The Springfield herald., 1908-02-21
COLORADO NEWS
The Republican state convention will

ence, while eating oysters found n
pearl about the size CT pea. jewelers.
claim it is worth $3.50.
The Cambrian Society of Colorado.
consisting of Welsh residents, will
give its annual entertainment at the
Albany hotel March End.
Fort Collins has received four cars
for the street railway from the Ohio
shops. The company now has six
motor cars and two trailers ready for
use.
The Greeley sugar factory closed
on the 18th inst, the last of the syrup
having been made into brown sugar.
The men will begin overhauling ma
chinery at once.
The county commissioners of Pueblo
county passed a resolution indorsing
the action of Montrose. Gunnison, and
Delta counties in asking the state to
pay the expense of irrigation water
distribution.
]. S. Flower of Denver, has ordered
two dozen ring necked pheasants to be
added to his half hundred on the old
colony farm southwest of Greeley and
1t is expected that these will have in
creased to 500 next fall.
The new Denver Democratic club or
ganiZed at Florence with an enroll
ment of fifty-one, for the purpose of
going to Denver and holding open
house during the national convention,
will enlarge its membership to $50.
Local option promises to be an is
sue al the next election in Pueblo. The
Anti-Saloon league proposes to make
dry as many sections of Pueblo as
possible and will make an effort to
coniine the saloons to one or two
wards.
While drilling for oil on his farm
six miles south of Fort Collins, Peter
Spanner. at depth of COO feet, broke
into a strong vein of a natural gas
which convinces him that he is near
oil. He will drive the well deeper in
the expectation of striking oil in few
days.
The Republican State Editors Asso-
citation was organized at Denver on
Lincoln's birthday, beginning with
membership of fifty-eight The officers
elected are A. j. Dickson of the Glen
wood Post, president; Guy U. Hardy
of the Canon City Record, secretary;
Edwin A. Sherman of the Grand juno
ton News, treasurer.
H. h. Smith, who carries the mail
with a serious runaway accident. A bolt
worked loose, allowing singletree to
strike the heels of one of the horses.
This caused them to run and Smith
was thrown out. He was picked up by
passing teamsters and taken home.
His left thigh was dislocated and the
right shoulder severely bruised, but no
bones were broken.
The Union Pacific has issued beau
tiful pamphlet entitled Railroad Sig
naling," fully explaining and illustrat-
ing its block system and interlocking
switches and signals. The pamphlet
is superbly printed on heavy enameled
paper and the colored pictures are in
the highest style of the engraver's art.
Its subject, the means adopted for the
protection of life, makes 1t highly
interesting work.
Two convicts, Charles Lackey, No.
5724, and A. e. Roberts, No. 572G, were
recipients of Governor Buchtels holi-
day pardons on Lincoln's birthday.
Both men were TRUSTEES and to each
the pardon came as surprise. Lackey
is thirty-one years old and Roberts
five years older. They were convicted
at Pueblo in 1903 of robbery, and were
sentenced to ten to fourteen years
each. Large petitions were presented
asking for their release.
The Greeley school board voted $3.50
to defray the expenses of Superin-
tendent Carter of the city schools to
Washington to attend the national SUI
perintendents' meeting this month.
Among other things, he is asked to
look into the subject of medical in
struction in schools, as the board fav-
70 olN hnf h
ers be required to take a physical ex-
animation to show them free from in
fectious or contagious diseases.
At an immense gathering OF sugar
beet growers, farmers and others in
terested in the building of an indie
pendent sugar factory at Manzanola. so
enthusiastic were those present that
1000 acres were pledged on the spot
and assurances given that double that
amount will easily be pledged within
the next few days. A large number
of beets raisers were present from the
vicinity of Rocky Ford and Joined the
Manzanola growers in the project.
Building operations marking the
actual establishment of the home OF
the National Association of Letter Car
riers in Colorado Springs are to be
tion of temporary buildings on the site
donated by the local Merchants Asso-
citation, and work on the permanent
buildings will be started next spring.
The temporary structures will be oc-
cupied by twenty members of the Ma
tional Association who require imme-
diate care in sanitarium.
A large real estate deal was closed
at Greeley a few days ago, when
through the Arbuckle-Purcell Land
Company, Mai. Samuel Moore of Gree
ley, sold to the North Fort Morgan
Townsite Development Company,
160 acres OF land one mile north of
Fort Morgan, for town. to be known
as North Fort Morgan, for $50, 600 cash.
The Union Pacific railroad runs di-
rectly through the property and some
time ago established depot on its
right of way. 1t is proposed to build
new sugar factory at North Fort Nor
gan.
The Florence City Council has re-
fused to decide upon who is entitled
to the reward for the recovery of the
bodies of the four Italians slain by
Tony Bovori, because there are so many