The Springfield herald., 1911-09-22

Greeley are planning to start
creamery in that city.
A new sanitorium chiefly for the
treatment of rheumatic diseases is
shortly to be opened in Boulder.
Fort Morgan won first place in both
singles and doubles in the Northeast
arn Colorado Tennis Tournament.
II is rumored from New York that
President L. T. Jeffery of the Denver
& Rio Grande will soon resign.
Farmers have taken up potato rails
ing as never before, and the revenues
from that product will be surprising.
The coal mines at Somerset. near
Gunnison. are on fire. and the cou-
pany is threatened with heavy loss.
The members of st. Mary's Catho-
lie Church in Montrose are to have a
handsome new home in the immediate
future.
Fishing is reported at its best in all
parts of the state, the weather and
low water being favorable to large
catches.
direct long distance telephone
line has been completed between Dem
yer and Ell Paso, Texas, distance of
$50 miles.
The state highway between Long
mont and Lafayette will be finished at
once by the Boulder County Com
nissionerS
Bitten by centlpede at her home
in Pueblo. Mrs. S. L. James is in a
serious condition, with two physicians
attending her.
The Elks' convention closed at
Ouray with a grand display of fire
works. The three days of the meet
ing were most successful.
After deiberating fifteen hours the
jury in the case against Mike Hickey.
at Fort. Lupton, accused of stealing
horses, acquitted him.
Three hundred teams are new at
work on the Prewitt reservoir dam
near Keota and 200 mere will be put
to work in short time.
One of the best paying departments
of Weld is its County Court, and one
day recently it earned sl17. and col
lected s110 of that amount.
Mechanics lien against the Pueblo
Rocky Ford Land G. Irrigation ''ompa-
ny. at Pueblo, for s6O.O55, was filed
by TWO Denver contracting firms.
Mayor Robert w. Speer. mayor OF
Denver, has been invited to address
the noted Knife and Fork Club of
Kansas City, which has entertained
many famous persons.
Prospecting for iron ore in the
mountains of Colorado is still going
on, most of the expense and all OF the
labor being torne by private individ.
uals.
In broad daylight the real estate Of
flee of Rich-Hutchinson, at Grand
Junction, was entered by thieves and
$50 in money and valuables were
taken.
A fist fight between Claude E.
Street, state oil Inspector. and Frank
Long, a clerk in the secretary of
stae's office, enlivened the corridors OF
the capitol recently.
Meeker claims to enviable record
versities and colleges throughout the
country this year than any town its
size in the United States
Mrs. Mary Manson, who has lived
in Monte Vista since 1876, died very
suddenly in I.andskroua. Sweden. ac-
cording to a recent cablegram. Mrs.
Manson was cue of the Oldest settlers
Of Monte Vista and Colorado.
Land companies in the East which
make a business of bringing settlers
to Colorado to locate on government
land on what are considered misrepre
sentations, thus injuring the reputa
tion of the state. are in disrepute with
the United States Land Office. A
Chicago concern, which is said to
operate under three different names
is now being investigated by special
land agents and postoffice inspectors
Two railroads entering Pueblo estab
lished new records for one day by
sending out the largest shipments OF
the year. The Rio GrandS sent 12c
cars of freight east, and the Missouri
IdtlllC tbOh OF thiS VI llNcolOth Out
for Kansas City and St. Louis.
In District Court in Colorado
Springs. Judge Sheafor sentenced
Frank Wilson and Frank Dupree, who
pleaded guilty to passing forged
checks in Colorado City, Wilson to
three to four years in the pententiary
and Dupree to an indefinite term in
the state reformatory.
1t was reported by fishermen that
thousands OF fish ranging from two tc
twenty inches in length are floating
on the surface and washed upon she
banks in the vicinity of the Halligar
dam, several miles from Fort Collins
Peaches have been going out Of
Delta for ten days at the rate OF fifty
to sixty cars day. Nearly 500 car
loads have already left the county and
between 200 and 800 cars are still tc
be shipped. At Paonia hundreds oi
boxes have gone to waste for want
of packers.