The Springfield herald., 1912-05-17

once.
Greeley will send out 5000 postal
cards May IS, the day designated by
Governor Shafroth as State Post Card
Day.
Miell Yard, aged seventy-six, one of
the first settlers in the Cripple Creek
district, died Of blood poisoning re-
Gently.
Oak Creek. on the twentieth of this
month. will begin the enjoyment of an
electric light service furnished by its
own plant.
A. N. Blessing, a prominent ranch
man and fruit grower of Montrose,
committed suicide by drinking car
bolic acid.
The San Juan league made its debut
into the baseball world at Durango
under favorable prospects for sue
cessful season.
Mrs. Eliza Palmer, ninety-three
years old, who said she was distant
relative of President Taft, is dead in
Colorado Springs.
At the school election on Spring
Creek mesa. near Montrose. $4,000 in
funds were voted for grounds and a
four-room building.
Good Roads Day was observed in
nearly every locality of the state, but
in many places the road work was in
terfered with by rain.
Cisto Bronz, an Italian miner, met
death in the 50O-foot level in the Ga
lena mine in Central City by being
buried alive under tons of rock and
earth.
Work has been begun on the Maroon
creek bridge, at Aspen, which the
state has voted $4,000 to help build.
Much will be done by citizens free to
the county.
A mass meeting of good roads en-
thusiasts in Idaho Springs subscribed
more than $500 in less than fifteen
minutes for completion of the Floyd
hill auto road.
A sheriffs deed has been given B.
F. Lowell of Colorado Springs for the
property of the Colorado Consolidated
Mines Company of Georgetown to sat
isfy judgment of S3S,475.S4.
A resolution demanding that Cover
nor Shafroth call an extra session of
the Legislature to re-enact House bill
200 was passed by the Board of Coun-
ty Commissioners at Grand Junction.
Judge Harry P. Gamble at Boulder
imposed the first sentence under the
new non-support law, when he gave
Tom Macy one years Imprisonment
for refusing to care for his wife and
children.
Cut worms are taking beet fields in
the Platteville vicinity and one man
lost twelve acres in one day by them.
Farmers say If warm weather follows
the worm will disappear. Fields raw
aged will be replanted.
On May IS the Denver Retail Asso-
citation and the Chamber of Commerce
will distribute to the people of Denver
and Colorado 100000 post cards ad-
vertising Colorado as the greatest
fishing state in the West
Growing alfalfa for seed on dry
farms is being carried on by John San
ford of Greeley with great success.
The seed is drilled into the ground,
but on the appearance of the plant
the crop is thinned and single plants
cultivated in hills.
While sailing in a tiny canoe with
two boy friends on large pond
north of Grand Junction, Frank kluger
became frightened, jumped from the
boat and attempted to swim ashore.
He was drowned before other fright
ened boys on the bank and in the
boat could summon aid.
The Commercial Club of Alamosa is
discussing the proposed railroad from
Center to Alamosa and south through
the San Luis valley to a connection
with the Santa Fe or Rock Island
roads. This would make competition
for the Denver G. Rio Grande, which
at present is the only road entering
the valley
The Colorado Good Roads Associa-
ton will endeavor to initiate, in toto,
House bill No. 200, which the State
Supreme Court declared unconstitu-
tional because it was not properly
passed by the State Legislature. The
bill provides for the payment of $780,
900 from the internal improvement
fund to be distributed among the coun-
ties for the construction of good roads.
At cost of $4,000 Gilcrest has pur,
chased an engine to generate electri-
cal power for lighting to be installed
within thirty days and supply street
lamps and homes.
While driving from Montrose to Tel
luride the buggy in which Mr.. and
Mrs. Jonathan Murlay and their two
children were riding was turned over
just as they crossed Leopard creek,
twenty-five miles west of Telluride,
and their eighteen-months-old baby
was thrown into the creek. The body
was recovered about five miles down
| stream.
A. C. Ellison, who for three consecu-
| tive terms has held the office of sher-
| iff in Rio Blanco county, has rendered
his resignation to the Board of County
Commissioners.