The Colorado statesman., 1905-07-29
COLORADO NEWS ITEMS

James Biggs committed suicide at
Boulder on the 18th inst. by hanging
himself. He leaves a widow and two
small children.
The seventh annual exhibition of the
Ell Paso County Horticultural Society
will be held at Colorado Springs Au-
gust 2Srd to 25th.
The Denver Chamber of Commerce
Is planning a big excursion over the
Moffat road when the line is completed
to Hot Sulphur Springs.
| Greedy is to have a new city hall at
cost of $4,000 and a new armory
building costing $1,000, to be rented
by the builder to the state.
Company B of the First infantry, N.
G. c., was mustered out at Pueblo
July goth. A new company to take it's
place will be organized next fall.
DR.. Charles G. Lamb, state veterin-
arian, reports that it was not anthrax
but bad feed and water that killed fif-
teen head of cattle at Amity recently.
Colorado Springs and eastern capi-
talists are interested in the develop
ment of $500 acres of promising coal
land in La Plata and Archuleta coun-
ties.
At Brookside, Fremont county, on
the afternoon of July 18th, Felix Mos
chetti shot and killed Camilla Yer
lengia, whom he accused of having in
suited his wife.
After snowballing frolic on Rollins
pass of the Moffat road the other day,
lady tourist found the fingers of one
of her hands badly frost-bitten. And
frost bite in July is as bad as in Janu-
| ary.
The old Palisades hotel at Gunnison
was burned on the morning of the 18th
inst. 1t was built about twenty-five
years ago at reported cost of 100000
and was insured for a considerable
sum.
The water users under the city ditch
at Denver won their suit against the
park commissioners, who had raised
rates from $1.25 to 50 an inch. The
District Court holds that the former
price must rule.
Leroy Triplett, convicted at Denver
of the murder of Lafayette Marsh
banks on the night of June 10th, was
sentenced by Judge Booth Malone to a
term of from twenty to twenty-five
years in the penitentiary.
E. A. Frish, senior conductor in the
Salida division, Order of Railway Con-
/ ductors, committed suicide at Salida,
July 21st, by cutting his throat with
razor. His wife died last October and
he leaves one child, four-year-old
daughter.
! The new city directory now being
printed for Florence contains the
names of 2,25S people There are 1900
school children in addition to 1900
young people whose names do not ap-
pear in the directory, giving the city
a population of 1900.
The state memorial statue to be
erected in honor of the Coloradans
who served in the Civil War, for which
$4,000 was appropriated by the last
Legislature, will be placed in front OF
the capitol building in Denver, where
the fiagpole now stands.
Mrs. Ben Davis and her two-year-old
baby boy and sixteen-year-old daughter
Alga, were hurled over seventy-five-
foot cliff to the bottom of the gulch in
a runaway, near Carbondale July 21st,
all of them being seriously, but it is
hoped not dangerously, injured.
Melvin Acorn, the eager employed in
the 10 Dandy mine on Raven hill at
Cripple Creek, was killed on the 10Th
inst, by falling off the cage and going
down the shaft 12O feet. He had gone
down to the fourth level to bring the
miners up to surface for dinner.
The cornerstone of the new Simon
Guggenheim hall, to be used as the
administration building for the State
School of Mines at Golden, will be
laid September 30th. Mr.. Guggenheim' 8
first donation for this building was
$4,000. which was recently raised to
$75, 1000
The Department of the Interior has
authorized the opening of Office for the
forestry reserve in the Barclay block
at Denver. The offices will be under
the charge of James H. Clark. district
forester. Recently $65,O0O was set
aside for the use of this department in
the West
County Judge Jesse H. Lewis of
Mineral county died at Creede July
22d in the sixty-third year of his age.
! He was serving his third term as
county Judge. Judge Lewis came to
Creede in 1892 and was for several
years editor and proprietor of the
Creede News.
| The new city directory estimates
Colorado Springs to have population
of 3S,547, Colorado City 6,140, and
Manitou 1850. This is estimated by
multiplying the actual names by two
and one-half Colorado Springs gains
1,1S0 over last year, Colorado City 943,
and Manitou 295.
According to the figures checked up
by the Western Passenger Association
in Denver, the number of persons who
came to Denver on account of the Ep-
worth League convention was $500.
This included delegates and others
who took advantage of the low rates
at the time of the convention.
John w. Holes of Bradner, Ohio,
Ohio, has written to the governor that