The Springfield herald., 1911-02-03

farm produce and the like may gather
to await buyers.
The sixth annual banquet Of former
Fennsylvanians now resident in Den
yer was held at the Brown Palace ho-
lei January Both.
| Several settlements of Oklahoma
farmers will be established in the
Grow Creek district, east of Greeley,
next spring.
Raising OF hogs is an important In
dustry in the Hayden valley. The
Cary ranch has 400 or 500 and has pu.
In a packing plant.
The new pavilion erected under the
management of the Celtic Club in Flo
renee was formally opened recently
with big dance.
Fire in the New York store in Cen
stock and loss of several thousand dol
lars on the building.
Recently 1900 head of cattle were
sold for $4,000 by the Pueblo Liva
Stock & Commission Company, for de-
livery in Pueblo in May.
The $2.OOO.OOO French loan for the
Denver Reservoir Irrigation Com
pany has been authorized by Judge
| Allen in the District Court at Denver.
District Judge Rizer of La Junta
rendered a decision quashing the in
dictment against John f. Godding,
president of the defunct Rocky Ford
bank.
For the first time In thirty-six years
Judge Hart OF Ault has heard from
bis brother by letter written by the
supposed lost man. w. w. Hart of
Corning. Cal.
About $50 former sons and daugh-
ters of Kansas attended the fifth an
nual banquet of the Kansas society of
Colorado held at the Brown Palace
hotel in Denver.
After three days session at the Al
bany hotel in Denver. the annual con
vention of the Colorado Retail Hard
ware & Implement Association came
to close.
The Cemetery Improvement Asso-
citation of Grand Junction, has inaugu-
rated a campaign to raise $1,000 to
! Eeautify the cemetery. A house to
house canvass Of the city is being
made.
When exposed through newspaper
and threatened with prosecution, all
operators of poker games in Cripple
Creek closed without notice and for
the first time in months that city is
free of gambling.
Work on the big Stanley project Of
the Denver Reservoir Irrigation Com
rany, nine miles northwest of Greeley,
will, In all probability, be resumed
February 10th with full force OF
men and equipment.
BY an agreement entered into by
Attorney General Benjamin Griffith
and the heirs of the George c. Schleier
estate, an inheritance tax Of $1,000
will be paid to the state. The value
OF the estate is fixed at $445.000.
The San Luis Southern. running
south from Blanca, and which is ex-
rected to extend south to Taos and
Santa Fe In New Mexico next sum-
mer, is opening up some Of the finest
farming lands In the Western country.
A train leaving Durango for Silver
ton crushed the skull of William
House when about mile from :he
city. He was lying on the track at a
| sharp curve, where he had fallen
asleep.
By a decision OF District Judge Gra-
ham of Greeley the first given by him
since his appointment. James B. Jack
son of Denver will not lose title to
land in the vicinity Of Grover valued
at $4,000.
The Western Sugar & Land Com
rany, controlled by ]. r. McKinnie
and associates of Colorado Springs,
will either build a new sugar factory
at Delta, or remove the Grand juno
ton factory to Delta for the 1912
season.
AS the result of an alteration over
mining matters, c. B. Baker shot and
1t is believed fatally wounded David
Parks, at Copperfield in the western
part of Fremont county.
NJ D. Thatcher, president OF the
Capitol National bank of Denver and
of the First National bank of Pueblo.
has purchased control of the Ameri-
can National bank of Alamosa.
Official notification has been re-
ceived by Superintendent Burkin of
the Teller Indian Institute at Grand
Junction that the school will be closed
June Both as a government school.
In the recent state bar examination
IN Denver, the results of which were
announced recently. the highest per-
centage made by any of the twenty
six applicants was made by Butler Dis
man of Salida, his percentage being
SS.2.
H. Med. Thompson, late city clerk
of Montrose, who has been found
short 5000 in his accounts by Ex-
pert Harry F. Munix, has confessed to
the city council that the figures are
correct and made clean breast of the
whole affair.