The Springfield herald. (Springfield, Baca County, Colo.) 1887-1919, 1912-01-26
LITTLE COLORADO ITEMS.
Small Happenings Occurring Over the
State Worth While.

w. ID. Snow. aged sixty-eight, pic
neer of that district, died In Ault.
Frank Vance. noted gun.man, wa
shot and killed at Kokedals recently
The Knights of Pythias of Rock,
Ford have dedicated their new build
ing.
John F. Morgan has been appointed
to third term as postmaster of Colo
RADIO City.
The Rock Island railroad is contem
plating numerous improvements IL
Colorado.
A masked robber entered a saloon
at Leadville recently and carried
away $3.50.
Mrs. Fred Allen. farmers wife
living near Wray, killed herself by tax
ing strychnine.
vanadium alloy manufacturing
plant is in prospect for Denver in
the near future.
The Montrose Chamber of Com
merce has been e-organized with sew.
enyt-one members.
Rev. Father Richard De Palma
widely known in that section, died In
Trinidad of cancer.
Charles L. Hill. pioneer mining op.
orator. of Colorado. died recently at
Santa Monica. Cal.
Beginning February 1, the mint at
Denver will coin nickels for the first
time in its history.
The "Old Time Cowboys" reunion
was held in Denver recently and
closed with a big banquet.
Thirty persons who have lived in
Denver twenty-five years or more,
have died SO far this month.
The Eaton High School basketball
team defeated the Denver Y. NJ. c. A.
team by score of S5 to 1G.
The ninth annual convention of the
Colcrado-Wyoming Lumber Dealers
Association was held in Denver.
Harold f. Henwood will be placed
on trial in Denver for the killing of
Tony Won Phul, February IL.
Boulder Troop D. of the Colorado
National Guard has begun campaign
for an increased enlistment
John F. Moore, for fifteen years
manager of the Grand Junction Fruit
Growers Association, has retired.
Mangled beyond recognition, the
body of Anton Manzarita, an Italian,
was found on a railroad in Pueblo.
John NJ. Dunn, one of the old-timers
of Meeker and the White River val
ley. died recently at Goldfield, Nevada
Richard McCloud of Durango, has
been appointed county judge of La
Plata county to fill the uneXpired term.
Two hundred thousand dollars will
be paid into the state treasury by the
estate of the late Charles B. Kountze.
Within the last two months about
twenty men have been convicted in
Greeley for selling liquor without IL
cense.
The jury in the case of Clark Hol-
comb, charged with murder, at Grip
pie Creek, returned verdict of not
guilty.
A manual training department is to
be established in the new high school
now under construction in Steamboat
| Springs.
The Denver-Greeley irrigation prof.
ect has been completed and water
turned into the Milton reservoir near
Platteville.
Rev. Greer A. Foote, pastor of the
Presbyterian church at Glenwood
Springs, died following an operation
for appendicitis.
A mountain lion weighing forty
pounds and measuring eighteen inches
long was trapped by Arthur Hunt near
Georgetown recently.
Fifteen hundred dollars worth Of
good whisky was wasted when a run
away team dashed into a plate glass
window of a saloon in Pueblo.
The Jackson Resort Company, about
eight miles east of Boulder, sustained
a loss of $4,000 when their main build
ing and several smaller ones burned.
County Judge Henry j. Hechtman
Of Durango, took his own life recent
and firing bullet through his brain.
He lived alone and was found dead by
friends who called to visit him.
Rio Blanco county commissioners
have appropriated money for the pur.
pose of changing the course of White
river distance of mile below
Meekcr, thinking this will prevent fur
Their damage from ice gorges.
That the cities of Colorado Springs,
Colorado City and Manitou are con-
Quoting a losing fight in their endeavor
to purchase a tract of land in the
Pixies Peak National forest for the
better protection of their water supply
is the latest news from Washington.
Oral arguments on the Grand juno
ton freight rate case before the In
terstate Commerce Commission has
been set for February 5.
Because the city health department
had failed to induce a resident to re-
pair a damaged sewer connection,
Pueblo has been sued for $4,000 dam
ages.
With twenty-one lakes and over 300
miles of streams well stocked with
rainbow trout Boulder will make a
strong null for Eastern fishermen next