The Springfield herald., 1912-02-23

VI tnat place.
Four children of Diego Seracina, an
Italian miner of Segundo, have died
within a week.
The Louden Irrigation district has
decided to enlarge the capacity of its
ditch at Loveland.
The Douglas Irrigation Company,
capitalized at $4,000, has been incor-
porated at Greeley.
has been passed by the City Council
of Colorado Springs.
The twelfth district convention of the
w. c. T. U. will be held in Salida Feb
ruary 20 to March 1.
Owing to the illness of Judge Shu-
mate. District Court at Meeker will
not open until March 4.
George Kennedy, aged fifteen, was
run down by an automobile in Den
YER and fatally injured.
For failure to take out city license
to run an employment agency in Pu-
eblo, japanese was fined 500.
A heavy snow slide occurred on
Ruby mountain, near West Argentine,
and considerable damage was done.
The first session of the Routt
County Teachers Association was
held recently at Steamboat Springs.
The existence of ward at the
state penitentiary for the treatment
of dope fiends has been revealed.
rrhraa ,r,, ,,,nro COW. ;o; Co.,
ty days and fined 500 each and costs
on a charge of bootlegging at Boulder.
Rev. d. X. Roberts, for the past
eight years pastor OF the Welsh Pres
byterian church in Denver, has re-
signed.
The voters of Ebert county want
the question of erecting a $4,000 court
house at Kiowa submitted to the peo-
pie.
Fred w. Springer. a prominent
young man of Trinidad. was instantly
killed when he was struck by an auto
mobile.
In Weld county there is an entire
school district owned by one man and
the pupils in the district are all his
children.
Following his conviction for bootleg.
ging at Fort Morgan, l.. P. Pitney was
given $50 days in jail and fined $500
and costs.
The Boulder post, G. a. r., has be-
gun plans for the entertainment Of the
Grand Army encampment there May
IA, 10 and 16-
School teachers of Ell Paso, Teller,
their annual institute in Colorado
Springs July %.
The government has discontinued
the handling OF mail on Sunday over
several hundred miles of star routes in
northwestern Colorado.
The Colorado Pacific Development
Company, the largest operator in the
Rangley oil field, near Meeker, has
suspended operations.
Guy H Ward, manager of the Ster-
ling Lumber & Investment Company's
yard at Merino, has been arrested on
a charge of ENLIGHTENMENT.
The tenth annual convention of the
Colorado Retail Hardware and Imple-
ment Dealers Association is being
held in Denver this week.
At the second annual meeting of
the Prowers County Good Roads Asso-
citation interest in the Santa Fe Trail
highway was aroused anew.
The electric light and power line,
being constructed from Pueblo
through the Arkansas valley, will be
ready for operation in the spring.
As the result of a practical joke,
his pipe being filled with gunpowder,
John Craig, a farmer near Platteville,
may lose the sight in both of his eyes.
The Reclamation Service has award
ed a contract for $1,000 barrels of
cement for use on the Grand Valley
and Uucompahgre reclamation prof,
ects.
Guy H. Ward pleaded guilty in the
District Court in Sterling to embez.
zling the sum of S9,2IS.7O and was sen.
fenced to the penitentiary for a term
of from four to six years.
Five new high schools have been
added to the accredited list by faculty
senate of the University of Colorado
They are Brush, Cheyenne Wells, Flor.
ence, Fruita and Palisade.
As a result of a rupture among the
members of Pixies Peak chapter of the
American Women's League, at Colora.
do Springs, five members have been
expelled.
Negotiations are practically com.
pleted by the officers and directors OF
the Denver Laramie e Northwestern
railroad for raising $G.UOO,OOO with
which to complete the road from Gree.
ley, Colo, to Kent, Wyo., where are
located the coal fields Of the Colorado.
Wyoming Coal Company, a subsidiary
company.