The Springfield herald., 1913-06-13

celebration.
Large cattle shipments are being
sent to Craig.
Loveland expects record-breaking
hay and beet crops this year.
Hoboes ducked q tramp who washed
dishes for his breakfast at Pueblo.
Mrs. Agnes Skinner. eighty-five,
died at her home in Denver of old
age.
The little son Of Mr.. and Mrs. Ray
Sherman. who resides at the Mark
Fam ranch, near Lamar, was drowned
IN a pound near the house.
William v. Titus and John Sloan,
steel workers. fishing at reservoir
six miles south of Pueblo. waded into
the water beyond their depth and were
drowned.
What form shall civil service ex.
animation take to select a chaplain
for the state penitentiary at Canon
City is the question puzzling the state
civil service commission.
Commissioner Of improvements
John B. Hunter of Denver is no long
er engineer Of the State Land Board,
having handed his resignation to Gov.
ernor E. M. Ammons on June 1.
With $S5 in gold In his pockets,
Mike Simel, As. laborer, ended his life
by cutting his troat with a razor at
1922 Market street. Denver. leaving
no motive for his action.
Lanson B. Kykendall, Colbran cat
tieman. got a verdict in the United
States District Court for $4,000 against
the Union Pacific. Railroad Company
for injuries received in 1903.
Fourteen teams and twenty-eight
men are at work rebuilding fourteen
miles Of road in Ebert county, which
work will do away with the only bad
stretch Of road between Limon and
Denver.
Mrs. Henry Schmidt of Loveland
narrowly escaped the effect Of light
ming bolt. when she stepped into the
back yard moment before flash
came which demolished the rear part
of the house.
Discouraged and broken hearted
when the man whom she had loved
proved disloyal and false with her 9th.
er friends during her hour OF need,
Mrs. Stella Randolph. forty-one. com.
mitted suicide In Denver.
one-fourth Of the grading on the
San Luis Valley railroad. new line
financed by the Cosgriff interests of
Denver, extending from Rio Grande
connections at Monte Vista to
Saguache. has been completed.
An increase of the diocesan mission
fund to $500, and the foreign
fund to $4,000 featured the opening
sessions of the twenty-sixth annual
council of the Colorado diocese Of the
Episcopal church at St Johns cathe
dral In Denver.
James B. Pearce. secretary of state,
made public the names OF 2,579 cor
porations, the officers Of which will
be asked to pay fine Of $1,000 each
for failure to file annual reports not
later than March 2, as provided for
in the statutes.
c. W. Gowan and David Yoder. fined
800 and costs each by Federal Judge
Robert E. Lewis at Denver for violat
ing the interstate commerce law re-
lating to the use Of railroad passes
were allowed to leave the courtroom
on their promise to pay the fines. The
men will be permitted to earn the
money.
Within two blocks Of where his ten
months-old daughter, Helen. was
thrown from a buggy and killed In
Denver, and driving the same horse
behind which she was riding. Jerome
Affley of 4524 West Fifty-second
avenue, was thrown from the vehicle
and painfully injured when the horse
SHE'D at passing automobile.
During the month Of April the Colo
rado & Southern railroad showed an
operating revenue Of 31,110.68S. an In
crease over the same month last year
of $ss,35G; and an operating expense
of $SS6.013. in increase over April.
1912, of $1o.67S.
Ralph Carr, aged seventeen, spe-
cial delivery messenger for the Den
yer postoffice, may be q cripple for
life as the result of an accident when
he collided with an automobile be-
longing to L. F.. Thomas OF 1924 Colo
RADIO boulevard. and had both legs
broken above the knees.
State Auditor Kenehan issued a
statement that only seventy per cent
OF the second.clasB appropriations
and none of the third.clAss appropria-
tions made by the Nineteenth General
Assembly districts for the present bi-
ennial period will be paid.
A unanimous invitation was extend
ed to the national encampment OF the
G. A. R. to meet in Denver in 1915
and a similar invitation to the Con
federate veterans was refused At the
closing session in Denver OF the Do
partment Of Colorado and Wyoming
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