The Springfield herald., 1908-10-09
COLORADO ITEMS

The Longmont Business Mems club
has been organized, with membership
of lie.
Senator Albert ]. Beverldge of I'LL
nois is expected to speak in Denver
October 18th.
Deputy Sheriff Peterson captured a
large porcupine on one of the principal
streets of Greeley a few mornings
since.
The Master Builders Association of
Denver has endorsed the proposed erec
lion of fourteen story skyscraper
They hold that it would benefit the
city.
Petitions from nine city precincts
have been filed with the county clerk,
asking for special election on local
option in Pueblo at the election Novem-
ber 3D.
Denver is investing money in new
buildings at the rate of over a million
dollars month. The building per
mits for September call for an expen.
diture OF S1,0O6,6 625.
The gross earnings of the Denver
City Tramway system for the year
ending August 81, 1908, are reported at
$3.06l .902.64, an increase over the pre-
yious year of S22l.6 65390.
The International Women's Chris
tian Temperance Union will hold its
annual convention at Denver October
,23d to Both. Several hundred delegates
are expected to be in attendance.
John Susick. aged nineteen, was in
stantly killed in the mine of the Colo
rado Fuel & Iron Company at Ber-
wind Tuesday morning by being caught
in a cave-in of rock and dirt.
Gov. j. Frank Hanly of Indiana will
be in Colorado October Sth, 9th and
10th and will deliver addresses under
the auspices fthe Anti-Saloon league.
He will speak in Denver October 10th.
Seventy-flve thousand trout fry from
the state hatchery at Glenwood Springs
have been received by Sam w. Wider,
deputy game warden at Cripple Creek,
and placed in Four Mile and Oil creeks.
The Eastern Colorado Poultry Asso-
citation has been formed at Fort Nor
gan. Sterling, Akron. Yuma and Wray
will be invited to join the association.
which plans a poultry show in Decem-
Der.
The engineers of the Denver City
rTramway Company are preparing
plans for extending its present car line
system to Valverde, Overland park and
Fort Logan. districts. These lines were
provided for in franchise voted by the
taxpayers of the city in 1906.
On the opening day of the Eistedd'
,fod at Salt Lake City the ladies' quar-
tette OF Denver. composed of Mrs. f.
J. Houseley. Mrs. II. S. Cooper and
Misses BERTHE Berlin and Ivy Matteson,
won first place. and Charles Brown of
Denver took second prize in the violin
competition.
George Sauer. recently convicted in
the county court at Fort Collins of run
ming bootlegging establishment, was
sentenced to term of six years in the
county Jail. This will be his second
term in prison for similar offense. in
addition to which he has paid many
hundreds of dollars in fines.
According to the annual report OF
the Colorado Fuel & Iron Company.
now in the han.s of the printers. the
corporation has earned n net surplus
of approximately 100000. after hav'
ing paid all fixed charges The an
nual stockholders meeting will be
beld In Denver October 10.
Cooperation in road building is ex
emplified at Eaton in the opening. grad
ing and graveling of a regular county
road through the Bruce Eaton land,
east of town. The road saves nearly
half mile to farmers. The land was
decided to the county by Bruce Eaton.
the Great Western Sugar Company do
mated the fencing, and the county road
oyerseer and farmers furnished men
and teams to build the road.
Professor Bennett of the Colorado
Agricultural College proposes to make
nm exhibit at the Farmers institute at
Greeley next winter of potatoes grown
in Maine. Minnesota, Wisconsin and
other states and also those grown in
foreign countries. The exhibits will be
of marketable potatoes only and will
be of great value to the Greeley farm.
er in showing them with what quail.
ties they must compete in growing po-
tatoes most successfully.
Fire of unknown origin Friday night
destroyed two boarding houses at Gray
Creek. one of the largest camps of the
Victor Fuel Company, eight miles
southeast of Trinidad. and for time
threatened the entire camp. One of
the boarding houses was completed
about a year ago at a cost of $4,000,
being modern in every day. equipped
with steam heat and electric light.
The mine was closed down and every
resident of the camp fought the flames.
there being no fighting apparatus
there Most OF the contents of the new
building We're saved. The buildings
of the camp are all frame ana but for
the favorable direction of the wind the
camp would have been wiped ont.
Henry I. West and wife of Gree
ley. both eighty-four years old. are 60
ing to Caldwell, Idaho. to visit their
son-in-law. a. Z. GIBSON and his fam
lily. Mr. and Mrs. West have not taken
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