The Springfield herald., 1908-09-11
COLORADO ITEMS

Evans, his estate, valued at $4,000,
Is left to his widow and five children.
Practically the entire crop OF onion
seed grown in northern Colorado has
been harvested. Robert Boyd. near
Greeley, harvested an eighty-five-acre
field
COW belonging to ]. w. Anderson
was killed at Greeley few days since
by veterinarians because they be
lieve the animal was suffering from
hydrophobia.
Thoma. Conway, aged fifty one
of the oldest and most popular pas
senger conductors on the Rio Grande
railroad. died at his home in Grand
Junction on the 3rd inst after long
illness.
The State Beard of Health has de
cided that hereafter all persons who
deal in food stuffs liable to contamina
i.cn By dust and flies, must screen
whatever they display TO the public
and keep it screened.
Dolores county must pay Bird S.
Coler, former comptroller of New
York City, and his business partner,
Leonard II. Fowler, $G5,137.05 as the
result of decree entered by Judge
Lewis of the Federal Court. The
amount Is uue On luHuiilS ioaliiib IA
debtedness bonds issued by the county
in 1885 and 1886, which the county has
left unsettled.
The State Railroad Commission has
sent an order to all OF the railroads
operating in Colorado urging them to
give more attention to the handling
of shipments by freight. Many com
plants have come to the commission
from various parts of the state of late
in regard to trouble about securing
cars for transportation of fruit and
perishable goods.
Harry G. Browne. superintendent OF
the Rocky Ford Electric Company, was
instantly killed on the night OF the I'd
inst by coming in contact with the
large fly wheel. His skull was split
open and death was instantaneous. He
is survived by n widow, and his mother
resides in Cripple Creek, while half
brother, Frank Glenn, is paymaster OF
the Portland mine at Victor. Browne
was thir;y-eight years old.
Thomas LuXen. wealthy Rio Blanco
cattleman living four miles north OF
Rifle, Colorado, is defendant in dam
age suit filed in the Federal Court at
Denver, charging him with having al
lowed cattle and horses to Craze upon
the Battlement national forest reserve.
Mr.. Luxen is said to have taken
chances in the hope that favorable
decision will be reached in the United
States Supreme Court.
The county commissioners of Pitkin
county have instructed the county
treasurer to accept the certified check
for $3.151.3S and the personal check for
$227.oS given by ex-County Treasurer
William H. McNichols to cover the al
legged shortage created during his term
of office and his half of the expenses
for the recent accounting of the coun-
ty books, and have also instructed that
the civil suit against McNichols be
dismissed.
Colorado's peculiar advantages as
place of recuperation for persons suf-
fering from pulmonary tubercular
troubles are to be set before the medi-
cal fraternity of the world most forci'
bly, at the International Congress on
Tuberculosis, which will take place in
Washington. ID. c.. September 2lst to
October 18th. The state will be rep
resented by large and able deleSa-
tion of prominent medical practition-
ers.
The official call for Colorado Min
ing convention, to be held in Denver
Sept. 10th and 1lth. has been taken
cognizance of by the majority of the
mining men throughout the state. Let
tiers are being received at Denver by
Secretary James f. Callbreath, ,Ir.,
stating that the miners are organizing
In the numerous camps and mining cen
ters of the state, for the purpose of
naming members to attend the conven-
ton.
The formal opening of the Sanitary
.tFVhr rs,F
took place September 1st. This COM
pany is the successor of the Wilmore
Canning Company late of Denver. The
company has just completed a plant
costing about S50,000 to can tomatoes
and other garden produce. There
We're several hundred people present
at the opening. Refreshments were
served and music WAS furnished by the
management.
AT Fort Collins on the End inst. S. II,
Atwater of Canon City for eleven sue
cessive years president of the State
Sunday School Association, was again
elected to that office. In addition TO
the erection of Mr.. Atwater, president,
the convention chose the following Off
GERS: Vice president H. C. Johnson of
Fort Collins; vice president of the
western slope. f. F. Frazier OF Mont
rose; secretary, w. r. Hardy of Rocky
Ford; treasurer, c. S. Watson of Den
yer.
At Leadville on the End inst, after
deliberating for two hours the jury in
the case of Sherman W. Morris, alias
Frank Sherliffe of Des Moines, Ia. re-
turned a verdict of guilty of murder in
the second degree. Norris was tried
for the killing of John w. Walsh. a
Leadville saloonkeeper, June %, 1898
His conviction was obtained wholly
upon circumstantial evidence it being
brought out at the trial that at various
times he had confessed to acquaint
ances the killing of Walsh and that on
certain occasions he had boasted of
the crime.
State Dairy Commissioner Bishopp
has received n letter from the Utah
Condensed Milk Company asking him
to submit to the company the names of
Colorado breeders of Tristan Holstein
cattle. The firm stated in the commun-
ication that it would be in the market
for 500 head of this species of cattle
this fall and that 1t would appreciate
quotations on the Colorado stock.
Alberto Lopez, aged about twenty