The Springfield herald. (Springfield, Baca County, Colo.) 1887-1919, 1913-01-31
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Four men were injured in an auto
mobile collision in Denver.
Lysander L. johnson shot and In
stantly killed Mrs Maude Murray and
then killed himself, at Pueblo.
Michael Striker, 65, miner at Ley
den. died at st. Luke's hospital IN
Denver from injuries he received III
an accident at the mine.
The tax rolls for Crowley county.
lust sent in to the treasurer at ORD
way by the assessor. shows the total
valuation to be $2,63S,542H.
Mrs Abigail Phillips. aged ninety
two. widow of Colonel Ivers Philips
pioneer of Colorado and native OF Leo
minister, Mass, died at her nome IN
Boulder.
Frank P. Metcalf. sixty-two years
old. was struck by q street car Wnile
crossing Fifteenth street near Law
renee in Denver and had one IT'D
broken.
Governor Ammons has appointed
Thomas ]. Ehrhart OF CenterVille
member of the State Highway COM
mission to succeed w. M. Wiley, VINO
has removed to Seattle.
One hundred and fifty members OIL
the Colorado Stock Growers Associa-
tion gathered at banquet in Denver
TO tell OF the past and present great
ness of Colorado's stock show.
After a thrilling battle with great
golden eagle measuring seven feet
from tip to tip, James Amber or Ray
mer has magnificent specimen which
he will have mounted.
General Frank D. Baldwin, fearless
Indian fighter. Civil War veteran and
true gentleman, has the distinction or
betng voted the first honorary life
member of the Denver Club.
Nineteen thousand dollars was stol
en- from the Pioneer State Bank, in
Denver, in broad daylight, While hun
dreds of people passed by the bank
and n policeman stood without the
doors.
Former State Senator Horace T. De
Long of Grand Junction and Mr.. and
Mrs. Harry Pierce and six children of
Debeoue are recovering from the eff
rects of ptomaine poisoning which re-
suited after eating chicken.
Betting Nelson. the famous prize
fighter and one-time champion light
weight of the world, descended on
Denver. kidnapped" Miss Fay King, !.
cartoonist on Denver paper. and left
for his home m<Hegewisch. ILL.,, where
they were married.
Amos w. Grant, receiving teller for
the Pioneer State bank of Denver, has
confessed that it was he who took the
$1,91O reported missing from the
banks vaults. He turned over to the
police $1,4OO of the stolen money and
promised to return the missing $50
Governor Ammons has appointed
Mrs. Inez Johnson Lewis secretary OF
the State Auditing Board; L. S. Tuck
er, secretary of the State Board OF
equalization, and auditor of the State
Tax Commission, and Charles Nowlin
of Boulder, clerk of the State Dairy
Commission.
The twenty-eighth annual meeting
of the Colorado State Forestry Asso-
| citation was held in the Denver Cham
her OF Commerce building. Addresses
were delivered by T. c. Henry on the
relation of forests to rainfall and irri
| CATION and by Mrs. Helen Grenfell on
"The Mission Of the Cottonwood"
Thomas Richards, matinee idol of
"The Chocolate Soldier" and stage
partner of Miss Lulu CHASER, has
brought suit for divorce from Mrs.
| Martha Miner Richards, the Denver
cafe singer who recently went to
| Pittsburg and sued Miss Chaser TO.
$4,000 for alternating the affections OF
richards.
William Green. aged 10. of Denver.
| to save his life, submitted to an OPP
Grafton which has never before been
performed in the West, at the county
hospital, on January 5th. and is now
on the road to recovery II x-ray pic
lures taken are correct. Green sub
mitted to having a portion of the bone
of his leg removed and spliced onto
place farther down.
The movement to construct = new
drainage tunnel that will bore the
| Cripple Creek district at greater
uGptu tuhu tuO IhoOoCtCAt luhHclp AdS
received an impetus in subscriptions
amounting to 100000. which. it is re.
ported, have been assured by the Cres
cent Consolidated Gold Mining Compa
ny and the railroads affected by the
Cripple Creek ore business.
Seven thousand passes. worth at the
usual mileage rates $63.602. the equiv
alent of one-sixteenth of the roads to-
tai revenue, were given away by the
Denver & Rio Grande Railroad Com
pany in June, 1912, according to evil
dence brought out by Examiner A. 4.
Smith at the opening Denver session
of. the nationwide inquiry into the
pass system, being conducted by the
Interstate Commerce Commission.
Funds for the completion of the
Greley-Poudre irrigation district, EN-.
bracing $4,000 acres Of the richest
land in the northern part of the state.
and lying adjacent to the pioneer ir-
rigated region in Colorado, will be sup
piled by Henry L. Doherty & Co, of