The Springfield herald., 1908-01-17
COLORADO NEWS ITEMS

age of sixty years.
, The new pipe organ being placed in
the Methodist church at Boulder
weighs II 500 pounds, will be operated
With electricity and contains forty-fve
miles of electric wire.
DR.. Ella Mead of Greeley has been
appointed register of deaths and births
of Weld county by the secretary of the
State Board of Health Dr. Mead is
also city physician.
William S. Paul, commander of the
Colorado, Utah and Wyoming divis-
ions, Sons of Veterans, died at his
home in Denver on the 5t'l inst. from
congestion of the lungs.
Joseph Love, who died at George
town on the 4th inst. of heart failure
and old age, was one of the earliest
pioneers of Colorado, having carried
the first mails in the Argentine dis
trict.
Governor Henry A. Buch.el left Den
yer on the night of the 5,h inst. on a
short trip to Washington. 1t is stated
that he went at the invitation of Presi-
dent Roosevelt to discuss political
matters.
A new postofice has been estab-
lished in Washington county eleven
miles south of Akron, named Brunker.
James Brunker has been appointed
postmaster. 1t will supply some sixty
families
Bishop Henry w. Warren of the
Methodist church celebrated his sew
enty-seventh birthday at his residence
in Denver January 4th. In looks and
activity he is younger than most men
at sixty.
The Weld County Medical Associa-
ton will urge the necessity of the in
spection of all meat and milk. The
prevalence of disease among hogs this
winter has helped to bring about this
agitation.
AS attractions for his rev health
and pleasure resort at Morrison, John
Brisben Walker proposes to repro
duce ruins of the cliff dwellings and
the communal pueblos, such as are
seen at Taos.
Anson Rudd father of Arson S.
Rudd, editor of the Black Diamond
World at Louisville, died on the 4th
inst. at the home of his son in Louis
vile. Colorado, at the age of eighty
eight years.
Frank Handy, n ten-year.old boy,
was dangerously injured on the Sth
inst. at Pueblo when a dynamite cap
which he was pounding with hatchet
exploded with terrific force. Both legs
were horribly mangled.
The electric flag which surmounts
the dome of the capitol building in
Denver is to be removed and placed
over the ColfaX entrance of the build
Ing. An immense electric globe will
be placed at the top of the dome.
The manufacturing interests of Colo
RADIO give employment to $4,000 men
and women, at an average salary of
$S93.60 the latter figure, it is said,
ranking among the first in the states
in annual wages to factory hands.
James Weir, retired farmer, sixty
years of age, was burned to death on
the Sth inst. at Rocky Ford. BY mis-
take he used gasoline instead of kero-
sene to light fire and an explosion
resulted. He leaves widow and six
children.
The vast works of the Colorado
Fuel & Iron Company are the largest
single producers of wealth in the
state. The production is tremendous,
markets everywhere in the world, and
Its estimated value reaches close to
$50,000,OO0.
To settle a wager, Charles Sherman
and Ray Fox, employed by George
Bradley under contract to load G,000
tons of beets at Greeley broke the
state record for handling the vege-
tables by shoveling 101 tons and $50
pounds each in ten hours.
Mr.. F. S. Ellsworth has presented
fine pianola and an abundant supply
of music to the State Industrial School
for Girls. Mr.. Ellsworth was a for
mer member of the board in control
of the institution, and has always been
one of its most generous benefactors.
Register Vivian of the State Land
Board has announced the appoint
ment of Miss Cora l.. McKeehan as
deputy register to take the place of L.
l. Rundlett, who resigned to be-
come clerk of the District Court of the
First district at Golden. Miss Mckee
han has been connected with the land
office for almost six years.
The Fremont County Medical Soci-
ETY. has elected the following officers:
President, C. ii. Graves, Canon City;
vice president, W. r. Williamson.
Rockvale; secretary-treasurer. r. c.
Atkinson, Florence; delegate to the
state meeting. DR.. ]. w. Rambo, Port
land; programme representative to
state society DIR. Graves, Canon.
From January 9th until January 18th
applications will be received of those
who wish to take the examination for
secretary and chief examiner of the
Civil Service Commission of Colorado
The examinations will be held at the
capitol in Denver, January Gath, at 10
o'clock. Candidates must be men at
least twenty-five years of age, of good
address, education and business expe-
rience.
Mrs. James A. Robran, bride of but
eleven days, living four miles from
Del Norte, noticing from her kitchen
window a runaway, hastened down the
road a few hundred yards to find the
lifeless body of her husband pinned be-
meath his wagon, the body having been
mangled almost beyond recognition
James A. Robran was the second son
Of A. j. Robran, a pioneer settler of
Rio Granl le county. His wife was for
merly Miss Dora Hibler.
At meeting of the depositors' COM
mittee Of the Colorado State bank of
Durango, with the directors of the