The Springfield herald., 1910-06-24
COLORADO
STATE NEWS

A bank has been opened at Cam
field.
Flag Day was generally observed
throughout the state.
Arthur r. Bliesner has been appoint
ed postmaster at Verde. Pueblo county.
Rocky Ford Elks expect to take
steps soon toward providing lodge
home.
A local branch OF the American Fed
Grafton of Labor is being formed at
Sterling.
The Rocky Mountain Hotel Mems
Association is meeting at Estes Park
this week.
A fine flow of water has been struck
in the test artesian well being sunk in
Grand Junction.
Former residents of Illinois living at
and near Fort Collins will hold a pic
mic August 25th.
Trinidad Episcopalians will endeav-
or to raise $4,000 to build new
church edifice.
Caonn City has been selected as the
meeting place Of the State Epworth
League next year.
A ministerial association has been
organized among the gentlemen of the
cloth in La Veta.
President Slocum of Colorado Col
lege accompanied by Mrs. Slocum has
departed for trip to Europe.
DR.. l.. E. Hastings of Golden. a pio-
neer and veteran of the Civil War,
died at the age of seventy-four.
Columbine lake. Grand county, will
be improved by a Denver club for
headquarters for sportsmen while
hunting in that vicinity.
Lemuel T. Talmage, a veteran of the
Civil War, was found dead at George
town, where he had lived forty.two
years.
Six cowboys from Nebraska are on
their way to North Park to roundup a
large number of wild horses which
range in that section.
The Denver. Laramie & Northwest
ern road has placed an order with an
eastern factory for 1874 freight cars.
which will cost $113.6G1.
Report has it that Longmont will
have union depot. which will be
used by the Colorado g. Southern, Bur-
| lington and Great Western.
| Hon. S. A. Griffin, a prominent law
yer of Boulder. died suddenly at his
home Sunday. He was about IS years
the State University.
All the stock in the new canning
factory at Fountain has been sub
scribed. and when the buildings are
erected they will contemplate a capa-
city of 100000 per year.
Frank M. Brown and his five-year-
old son have brought suit against the
Denver City Tramway Company for
| $4,000 for the little boys loss Of a leg
when street car struck him last Feb
ruory.
Evarts Tracy. architect OF the new
Denver postoffice, says that. after hav'
ing visited the famous marble quarries
OF Italy. Colorado marble quarries have
no superior in the world for capacity
quantity and quality.
1t is now proposed to extend the
Grand Valley interurban line from its
present western terminus. Fruita, to
Iona. 1t is said that Colorado Springs
capitalists interested at Iona will take
100000 OF the extension bonds.
Austin Downey of Fort Collins. a
graduate of the Agricultural College
and lately an engineer of the reclama
ton service. was drowned at Cody,
Wyoming. when steam launch on the
big Shoshone reservoir capslzed Thurs.
day night.
Glenwood's annual Strawberry Day
celebration Saturday is reported to
nave been the best ever. About 5000
attended. In the hose contest the team
from Aspen was awarded the first
prize, PalIsade second and Glenwood
third.
| Ino Chavara, a Mexican, was found
near the tramway track in Arvada Fri
day with his throat cut, having been
there all night. He was nearly dead
from loss of blood. but was taken to a
hospital in Denver. He refused to give
the name of his assailants.
The commissioners of Larimer coun-
ty have Just been informed by gov
eminent inspector that the lumber
they have been buying for numerous
new bridges, etc, had been cut from
government land. Informatlohs are to
he filed against the dealers.
The contract for the new white mar
BILE postoffice in Denver calls for the
work to be done in twenty-five months
and the contractors will use every ef-
fort to complete it in that time. The
marble company will begin delivering
the huge white slabs in September.
| New officers of the Colorado State
Christian Endeavor Society elected at
Sterling Saturday are: President, Her
bert r. Chapman, Colorado Springs;
vice president. w. NJ. Cocks. Denver;
recording secretary. Miss Edna Bru-
ner, Loveland; treasurer, Joseph
Schlotter, Colorado Springs. Rev. Joel
Harper was chosen superintendent Of
personal work.
The big Baptist meeting of this year
will be held at Cascade canon from
July 22d to August LIST. More than n
thousand delegates are expected to at
tend.
When a strange man entered the