The Springfield herald., 1911-06-09
LITTLE COLORADO ITEMS.
Small Happenings Occurring Over the
State Worth Telling.

bull at Pueblo, is dead.
The Delta National Bank has moved
into its new $4,000 home.
The Mine Inspection bill has been
vetoed by Governor Shafroth.
Mrs. Hatty Grew of Austin COM
mitted suicide by taking carbollc acid.
The Windsor Gun Club has been or
ganized and will hold weekly matches.
A movement has been started to
erect Masonic club house in Dem
yer.
Fire destroyed the refreshment
stands at the Zoo park at Colorado
Springs.
Mrs. Mary C. Ewing. aged SO, resi-
dent of Greeley for twenty-five years.
is dead.
Work on the Burlington railroad be-
tween Greeley and Hudson will begin
July 1st.
A school of pharmacy will be opened
at the Colorado University at Boulder
next session.
Briggsdale will hold a pioneer re-
union this month to celebrate its first
anniversary.
r. B. Wallace, banker of Monte
Vista. died In Denver following an op-
GRAFTON for appendicitis.
Denver is to have festival of the
Mountains and Plains the last week
In September.
Odd Fellows of northern Colorado
have organized the Northern Colorado
Odd Fellows Association.
The Uncompahgre Valley Water
Users Association has invited Secre-
tary Fisher to visit the valley in July.
Heavy damage was done at the min
ing camp of Sopris by fire which
threatened to destroy the entire town.
Roy Sellers of Cripple Creek, who
recently fell thirty-five feet in the
Blue Flag mine, died from injuries re-
ceived.
A movement is on foot to invite
President Taft to speak at Steam
boat Springs on his Western tour in
September.
Preliminary steps have been taken
for recognizing and financing the
Glenwood Hot Springs Company by
| eastern capital.
Chas. Campbell of Cripple Creek,
charged with murder committed in
1908, was found guilty of involuntary
manslaughter.
Arrangements have been completed
for the annual ChautauQua at Greeley.
and the programme will open July Sth
and close July 18th.
|. According to the records at the
Colorado College. Colorado Springs
the past May was the hottest in
thirty-fcur years.
In District Court in Trinidad. three
horse thieves, Joe Mackley, Fred
Chaves and Juan Sanchez. were found
guilty by a jury.
Fourteen employees of the State
Land Board will be dropped. A saw
ing in money of $4,000 in the bien-
NAL period thus will be accomplished.
Because the management refused
them half holiday. twenty women
clerks in the Kress 1O-cent store at
Trinidad have gone on a strike.
Capt. H. d. Humphrey. United
States army. retired, professor of mill
tary science and tactics at the Agri-
cultural college at Fort Collins, is
dead.
Garfield and Mesa counties are plan
ming to use convict labor in extending
the automobile highway between
Grand Junction and Durango on to
Glenwood Spring.
Hugh NJ. Smith was awarded s. 1000
damages against the city of Pueblo
in District Court for injuries received
several months ago by fall from his
bicycle at the Union avenue bridge.
Every glass and aspoon in the soda
fountains will have to be thoroughly
sterilized before it is used. If the State
Board of Health institutes one of the
reforms which 1t is now considering.
Governor Shafroth has signed House
bill No. I'll, which creates perma-
nent tax commission. The bill calls
for a tax commission of three, each
of whom is to draw a salary of $500
annually.
H. F. Henwood. who is in Jail in
Denver for killing Louis Won Phul re-
Gently in that city. is also charged
with the killing of G. e. Copeland.
who was shot at the time Won Phul
was killed and who has since died.
A call has been issued for confer
ence of those engaged in work at eX-
perimental stations and agricultural
colleges to meet in Colorado Springs
October 10th to Goth to discuss agri-
cultural methods in regions of limited
rainfall.
S. F. Harrington, butter dealer in
Denver. was fined $1,000 and costs by
Judge Lewis In the Federal Court for
making adulterated butter. Harring-
ton pleaded guilty. The government
officers said he took butter SO old that
lit smelt up to heaven" and renovated
II by means of acids.
Senator Guggenheim has requested
the postoffice department to establish
daily mail service between Longmont
and Lyons at hours recommended by
the Lyons Commercial Association.
Aryada is the only town in Colorado