The Colorado statesman., 1905-06-03
COLORADO NEWS ITEMS

TO July ZOtu-
A good deal of damage was done by
a destructive hailstorm between Ar
vada and Golden on the afternoon OF
May 9th.
The five Grand Army posts Of Den
yer will unite in holding great June
Fair and Festival at Denver June 21st
to July LIST.
Many men are going from Trinidad
to work on the construction of the new
railroad from Durango to Pennington,
New Mexico.
Edwin Williams, formerly at the
head of the sampling works at Boul-
der. died May Gath in Idaho, where he
was engaged in mining
Many thousands acres of peat
lands have been discovered near Toll
land on the Moffat road, and plans are
being formulated for the manufacture
of fuel from it.
Heavy storms on May 9th caused
the breakage of the dams of the Crater
and Dog Fish reservoirs, near Delta,
Hansons reservoir near Paonia, and
the Irwin dam near Holyoke.
The Gore canon case came up in the
federal court at Denver May 25th and
arguments were postponed until June
18th in order to give the attorneys on
both sides time to file their affidavits-
The six-year-old daughter of Mr..
and Mrs. John Ryan of Pryor, Huer-
fano county, set her dress on fire while
working at the kitchen stove on the
29th ult, and was so badly burned that
she died next day.
]. NJ. Hollands big ranch, twenty
nine miles northeast of Pueblo has
been sold to ]. ]. Rose of Colorado
Springs for $65,000. The ranch COM
prises many acres and several thou
sand head of cattle.
The Empson Canning Company at
Longmont is increasing the capacity OF
it's plant for the seasons run on peas.
When the machinery now arriving is
in place, the factory will have capac-
ity of 10000 cans of peas per hour.
The new armory building of Com
pany d, National Guard, at Greeley.
will be 11Sx54 feet in size, with drill
| hall 95x54 feet. Officers and company
| quarters will be nicely fitted up, and
will be free headquarters for the G..
A. R.
The United Brotherhood of Railway
Trainmen, the Eagles, the letter car
riers' union and the carpenters union
are considering the building of homes
and sanitariums in Colorado for the
benefit of their members throughout
the country.
The cog road reached the summit of
Pixies Peak May Goth with its first
train this year. In order to open the
| track a force of 100 men was kept at
| work for six weeks and removed 4,O00,-
| 900 cubic feet of ice and snow from the
right of way.
| An open competitive examination
Las been announced to be held in Bal
+, ley, Park county, July 18th, 18th and
18th for the position of forest ranger
in the bureau of forestry, Department
| of Agriculture, to be conducted by an
officer of the forestry reserve.
A movement is on foot to run cable
railway to the top of Republican noun
tain at Georgetown and Silver Plume.
AS projected the new road will be a
mile and half long and will be com
pleted in the spring of 1907. The view
of the front range and the great plains
from this point is one of the finest in
! the state.
C. B. Cooper of the American De
Forest Wireless Telegraph Company
has selected a site for the main receiv-
ing station for the Cripple Creek dis
! trict 1t is at point west of the Amer
lean Eagles mine on Bull hill, at which
point receiving station will be estab-
lished. The altitude of Bull hill is
above 10000 feet.
| Harry A. Mills, between twenty-five
and twenty-eight years of age, con
ductor on the High Line electric road,
was killed at o'clock on the morning
of May 2Sth, at Midway, in the Cripple
Creek district. His death was at first
attributed to a shock of electricity,
but later it became evident that he
was caught between the cars.
w. S. Ulrich, former postmaster at
Manchester, Wyoming, lately en-
pioyed by the street car company of
Pueblo, Colorado, pleaded guilty in the
United States court at Cheyenne to a
charge of raising receipt from
S101.37 to S171.37, and was sentenced
by Judge Riner to serve one year and
one day in the state penitentiary.
Through the efforts of the board of
trade beet sugar company has
agreed to put in factory at Durango
If a guarantee can be obtained that s.
900 acres of beets will be planted. The
beet sugar committee of the board of
trade claims that a guarantee of 10000
acres can be given and will at once
start to make a canvass among the
farmers to secure contracts.
Colorado Springs and Denver are
becoming cities of national homes. A
national sanitarium for Swedes, and
another for members of the Evangel
ical Lutheran Church, as well as a
third devoted to the order of B'nai
Birth, are located in Denver. Colorado
Springs now has the International
Printers Home and the National
Lodge of Odd Fellows is planning to
build.
/, The following changes have been an
nounced in the salaries of Colorado
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