The Springfield herald. (Springfield, Baca County, Colo.) 1887-1919, 1911-12-15

| sionary Society recently neld lts an
nual meeting in Greeley.
Charles Kelley, aged eighteen, was
detected in the act of robbing the Oak
Creek postoffice and arrested.
For attempting to pass checks I'M
lawfully in Pueblo Chester Frye was
given five years in the penitentiary.
The jury In the case Of Ike Cox, who
was tried at Durango for killing VIM.
TRULY, returned verdict Of not guilty.
1 The Salida Commercial Club has pre-
scented a petition to the authorities at
Washington asking for federal build
ing.
The Mountain States Telephone
Company will son spend $175,000 in
Improving its property in Colorado
Springs.
During 1911 the Grand valley has
shipped cattle. sugar beets. eggs
poultry, coal, etc, to the amount of
| $4,000, 400.
for four-year term as water commits
sioner of the Montezuma Valley Irriga-
ton district.
E. E. Mclaughlin, superintendent
of the Colorado Anti-Saloon League.
Is in Washington to attend the annual
meeting of the league.
Modern Woodmen Of America have
decided to start work Immediately on
the improvements at the sanatorium
north of Colorado Springs.
For the second time In three weeks
the safe in the Denver & Rio Grande
depot at Trinidad was wrecked by
yeggmen. They got rs cents.
Bob Harris, the negro who was to
have been hung on Dec. for the muir.
der of two Rocky Ford policemen, has
been granted a stay of execution.
John P. Sullivan, grand exalted rul-
er of the Elks, is making tour of
the West. during which he will visit
as many of the Colorado lodges as he
can.
Prosecution of suit clubs in Den
yer will extend to solicitors, members
and all others in any way connected
with them if necessary to eradicate
the clubs.
While preparing to return to Pueblo
from a hunting expedition into the
country w. II. Robertson, was acct
dentally shot in the right foot. The
foot was amputated.
DIR. r. E. Chandler, pastor of the
First Presbyterian church of Trinidad,
underwent delicate and dangerous
mastoid operation recently and is ex.
pected to recover.
happy because the City Council has
passed the salary ordinance for next
year and there is a general increase
in salaries.
Sir Gilbert Parker, the noted Eng.
fish author and statesman, is to visit
Colorado for the purpose of learning
something of woman's ability to map
age affairs of government.
The State Horticultural Society and
the Fremont County Horticultural So
ciety met in joint session in Canon
City and an interesting and instructive
program was rendered.
An Increase of 4.2O per cent for the
five-year period ending with 1911 is
shown in the density of freight traffic
in all parts of Colorado traversed by
the Denver & Rio Grande.
District Judge Burke permanently
restrained the city of Longmont from
continuing erection of its municipal
lighting plant under the present agree
ment with the Longmont Service Com
pany.
An information against Angelo De-
andre, night marshal at Superior,
charging him with the murder of j.
Nov IS, has been prepared and placed
in the District Court.
The Rev. Warren II. Wilson. D. D.,
a Presbyterian church specialist, rec.
ognized as an authority on country
church life, has written an article for
a Chicago church publication in which
he declares that at Brush, Colo, he
found the most progressive country
community he has encountered in all
the United States.
1t is stated that work will be re.
sumed on the Colorado-Kansas rail
road from the western section of the
city of Pueblo to the quarries of the
Turkey Creek Stone and Gypsum Com.
pany, located about sixteen miles west
of Pueblo.
Upon the request of the Otero Agri-
cultural Club, Representative Taylor
has taken up with Secretary Wilson
the matter of making an investigation
of the leaf spots" and curly top" dis.
eases now injecting Colorado sugar
beet fields.
The Fifty-thousand Club has started
in earnest the campaign for trebling
the population of Grand Junction dur.
ing the next ten years and from pres
ent indications, it intends to get five
per cent of the number needed within |
the next six months.
In the introduction of two bills, |
Representative Taylor inaugurated a |
campaign he proposes to wage In |
Congress at Washington this winter