The Springfield herald., 1911-04-14

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Contracts for 1900 acres of beets
have been signed for the Fort Collins
sugar factory.
The first Catholic church edifice to
be built in eastern Colorado has been
dedicated at Brush.
Improvements of public utilities.
which represents an outlay of $250,0O0
are being planned at Boulder.
Arrangements are practically COM
plete for the annual ChautauQua at
Greeley from July sth to 18th.
Caught under tons of falling rock in
the Baum mine, at Frederick, s. Nor
nanz, Bulgarian. was instantly killed.
Large and enthusiastic crowds at
tended the Religious Educational AS
sociatlon's annual conference in Gree
ley.
Wednesday, April 26th, has been de-
cided upon as the date for the dedica-
tion of the new Masonic temple at
Trinidad.
list of Colorado common points to
which tourist tickets may be sold from
the East.
Pierce wants to form a union High
School to be composed of the Pierce,
Collins, Olive Branch and Harrison
districts.
Bert Hanna Is at a Leadville hospital
with bullet through his jaw and
Frank Dutro is in jail, charged with
the shooting.
While riding to R. H. fuckers sheep
ranch, about three miles from Glen
wood Springs, Lee Elrod was shot at
by an unidentified person.
Paris green is being shipped into
northern Colorado by the carload in
the anticipation Of the big matches Of
grasshoppers this spring.
The northern Colorado interscholas-
tic track meet will again be held in
Greeley this year. The date decided
upon for the meet is April 29th.
The new county Of Moffat, created
from the western two-thirds Of Routt
county by act of the Eighteenth Gen.
eral Assembly, is in full swing.
More than 100000 fruit trees have
been set out in Pueblo county this
year and fully as many more will be
set out before the season ia ended.
Palisades holds the record in the
United States for gain in percentage
of population in the 1910 census. The
gain in ten years was over 5000 per
cent.
The county commissioners have or.
dered the construction of a bridge at
Clifton to cost $4,000. contingent on
an appropriation from the state Legis-
lature.
Tuesday evening. April 18th. the I'm
proved Order of Red Men will give a
demonstration and street parade in
Denver, which will be characteristic
of the aborigines.
Chief Postoffice Inspector w. E.
Cochran received notice at Denver
that the postoffice at Crestone, in
Saguache county, was destroyed by
fire. The postmaster wired that he
saved all the mail and stamps.
C. T. Brownfield, one Of the best
known horsemen in the West, heads
the large delegation of TURTLES who
are coming to Denver, following the
close of the winter racing season at
Jacksonville and Juarez.
The Union Pacific Railroad Com.
pany has placed an order for $4,000
tons of steel rails with the Colorado
Fuel & Iron Company, and the entire
tonnage will be turned out at the Min.
nequa works of the company In
Pueblo.
The state Board of Coal Mine Exam.
liners announced the result of the ex-
aminations held for applicants for the
position of coal mine inspector. Those
who passed the examination were
James Dairymple, Frank N. Oberding
James Wilson and George Mcfarland
Twenty-one carloads of fine sheep
have been gathered from the north
ern part OF the state and made up at
Fort Collins sent to the eastern
market.
According to prominent orchardists
of the Western Slope, the fruit, with
the exception of few apricots, has
not been damaged by recent cold
weather.
The fine twenty-acre apple orchard
belonging to James l.. Hamilton. near
Grand Junction. has been sold tc
Harry l.. Weaver of Detroit, Mich, for
consideration Of $25,00O.
Travellers to California and other
Pacific coast states will hereafter
have a greater variety of routes to
choose from than ever before, for
there has become effective an inter.
change arrangement whereby passen-
gers may be ticketed through from
Denver by way of the Western Pa.
cific to any point on the Southern Pa.
cific or Santa Fe on the coast. Here.
tofore the Denver & Rio Grande and
Western Pacific have been able to sell
only to points on their own lines.