The Springfield herald. (Springfield, Baca County, Colo.) 1887-1919, 1913-01-10
COLORADO
S STATE NEW S
Western Newspaper Union news servsse
DATES FoR COMING EVENTS.
January 20-3b-Highth Annual West.
srn Stock Show-Dsnver.

fect.
Uncle Sam has $475 100000 in gold
stored in the Denver mint.
Editor John Wilson of the Colorado
Springs Public Opinion died at the
home OF his daughter in Roy. N. M.
No section in the United States can
make just claim to greater variety
of substantial Industries than Flor
ence.
Colorado women have picked out fiji
teen offices that they desire to fill by
appointment by Governor-elect Am
mons.
Charles Lindford. thi-ty-eight was
found dead in the firebox Of an engine
at the santa Fe round house at La
Junta.
News of the death of James M.
johnson. an early resident OF Denver.
at Piedmont, Cal, has been received
In Denver.
A repetition Of last winters flood is
becoming imminent at Meeker, and 1t
is feared 1t will break despite efforts
to check 1t.
Many things have occurred to make
the industrial development Of Rio
Blanco county greater this year than
ever before.
AS far as known the only New
Years baby born in Denver Is the
daughter OF Mrs. Charles Zilcher, OF
2152 California street.
Suits aggregating s222.o0o were,
101 Inc he nit W
Denver by attorneys representing a
large number Of plaintiffs.
The body of John McGavock. Den.
yer boy who was killed in a snowslide
near Cordova, Alaska, Dec. 1S, arrived
in Denver and was buried there.
Denver is bidder for the 1918 con-
vention and meet of the Federation of
American Motorcyclists. the only 9TH
er city in the running being Chicago.
The meeting OF Colorado district
attorneys called by District Attorney
elect M. w. Purcell of Colorado
Springs, has been postponed to Jan. 8.
County Judge-slect Duncan ]. Nc
Lean. fifty-eight, died at Leadville OF
pneumonia. Judge Mclean resided In
Leadville for over q quarter of a cen.
tury.
James Monroe Clark. seventy-seven
years old, former secretary of the
state Horticultural Society and one OF
Colorado's pioneers. died at his home
in Adams county.
More than 5000 telephone employees.
on the payroll of the Mountain States
Telephone and Telegraph Company.
hetome subject to the pension and dis
ability benefits inaugurated January l..
A severe windstorm that swept the
prairies north OF Denver carried away
large two-story barn belonging to W.
]. Lackhan. farmer. near Westminster
college. Debris: was streNn for = mile
and half.
Thrown fifteen feet when the auto
mobile in which she was riding
crashed into another machine in Den
yer. Miss Evelene Belmont, twenty
five. suffered injuries which. it is said
will cause her death.
Mrs. sAngeline X. Post, widow of C
C. Post. attorney general Of Colorado
under the administration Of Governor
Orman. and one of Colorado's "'5sers.'
died at her home in Denver. She was
seventy-eight years old.
The condition Of Congressman Ed
ward T. Taylor, who underwent ar
operation for appendicitis three week.
ago at st. Luke's hospital, is not al
satisfactory as his physicians had
hoped. and his journey to Washington
was postponed.
John w. Springer, president Of the
Continental Trust Company. who wal
| for ten years president Of the Ameri
| can National Livestock Association
will tell of great future for the live
stock industry In an address which hi
| will deliver at the sixteenth annua
meeting Of the association to DO helt
at Phoenix, Aris.. January 1916.
A grain which may yevolutioniz.
Colorado dry farming. rendering thu
semi-arid lands In the eastern part O.
| the state profitable OF cultivation ant
creating means of sustenance fol
100000 settlers. has been produced BY
Prof. B. C. Buffum of Wyoming, ant
will form the subject Of a rigid investi
| cation to be conducted by the Denver
| Chamber of Commerce during the nov
year.
Mrs. Rula Rehkugler was sentenced
at Grand junction to term Of five tt
eight years In the penitentiary a
Canon City for the killing of Joe Wal
tiers. ranch hand. 1t was claimed
that the killing was because Walter
had refused to elope with her. Sen
tence was imposed by Judge Shackel
ford, who gave the maximum penalty
although the Jury had recommended
ieniency.
The parcel post service opened OF
the first day of the new year with {
greater volume of business than hac
been expected at the Denver postof
flee. Several hundred packages were
mailed through the new service.
One of Colorado's fast growing in
dustries is the. canning Of Its superior
vegetables and fruits. the quality Of
which is unexcelled. In a short time
the Colorado label will be well and IA.
vorably known the world over. The
output OF Colorado's canneries will
stand comparison in every respect tc
that of any other state.
Mrs. Laura Sturtevant Dodge. sixty.
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