The Springfield herald., 1910-03-17
COLORADO
STATE NEWS

The Greeley band has voted to Join
the First Regiment. N. G. c.. as the
regimental band.
A petition has been prepared at Del
Norte to put the wet or dry PROPOSE
ton up to the voters.
The Chaffee County Sunday School
convention will be held at salida
March 31st and April 1st.
A tie falling from q car at Pueblo
struck William Troin. a Greek, on the
head. causing an injury from which he
died.
The Denver Trades and Labor AS.
sembly on Sunday endorsed the gener-
al strike called by the Philadelphia as
sembly.
Governor John F. Shafroth has ap-
pointed Frank w. Harper of Gunnison
as water commissioner for Water Dis.
trict No. SO.
Mayor Kimball and others of Idaho
Springs will try to induce the govern
ment to select a site for fish hatch
cry near that place.
DR.. James H. Franklin Of the Colo
rado Springs First Baptist church has
been granted nine months leave of
| dDotuGc lOI lAloolOualy WOlh III fAlliSA'
About 1.40O acres has been pledged
by Greeley farmers to crops for the
cannery. including 1.1O0 of peas. 200
each of tomatoes and beans, and about
100 of cabbage.
A number of Hungarian partridges
have been received by the state game
and fish commissioner and will be lib
Grated in the different parts Of the
state this spring.
BY its decision in the case of w. H.
Murray and H. Putnam VS. Katherine
Aull, the State Supreme Court has
upheld the law which says that gam
bling debt cannot legally be collected.
The grade OF the Denver, Laramie
and Northwestern road has been COM
pleted between Milliken and Greeley
and train service to the latter point
will probably be started about April
goth.
The National Jewish Hospital for
Consumptives at Denver is benefi-
ciary in the sum of $4,000 by the pro-
visions of the will of Ascher Silber-
stein, wealthy Jew Of Dallas. Texas,
who died recently.
The various railroads in Colorado
accept and handle shipments of freight
at an actual loss in order to build up
the community from which the ship
ment is received. was declared before
the State Railroad Commission In the
hearing in which the Colorado Con-
sumers' league seeks to secure lower
freight rates between Denver and Lit
tleton.
Because of lack Of sufficient ap-
preparation to carry on the work of in
vestigating reported Illegal homestead
entries and land frauds in Colorado.
M. D. McEniry, chief of the field d.
vision of the general land office. has
temporarily dismissed twelve men EN-.
ployed in his department.
A complete model of the proposed
Denver postoffice in Colorado marble
will be shown the authorities in Wash
ington as an argument in favor OF the
use of Colorado materials In the con-
struction of the building. Such mod
el has been prepared by the Colorado
Yule Marble Company at its works
and quarries at Marble. and is being
taken to Washington by c. F. Meek,
general manager of the company.
T. j. Holland. state game and fish
on doves abolished. He says: when
man goes out dove hunting, with his
license in his pocket, and quail flies
up in front OF him. he blazes away at
it and II he gets it he sticks it in his
bag. We can't go out to every hunter
we see in the field and ask him to
show us the birds he has shot. Dove
shooting is bad thing for the quail
and the pheasants."
Cadet Midshipman A. d. Connors of
Colorado Springs, has resigned and
the vacancy in the naval academy
caused by his resignation will be filled
by selection to be made by Senator
Guggenheim. who is arranging to hold
an examination for the purpose. A
general examination of principals and
alternates for the academy nominated
by Senator Hughes and Representa-
tives Taylor, Rucker and Martin will
be held at various Colorado cities
April 10th.
1t is expected that work of construct
ing a large plant for the Common
wealth Power and Electric Company,
incorporated a year ago Wllu d CdplLul-
ization of 100000. will be begun dur
ing the coming summer and carried to
early completion. 1t is said that hy-
dro-electric plant will be built nine
miles below Kremmling. on the Moffat
road. This is at the entrance to the
Gore canon, which was in dispute by
the Moffat road and the Central Colo
RADIO Power Company. dam seventy
feet high and $50 feet long will be
built at this point, and it is said 5000
horsepower will be developed by the
first installation.
1t is stated that the Denver, Laramie
& Northwestern will run trains into
Eaton, which lays three miles east of
the proposed route, over the Great
Western Railroad Company's tracks, IL
plans now under consideration are car
ried out.
Philadelphia capitalists are backing
the Coal and Operating Company, which
has been incorporated at Denver with
capitalization of $4,000, 900, The in.