The Colorado statesman., 1905-09-30
COLORADO NEWS ITEMS

A recruiting office for the navy will
be maintained in Denver from Octo-
Der 9th to 14th.
The Methodist ministers of Denver
are said to be planning extensive re-
vival meetings for next winter.
The Colorado Telephone Company
has commenced the work of placing all
its wires in Pueblo underground.
Elbert Hubbard, founder of the Roy
croft art-industry colony, will lecture
at Colorado Springs October 18th.
1t is estimated that the sugar beet
crop on the old English ranch of 27O
acres near Fort Collins will average
eighteen tons to the acre and bring
$4,000.
At Monument, September oath. Rob-
ert Bovard, Jr., the little son of Rob-
ert Bovard, was thrown from wagon
and had his right arm broken above
the elbow.
The broad-gauge railroad from Du-
range to Pennington, New Mexico, was
finished September 18th. All fruit
shipments from Pennington now come
to Durango by rail.
Harvey W. Hawley, editor and pro-
prietor of the Denver Times from 1888
to 1894, died at Berkeley, California
September 21st after an illness of
several years from paralysis.
President David Starr Jordan of the
Stanford University will be one of the
lecturers at the meeting of the Colo
rado State Teachers Association in
Denver December 26th to goth.
1t has been found that John Duncan,
who was run over and killed by
freight train at La Sale on the night
of September 18th, was an employe
at the Albany stables in Denver.
DR.. Alston Ellis, president of the
Ohio university at Athens, Ohio, who
was president of the Agricultural Col
lege of Colorado from 1892 to 1899, is
spending short vacation in Colorado.
H. w. Campbell of Lincoln, Ne
braska, whose experiments in dry
farming in the semi-arid regions have
made him world-famous; will speak at
the Chamber of Commerce luncheon in
Denver October 10th.
F. c. Smith, retiring general super
intendent of the Cripple Creek Short
Line, was presented with $3.50 gold
watch and chain by several of the
Short Line employees, previous to his
departure for New York.
Rufus Petit, full-blooded Cherokee
Indian and a graduate of Carlisle
school, enlisted at Trinidad few days
ago in the regular army as an infantry
private. Petit graduated from Car
Isle with the highest honors.
On September 21st more than LOO
Pueblans went to Canon City to at
tend the Fremont county fair. Each
n hn uh n
large cluster of grapes and the words,
pueblo Greets Canon City Sept. 81.
1906"
Gov. Joseph w. Folk, the celebrated
reform executive of Missouri, was a
guest Of the Denver Chamber of Com
merce luncheol September 21st and
made a ringing speech in behalf OF
clean government and the enforcement
OF the laws.
H. L. Hall, post trader for the Ute
Indians at Ignacio, Colorado, is author
ity for the statement that the name
given TO Pixies Peak by the Utes was
"Acowacadee," meaning RED Top
mountain" The accent is on the sec
ond syllable, cow"
A meeting has been called in Salida
by Marshal Herzinger for October 23d
and Gath for the organization of the
Colorado State Association of Chiefs
of Police. Mayors, city marshals and
heads of city detective departments
are eligible to membership.
A meeting will be held in Denver Oc-
tober goth to organize an association
for the purpose of promoting dry farm
ing in the semi-arid regions on the plan
known as the Campbell system. 1t is
proposed to call the organization "The
Campbell System Farming Associa-
tion"
The county commissioners of Pitkin
county have awarded the contract for
building the state road up Lincoln
gulch to the Florence Construction
Company Their bid was $4,000. 1t is
to be built from a point called the
Junction up the Roaring Fork to the
mine located at Difficult, a distance of
twelve miles.
Over 100000 trout are to be placed
in the streams of the Stonewall valley
Las Animas county, in the near future.
Fifty thousand go to the Stonewall
Country Club of Trinidad for the Las
Animas river; $4,000 for Russell
brothers of the Stonewall -1d about
$4,000 more are to be distributed in
other places in the valley.
The Northern Telephone Company
has filed articles of incorporation in
the office of the secretary of state. 1t
is Incorporated for $25O,000 by C. H.
Ramsay, S. H. Southard and H. C.
Bennett. The company proposes to OPP
crate in the counties of Denver, Lari-
mer, Boulder, Weld, Adams and Logan,
and will maintain headquarters in the
county seats of all these counties.
Fifteen great church bells for the
chimes of st. Johns cathedral in Den.
yer were landed at New Orleans a few
days ago, having been brought over
from Germany by the steamship Bos
MIA. The sizes of the bells range from
the r,,,nllont ,.rl,iol, is- N ho,,t n foot N 7, 4