The Springfield herald., 1912-06-28

Two masked men held up the pat
rons of saloon at Walsenburg and
robbed them OF 5000.
| For the first time in over twenty
years, q grand jury has been in ses-
SIGN in Central City.
Artesiar water is being drilled for
on desert land near the Sedalia mills,
three miles north of Salida.
| The road to the Santiago mine in
East Argentine district is opened aft
er blockade of six weeks.
Seventy-five feet OF the cement re-
tanning wall of the big Miller creek
ditch at Meeker, has caved in.
The property on which the Denver
court house stands is worth s1,000,000,
according to the latest valuation.
Because OF the rock slide above Sui
phur Springs all passenger trains on
the Moffat road have been delayed.
The hay now being harvested in the
Ordway country is the best that has
been cut in that section for years.
John Anderson and Abraham ALL
dred were crushed to death in an ac.
cident at the Last Chance mine at
Creede.
Colorado druggists have closed
their convention at Steamboat Springs.
The meeting was successful in every
respect.
Fred Pill. who killed George Kerber
Oct. "a, 1909 at Johnstown, has been
sentenced to eight years in the peni-
tentiary.
Paul Hutchinson, aged 10, of Love
land, pleaded guilty to the theft of
bicycle and was sent to the state
industrial school.
The offices of light inspector and
garbage inspector for Denver have
been consolidated, saving the taxpay-
ers 81 1900 year.
An unusually brilliant program of
public lectures has been arranged for
the summer session of the University
of Colorado at Boulder.
William A Zelder of Foxtown was
brought into Denver under arrest re-
Gently on a charge of cutting timber
on government land near Kremmling.
Fred Walker, colored, was found
guilty of murder in the first degree in
District Court in Pueblo. He killed
another negro by the name of Link
Earl.
The thirty-second annual convention
of the Colorado Christian Endeavor
Union held a four-day session in
Canon City at the First Presbyterian
church.
The Rio Grande has opened its line
between Dolores and Telluride, estab-
fishing dSily train service which had
been abandoned for the last thirty
days on account of high water in the
Dolores river.
The application for clemency OF
Louis Wechter. sentenced from Den
yer for murder, has been denied by
the state board of pardons. WechteI
will be hanged in August at Canon
City.
The Colorado Fuel & Iron Company
will pay a dividend of 2h per cent,
amounting to 100000 on It's 100000
of preferred stock outstanding July 20,
and another of similar amount Janu.
ary 20. 1913.
There are two constitutional amend.
ments to be voted on this fall. One
of the amendments to be voted on
provides for a bond issue of $10,0O0,.
600 for road purposes by the state,
s1,OOO,O00 to be issued each year.
The Seventh District Normal insti.
tute in session in Canon City since
June 10 was regarded as one of the
most successful ever held in the dis
trct One hundred teachers were in
attendance from Pueblo, Fremont and
Custer counties.
C. Link, Frank Adams and DIR.
John B. Phillips, the newly created
state tax commission, have gone to
Topeka, Kan, to study the system OF
taxation there.
Mrs. Julia Clarke of Denver, twenty
eight years old and one of the three
flying licensed female aviation pilots,
was killed at the Illinois state fair
grounds at Springfield, III.
Representatives of the Greeters' AS.
sociation of America. are in Grand
Junction seeking location for the
100000 home they propose building
for worn cut hotel clerks.
Eight miles of wire were recently
cut on Wild Cat, seven miles north OF
Fort Morgan The damage is attributed
to cattlemen by the homesteaders who
fenced the land along the creek near
ly it's entire length in the range
country.
The Interurban Power and Light
IN
ital s2,O00,000. The purpose of the
company is to generate and sell power
construct and manipulate street, In
terurban and suburban railways and
GUNNER resorts in and around Colo
RADIO Springs.