The Springfield herald. (Springfield, Baca County, Colo.) 1887-1919, 1910-11-18
LITTLE COLORADO ITEMS,
Small Happenings Occurring Over the
State Worth Tslling.

State Worth T.IIins.
Work on the new $4,000 Episcopal
church began Monday at Greeley.
DR.. C. H. Graves has been appointed
pension surgeon at Canon City. Colo.
The new motor cars between Den
yer and Greeley will be put In opera
ton about December list.
Gilcrest Is about to establish an al
falfa mill, the site having been do.
mated and a guarantee fund raised.
Four women will sit in the
eighteenth general assembly of Colo
RADIO as result of recent elections.
An addition to the Union Printers
home heating plant at Colorado
Springs. to cost $4,000. will be started
soon.
Census returns Issued from Wash
ington show the population OF Pue-
bio. Colo, to be 1895. as compared
with 2s.157 In 1900.
John O'Neill, boilermaker at the
Colorado Southern shops at Trinidad,
was fatally mangled by being drawn
into cog wheels and died later.
Ore cars colliding in the Pike
view coal mines. five miles north of
Colorado Springs. injured three min
ers, one OF them probably fatally.
The annual convention of the brick
layers. stone masons and plasterers'
union of Colorado was held In Mont
rose. There were thirty-five delegates
present.
The Fort Collins sugar factory has
made its first payment for beets in
that district of $3O5,000. All beets
have been harvested, and the last have
been delivered.
A. NJ. Patten, commissioner for dis
trict three of Adams county. has for
warded his resignation to Governor
Shafroth. with the request that it take
effect Immediately.
A hen belonging to John H. Gibson
of kersey has laid an egg measuring
seven inches around and seven and
one-half inches long. Her eggs aver
age four by five inches.
At a meeting of the city council
of Pueblo. held recently. the contract
for erecting the new bridge across the
Arkansas river on South Union avenue
was let at the stipulated price of
$4,000.
Entering through the rear door.
A. w. Root, Grand Junction, OF $1,000
worth of watch cases. movements and
rings. Their attempts to blow open
the safe were futile.
The Rev. and Mrs. C. B. Harvey,
who have lived in Colorado Springs
for two years. will leave for Bombay,
India, next week, to resume mission
any work they carried on before COM
ing to the Springs.
One man was killed and two serious
ly injured when scaffold upon which
they were at work repairing blast
furnace at the Minnequa steel works
in Pueblo, collapsed and hurled them
distance of sixty feet to the ground.
John Neill. boiler maker. is in
serious condition in Trinidad hos
pital as result of injuries received
He was attempting to throw belt
and became entangled in the machin-
cry. His left thigh and right leg were
broken.
DR.. Leslie Franklin, wealthy ply
stefan of Sullivan. Ind, died in st.
Mary's hospital. Pueblo, a few hours
after his removal from a train on
which he was going to Ell Paso. Texas.
for his health. Death was due to tu-
berculosis.
P. A. Lofgren of Greeley claims
beet crop, having the highest percent
age of sugar, in the district. His field
of twenty acres tested 2O.6 per cent
sugar and brought $6.75 to 81 per ton,
with an average of about twenty tons
per acre.
With its railroad business increased
far more than anticipated, the Union
Pacific Railroad Company must en-
large its roundhouse, recently finished
at La Sale, it says by the addition OF
four more stalls. The motor cars on
the new La Salle-Denver road are kept
there.
Charles Monford Robinson, an ex-
pert in civic beauty. will pass on the
parking and paving plans for Colorado
The council has decided to
engage him as a consulting authority
in the plans now being prepared and
copies of the plans will be sent to Rob-
inson in New York.
The frat" problem is again agitat-
ing the Colorado Springs high school
and the periodical war
against secret societies among the
students is to be waged by the new
r. C. HILL At least three
are said to be Furnishing
among the boys, in direct violation OF
the school laws.
II conditions warrant. the schools OF
Weld county, in the re-
gion tapped by the new branch line
of the Union Pacific, may be central
lied in few large schools and the
children transported to these centers
by wagon or by motor cars over the
Union Pacific. This includes the Lin
coin, S. l.. & W., Olive Branch, Foss-
ton, Garfield. Briggsdale and Gill dis
tricts.