The La Jara chronicle., 1904-10-28
COLORADO NEWS ITEMS

Mr.. John Hall picked some ripe
Strawberries from under the snow at
Boulder on the 18th inst
The ground is being cleared for the
new Carnegie Library building in Dem
yer and the board will soon advertise
for bids for its construction.
The knights of Columbus have sub
scribed $4,000 toward the erection Of
a $4,000 club building in Denver and
expect to raise the balance soon.
Harley Laufman, a prominent young
ranchman living about eight miles
southeast of Lamar was killed in Il
runaway accident on the 10th inst.
Mrs. Schier of Pueblo thickened her
soup with rat biscuit. which she mis-
took for crackers, and only the vigor-
GUS use of II stomach pump saved the
lives of the family.
Prof C. A. Bradley. principal of the
Manual Training high school in Den
Der, says that more than one-third OF
the pupils who complete the grammar
school enter the high school.
In the District Court at Denver Judge
Palmer has decided that the boys and
girls in the State Home for Dependent
Children are entitled to be enrolled in
the Denver public schools.
The churches of Denver are planning
revival services on large scale to be
gin January LIST. j. Wilbur Chapman.
a noted evangelist of New York City,
will have charge Of the meetings.
The Pueblo Business Mems Associa-
ton has selected committee of five
TO confer with two woolen manufactur-
ers for the purpose of installing plant
that will employ 200 men at the start.
Governor Peabody has appointed DR..
Leroy c. Hedges of Grand Junction as
a member of the State Board of Medi-
cal Examiners. to fill the vacancy
caused by the resignation of DR.. c. f.
Slough.
DR.. W. A. Bell has purchased the
Mansions hotel and the site of the for
mer Manitou house adjoining. in Mani
tou, from the Manitou- Mansions Hotel
Company. The sale was made to salts
fy mortgages.
Gen. Frank d. Baldwin. commanding
the Department of the Colorado. will
ask from the coming Congress an ap-
preparation of $500 900 to be used in tho
enlargement and improvement of Fort
Logan at Denver.
The tax levy of the town of Greeley
for the year 1904 has been placed at
year. The total valuation of city prop
erty is 81 .3sS,6 Cos. This will give an in
come of s2O,S29S2.
Judge Ben B. Lindsey. who has be-
come famous through his juvenile
court work in Denver, is to write n
book book on THE Problem of the
Child" for the Macmillan Publishing
Company of New York. --s- ---------.-
The application of d. II. Staley, b. U.
Jamison, Z. l.. Foster. A. II. Barth and
II. Il. Brown to organize the First Ma
tional Bank of Arvada. Colorado, with
$4,000 capital, has been approved by
the comptroller of the currency.
Hugh Anderson, married man about
fifty years of age, was instantly killed
at Buena Vista on the 18th inst by be-
ing thrown under a wagon loaded with
hay. He slipped while climbing on the
wagon and the team ran away.
A plot by which twenty-five prison.
ers expected to escape from the Weld
county Jail on the 18th inst, and, If
necessary. kill the jailer. was frus-
trated by one of the prisoners revealing
the whole affair to Jailer Eugene VIII
liams.
The City Council of Colorado Springs
has determined to close the so-called
social clubs in that city and all organ
izations carrying on n saloon business
under the guise of club will be given
notice to cease the sale of liquir, or be
closed.
p. J. Brian, a well-known cattleman
of Montrose. was killed on the 18th
inst by falling from a stock train rear
the depot at Eads, in Kiowa county =
was going to st. Louis to join hls
and two children as soon as his stock
were disposed of.
Capt Charles L. Eymann Of the Den
yer Fire Department died eNoyember
21st from the effects of nitric acid
fumes inhaled at the time of the disas-
ter in the etching room of the Denver
Post, being the fourth person to die
from that cause.
Great preparations are being made
in Denver for the annual meeting of
the National Live Stock Association,
January 10 to 14th. The association
will be reorganized at that time and
Denver will have dozen conventions
instead of one, for all the interests that
are concerned with the live stock men
in the proceedings of the association
will meet at the same time.
The secretary of the interior. acting
dent. has ordered the land officers at
Pueblo to restore to entry S2,560 acres
of land lying thirty miles west of Pu-
eblo, that was temporarily withdrawn
with view of creating the Wet Noun
tain forest reserve. No entries or FL
ings can be made on these lands until
after the expiration of ninety days.
The report of the State Board of
Health for September shows that there
were 1856 deaths in the state during
the month, 395 being from typhoid,
nine more than died from that disease
In September. 1903. There were sew
enty-one deaths from diphtheria, forty
five from scarlet fever and nineteen
from smallpox. all these diseases
showing decrease from the previous
year.
At the Worlds Fair in st. Louis the
Colorado state school exhibit took a
grand prize, the Denver elementary
school took gold medal. the Denver
high school gold medal. and the Man
ual Training and Art school gold
medal. The state of Colorado has
taken three grand prizes. twelve gold
medals, eleven silver medals and four