The La Jara chronicle. (La Jara, Conejos County, Colo.) 1896-19??, 1904-12-02
COLORADO NEWS ITEMS

The company formed to erect can
ming factory at New Castle expect to
start work on the building before the
first of the year.
In the State School of Mines are fifty
seniors. fifty-eight juniors. eighty-six
sophomores and ninety-six freshmen.
total of 290 students.
DR.. John p. Wills, county judge OF
Grand county and a prominent busi-
ness man of Sulphur Springs, died No
vember 25th of consumption.
Mrs. William Cooke Daniels of Den.
yer has taken Wolhurst, the beautiful
country seat of former senator Edward
o. Wolcott, for the winter.
The project of constructing a speed
way between Glenwood Springs and
Carbondale has been revived and the
Legislature may be asked to assist.
Frank A. Wadleigh has assumed his
duties as assistant general passenger
! and ticket agent of the Denver & Rio
Grande railroad system at Denver.
Sir Wilfred Laurier, premier Of Can
ada, spent three hours in Colorado
Springs November Goth, en- route from
the Worlds Fair to the Pacific coast.
Twenty-one marriage licenses were
issued in Denver on the day before
Thanksgiving and 1t is hoped that for
ty-two people had cause for giving
thanks.
The rubber factory at Buena Vista
has been payin., 11a cents pound for
the roots of the rubber weed, and col
lectors have been able to gather 200
pounds day.
The surveyor general of Colorado re-
ports Ill ,915 acres of agricultural land
surveyed and accepted during the last
fiscal year. The number of miles of
line established is 459.
| The furnishing contracts have been
let for the new 100000 Carnegie Ii
brary at Colorado Springs, the formal
opening of which will occur between
January 18th and February 1st.
At Cripple Creek November 23rd the
jury in the case of J. r. Lewis, charged
with the murder of AL Droddy in the
Joplin saloon in Victor. September
18th, brought in a verdict of acquit-
tai.
z Isaac Dyer, who died at Gypsum
few days since, was ninety-three years
old and was a veteran of the Seminole
Indian War, the Mexican War and the
Civil War. He was born in Benning-
ton, Vermont.
The fall meeting of the Clear Creek
Valley Teachers Association is to be
held at Central City December 9th and
10th. The association comprises the
teachers of Clear Creek, Jefferson and
Gilpin counties.
S. C. Gallup of the S. C. Gallup Sad
dlery Company of Pueblo, died at his
home in Pueblo, November 25th. Mr.
rnll Il tn
in 1859 and was later a pioneer in Wy
oming, New Mexico and Colorado.
The chapel at the Oakes Consumpt
Ives Home in Denver has been pre-
sented with a chime of nine bells or
which Mr.. Oakes and Miss Lewis, the
organist. play many charming tunes
that can be heard for a mile or more
The Santa Fe railway is opening ex-
tensive coal mines about eight miles
southwest of Florence and building
spurs and branches to make them cas-
lily accessible From these mines the
road can obtain all the coal 1t uses.
File maps of the new town of Min
turn, in Eagle county, have been filed
with the secretary of state. The filing
was made by the commissioners, who
are Frank Steacy, II. G. Keck, M. j
Henry, d. j. Maynard and A. II. Laub
After the st. Louis Exposition s.over
the Colorado agricultural exhibit
which consists of 100 or more caaes OF
grains and other products of the state
will be placed on permanent exhibition
at the Chamber of Commerce rooms in
Denver.
Samuel P. CLOSER, formerly Of Trini-
dad, patient in the county insane asy-
lum for the insane at Dunning. near Chi
cago, was choked to death in a struggle
with the guards on the night OF No
vember 22d. CLOSER had assaulted an
other patient
The Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific
is placing in telephone line between
Denver and Colorado Springs and
Goodland. Kansas, the latter being the
end of the division, for the handling OF
trains and also for the transaction OF
railroad business.
The State Forestry Association as
serts that since the first settlement Of
Colorado the forest area of the state
has been reduced from 10000 square
miles to 5000 square miles, princi
pally by fire and wanton waste. though
much has been used.
1 OF the 27O voters registered in the
Estes Park precinct, only seventy-eight
! cast their ballots. Some voters liVt
twenty miles from the polling place
OF those who voted fifty were Republi.
cans, twenty-five Democrats. five Pro
hibitionists and one Socialist.
Fred Adams, who was sentenced tt
the State Penitentiary for from one tt
three years from Gunnison county
September IA, 1903. and who was pa
rolled only few months ago, has beer
sent back to prison from Denver at his
own request. He couldn't keep from
drinking, and asked to be placed ou
of reach of liquor.
The religious census taken by the
State and County Sunday School Asso
Citations. under the direction of Super
intendent j. C. Carmen of Denver
shows the population of Colorado
Springs to be approximately 22.526
while the population of Colorado
Springs, Colorado City and Manitou /.
27,297, exclusive of suburbs.
Titles to about 5000 acres of lant