The state herald., 1904-07-22
COLORADO NEWS ITEMS

| Cooperative store at Salida.
The farmers clubs of Garfield co,rn.
ty have fixed the date for the county
fair at September 22d, 23d and cath.
United States Senator Carmack of
Tennessee will deliver an address at
the Boulder Chautauqua on Democrat
ic Day.
A relief fund has been started for
the benefit OF the victims of the lnde-
pendence depot explosion in the Grip
pie Creek district.
Peter Bloom, an old prospector liv-
Ing at Empire station, committed sui
eide at Idaho Springs on the 11th inst
| by taking carbolic acid.
Four white women and fourteen
| colored women confined in the county
Jail at Denver are reported to be nurs-
ing race feud.
The Rocky Mountain Chautauqua at
Glen Park began it, summer session
| July 18th Rev. b. T. Vincent, DID,
presided and made the principal ad.
dress.
| The Denver team of the Western
Baseball League has been playing well
in the lead for some time, win Colo
RADIO Springs second. Colorado is in
1t this year.
The people of Greeley have started
crusade against the cotton-bearing
cottonwood trees and are marking a
great number of them to be cut down
at later date
Lawrence Federico one of the larg-
est maccaroni manufacturers in the
South, talks OF eStav.Io4Ing branch
factory in Colorado and has been ia
vorably impressed with Pueblo.
! DIR. Ellsworth Gage Lancaster, as
sistant professor of philosophy and
pedagogy at Colorado College, has for
mally accepted the presidency of Oil
vet College at Olivet, Michigan.
The body of John owens. who was
drowned in the Cache la Poudre flood
OF May 2lst, was found near Fort Col
inns July 18th. Owens, who was sew
enty-three years of age, lived in a dug
out on the river bank.
B Secretary Henry Russell Wray of
the Colorado Springs Chamber of Com
merce has inaugurated a movement to
celebrate the centennial anniversary
of the discovery Of Pixies Peak in 1906
by Lieutenant Zebulon Pike.
The relief fund for the benefit of the
families of victims of the lndepend-
ence dynamite outrage. is increasing
rapidly. Already $3.635 has been do
mated in cash. The picnic for the re-
lief fund will be held August list.
On the evening of the 18th inst. n
fire in the suphide fiber plant of the
Rocky Mountain Paper Company at
Denver caused damages estimated at
about $4,000. The plant war insured
and will be rebuilt at once.
State Senator Cashmere Barela and
eIghty.four other former Democrats of
Las Animas county have Issued a
statement telling why they have trans
ferred their allegiance from the Dem
ocratic to the Republican party.
A notable gathering of workers will
meet in Denver September 29th, wnen
the general board Of managers OF the
Woman's Home Missionary Society OF
the Methodist Episcopal Church opens
in Trinity Church It's twenty-thlrd an
nual convention.
, President ]. +. Topping OF the State
Fair Association at Pueblo is making
u tour of the western part OF the state
for the purpose OF securing live stock
entries for the fair At present the
entries are coming In as rapidly as
they can be cared for,
Prof. c. Juday, who has been acting
biologist OF the University of Colorado
during the absence OF DR.. Ramaley in
India, has been asked to make a spe-
clal study OF the food and feeding hab-
its OF the famous golden trout OF
Mount NAfhItpar ralIfRVnlu
Mayor speer OF Denver has appoint
cd an art commission OF six members
who viii have control OF all public
monuments and decorations. Hereafter
the city cannot become the owner OF
any such work OF art until II has
= been approved by the commission.
A small run was begun on the Bank
Of Victor on the 18th Inst. II being re.
ported that David II. Monat. the prin'
cipal stakeholder was about 10 with
draw his support. He settled the mat.
ter by telegraphing that he was the
sole owner and II necessary would
send money to pay all depositors.
Probably the oldest book of records
existing In Weld county has been I'M
covered from n heap OF books and rub
bish In the court house nt Greeley. The
book records the meeting of the set
tiers OF the ST. vrain country Mt old
Fort st. Vrain, October G. 1853. for the
purpose OF founding claim club,
The Jury In the condemnation suit
at Greeley. brought by the Boulder
and Weld Reservoir Company TO &c
cure right of way for the outlet
ditch OF the reservoir from John God.
ding banker Of Rocky Ford, who
wanted s. 600 damages, returned ycr.
diet giving tho defendant $1,000 dam.
ages.
one hundred mnChlnlsts. brick ma.
sons and laborers have been put 10
work getting tho finishing end ot the
steel works rail mill nt Pueblo ready
for operation The building for this de.
pnrtmont IN 800 feet long and has been
erected some time, The machinery.
much of which II OF the automatic
type. IN TO be Installed as quickly ms
possible,
Large numbers Of japanese work.
men are being brought 20 Pueblo 10
work for the Colorado Fuel and Iron
Company. Most Of thom are employed
In the yards, aud hs many Russians
are now ON tho yard gangs the JapH
and Russians will be required TO work
side by side They are being closely
watched to prevent any possible hos.
tile outbreaks ON the part OF either.
rolumbins pask IA the name of a