The Springfield herald., 1909-07-16
COLORADO ITEMS

HI HOOu July OH ny oIuei VI SAo ois
trict attorney.
The new ten-story building that is
being erected for the Denver Gas and
Electric Company at the corner OF
Fifteenth and Champa streets in Den
yer will cost 100000.
Secretary of State Pearce has ap-
pointed R. E. Croskey, secretary OF the
State Federation Of Labor, as head OF
the Denver free employment bureau.
The assistant superintendent will be
Mrs. Louis Van Horn, q prominent club
woman.
Directors of the Weld county fair
expect to have an airship in opera
tion as one of the many attractions
planned for Greeley's first agricultural
fair within a quarter OF a century.
Six thousand dollars will be offered
in premiums at the fair.
Under the direction OF DIR. H. A.
Howe, astronomer of the University
of Denver, a brass tablet has been
placed in position on one of the west
steps of the Colorado capitol building.
marking the elevation of the top of
the step as exactly one mile above sea
level.
Arrangements are being made for .
big meeting at Boulder July 31st in
the interest of the Metal Mining AS
sociation of Boulder county. The
meeting will be addressed by Capt. j.
4. Smith and another prominent min
Ing man of Denver, also by Secretary
John r. Wood and speakers from va
rious mining camps of the county.
w. E. Walton of Fort Collins has
been engaged to take charge of the
poultry department of the Colorado
Agricultural College, a new departure
In college work. Mr.. Walton is versed
In the theory of poultry culture, as
well as practice, having long been
among the best known and most sue
cessful producers of chickens in the
state.
Lying in the San Raphael hospital
in Trinidad his body paralyzed below
the waist, is William Hudson, aide de
camp on the personal staff Of Gen
eral U. S. Grant during the Civil War
and a nephew of the great warrior.
Hudsons mother was sister of Gen
eral Grant and Hudsons grandfather
was q business partner OF Grants
father in a tannery near Covington,
KY, before the war.
George H. Putnam. mining en-
gineer of Denver, who graduated at
the State School of Mines four years
ago, was murdered at Pilares, Mex,
July 7th, by Eleno Uriarte, police
man, who called him out Of a moving
picture show and shot him twice
through the body. Putnam was only
twenty-fiv years old and the only son
OF Mrs. F. C. Putnam, widow, who
resides in Denver, where his body will
be brought for interment.
To insure the minimum expense in
the experiments looking to the produc-
tion of radium at the School of Mines,
the Denver & Rio Grande and the Col
orado G Southern railroad companies
have agreed to haul all the necessary
ores free of charge to Golden from any
point on their lines. Preliminary ex-
periments in radium research are be-
ing carried on by Professors Fleck,
Miller and Haldane, and within a few
weeks the actual work of reducing the
pitchblende or carnotite ores, from
which it is hoped to produce the pre-
cious substance, will be commenced.
Denver Republican says: 1t is stated
on good authority that the Denver &
Interurban will extend its line from
Louisville to Lafayette. and from there
to Longmont, building something like
twelve miles of double track, one line
to be used for freight traffic and the
other for passengers. The Colorado
G Southern, owner of the electric line,
will by this cutoff shorten the present
line from Denver to Longmont, Love
land, Fort Collins and Greeley over ten
miles and also eliminate the heavy
grade by way of Boulder. The cleo
trio line will form a loop, going by
way of Louisville and Lafayette to
Longmont and back over the Colorado
& Southern to Boulder, Marshall and
Louisville Junction.
A permanent organization OF Colo
rado Republicans living in the city of
Washington has been effected, with
Joseph Williams of Denver, president;
Robert r. Davidson, Denver, secre-
tary, and Oney Carstarphen, Silver
Cliff. treasurer. Membership in the
organization is restricted to Republi-
cans who are residents or former resi-
dents of Colorado either permanently
or temporarily residing in Washing
ton who have not forfeited their right
to vote in Colorado. One of the OBJ
tects of the association will be to pre-
vent applicants for government posi-
tions from claiming citizenship in
Colorado, if they are not bona fide cit
liens and residents of that state. The
association will also aid Colorado citi-
zens to obtain places in the govern
ment service and will endeayor to be
of service and assistance to Colorado
citizens visiting or residing in Wash
ington.
A classy horse show is announced
as one of the many features to be held
at the second annual Colorado Inter
State Fair and Exposition which will
be held at Overland park, Denver, Sep
tember 18th to 18th. Attractive prizes
have been hung up in the many
classes.