The La Jara chronicle. (La Jara, Conejos County, Colo.) 1896-19??, 1904-11-25
COLORADO NEWS ITEMS

lcan nag has been dismissed.
The general missionary committee of
the Methodist church has appropriated
$4,000 for use in Colorado during the
coming year.
The Indians who came into Colorado
from the Utah reservation on their an
nual hunt have been persuaded to re-
turn after killing few deer.
The El Paso County Horticultural
Society has decided to hold the next
exhibition in Colorado Springs on
August 23. "a and 25, 1905.
AS soon as the St. Louis Exposition
closes the mining machinery in opera
tion in the government building will
be shipped tc Denver and set up.
]. E. Anderson of Trinidad has re-
ceived an appointment as captain in
the Chinese army He was formerly
adjutant of the Twentieth Kansas.
Glenwood Springs will vote some
time in December on the renewal of
the franchise of the Glenwood Light
and Power Company, which expires in
1907.
The Denver & Rio Grande railroad
will build an ice plant at Pueblo that
will have a capacity of 5000 tons and
all the latest devices for manufacture
ing ice.
Special plans are being made for the
entertainment OF the newspaper men
who visit Denver at the time of the
meeting of National Live Stock Asso-
citation January 9Th.
The average yield of beets per acre
In the Greeley, Eaton and Windsor
sugar districts this year is reported
at fifteen tons, as compared with
twelve tons in 1908 and nine tons in
1902.
Dr. Jacob Eisenhut, aged 104 years.
made a speech and sang two songs at
the celebration of the anniversary of
Swiss independence held by the people
of that nationality in Denver few
days ago.
The sum paid to employees at the Pu-
eblo steel works on November 18th and
10th amounted to s250,O00. This is the
largest pay day since October. 1903. The
largest in the history of the company
was 100000
Governor Bailey of Kansas has re-
fused a requisition from Governor Pea
body for the return of Earl Daniels to
Castle Rock to be tried on the charge
OF larceny. The evidence adduced was
not satisfactory.
w. H. Tuttle, conductor on the Col
orado Midland. paid an election bet by
grinding a hand-organ for an hour in
front of the Mesa County Bank at
Grand Junction. He had a cup and col
lected $21.34 for charity.
President C. w. Sells of the Manitou
G. Pixies Peak Railway Company will
go to New York to complete his in
vestigation of the electrical system of
nj hnfnrn in
stalling the system on the cog road to
Pixies peak.
The county commissioners of Weld
county have appropriated $3.50 to the
Colorado State Realty Association for
the purpose of advertising the Greeley
district by the Gilbert McClurg lee
lures, which are said to have benefited
the district.
BY vote of 143 to the Montezuma
valley irrigation district has voted to
bond itself for 100000 for the con-
struction of its irrigation system. The
proposed system will cover 100000
acres, much of which is open to settle
ment under government laws.
Governor Peabody has appointed five
delegates to represent Colorado at the
American Forest Congress, to be held
in Washington, ID. c.. the first week in
January. The delegates are Thomas
Walsh, Walter Cheesman, Mark Wood
ruff, Irving w. Howbert and A. Is.
Hoyt of Grand Junction.
OF nearly 600 patients admitted to
the National Jewish Hospital for Con-
sumptives at Denver within the last
four years. only thirty-six have died
within the institution according to the
annual report just issued by Alfred
Muller, secretary. Seventy-nine admit
| ted during the first year are still in the
hospital.
G. Gavin of Colorado Springs has
been cured of deafness by faith. He
declares that his profession of faith
at the services of the Assembly of
God in Temple theater almost COM
pletely restored his hearing. While
formerly he was unable to hear with
out an ear trumpet, now he detects
sounds easily.
| Count Pasquale Corte Italian consul,
at Denver, visited Trinidad on business
connected with the affairs of the nine
teen Italians killed by the explosion in
the mine at Tercio. He reports that
all of them leave families in Italy.
Rocco Di Gregorio left considerable
estate in the old country, but the 9TH
ers were poor men.
Elaborate plans will be perfected at
Colorado Springs for the entertain
ment of the National Electric Light
Association, which will hold six
days session, three in Denver and
three in Colorado Springs next June.
A complimentary trip over the Grip
pie Creek Short Line and other ex-
cursions will be rendered
Three hundred thousand dollars was
paid to the farmers on the 18th inst.
for their October delivery of beets by
the owners of the Greeley, Eaton and
Windsor sugar factories. This was
the first payment this season, and ex-
ceeds that of last year by several
thousa dollars. The payment was
for 10000 tons of beets at IS ton.
Former State Senator Henry Boil
( singer, who has been in the State In
sane Asylum at Pueblo, has been re-
leased on parole and taken back to his
home at Central City in custody of a
brother. Senator Bolsinger became de-
/ ranged during the Democratic state
convention, but the attack was not Sc
rious and as soon as he reached Pueblo
he seemed to be in his right mind.