The Springfield herald., 1908-05-01

Lewis +. Webbey and Ben McGee.
TRUSTEES, who escaped from the peniten-
tiary April 23rd, were captured next
day at Skaguay and taken back TO
Canon City. ri
The strike of the $50 marble cut
ters employed by the Colorado Yule
Marble Company has been settled. the
men to work nine hours instead OF
eight, and to receive an increase OF 50
cents day in wages,
Henry Van KlSeck has been ap-
pointed as delegate to represent the
Denver Chamber of Commerce at the
National Conference of Peace Arbitra-
tion which will meet, as 1t annually
does. at Mohonk. Lake. New York,
May 2lst.
The town of Craig, one of the prin-
cipal places along the line of the Mot
fat road in Routt county. has decided
to incorporate by vote of eighty 10
forty-nine. This is the elimination of
an agitation that has covered the past
two years.
Effective May lst l.. D. Knowles.
general agent in Milwaukee for several
years of the Missouri Pacific system,
has been appointed general western
agent of the same system, with head
quarters at Denver. Mr.. Knowles has
been in the railroad business twenty
five years.
The forest service has announced
the following appointments in Colorado
reserves: Charley c. White, forest
guard, Wet Mountain reserve; George
Fleischman, assistant forest ranger,
San Juan reserve; Thomas w. Rob
bins, assistant forest ranger, Holy
Cross reserve.
Mayor Green of Greeley issued
proclamation April 23rd. ordering that
all dogs in the city must be either
muzzled or temporarily confined by
their owners, because many dogs
have recently been bitten by or ex-
posed to biting by a dog suffering with
hydrophobia. Every dog not muzzled
or confined was ordered to be killed
by the marshal.
In the District Court at Canon City
the United States Reduction and Re
filming Company was granted Il 1udS-
ment against the Denver & Rio Grande
Railway Company for 100000 for the
burning of the Union mill at Florence
two years ago. The reduction com
pany brought suit for S250,000. claim
ing tnat the fire started from spark
from passing Rio Grande engine.
y
sociation. headed by Halsted l.. Ritter.
held memorial services in the Federal
Court at Denver. April 23rd. passing
appropriate resolutions on the death
of various members during the past
year. The members who passed away
were Charles w. Tankersley, Herman
H. Dunham. Albert G. Grier, John II.
Murphy. Charles |. Thomson and
Charles NJ. Brown.
AT Glenwood Springs on the night of
April 22nd. John l. Taylor, convicted
of second degree murder for killing
his wife, and sentenced to not less than
twenty years in the penitenildr, ,
cheated the court by hanging himself
in his cell at the city jnil. He used n
rope male of strips of mis- bedding. lie
was found shortly after midnight and
had evidently been dead for several
hours The crime of which he was con
victed was killing his wife at Coal
Easin last July. His attorneys tried
to prove that his wife committed sui
eide.
A. b. HuIit of the Northern Electri-
cal Company, who is behind the
movement to put in n SIS 100000 cleo
trical development scheme in the Ar
kansas valley from Canon City to
Dodge City. Kansas, addressed mass
meeting at Pueblo, April 23rd. He
explained the project at length and it
was enthusiastically endorsed by those
present Another meeting will be held
May lith at La Junta and business
representatives from every city in the
valley interested will be present. At
this time it is thought that decisive
steps will be taken toward the fulfill
ment of the scheme.
Governor H. A. Buchtel has been
asked to give $1,000 from some state
fund for the construction of topo-
graphical man, 1Gx11 feet. from which
copies may be made for exhibition at
the International Congress of Tuber-
culosis to be held at Washington next
September A committee from the
Chamber of Commerce and the Den
Yer Medical Society called upon the
governor with this request. Those on
the committee were f. l.. Scholtz. w.
F. r. Mills and Drs. w. n. Beggs. w.
W. Grant. G. w. Holden, FL. b. Whit
ney, Charles Dennison and George H.
Stover. The governor may possibly
be able to appropriate the sum asked
for from the building Iund.
At the annual meeting of the State
Board of Charities and Corrections at
Denver April 23rd. Rabbi w. S. Fried
man was reelected president of the
board All the members we're present,
including DR.. ID. II. Dougan, Mrs. James
Williams. Father Malone. Mrs. Casptr
and Judge Thomas of Breckenridge.
Mrs. Stanley NJ. Caspar was elected
vice president and Father Malone was
delegated to attend the national con
vention of charitable organizations in
Richmond this year. Reports from the
various institutions controlled by the
board were received and found to be
encouraging. \ resolution was adopted
calling for the improvement of the
laws governing the functions of the
boards institutions under it by the
next Legislature
Shot through the brain by bullet
from his own revolver. which was
accidentally discharged as he was
jumping over the counter at Beck
mans store at Goldfield on the even
ing of April 2ith. City Marshal Rich
ard Smith of Goldficld died a few
hours later in the Cripple Creek Dis
trict hospital, where he had been sent
in the vain hope that medical atten-
tion would save his life. Mr.. Smith
was fort y-fiyp ypars old and leaves Il