The Springfield herald., 1909-08-20
STATE NEWS ITEMS


pairing to prospect for oil about thirty
miles south OF Limon.
Wyoming is negotiating to have her
twenty women convicts taken care OF
in the Colorado penitentiary at Canon
City.
The total net assessed valuation OF
Pueblo county for 1909 is $26,74o.,
9S9.01. The valuation for 1908 was
$2G.S23.G39.
One thousand laboring men expect
to leave Colorado Springs in special
train September 9th to attend the La
Dor day celebration at Pueblo.
The annual conference of the Meth
odist church OF Colorado will he held
at Pueblo the first week in Septem-
ber.
Three cups will be given by the
Denver Chamber of Commerce to
Colorado dry farmers exhibiting at the
Dry Farming Congress at Billings.
Mont, in October.
On Friday night, August goth, the
city of Denver will give an elaborate
display of fireworks at the City Park
in honor of the delegates to the Trans
mississippi congress.
The honorary commercial commits
sioners of the Japanese empire to the
number of thirty will reach Denver
November 7th. at 2:3O p. M. and will
leave at 11:45 p. m. on the day fol
lowing.
E. II. OMalia of Leadville was
elected president of the Colorado Fu-
! at
closing session of its annual conven-
ton at Leadville. and Denver was
chosen for the 1910 meeting.
The interior of the Denver Audito-
rum is to be elaborately decorated at
large expense. 1t is planned to have
the work completed and the new
$4,000 drop curtain hung before Presl-
dent Taft's visit in September.
On receiving news of the death of
Robert NJ. Womack, Mayor Van Til
borg of Cripple Creek issued procla-
to be placed at half mast in honor Of
the memory of the Father of Cripple
Creek"
A wreck occurred on the Rio Grande
near Dulce on the night of the 18th
inst, when double-header freight
ran into mud slide in Navajo canon,
both engines turning over. Engineer
j. S. Thompson mad a leg broken and
was scalded, his injuries being dan
gerous.
The work of cutting down the grade
at Dead Mans hill. Just south Of
Palmer Lake, has been completed,
thus reducing to minimum the dan
\ ger to automobllists. The cost was
borne Jointly by the county commits
sioners of Ell Paso county, the Colo
RADIO Springs Automobile Club and the
trustees of Palmer Lake.
At Lafayette on the 10th inst, after
a heated discussion over a resolution
introduced by Delegate l.. d. Hosman
of the Denver Typographical Union.
lasting several hours, the State Fed
GRAFTON of Labor convention refused
to go on record as indorsing the So
ciaIistic party or the organization of
new political party. by vote of
so to ~.
During a severe electric storm at
Idaho Springs, on the 18th inst, light
ming struck the shaft cable at the
upper workings of the Lamartine mine
and two prominent young mining men
were instantly killed. They were How
ard Quick, aged %, and Percy Barron.
%. Two fellow workmen who were
being hoisted from the mine in the
same bucket, escaped injury.
The annual meeting of the Chautau-
qua Climbers Club at Boulder elected
the following officers for the ensuing
year: DIR. Hungerford of Denver.
president; Mrs. C. l.. Bradford, vice
president, and Arthur Ridgeway OF
Boulder. secretary. Plans were made
for providing shelter along the differ
ent trails, making new trails, and nam
ing and Identifying rocks, springs and
paths.
1t is thought that a skeleton found
in the mountains in California recent
ly Is that of William Sellwood, a son
of Mrs. B. NJ. Wilson of Greeley, who
has not been heard from for four
years. letter written by Mrs Will
son, dated August is, 1908, was found
near the bones and was the only clew
which the officers have to work on.
Four years ago Sellwood was at Salt
Lake.
At an election on the 10th inst. in
the proposed irrigation district of Lin
coin county to take in about 10000
acres south of Limon and to be
known as the Big Sandy Irrigation
district, it was decided to bond the
district for s25O,oOO to carry out the
project. AS soon as the bonds are
disposed of, work will commence, and
it is thought 1t will be completed in
time to water next seasons crops.
Seven persons were seriously hurt
and a large number Of others sus-
tained bruises in the wreck of the
Missouri Pacific passenger train No. 2,
one mile east of Avondale, Pueblo
county, on the 9Th, inst. The smoking
car and chair car were overturned
and every car left the rails. Lloyd
Brown of Ordway had an arm broken
and Ollie Moore and Ellen Hammers
ley of Pueblo received bad bruises.
According to a decision by Judge
Cavender in the District Court at
Leadville, a sheriff is entitled to mile.
age for each prisoner taken to the
state Industrial School at Golden, al.