The state herald., 1904-03-18
COLORADO NEWS ITEMS

ganized a city improvement society.
A fine pair of mountain lions have
been shipped to the Worlds Fair at
st. Louis from New Castle,
Rural free delivery service has been
ordered at Manzanola, Otero county,
April 18th with one carrier.
The Ministerial Alliance of Denver
has arranged to take a religious CEN
sus OF the city next month.
The baseball season is beginning
early this year. Already many match
games have been played in different
parts of the state.
The United Oil Company is making
extensive improvements in its refinery
at Florence and is also building ma
chine shop for its own work.
At Durango on the 9Th inst, Ben
Beatty, a fourteen-yearold boy, fell
over cliff ON the mountain above the
smelter and was instantly killed.
District Attorney Trowbridge at
Cripple Creek has nolled the remain
ing cases against Sherman Parker and
Thomas Foster for train wrecking.
The two Grand Army posts at Pueb-
10 have been consolidated under the
name of Pueblo Post No. s, Depart
ment of Colorado and Wyoming, G. A.
II.
The Pueblo Fire Department is in
stalling a new switchboard in its fire
alarm telegraph system at cost of
about 81 1000. 1t will be thoroughly up
to-date.
The county assessors with the state
board of equalization gill hold meet
ing in the state houhe on March Il to
discuss the assessment on state proper
ty for the year.
The corner stone of the church
building of the United Brethren
Church at Berthoud was laid March
18th. The new edifce is to be con
structed of red pressed brick and is TO
cost about $4,000.
John c. Reagan of Merino, Colorado,
has sold his ranch of 10000 acres in Lo-
gan, Morgan and Washington counties
to the Coe g. Steadman Realty Com
pany and S. ID. Hanna of Denver, the
price being 100000.
The pipe line which supplies Primero,
in Las Animas county, with water was
dynamited on the night of the llth
inst just outside of Segundo. There
was water enough on hand to supply
the place while the pipe was being re-
paired.
The new gymnasium of the Colorado
Agricultural College at Fort Collins
was formally opened on the Sth inst.
The gymnasium has floor space of
5ixS3 feet. with ceiling twenty-one
hfVh ,A 10 .nnfrnpn
throughout
The sum of $4,000 is beQueathed to
the home for consumptives at Denver
by the will of Sarah Schermerhorn,
daughter of w. c. Schermerhorn OF
Newport and New York, In her will re-
Gently filed for probate at Newport.
Rhode Island.
Jasper Hartley, fifty years Of age and
unmarried. committed suicide near
Brighton on the 9Th inst by shooting
himself through the heart with shot
gun. The act is attributed to des-
pOndency occasioned by incurable
heart disease.
The confessions Of six boys arrested
In Pueblo for petty larceny indicate
that gang numbering as many as thir-
ty-hve boys has been engaged for some
time In plundering vacant houses OF
lead pipe. gas fixtures, etc, which they
bold TO junk dealers.
a movement is on foot to organize
n Young Mems Christian Association in
Boulder and erect building. State
Secretary Bilhelmer advises that no de-
cisiye action shall be taken until tho
money is In sight for 10000 building
and $500 year for expenses.
The application of NJ. II, 10y Of Flor
ence. X. ]. Morse, Charles r. Cast, W.
L. Mitchell and NJ. ID. Thatcher TO or
gnnize the San Luis National bank
OF Alnmosn, Colorado, with $4,000 cap
ital. has been approved by the comp
troller Of the currency.
The annual tournament Of the Den
yer Trap Club will be held on July .,
g and Z, Immediately following tho
close of the races at Overland park,
The main event Of the tournament VIII
be the grand western hnpiicap at
inanlnate birds. TO be shot over eS'
pert traps.
Complaints are being filed in the Of
fee OF the state engineer with Division
Engineer l.. II, Hope by Water Distrio,
No. /. located In Morgan county, TO the
effect that companies along the Biz
Thompson and Poudre rivers are stor-
ing water In reservoirs when II Is need
Cd at the present time for irrigation
purposes.
Joe Martin. steward of the Vallejo
Gun Club. was drowned on the after
noon of March 18th In Vallejo lake
four miles east Of La Sale In Weld
county. Mr.. Martin went out In can
vas boat. which was upset by n heavy
wind. He wns thirty years old and
leaves n widow. who resided with him
ut the club house.
The Board Of County Commissioners
Of Fremont county have awarded con
tact 20 q. s. oakley Tor the erection
OF nm infirmnry ward nj the county poor
farm. TO cost $4,000, The building Will
be OF brick with stone trimmings, ~
present iniirm patients of the county
arc taken care Of at private Rani,ar'
lum. and the cost 10 the county u
heavy.
Under the title Of tbr worltlnRmonH
Co.oporatlye Mercantile Association
the Colorado Federation Of Labor has
filed articles Of incorporation with tho
secretary OF state for ita co
operative store. which has long been q
matter uf agitation IN labor circles. The
capital stock ~ the aaaoclnilon IL hN"d
81 $4,000 divided into shares Of 81
each, The inc0tpufnlnrs are James y
walsh. James j. Sullivan and Henry