The Springfield herald., 1909-07-23
COLORADO NEWS

The Pueblo Savings Bank has ap-
Piled for charter to be known as the
Pueblo Savings Bank & Trust Com
pany. Former Governor Adams is
president.
The Greeley record for a single year
is 1000 carloads of potatoes, made
several years ago. but 1t is confidently
believed that this years output will
come up to the best. II not excel 1t.
William X. Mitchell, who made
murderous assault upon Sheriff
Schraeder at the county Jail in Grand
Junction several weeks ago. has been
adjudged insane and sent to the asy-
lum at Pueblo.
The American members of the in.
ternatiOnal executive committee of
the B'Nai Birth. the powerful Jewish
organization, will meet in Denver
August 18th. and extensive plans are
being made for their entertainment.
Edward Maurin, a young rahchman
of twenty-three. residing on Capitol
Creek, near Aspen, took a dose of
strychnine, supposing he was taking
salts. He rode to nearby ranch and
died before medical aid could be sun-
moned.
One of the worst electrical storms
in years visited the Cripple Creek dis
trict on Friday, the 10th inst. The
lightning did much damage, striking at
least dozen houses. Telephone and
telegraph wires were put out of com
mission for over an hour.
Nine men rode in bicycle road race
from Fort Collins to Loveland and
back few days since. the winner,
John Adams, making the round trip
in l hour, &c minutes, 80 seconds
The distance was 30 miles. The slow
es. man made it in l hour. 80 min
utes, 40 seconds.
Robert Ferrari, nephew Of Cardinal
Ferrari of Rome, and Father Charles
Ferrari, the well-known Denver Cath
clio priest and brother-in-law of Jo-
seph Cuneo, the former Italian consul
in Denver, has been naturalized as an
American citizen by District Judge
Shattuck at Denver.
Edward B. Carson of Houston, Tex,
who is in Pueblo to establish branch
of an oil refining company, bears the
distinction of being the second man
to scale the walls of Peking during
the Boxer uprising, and proudly wears
badge of honor presented him by
the late President Mckinley
Wilbur F. Cannon, state pure food
commissioner. has announced that the
melon growers of the Rocky Ford dis.
trict will be protected this year, and
that merchants In the East who adver-
tice Rocky Ford melons for sale before
they are ripe will be prosecuted. The
real Rocky Ford melons are not on the
market until August Sth.
The Colorado Dental Association at
it's convention in Colorado Springs
elected the following officers for the
ensuing year: President, DR.. W. A.
Brierley OF Denver, former vice presi-
dent of the association; vice presl-
dent. DR.. F. S. Mckay, Colorado
Springs; treasurer, DR.. William Smed-
ley. Denver; secretary, DR.. c. A. Mon
roe, Boulder.
Horace Havens of Leadyille, former
deputy secretary of state and three
times candidate for the secretaryship
on the Democratic ticket, has been
appointed as the mineral inspector of
the State Land Board, the appoint
ment having been made as a result
of the expiration of the term of DR..
A. A. Johnson, who was retained by
Register Jefferson as hold-over
from the administration of John f.
Vivian.
The secretary of the navy has noti-
fled Governor Shafroth that he can Sc
cure for Colorado the ornamental
shields discarded from the cruisers
Colorado and Denver. The shields are
now in the custody of the commander
of the Puget Sound navy yard, who
has been instructed to deliver them to
Governor Shafroth for the State OF
Colorado which will have to pay the
transportation charges upon them and
agree to preserve them as public prop
erty.
Work Is to be commenced at once
on the extension of the tracks OF the
Argentine Central railway from its
present terminus, the summit of
Mount Mcclellan, to Gray's Peak, a.
AL feet above sea level 1t Is be-
lieved that the line will be completed
by August Goth. Next year a 100
tower will be erected on the summit OF
Gray's Peak, and tourists will be af-
forded view of grandeur embracing
400 miles of snow-capped mountains
and level plains.
The State Land Board has refused
to sell a small lake adjoining Twin
Lakes to the Lake County Sporting
| Club for $3.50 an acre. 1t is the inten-
ton of the board to establish prece-
dent not to dispose of water on state
land. The board decided to sell to
Harry A. Lindsey $40 acres of state
land northwest of Fort Morgan at
prices somewhat in excess Of those of
fored in his application. The land is
for the most part under Riverside
ditch.
A petition is being circulated in Pu-
eblo for the holding of special cleo
tion to vote on the question OF adopt
ing a charter form of government. The
petition is to be completed by Septem-