The state herald., 1904-07-08
COLORADO NEWS ITEMS


Colorado is the only state in the
Union which has publicly bureau at
the Worlds Fair in st, Louis.
Reports received at the state engi-
neer's Office show that this has been an
unusually good year for water all over
the state.
There were 800 enlistments in the
navy from Colorado last year-and
hardly water enough in the state for
n single heavy dew.
The Colorado Springs and Denver
teams of the Western Baseball League
continue handsomely In the lead over
their four eastern competitors.
Wallace Colby. fifty-four years Of age
and one of the pioneer mining men of
the district, was killed in a runaway
accident at Leadville, June 9th.
An immense alfalfa crop is being cut
in all parts of Colorado. The present
condition of the soil nearly everywhere
is such as to insure another good cut
ting.
Raymond Wolf, the eight-year-old
son of c. w. Wolf. manager of the
Greeley Tribune, was seriously injured
bs btlHG oNei W NHN "h''ta "a "
moving machine June 18th
All the damage suits arising out OF
the disaster of last January at STRAIT
tons Independence mine have been
settled excepting tws. cases and nego-
tiations for the settlement OF these are
in progress.
Recent floods shave again seriously
damaged the famous Rainbow Falls, in
the Ute pass at Manitou, by cutting a
passage under the rock. 1t will doubt
less soon be filled and the falls re-
stored to their normal beauty.
The cottony maple tree scale is doieg
great damage to the shade trees in GER
tain parts of Denver. Mrs. Shute, sec
retary Of the State Board OF Horiicul-
ture, says they can only be saved by a
thorough spraying at least once year,
Bert Hughes, Roy Reeves and VIII
lard FELTON,, three lads who found the
body of Pearl Holland, aged eight, in
the Royal Gorge June cath. are entitled
= to the $50 reward offered by the Salida
City Council shortly after the accident
on Memorial Day.
Charles He'll is in jail at Denver
charged with having killed James Hen
ry in fist fight. beating in the face and
kicking him until he died. Henry was
employed as fireman at the Globe
smelter and Hell was engaged as clerk
in the smelter store
The body of Esther Morgan, one OF
the victims of the Salida footbridge
accident. was found in the river a few
miles above Canon City, June 30th, by
a party of young people walking along
the river bank. The body was caught
, on some trees near the bank.
The Caledonian Club OF Denver
unanimously voted 10 select John D.
, McGilyIay of San Francisco. formerly
, OF Denver. as the chief orator at tho
unyeiling of the statue Of Robert Burns
| in the City park July ith. The statue
is Of bronze. heroic size, on n pedestal
OF solid gray granite
The Empson Packing Company al
/ Lungmont will give a reception july
/ 9Th 10 which everybody is invited. The
| capacity of the plant for canning peas
| has been increased 10 5000 cans ar
/ hour and the machinery used is well
worth inspecting. A special train Will
( carry Denver visitors.
| Members of the Pueblo Business
Mems Association are advocating
| plan for another excursion around th'
circle, taking In Las Animrs. Lanai
and Rocky Ford fairs with large del
egnt.pn of professional and business
men. Such a trip was taken last yeal
| with excellent results
| Thomns w. Dougan, a member Of tn,
4 IH..t. a La Hoe af.uRa H.
| the interests Of the Western Federn'
| tion Of Miners and for the next fort
| night will address the boston unions on
the situation In that state and request
financial aid for men who have been
arrested or deported, and their fam
I lilies.
! Warrants were issued from the Unit
| ed States Court at Denver July list fol
the arrest Of a. Woop. San Juan, Pa
| tricio Conach and Slwaw. four Indians
charged with the murder Of n medi
cine man, Wnp. in the southern part oI
/ the state. The ease has been once be
fore the state courts. hut was dismissed
for lack Of Jurisdiction,
Work has begun on the now $1,000.
| 600 cemetery and crematory TO be con
! fAIhfAfh bN hAAhhAlHhth AtlAhAfsN'H
! near Monument park. north of Colo
RADIO Springs ~. ID. Patton sent from
Philadelphia to supervise the work. has
corps Of surveyors plating and sur
yeylng the ground The enterpris'
probably will be completed by fall
Judge r. T. johnson Of the District
Court at Denver. In hearing In cham
beers. gave the Denver Union Water
Company until July goth 10 file ihell
answer In the suit brought By the Col
| urado a Southtrn Railway Company
/ The suit Is over the washing out of
large amount m track caused by th'
breaking Of a rcEeryolr owned by th'
Water company.
The Denver q Boulder lnterurbat
Railway Company claims TO have Ee
cured NIL the right ~ way between
| Louisville and Bloomfield, and most al
| the right of way between Louisville
and Boulder. II also claims that mos'
| Of the right Of way has been secured
between Bloomfield Gpd Denver. AZ
| Denver connection Is to be mhde With
! IN. Trnmwny, company. nj Boulder
with the Boulder Electric Light ant
Power Company thus insurlng en-
! ffnnrrf into each aty.
a reunion Of M, pioneers Of 81
vrnin valley who came 10 the countr,
before 1871 wnA held Mt the Dickcni
opin houH, In Lnngmont June 30ih
| AZ noon nn elaborate banquet whi
served. and In the afternoon there wors
music and speeches, the speakers be
ing John Wells. J W, Bacon, e, 4 Con-
mnn, n. H. Conn and W W. Bnrch
Seventy -une mrn and cighiy-thror Ia