
city of the second class. The census
just completed shows a population Of
3,7l7.
A course in medical zoology is be-
ing offered this year for the first time
in the medical department Of the State
University at Boulder.
A six-day campaign is being organ
lied in Boulder to raise funds for fur
nishing the new Y. NJ. c. A. building,
now nearly completed.
BY an order issued by the school
board the fraternity and the sorority
which have existed in the Leadville
high school have been disbanded.
Governor Buchtel has appointed
George j. Richards to serve as county
commissioner of Hinsdale county in
place of DIR. d. S. Hoffman. deceased.
The State Normal school closed Feb
ruary for its annual spring vacation
and 500 pupils left Greeley to spend
the holidays at their homes over the
state.
The American Museum OF Natural
History in New York has just pub
lished two papers on the fossils of
Florissant, written by Prof. Cockerell
of the department of zoology, Univer-
sity of Colorado.
One of the biggest livestock deals
ever made in this county has just been
closed by 7. Witcher, of CotopaXi, all
his cattle. between 1000 and 5000 head
being sold to Samuel Pepper and asso-
ciates of Denver.
The Museum of Natural History at
City Park in Denver is now open to
the public. The building is a very
fine one. that and the. extensive ex-
hibits being the gift of number Of
public-spirit citizens.
The final report of the International
Trust Company as receiver of the
Denver Savings bank, will be made be-
fore Judge Harry C. Riddle March
23rd. 1t will be the last opportunity
for depositors to advance claims.
The counties of Fremont and Teller
w.. jointly build a bridge over Four
Mile creek connecting the road from
Florence to Cripple Creek. Last win
ter the food waters swept out this
bridge and several miles of road, which
has been rebuilt.
George p Winters. a graduate of the
law school of the University of Den
yer, has been appointed secretary and
chief examiner of the state civil ser
vice commission, he having ranked
highest in the competitive eXamina-
ton.
Look carefully at your five-dollar
bills, or you may find bogus one on
your hands. There has been recent
counterfeit of these bills and they
have been successfully floated in both
the northern and southern parts of
the state.
By ruling of the faculty of the
University of Colorado it has been de-
cided to raise the standard of scholar
ship so as to make the minimum pass
ing grade 20. instead of 65. The pass
ing grade in law and medicine has been
10 for some time.
Boulder ministers have been trying
to get the famous evangelist Billy"
Sunday, former baseball player, to
come to their aid and find that his time
is engaged up to next September. A
date has been fixed for him for two
weeks in that month.
Invitations have been sent to all the
colleges of the Rocky Mountain region
by the management of the Colorado
track team for the annual track meet
to be held in Boulder May 9th. All
state colleges and perhaps Wyoming
and Utah are expected to enter the
meet.
The City Council of Florence has or
dered the payment of the $50 reward
for the finding of the body of one of
the victims alleged to have been muir
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who receives most of the other reward
money, the entire amount of which is
nearly S400.
Work on the proposed new federal
building at Trinidad for which Con
gress appropriated 100000, will begin
June 1st. An additional $4,000 has
also been appropriated by Congress
for the site, but as the site has been
donated by the city, the entire amount
will be put into the building.
]. B. Dawson proposes to start herd
of mountain sheep to grazing on his
ranch near Hayden before summer
He has made his ranch famous by do
mesticating sixteen elk and by having
number of buffalo and a mixed herd
of polled angus cattle and buffalo graz
ing on his pasture. The task of catch
ing the mountain sheep has been as
signed to Weldon Rider, of Hayden.
The City Council of Evans has not
only granted the Greeley & Northern
Colorado Railway & Utility Company
which has a franchise in Evans, n pri-
vate right of way through the town,
but pledged itself to secure necessary
funds to purchase right of way prop
erty and to further donate twenty
acrep to the railway company as a site
for It's repair shops and car barns.
An extension of sixty days has been
granted Smith Bros. of Montrose, Col.
orado, for completion of their contract
to construct a portion of the south
canal, the Uncompahgre irrigation pro-
ject. The material encountered in eX
Cavating was of an unexpected nature
and the contractors were delayed until
a ditch for draining the land had been
constructed. The extension advances
the date of completion to April 50,
1908.
The district attorneys of Colorado,
who met at Colorado Springs to effect
a state organization, elected c. C.
Hamlin of Colorado Springs as tenn
porary president and appointed com
mittee on the revision of the criminal
code of Colorado as follows: J. w.