The La Jara chronicle., 1904-10-21
COLORADO NEWS ITEMS

A SNOWFALL bush in bloom is an
nounced as a remarkable freak at
Greeley. Snowballs will soon be In
bloom all over the state.
The members OF the Cripple Creek
Mine Owners association have issued
a positive denial OF the charge that
they intend to reduce wages.
A new banking institution, the
United States National bank, has
been opened in Denver. w. A. Ho-
yer. wholesale druggist. is president.
The First National Bank of Meeker
has been authorized to begin business
with $4,000 capital. C. c. Parks, pres
ident; X. Oldland. vice president. and
L. E. Fordham, cashier.
f. NJ. Grogan of Pueblo is reported
to have found gold within or near the
city limits and has shown one pan
of earth containing five colors. mug
get and several rubies.
Minnie" Hudson, n Pueblo colored
man, known as successful gambler
and a professional politician. died on
the 18th from the effects OF wounds re-
'ceived in a fight in Kansas City several
years ago.
The directors of the State Fair at
Pueblo will endeavor to have the Leg
islature come to the aid OF the annual
exhibition. The organization is heavily
in debt because of bad weather, which
cut down the attendance.
Roy L. Dixon. a school boy eleven
years old, saved the Durango-Silve
passenger train from being wrecked by
tagging it in time to prevent it from
striking rock slide near Durango. The
passengers made up purse for him.
The sugar factory at Fort Collins
began operations October 10th. 1t
will keep at work until it has con-
verted the entire seasons crop of
beets tributary to the factory, esti-
mated at 100000 tons, into grapuia-
ted sugar.
Judge Ben B. Lindsey has been re-
nominated county judge for the long
term by the Denver Democratic eNecu-
tive committee. His name will also be
on the Republican ticket. The judges
work in the juvenile court is held to
place the position outside of politics.
1t is stated that Mrs. Ella Perkins.
wife of steel worker at Pueblo. is
one of nine heirs TO an estate in Pitts
burg, Pennsylvania. valued at S1S.000.-
600. left by an uncle. Colonel Jacob Ba-
ker, of whom she and the other heirs
had lost sight who died fifteen years
ago.
The bonds of Frank NJ. Downey, STU
perintendent Joseph f. Nilsson, meter
and refiner, and A. B. Hodgson, as
sayer of the new mint at Denver, have
been received at the Treasury Depart
ment and approved. II is expected that
the coinage of gold will begin some
time next spring.
County seat contests are being car
ried on in Eagle county and Arapahoe
county. In the former the fight is be-
tween Eagle and Red Cliff. the present
county seat, and in the latter Littleton,
which become county seat when the
city and county of Denver was formed,
her numerous competitors.
Jackson Solomon, who broke out of
the penitentiary at Canon City Sep
tember 23rd was captured on the 18th
inst. at Thatcher. in Las Animas
county, by Dave Brighton, a Santa Fe
switchman, who was looking for car
thieves. Before Solomon surrendered
he shot Brighton in the arm.
The roads of the Western Passenger
Association have decided to make the
Colorado common points aL-the-year-
round points instead of summer tourist
points only. Tourist rates will apply
all the year hereafter to Denver. Colo
rado Springs and Pueblo, instead OF
only during the summer months as
heretofore.
Ladderman Frank b. Lunt died at
Denver on the 18th inst, being the
third member of the Denver Fire De-
partment to lose his life from the ef-
fects of nitric acid fumes inhaled at
the fire in the Office of the Denver Post
September Goth. Lunt had been dis
charged from the hospital as cured, but
was attacked by pneumonia.
For the first time in the history OF
the Colorado Springs postofiice, the
amount of money order business for
the fiscal year ending September 30,
1904, exceeded the Sl,O00,00O mark.
The amount was $1,Ol0,7S6.27, last
years figures being S.446.05, so
that n gain for the tweleye months
past was Sl02.34O.22.
Fred w Kohler, prominent Boul-
der county farmer, who had only two
years ago taken up his residence in the
city of Boulder, committed suicide on
the 18th inst by cutting his throat Mr.
Kohler was seventy-two years of age
and in prosperous circumstances. His
family relations were also pleasant, so
that no reason is known why he should
kill himself
SNol sc -. ninety
two years, is believed To be the Oldest
truck gardener in Colorado. During
the summer he did all the work nee
essary on his little patch in Boulder,
doing the digging. seeding. cultivating
and irrigating without any assistance
Aside from the early vegetables he
has harvested liberal supply of to.
matoes and roo head of cabbage.
The Juvenile Court and Detention
House exhibition, made by Judge Ben
b. Lindsey and his associates in Dem
yer at the Worlds Fair in st. Louis,
has been awarded a gold medal The ex-
hibition consists of various charts and
pictures, the charts showing the work
of the court in its various phases: the
pictures being of the boys who have
been under Judge Lindsey's care.
The following patents have been Is
sued 10 Colorado inventors: Edward
Il. Blake, Fowler. sweep rake; George