The Springfield herald. (Springfield, Baca County, Colo.) 1887-1919, 1910-10-07
LITTLE COLORADO ITEMS.
Small Happenings Occurring Over the
State Worth Telling.

the State Home for Odd Fellows.
Lord and Lady Talbert of Dublin,
ireland, are in Colorado Springs.
According to invoice the fire de
partment of Colorado Springs has
cash value of $4,000.
The opening of the Fort Collins
sugar factory in few days will give
employment to 400 men.
Pietro Biffanelli was killed in the
Berwind mine at Trinidad Friday by
falling from a motor car.
Philadelphia capitalists are inspect
ing the Greeley district with the OBJ
ject of securing a 20,000-acre irriga'
ton project.
Mrs. A. M. Welles of Denver was
elected president of the Colorado Fed
Grafton OF Womens Clubs at the Can
on City session.
From July to Sept. 80 there was
shipped from Steamboat Springs s51
carloads of cattle. las cars Of sheep
and cars Of horses.
The Colorado State Bankers associa-
ton went on record against the bank
guarantee law. Guy l.. B. Adamson
was elected president.
Three non-union miners were at
tackled and badly beaten by 80 union
miners Friday afternoon. at Hecla. a
mile north OF Louisville.
At the Durango fair Thursday bull.
let from shooting gallery pierced
three inches of wood and passed
through the face of lady visitor.
Ranchmen in the vicinity of Grover
are losing hundreds of chickens,
many sheep and some cattle from
depredations of wolves and coyotes.
Professor Leslie F. PAUL OF the
Colorado Agricultural college has been
appointed county horticultural inspec-
tor to succeed F. Y. Moseley, resigned.
The dry goods and clothing store o.
A. Friedman at Lamar was robbed
Saturday night of $500 worth of silk
and clothing, The goods were loaded
in wagon.
Denver will soon have telephone
connection with the Panhandle coun.
try. including the cities of Dalhart.
Fort Worth, Dallas. Childress and 9TH
er sections.
The U. S. Land office at Glenwood
has decided that certain lands in
Twenty Mile park now held as coal
land is to be released as the coal is
probably 1900 feet underground.
Stocker. the promising proposed full
back of the Colorado Varsity team,
was thrown in practice and his neck
so badly wrenched that it may disable
him as a player this season.
In order that Judge Jaraes E. Garri.
CUES may take up his campaign for
the supreme bench. Judge ]. w. Shea
for of Colorado Springs will hold court
in the district court at FIT. Collins DC.
tober 6.
Ore said to be worth $2.245 900 is in
yolved in an action between the Doc
tor Jack Pot Mining company and the
Work Mining and Milling Co., involv.
ing the apex law, now beng heard
in the United States circuit court of
appeals at Denver.
The schedule for the interscholastic
football games for the coming season
has been arranged as follows: Delta
at Montrose, October s; Montrose at
at Delta, November ); Grand junction
at Montrose, November -; Teller In
dams of Grand Junction at Montrose,
November "a. Thanksgiving day.
William j. Boyer, who has just died
at BoZeman. Mont, was, it is claimed.
the first white man who ever reached
the summit of Pixies Peak; also claimed
that he built the first house in
Denver. 1t is well known that Lieut..
Pike never reached the top of the peak
and the question of who did reach it
first has always been in doubt
James Fullerton, former resident
of Montrose, and one of the early
Colorado pioneers, was burned to
death at a ranch house near Santa
Rita. N. NJ, Wednesday night. Full
lerton had an angora goat ranch in a
district that had been used hitherto
by cattlemen exclusively. He was the
first sheriff of Saguache county, Colo.
RADIO, in 1871.
The greatest excitement prevails
over another great discovery made by
James Beshears on the Esconado prop.
erty, on Lincoln mountain. Mr.. Besh.
ears says he will start regular ship
ments of ore within so days. In the
bottom of the Esconado shaft is ex-
posed three streaks of solid ore that
measures 3, A and inches and mill
runs returns $G2.50 gold per ton.
AS the result of the blowing up of
Rio Grande passenger engine No. 1143,
Engineer c. e. Draper and Fireman B
B. Elliot were killed and Engineer Jul
liam and Fireman Smith were Slightly
injured. The accident occurred near
Mitchell, station about two and a
half miles west of Tennessee pass,
about 10 a. m. The big engine was
completely destroyed by the explosion
rud the bodies of the dead men badly
mutilated
While on their way from the
Semper Idem mine boarding house on
Mount Badly to Breckenridge Friday
night, Tobias Freileweh and wife were
thrown out of their buggy and the lat
ter was killed. Her husband sus-