The Springfield herald., 1909-06-18

The county treasurer of Mesa county
has received a check for $4,000 as
Mesa county's share of the Forest Re-
serve Fund.
The county commissioners of Mesa
county will call a special election to
decide the question of issuing bonds
for $150.000 for a new court house.
c. H. O'Brien, arrested at Las Ami
mas. charged with the forgery of
checks, was taken to Trinidad, when
it developed that his name Is Jack
Weaver, and he is on parole from Bill
ena Vista, where he was sent from
Pueblo for forgery.
Boulder Elks have rendered the use
of their building as headquarters for
the officers of the grand lodge at the
state conclave of Knights Templar,
which will be held at Boulder the last
week in September. The home will
also be used as headquarters for the
State Realty Association, which meets
in July.
Three thousand acres of valuable
coal land will be opened between Agui-
lar and Hastings by the Columbian
Coal Mining Company, recently formed
by Colorado and Kansas City capital
lists. c. V. Stewart of Kansas City is
at the head of the new company, and
is said to represent several million
aires
The old Presbyterian church at
Evans, used for eighteen years as
saloon, until saloons were abolished
two years ago. is about to be restored
to it's former dignity. Liquor signs and
parts of the bar remain in the build
ing. These are to be torn down, pull
pit built and the walls repaired by the
Presbyterian mission board.
Application has been made before
the State Land Board for tract of
land containing 40 acres upon which
to establish a national home under the
auspices of the Actors association.
The last session of the Legislature
passed an act allowing the land board
to donate land for charitable purposes,
and advantage will be taken of this to
get some land If possible for old actors.
Officers of the Union Pacific rail
road are authority for the statement
that trains will be running into Boul-
der from Denver by October, via Brigh-
ton and the thirty-six-mile cutoff. The
Union Pacific will then enter into ac-
tive competition with the Colorado &
Southern, which has heretofore en-
joyed n practical monopoly of business
between Denver and Boulder.
Work has begun on the spur from
the Colorado & Southern to Twin
lakes, the new reservoir of the Eastern
Colorado Power Company, which will
be built in the valley about six miles
northwest of Boulder. This reservoir
will be one of the largest in Boulder
county, and will be supplementary to
the mountain reservoirs which store
water near Netherlands for power pur
poses for the company.
The body of Miss Ethel Alexander,
the young teacher who was drowned
Sunday night with Walter West while
attempting to ford the Big Sandy near
Mattison, Elbert county, was found
Wednesday afternoon by Jim and
Harry Pershing, four miles west OF
Limon. 1t was lying about fifty feet
from the bank of the creek and TWEEN
ty miles from the scene of the acct
dent.
The graduating exercises of Cutler
Academy connected with Colorado Col
lege at Colorado Springs, were held in
Perkins Hall, Wednesday, DR.. R. w.
Corwin of Pueblo delivering the prin-
cpal address. In his address during
the presentation of diplomas, Presi-
dent w. F. Slocum of Colorado Col
lege made number of announce
ments for the extension of the Acad-
emy Laboratories will be added and
new equipment will be purchased.
Hundreds of people crowded into the
First Methodist church at Colorado
Springs on the night of the Sth inst. to
bid farewell to the Rev. James b.
Gregg, dean of ministers in Colorado.
While the reception had been arranged
by the Ministerial Association, the ad-
dresses were given by men who repre-
sent almost every religious denomina-
ton in the city. DR.. Howard Agnew
Johnson presided. Among the speak
ers were President w. F. Slocum of
Colorado College, Mayor w. H. Spur
Chamber of Commerce and the Y. NJ.
C. A.
Thirty resident owners of land under
the Antero reservoir system in the
vicinity of Rose Hill, from one to five
miles northwest of the Denver city
limits, met a few nights since at the
Rose Hill school house to take the
necessary steps preliminary to the or
ganization of the Denver Suburban Ir-
rigation district. Those present were
in favor, without a single dissenting
voice, of voting bonds with which TO
pay the reservoir company for its An
tero Reservoir and High Line Ditch, a
contract for the purchase of which was
signed recently by several of the most
prominent of the land owners.
The alumni of the State University of
| Colorado have organized a closely
united body like those of Yale, Har-
ward and the other great eastern insti-
! tutions. A paid secretary is to be en-
ployed permanently, who will devote
| his time to travelling about the state,
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