The Springfield herald., 1913-03-07

alton at Pueblo.
Edward Frost, nineteen, son of A.
w. Frost of Aspen, was killed by an
avalanche on East Aspen mountain.
Charles Hewitt Eaton. aged sixty
one, pioneer Boulder county miner
and citizen of Eldora, died at Boulder
of heart trouble.
The 100000 ten-story hotel to be
erected and operated by the CONNER
cial Travellers of Denver is to be start
ed within the next month.
Ira Brown, seventy-threc, n pioneer
paralysis. He was born in Winchester.
n. H., September |, 1910.
George Woods, twenty, pleaded gull
ty TO grand larceny at Durango and
was sentenced to serve ten years in
the Buena Vista reformatory.
Sister Anna Joseph, forty-five. late
II teacher in st. Patrick's parochial
school, died at Mercy hospital in Den
yer after an illness OF II few weeks.
The 135th anniversary of the birth
of Robert Emmet was observed by the
lrislrAmerican Progressive Society at
the Woman's Club auditorium in Den
Yer.
Equipment trust certificates to the
amount of $4SS,OOO for the purchase
OF new equipment for the Moffat road
under its reorganization were sold in
New York.
Beginning with March /, all the em-
ployGs of the Colorado Fuel & Iron
Company in it's mines in the southern
FORT of the state will work only eight
hours day.
a Colorado Springs dispatch says
cold Town" went dry Feb. 2S, all the
saloons closing their doors until the
question has been resubmitted at the
April election.
Mayor Arnold of Denver vetoed the
resolution passed by the council urg-
ing the passage by the Senate of SEN
ator Hecker's newspaper libel bill.
The measure was killed In the Senate.
Rangely the big oil camp in west
ern Rio Blanco county, has appealed
to the Board of County Commission
ers for the appointment of a deputy
sheriff, who is to be stationed there
Mt all times.
Five hundred taxpayers signed a
petition addressed to the General AS
yembly, asking that body to defeat the
bill providing for division of Las
Animas county and the creation of
Hughes county.
Santa Fe passenger train 5GS, run
ring between Pueblo and La Junta.
Mas wrecked near WeitZer station,
while travelling at rate of 4G miles
,n hour. The train crew and fifty
passengers escaped serious injury.
Adam Smith, fifty-niner. intimate
friend of Abe Lincoln, Indian fighter.
first sheriff of Douglas county, and
father Of first child born on the site
where Denver now stands, died in
Meeker He was seventy eight years
DID,
At thei. home in Denver Mr.. and
Mrs. Warner. Colorado pioneers, cele-
brated the fifty-eighth anniversary OF
their wedding, which took place in
New Castle, Pa, when Warner, who
Eas then twenty-five, married Miss
Mary Jane Brown, eighteen.
With his two small children cling
ing to him crying for protection OF
thier sick mother. Effico Nercellino,
Italian miner at Trinidad and suffere.
from tuberculosis, cut his wife..s
throat with a razor and then inflicted
died two hours later.
Testimony involving nocturnal AUTO
mobile rides, pursuits by the husband.
adventures in the City park, and i'm
McKinnie, millionaire of Colorado
Springs and Los Angeles, character
lied the Coates divorce suit In the
District Court at Colorado Springs.
Congressman-elect Edward Keating
has resigned from the presidency OF
tie State Land Board. Governor Am
mons will not make an appointment
TO fill Mr.. Keating's place for abou;
month He said that he may not
I'll. the vacancy before April /. There
are a large number of candidates for
tie appointment.
Approximately S7,000O0O will be in
vested in Denver this year in the cree
tion OF new business and factory build
ings. proposed city improvements, and
extension of property holdings by pri-
vate concerns. according to authorita-
tive figures submitted to the members
of the Denver Chamber OF Commerce
at the weekly luncheon.
Alderman w. A. McDougal. forty-six,
of Victor, leaser of the Stratton Inde-
pendent mine, was injured when a
large mass OF rock fell. He suffered
a fracture of the pelvic bone and was
injured on the body and head. He was
taken to the Red Cross hospital.
A total of fifty-three candidates for
commissionerships at the spring cleo
ton have been granted petition books
at the office of the elections commits
sion of Denver since the books wer.