The La Jara chronicle. (La Jara, Conejos County, Colo.) 1896-19??, 1905-06-16
COLORADO NEWS ITEMS


organization that has been organized
to boost Pueblo.
An unusual number OF tourists have
visited the top of Pixies Peak in May
and June this year.
Thomas Millard. formerly Pueblo
policeman, has fallen heir to $4,000
estate in Scotland.
By the action of the Salt Lake con-
vention permanent headquarters OF the
Western Federation Of Miners Will be
continued at Denver.
A complete school census for the
county of Pueblo shows 15.O04 children
of school age. This is an increase OF
200 over last year.
The annual convention of the Colo
RADIO State Realty Association will be
held at Colorado Springs June 2Oth
to 23d. The programme includes ad-
dresses by many prominent men.
The Denver baseball team has
reached second place in the Western
league and has an eye on the cham
pionship. Colorado Springs Will have
to hurry" to escape the BOBBY prize
Money is being raised for the con-
struction of a woman's pavilion at the
National Jewish Home for Consump-
tives. The sum of $4,000 is wanted.
over $500 of which has already been
subscribed.
Edward Carberry. one of the most
noted detectives on the Denver police
force died on the 10th inst. of heart
disease. Mr.. Carberry was night mar
shall of Cripple Creek IN 1896 and
1897.
Pueblo cackles as follows in tele-
graphic dispatch: H. C. Welch of East
Second street has hen which yester-
day produced an egg measuring nine
and three-fourths inches at its greatest
circumference and eight inches around
the center
At a conference between Director OF
the Mint Roberts and superintendent
Downer of Denver. the appointment OF
Fred II. Chaffin as cashier of the Den
yer mint was decided upon and his
commission was made out to take ef-
feet July 1st.
Charles Swaney, who was sentenced
to a sixty days term in the county
Jail at Grand Junction for assaulting
Judge W. A. Marsh in the office OF tho
latter. has been pardoned by Governor
Mcdonald. He had served one-half OF
his sentence.
The Philippine veterans of Colorado
will hold their annual reunion at Colo
RADIO Springs July 22d and 23d. There
are a large number of the boys in the
state who belonged to the First Colo
RADIO. Thirty-fourth volunteers and
other organizations.
During the last sixty days twenty
two cases of violent deaths have been
handled by the coroner Of Las Animas
county and this number does not in
A. lr N
the mines. Murder. suicide and the
railroads contribute to the list.
Forest Supervisor ]. H. Clark is in
Colorado Springs preparatory to In
auguarating the work of planting 5O.-
900 Nebraska seedlings in the Pixies
Peak forest reserve. Approximately
1000 900 feet of dead timber will be
sold of the south reserve this year.
The Board of County Commissioners
of Pueblo county has formally ac-
cepted the offer OF Orman & Crook.
bondsmen, to pay to the county treas
urer the sum of S3.312.90. which is the
amount Pueblo county actually lost by
the failure of the Bank of Pueblo in
1893.
Candidates for admission to the bar
in Colorado will appear before the
State Board OF Examiners June 23d-
gath. The examinations are usually
held at the capitol in one of the legis-
lative chambers. There are indications
that there will be large class this
year.
The El Paso County horticultural
Society is completing plans for the
seventh annual flower show. A new
feature this year will be the presenta-
tion of blue ribbon diplomas for the
highest awards. The show will be
given in Colorado Springs August 23d,
gath and 25th.
John Cameron, as trustee for the
city of Pueblo, has filed in the office
of the state engineer plats of the
Greenhorn reservoir. twenty-nine miles
west of Pueblo. The site was pre-
sented to the city by former State En-
gineer ]. S. Green and is designed to
be used at some time to supply Pueblo
with mountain water.
A contribution of $500 has been
made Jointly by the Denver & Rio
Grande, the Colorado & Southern and
the Colorado Midland railroads to the
Grand Army general executive COM
mittee for the fund to be used in the
entertainment of the delegates to the
National G. A. r. encampment at Den
yer next September.
The board of control has decided
that any measures, no matter how
stringent. necessary to prevent the
repetition OF an outbreak similar to
that which recently occurred at the
State Industrial School for Girls. will
be adopted in the future. The damage
done during the late outbreak is now
said to be only about $3O0-hardly a
tenth OF what was first reported.
Carl Chamberlain, one of the execu-
tors of the Stratton estate, was Sc
verely but not dangerously injured in
an automobile accident two miles north
of Sedalia. He was on his way home
from Denver when bolt of lightning
stunned him and before he could stop
the machine 1t went off bridge and
landed upon its side In the creek nine
feet below.
May Wood and Ethel Robinson, two
girls nineteen and twenty years of age
respectively. who escaped from the In
dustrial school near Denver during the
recent fracas, were caught by Sheriff
Thomas and Marshal Russell at La.
mar and sent back to the institution.