The Springfield herald., 1910-07-22
COLORADO

lied at Montrose.
Five buildings at Deer Trail were
burned Thursday night.
Iowa residents OF Palisade are ar
ranging for an Iowa day August Sd.
The hotel at Copperfield was de-
stroyed by fire with loss of $4,000.
Dining cars on the Moffat road have
discontinued the custom of serving liQ-
uors.
The roof of the Trinidad high school
burned off Friday with a damage OF
$4,000.
La Veta Methodists have Just or
dered plans for a new church to cost
$4,000.
The dog poisoner has made away
with several valuable CANNES at
Romeo.
Longmont City Council has granted
franchise for piping natural gas to
the city.
quarter section of state land at
Ramah has been purchased for park
purposes.
Irrigation enterprises around Rifle
contemplate the watering of $4,000
acres Of land.
Crook. Logan countys has voted to
issue bonds for the building OF a $780,
600 school house.
The two-year-old daughter Of Wal
ter Barnett at Greeley crawled onto
railroad track and was killed.
The new school building at Windsor
has been completed at a cost Of $40,-
900. 1t Is modern in every detail.
On the 26th Cheyenne Wells will
vote on the question of issuing $4,000
t. improve and enlarge the city water
system.
Trinidad business men have started
movement to have government
mine rescue station established in
that vicinity.
DIR. ard Mrs. w. II. Allen have just
celebrated their golden wedding ami
yersary at Boulder. They came to
Colorado in 1864.
Montrose Odd Fellows have secured
an option on a site for the state Odd
Fellows home. which they hope to
have located there.
One merchant at Greeley has sold
10000 pounds of paris green this year
to be used as breakfast food for potato
bugs and grasshoppers.
Palisade has started off well with
its early peaches. During the week
ending July 9th there were sent out
1896 crates-about six and half car
loads.
The Central City & Pactolus Rail
way Company, with a capital stock OF
S1,25O,0OO. filed articles of incorpor-
alton with the secretary of state Fri
day.
An ordinance has been passed by the
City Council of La Veta submitting the
question of issuing $4,000 additional
bonds for the betterment of the water
system.
A movement Is on foot in Denver to
revive the Festival of Mountain and
Plain which in years agone drew such
crowds to Denver. The last festival
was held in 1901.
The Sylvan Lake Power Company
has been organized by H. NJ. Hogg and
associates with 100000 capital, to de-
velop power in the San Juan country.
The site of the works will be on Fall
creek.
Boulder expects to get the $250,00)
home to be established by the Forest
ers of America. and is preparing to
entertain the grand officers of the or
der who are coming out from the East
on tour of investigation.
A little child of Mr.. and Mrs. Henry
H,,fn of Nd
aged to crawl to a cistern, the cover
of which was not securely fastened.
and fell in. A search was instituted
and the baby found drowned.
Jackson Cary of De Beque was held
up. slugged. robbed of $2S and thrown
into the river. Cary. who is old, man.
aged to crawl up the bank and make
his way to assistance. and two sus-
poets were arrested for the deed.
A skeleton found between Hardin
and Masters by Burlington engineers
recently has been identified. it is be-
heved as that of Mrs. C. A. White of
Missouri, who was drowned in the Box
Elder in June, 1850. After the find had
been made known Greeley parties be-
san an investigation which resulted
III pretty well establishing it's identity
Timothy O'Connor. United States
surveyor general for Colorado: Arthur
d. Kidder, United States supervising
surveyor for Colorado and Utah. and
Frank Johnson, holding the same posi-
ton for Wyoming and Montana. have
been in conference at the Denver Of
flee for several days making plans for
surveying and re-surveying public
lands in the Western states under the
lines laid down by recent enactment
of Congress
The Colorado Supreme Court has
taken original jurisdiction in the mat
ter of the consolidation of the City
and County of Denver, and granted
quo warranto writ made returnable
August list. in the suit to GUST the
county commissioners.
Conditions in the national forests in
Colorado are to be examined and the
mooted question regarding the amount
OF agricultural land lying in the ma
tional forests in this state are to be
Thoroughly manfred into by Henry s.