The Colorado statesman., 1905-07-01
COLORADO NEWS ITEMS

The Western Passenger Association
will grant excursion rates from all
towns in Colorado to the state fair at
Pueblo in September.
Approximately 100 Texas girls who
will spend two months in Colorado
Springs and vicinity have rented
Hagerman hall of Colorado College for
the season.
Campbell Summers, aged about
twenty years, was killed by the break
ing of pole in a sort of merry-go-
round arrangement at a Swedish pic
mic near Pueblo June 25th.
President Lee De Forest of the wire
less telegraph company of that name
will be in Colorado Springs to per-
sonally superintend the construction
of the system on the summit of Pixies
Peak.
The application of Edmund Kelley
OF Pagoda, Colorado, for permission to
construct an irrigation ditch in the
White River forest reserve has been
approved by the Forest Service at
Washington.
, The First National Bank of Granada,
Colorado, has been authorized to begin
business with $4,000 capital. Starr
G. Gregory is president; Limburn
Boggs, vice president, and James
Mayfield. cashier.
The premium list of the Colorado
State Fair, beginning at Pueblo, Sep
tember 1st. has been printed. There
are a large number of premiums in
all departments, calculated to bring
out fine display.
James r. Mcclure, formerly miner
at Goldfield. Colorado, committed sui
eide at Trinidad June 9th by shooting
himself through the head. He was
fifty-fve years of age and leaves a
wife, son and daughter.
Max Rub. formerly editor of the
Glasmik of Calumet. Michigan, has
purchased the printing apparatus and
good will of the Mir Publishing Com
pany and will publish weekly Aus.
trian newspaper at Pueblo.
A movement is on foot among the
school people of Colorado to raise a
fund sufficient to install an educational
exhibit at the Portland fair, the state
board of managers not having money
enough for this purpose.
The University of Colorado has se-
cured Prof. Saul Epsteen to fill the
vacancy in the department of mathe-
Imatics, caused by the departure OF
Prof. Arnold Emch, who has accepted
chair of mathematics in Switzer
land.
Charles o. Peters, the remaining
one of the trio of Youngblood muir
derers, who was reprieved on account
of alleged insanity, is said to be rap
idly growing worse at Canon City and
n iS aynQpfad fn live than
few months.
The application of M. l.. Moore, L. ].
Smith, H. P. Forsythe, R. M. Handy
and ]. H. Rosdiger to organize the Nor
gan County National Bank of Fort
Morgan, Colorado, with $4,000 capi-
tai, has been approved by the comp
troller of the currency.
The trade excursion Of the Pueblo
Business Mems Association will mus
ter about 100 business men and a
brass band. They will leave Pueblo
August 7th and return August 14th.
including Durango, Montrose and
other western slope towns.
The Union Printers Home in Colo
RADIO Springs, erected for old and indi-
gent members of the International
Typographical Union, is rapidly be-
coming crowded to it's capacity, now
having 1877 inmates. The trustees
have been notified of this condition.
At the request of the members of
the Grand Army the opening of the
fall term of the public schools in Den
yer has been postponed one week. to
September 18th, on account of the
holding of the national encampment
of the G. A. r. in Denver during the
week of September 4th.
Several members of the religious or
ganization known as the Jumpers"
have been imprisoned and set to work
on the rock pile at Colorado Springs
for too noisy demonstrations on the
streets. Their attorney in defending
them said: "If Christ were in Colo
RADIO Springs to-day he would annoy
some people. The logic which put
these Jumpers in jail would place
Jesus Christ on the rock pile if he
were here"
Judge B. B. Lindsey and Secretary
j. T. Burns of the Colorado State
Realty Association, who is also a
member of the Portland fair commits
sion, will make an effort to secure
next years convention of the National
Association of Charities and Correc-
tion for Denver The convention this
year will be held at Portland, Oregon.
July 15-17th. Judge Lindsey is dele
gate and a member of the executive
committee.
Eight miles of the new beet railway
owned by the Greeley. Eaton and
Windsor sugar factories. connecting
Windsor and vicinity with the Eaton
country. were completed June oath.
Seventy-five men and teams are still
working on the road, which will be
fourteen miles long. This road will
open up the country to the north of
Windsor and west of Eaton. which
heretofore has had to contend with
long hauls in getting farm produce to
market.
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