The Springfield herald., 1910-03-11
COLORADO NEWS

mally opened for business Monday,
March 14th.
| Owing to insufficient foundations the
walls SO far constructed Of st. Johns
new Episcopal cathedral in Denver
will have to be torn down and rebuilt
at cost of $4,000.
At meeting of the stockholders of
the United States Portland Cement
Company at Florence. 1t was voted to
issue bonds for 100000 to make i'm
provements on the company's plant at
Concrete.
1t is announced at Denver & Rio
Grande headquarters that H. c. Stew
ems has been appointed master mechan-
ic of the fourth division Of the road
with headquarters at Alamosa, sue
ceeding j. H. Farmer.
1t is stated that a cash offer of $780,
600 for Glen Eyrie, the late Gen. VIII
liam J. Palmer's magnificent estate
near the Garden of the Gods. recently
made by New York millionaire, has
been turned down by the three daugh-
ters of General Palmer.
A movement is on foot here to es-
tablish hospital at Fort Morgan. 1t
is being agitated by physicians, and
1t is now thought one will be estab-
lished during the coming summer.
Doctors in the eastern part of the
state will aid the project.
A record has been kept by the state
superintendent of public instruction of
the county superintendents who have
been married during the administra-
ton. Out Of sixty superintendents OF
whom twenty-one were unmarried.
there have been three who have en-
tered into matrimony.
The Trinidad city council is consid-
Grind a street lighting plan modelled
after that of Denver. A $4,000 wei
come arch is proposed to be erected
over the Commercial street bridge, the
arch in Denver being a model. Arc
lights will be done away with and at
tractive poles erected.
Having stood for twenty-five years
as a grewsome reminder of the hang
ing of w. d. French by a mob, the old
tree near the Weld county jail in Gree
ley has been cut down to make way
for the site of new theater French
was hanged from this tree on the
night of December 29th. 1883.
Following the convention OF the su-
perintendent's department Of the Ma
tional Education Association. which
she went from Colorado to attend, at
Indianapolis, Ind, Mrs Margaret Cook.
state superintendent of public instruc-
tion, is to tour the East. visiting
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nation to be utilized in Colorado.
Professero w. H. Olin. formerly q
member OF the faculty of the State Ag-
ricultural college at Fort Collins, has
been commissioned by the Colorado
Midland Railway Company to write a
book which will be entitled Soil and
Products" pertaining priciapally to
the magnificent potato raising country !
in the neighborhood of Carbondale.
The United States government has
paid $1,000 to each of the six widows
who lost their husbands in the Gunni-
son tunnel disaster a few weeks ago.
In the event person is killed while
in the employment of the government.
who has no wife, the amount of his
salary for one year will be paid to
anyone dependent upon the deceased.
Mrs. Helen Grenfell. formerly stats
superintendent of public instruction.
has been secured by the National Wo-
mans Suffrage Association TO lecture
for their cause in the twelve Eastern
colleges, among them the University
of Chicago, University of Cincinnati,
University of Michigan, Olivet college
and Oberlin.
According to the tariffs now being
the homeseekers' rate from
Chicago to Denver. Colorado Springs.
Pueblo and Trinidad will be $50. and
this rate will apply at various stated
intervals during the spring and sum
mer. From st. Louis to Colorado com
mon points the homeseekers' fare will
be $3.50, while from Omaha, Kansas
City and st. Joseph it will be $19.
With all the previous records bro
ken, there have been more than LOO
land entries filed in Weld county since
the beginning of the year and in one
day forty-two filings were made by as
many different persons. More than
half the entries have been on half sec.
tlOHS, ana lHTee-lOuIlHS VI theul dlu
on land in northeastern and southeast
ern Weld county.
Marcus s. Meade, one of the first
conductors to take train out of Den
yer, died on the 4th inst at St. Luke's
hospital in Denver. He was one of the
four conductors who ran on the old
Denver Pacific and was in charge of
the first train to run from Denver to
Boulder Mr.. Meade was for owe.
thirty years a conductor on Colorado
roads and was well known over the
state.
The city of Greeley won a sweeping
victory in the opinion of Federal
Judge Lewis, which upholds the city
in the suit against it by the Greeley
& Northern Railway & Utility Com
pany to test the validity of the fran
chise granted the company and which
the city has held to be invalid.
Senator Barela, the Las Animas
county statesman. celebrated his sixty
third birthday on the 4th inst. He is
.tha narnptual senator ~ hay.