The La Jara chronicle., 1904-10-14
COLORADO NEWS ITEMS

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\ hospital in Pueblo.
4 The members of tliS Cripple Creek
Niue Owners association have issued
a positive denial OF the charge that
they intend to reduce wages.
A new banking SIS tuition. the
/ United States Nati9nal bank, has
/ been opened in Denlfr. w. A. Ho-
yer. wholesale drugsis.. IS president.
Eugene Hughes. aHlel in Greeley
to answer to the chara nf an assault
with intent to kill hi wife. was ar
rested at Cheyenne, W. U-ning, on the
! 9Th inst
1 d. G. c. Mcneil, fefmerly Of Colo
/ RADIO Springs, has purchased the street
railway franchise of Co ina, Mexico, a
/ city located on the COT $; of the Gulf
( of Mexico.
| F. S. Balster of DIT sngo. with his
/ wife and three daughteis,. mad narrow
escape from death on the 9Th inst.
when a bolt of lightning demolished
one end of his house.
1 F. NJ. GroSan of Pueblo is reported
to have found gold within or near the
/ city limits and has shown one pan
of earth containing fiy=-colors, mug
get and several rubies-
! A. A. Porter, man about eighty
years of age and for many years Jam
tor of the North Side school DuIiuIns
I in Golden, died suddenly on the Tth
4 inst while at work about the build
ing.
Frank Goetz. sentenced TO the State
Penitentiary from San sgan county Oc-
tober 9. 1903, to ter, of five years
for grand larceny. has had his SEN
tence commuted to from one TO tive
years.
The following postma rters have been
appointed for Colorado l.. S. Alfred,
at Kit Carson Cheyenne county, sue
ceeding John C. Murphy; Otis A. Wilt,
at Vulcan, Gunnison crunty, succeed
I ing Grace l.. Harvey.
The Colorado State Jedical Society
at its meeting in Denver elected DR..
Frank Tinney of La Junta president.
and DR.. j. NJ Blaine, Decver, secretary.
The next meeting will De at Colorado
Springs. October LIST to tth, 1905.
The sugar factory at Fort Collins
began operations Oct Der 10th. 1t
will keep at work YIN il it has con
verted the entire sec ipns crop Of
beets tributary to the factory, esti-
mated at 100000 tons into granuia-
ted sugar.
Newcastle people haN Incorporated
the Grand Valley Can ing Company
! with a capital stock o. 10000. 1t is
the purpose of the com my to erect a
factory at Newcastle IL ) winter so as
to be ready to handle next seasons
crop. C. A. Hahn is esident of the
! company and sam 'el. Doll, general
manager.
There. viii he nc .s.ss :, go, ..N, a.pnoiI.t
Ell for the late Cnaries rsriIartin, Sec
reary of the National Live Stock as
sociation, until the national conven-
ton to- be held in Denever next jan
uary. Mrs. II. e. Kennedy, chief
clerk in the general offices of the as
sociation. will attend to the duties of
the secretary.
For the first time in the history of
the Colorado Springs postofiice. the
amount of money order business for
fiscal year ending September 80,
exceeded the Sl.OOO.000 mark.
The amount was Sl.010,7S6.27, last
years figures being s90S, 1906. so
that a gain for the tweleve months
past was s1O2,3i0.22.
The Denver 6 Rio Grande Railroad
Company will park the grounds
around its depot at Colorado Springs. !
The parking tract adjoins that being
improved by Gen. w. J. Palmer. and
the entire territory. when improved,
will comprise park extending from
the depot more than mile north along
both banks of Monument creek.
Several wagon loads of apples were
given away on Apple Day. October
Sth. at the Douglas County fair in
Castle Rock Visitors were also
treated to watermelons. Ned Corvin, !
a Douglas county man, succeeded in
riding Pinears, the noted Routt coun
ty mare that has a record of throw
ing fiftyfour expert horsemen.
On October 1st the number of tourist
tickets on deposit in the offices at Den
YER Colorado Springs and Pueblo was
1886 under the number on deposit in
the three offices October l, 1903. The
total last year exceeded So 900. and this /.
year exceeds $4,000 tickets. This
heavy decrease in tourist travel is at
tributed to the Worlds Fair at ST.
Louis.
George c. Bachelor, aged 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 a liberal supply of to-
matoes and 700 head of cabbage.
Pueblo is said to pay more per pupil /
for education in the public schools |
than any other city in the country. The |
cost per pupil in District No / is s66 |
per year, and in District No 30. S52 per |
year. These two districts comprise the |
city of Pueblo. and it was shown at the 4
business mems meeting that the cost in 4
other cities range from s21 to SAT. /
Thirty-fve of the principal cities of the I
United States were used as compari- |
sons.
The Denver & Southwestern railway
system. at the sale in New York Octo-
ber 4th. was bought in by the holders
Of mortgage on the stock of the com
pany, who exchanged their bonds for
stock in new company. The change
is one in name only, as there will be
no change in the opera ion or manage
ment, but the system wi be called the
Cripple Creek Central. I he system en-
h, nd oil nd