The Springfield herald., 1910-02-04
COLORADO NEWS

Alex. ]. Strachen. postmaster at Col.
,rado Springs. has been appointed
custodian Of the public building.
The Colorado Bankers Association
will holds its next annual meeting at
Grand Junction some time in Septem-
ser.
Leroy Lewis, convicted at Boulder
Of the murder of Mike Clifford at
Marshall in October, 1909, has been
granted new trial.
The Platteville cannery will double
It's capacity the coming season. en-
large its buildings and construct
boarding house for its help.
DIR. G. II. Stover and DR.. Edward
Delehanty, two prominent physicians
of Denver, who were recently operated
upon for appendicitis, are rapidly re-
covering and will soon be well.
The Federated Trades committee at
Colorado Springs indorsed that meat
boycott" insofar as packers meat is
concerned, and whatever meat men,
bers require will be purchased from
producers direct.
The Denver Chamber of Commerce
honorary ones. Its present total as
sets amount to $45.595. The new
building which 1t is preparing to erect
will cost about $140.000.
In a suit before the Colorado Su-
preme Court the Denver & Rio Grande
and Colorado Midland railways will at
tack the constitutionality of the fenc-
Ing law passed by the special session
Of the Legislature in 1902.
After celebrating three hours, a
Grand Junction Jury found Walter
Johnson. charged with violation of the
local prohibition laws, guilty. This is
the first conviction secured since the
prohibition law went into effect last
April.
A new company of the Colorado Ma
tional guard is being formed in Den
yer to include only college graduates
or those who have been two years in
college. The question is, whether IA
miliarity with football will render
them immune to cannon balls.
The Denver City park zoo has two
new arrivals in two baby brown bears.
The bears are very small and only
weigh from IL to IA ounces each, while
the mother weighs nearly 400 pounds.
For three weeks the cubs will be una
BILE to sec. They will be helpless for
three mcnths.
At meeting Of the superintendent
OF the schools of Fremont, Pueblo and
Custer counties 1t was decided to hold
the annual teachers institute at Canon
City June 1925, inclusive. The in
structors will be Professors Milton c.
Potter and John F. Keating of Pueblo,
Prof. Valentine Kirby of East Denver
High, and Miss Mary G. Carson of the
Montclair school, Denver.
NJ. Elliott Houston, United States
weather observers at Steamboat
Springs, has forwarded to Moffat road
headquarters in Denver a report of
climatic conditions in Routt county in
1909. The record shows that 25.17
inches of moisture were precipitated
during the year, and that the rainfall
was very evenly distributed among
the several months. There were no
floods or washouts.
Two trainmen were killed and three
others badly injured when extra
freight train locomotive No. 921 on the
Rio Grande exploded near La Veta at
Ills o'clock on the morning of Janu-
ary 25th. The dead are: William
Stiles. brakeman. Pueblo; C. E. Koch
Ter, fireman. Pueblo Seriously injured: ::
]. C. Howard. engineer, Pueblo; C. w.
Barker, brakeman. Pueblo; C.. Faulks,
conductor. Pueblo.
State Auditor Roady Kenehan re.
Gently received a notice from Warden
Felix O'Neill of the State Reformatory
for Boys, saying that Commissioner
Stracey had returned $97 to the cash
fund of the reformatory and that Com
missioner Mum had paid back s206.40
These were the amounts which the
two commissioners spent on trips
which the auditor has decided could
not properly be charged to the insti
tuition.
The S5,000.000 house of granite and
marble at Braddock. Pa, known as
"Lovejoy's Folly" will soon be turned
into an apartment house, according tc
advices received at Colorado Springs
+. T. F. Lovejoy. formerly of Colorado
Springs, was the builder. but when the
| HCuSe was OlCe " De SOlu At
for payment of Lovejoy's debts, An
drew Carnegie came to his rescue
paid Oft all obligations and advanced
Gim money to complete the structure
Bishop Matz and the Sisters of st
Francis are planning a consumptives
hospital at Denver, to be conducted as
branch of st. Anthonys hospital
1t is planned to purchase land in Edge
water and erect a building to cos
about 100000. The patients who are
able will till the land. The hospita
will be opened to those who have NJ
money to pay for their care as well a!
those who have. If the hospital |:
built the Brotherhood Tent Relief col
ony in Edgewater probably will b.
merged with it.
S. S. Pierce, a well known youns
automobilist of Colorado Springs. il
having built what may be the frs
aeroplane operated in Colorado. TIL,
machine is a monoplane, with severa
features resembling the Antoinett'
and RlpriOt devices 1t is eXDeCted II