The Springfield herald., 1912-03-08

lamb.
Arbor day Erie will plant a tree for
every man, woman and child in the
town.
A railroad will be built from Meek
err ten miles south to tap the coal
fields.
Forty-two miles of the Old Santa Fe
trail from Denver will be twenty.
foot pike.
Jerome L. Terry. an employe Of the
D. & r. G. at Salida, shot and killed
his wife.
At the Wilson park saw mill. 20
miles from Meeker, snow eight feet
deep is reported.
A Congregational church has been
organized at Spring Creek. six miles
west of Montrose.
The National Sugar Manufacturing
Company has advanced the price Of
beets from $3.50 to SC per ton.
Many people who attended a church
supper in Greeley were taken violent
ly i'll with symptoms of poisoning.
Lieutenant General Sir Robert Ba-
den-Powell, X. c. B., C. v. O.. founder
OF the Boy Scouts. Is in Denver.
Grand Junction is preparing to hold
ChautauQua similar to those held at
Boulder and other Colorado cities.
Chas. H. Lasche. of valverde
sneezed and broke blood vessel In
his side and is now in = serious con-
dition.
Robert Stevens. aged eighty-eight.
who had lived In the vicinity Of Long
mont since 1870, died in that city re-
Gently.
Seven thousand two hundred eighty
sheep, all raised in the San Luis val
ley. were shipped from Pueblo re-
Gently.
At the close of the winter term Of
the State Teachers college in Greeley
twentv.three young women received
diplomas.
The government will pay salaries to
the Boy Scouts of Colorado who will
enter the forestry service during the
summer.
The Milliken Commercial Club has
been organized and will conduct an
active campaign in the interest of a
canning factory.
A second stampede Of deer and elk
from the preserves in Wyoming has
begun, and the country around Hahn's
Peak is overrun.
Col. A. w. Jones. one of the best
known men in that section. and resi-
dent OF Greeley for over quarter of
century. is dead.
The Fort Collins Chapter. d. A. R.,
is making elaborate plans for enter
tanning the state convention there
March 21st and 22nd.
Adjutant General Chase has re-
quested the State Land Board to
loan $15O.OOO for the erection of
an armory at Denver.
The Greeley Hydro-Electric Compa-
ny will ask that city for a franchise
to furnish current for heat, light and
power purposes.
Tom Ryan of Colorado Springs won
two out of three falls from Frank Du-
cray Of Grand junction, in wrestling
match in the former city.
Trinidad merchants and shippers
have taken steps to reduce the rates
charged by railroads and express COM
panies hauling out of that city.
Ira E. Brown, prominent mining
man of Telluride, was killed when he
Nellie mine, four miles from that city.
Glenwood Springs is trying to Sc
cure the annual midsummer meeting
of the Colorado Stockmen's Associa-
ton, which will be held some time in
July.
The Republican state convention
will be held in Colorado Springs
March 9th, at which time delegates
will be named for the national con-
vention.
e. C. Stevens, the star witness in
the E. ]. Estes trial at Greeley, who
confessed to perjury, was senten ced
to from two to three years in the pen
itentiary.
The Colorado Grain Dealers Asso-
citation has decided to establish a
state bureau of inspection in Denver,
with deputies in the principal towns
of the state.
Burglars broke into the hardware
store of Ellis C Hood at Florence and
stole $500 worth of goods. Three men
were arrested and put in jail at Canon
City pending investigation.
The Rocky Mountain Baseball Lea
que, composed of clubs from Pueblo,
Colorado Springs, Rocky Ford, La
Junta and Canon City, has been or
gained. The salary limit was placed
at $1,000.
Senator Guggenheim has introduced
bill which gives the surface entry
man on coal lands a preferential right
to purchase or lease coal deposits.
The Fort Lupton-Johntown Cow
Testing Association has been organ
lied by the dairymen of that locality.
There are 544 COWS in the association
that will be tested each month by an
expert paid by the government and
the association.
Gov o. B. Colquitt of Texas has re-
quested Governor Shafroth to send
delegates to conference of western
| representatives to be held at Waco,
| Tex April 18th for the purpose of