The Springfield herald., 1913-07-04

James Berger, alias Harry D. Cliff
ford, aged fifteen, was arrested in
Denver. Loot valued at nearly $500
was recovered in his room.
The county authorities are inyesti-
eating the death of Vernon Barnes.
twenty-one, who died at his home in
Loveland of conclusion of the brain.
Colorado's coal production for the
month of May, as figured by the state
mine inspector, was 802.665 tons, an
increase Of 28,563 over the month Of
April.
Residents of Englewood are con-
tributing to the relief of Mrs. Julia
Guthrie and her three children, who
were made homeless by the Engle-
wood flood.
A renewal of the fight to save Har-
old F. Henwood from the gallows for
the killing of George E. Copeland May
"a, 1911, was started in the West Side
Criminal Court in Denver.
Architect F. E. Edbrooke of the
state capitol was instructed at a
meeting of the capitol managers to
proceed with advertising for bids for
completing the new state museum.
About twenty-five members of Val
ley lodge. No. 9s, Knights of Pythias.
visited Ordway, and assisted the grand
lodge officers of the state in insti-
tuting Nero Hill lodge at that place.
Two hundred editors and members
of the National Press Association.
wives and friends. left Denver for a
days tour of the mountains near
Boulder. Greeley, Fort Collins and
Estes Park:
Former Mayor Henry J. Arnold and
former Alderman H. NJ Moore Of Dem
yer reported to the police that they
were among the victims Of pick
pockets. Mr.. Arnold lost $25 and Mr..
Moore SIS. 4 s..
More than fifty Newspaper men.
representatives of the principal Ger
man papers through the United States.
were In Denver attending the thirty
first. meeting Of the North American
Gymnastic Union.
]. R. Permission of whitewater is
said to be the leading candidate for
the appointment Of postmaster at that
place under the civil service. The ex-
aminntions are to held at Grand
junction on July IL.
The grand jury called two witnesses
in Denver to testify in the investiga-
tion of alleged perjury in the trial of
Mrs. Gertrude Gibson Patterson. who
was acquitted of the killing Of her
huRhand two voara ago
Two million desert acres in the
Pueblo and Denver land districts, with
drawn from the full entry list last
fall for coal classification, have been
restored and settlers who have here
tofore filed for surface rights get title
in fee simple.
Robert H. Jones OF Wellington. who
forged the name of his father to sew
eral checks to obtain money for his
honeymoon, pleaded guilty in the Dis
trict Court at Fort Collins and was
sentenced to serve year in the peni-
tentiary.
Frank Rau, Leadville boy, aged
nineteen, fell from moving train at
SaSers siding, near Cisco, and was run
over. His back was broken, his
scalp lacerated and one OF his hands
crushed so badly that it recessitated
amputation.
Federal Judge Riner of Wyoming
has ordered the heirs Of Edward
| West, a wealthy stockman. politician
and leader of social life in Trinidad,
to return to the government title to
| 100 acres Of land in Las Animas coun-
| ty which the government has proved
was obtained by fraud.
The gigantic Uncompahgre valley
irrigation project in Montrose county
was delayed at one point in its con-
struction by the refusal of A. E. Dud-
decke, a farmer, to sell strip OF
land ten by fifty feet crossing the ca
nal, to the government. Condemna-
tion proceedings were filed in the
United States District Court.
The reception and dinner to John
Clyde Oswald, editor Of the American
Printer and just elected president Of
the National Press Association of
America, by the Master Printers of
Denver, was an elaborate affair.
Institutions of the state whose ap-
propriations come under the second
class must be satisfied to receive
only thirty-five per cent OF their
money for the fiscal year ending No
vember 80, 1913, instead Of fifty per
cent, the appropriations made by the
assembly being for the biennial
period. tfl
With more brutality than they had
heretofore displayed in any of their
holdups in Denver. the unidentified
man and woman robbers assaulted and
robbed Samuel w. Fargo, chief clerk
and claim agent for the American Elk
press Company.
Streams running through private
preserves, and to which the public is
not given access, will not be stocked
with fry from the state fish hatch
cries. This is the stand taken by Col.
James A. shinn, state fish and game
commissioner. He is backed by Gov
ernor Ammons.