The Colorado statesman., 1905-04-15
COLORADO NEWS ITEMS

Active work has been commenced
on the foundations of the new union
depot at Grand Junction.
Thomas w. Jaycox has been ap-
pointed state engineer by Governor
Mcdonald to succeed Prof. l.. C. Car
penter.
A twelve per cent. dividend has been
declared in favor of the creditors of the
bankrupt Overland Cotton Mills Com
pany at Denver.
F. S. Mcnamara, purchasing agent
of the Colorado & Southern at Denver.
has been appointed purchasing agent
of the Cripple Creek Short Line.
NJ. E. Sloan, official OF the federal
census bureau, is in Denver, directing
and supervising the work of making
census of the manufacturing Industrial
business Of Colorado.
The Department of Colorado and
Wyoming, G. A. R., will hold it's an
,nual encampment at Denver May 18th
to 18th. National Commander Black
mar is expected to be present
Governor Hoch, the lighting" Kan
sas governor, will be one of the speak
ers at the Epworth League convention
in Denver this year. His subject will
be '"rhe Problems We Face"
Benjamin Franklin of Fort Collins
will enter the employ of the reclama-
tios service May 18th as masonry in
spector, and will be detailed to the
Belle Fourche project, South Dakota.
Aaron Cove, former superintendent
of public schools in Denver, is plan
ming for an extensive tour of the East,
including China, and expects to sail
from San Francisco the first week in
May.
Las Animas county is to have a dis
tillery. E. Caddell of Walsenburg has
purchased tract of land near Agui-
lar and has commenced plans for five
buildings which will constitute the dis
tillery.
Denver will try hard to secure the
location of the national home for letter
carriers and will send a strong delega-
ton, accompanied by brass band, to
the convention at Portland next Sep
tember.
delegation of the Denver Chamber
Of Commerce and other business men.
yclept boosters" will start on an
other trade expansion tour May 1st;
this time to points in Utah, Idaho and
Wyoming.
go power plant while riding on the
front end of street car at Durango
on the 4th instant, was injured by
striking his head against bridge and
died next day.
The Colorado Automobile Club.
which was to have held an uphill race
at Fort Logan the middle of April, has
postponed the race until the middle of
May. 1t was feared that April mud
would make it uphill work.
The country newspaper that James
Barton Adams is about to establish
in his mind-will be described in a pa
per to be read by the celebrated
Postscript Man" at the newspaper
gathering at Montrose next June
Spontaneous combustion among a
new lot of green" Easter celluloid
novelties in the stock room of tas Den
yer Dry Goods Company at Denver
caused $4,000 fire and endangered
stock worth several hundred thousand
dollars.
Five thousand electricians from all
over the United States will attend the
annual convention of the National
Electric Light Association in Denver,
beginning June 9Th. The last two days
Springs.
Mrs. Birdie Meats, accused of kid
naping, was acquitted in Justice Ru-
by's court at Colorado Springs, the
judge holding that the mother had an
equal right to the child with its IA
ther, who was recently divorced from
the defendant
A southern Colorado interscholastic
rNr.ot otN,- -t.a,I
the direction of Colorado College and
Cutler Academy in connection with the
first annual track meet which takes
place at Washburn field, Colorado
Springs, April 29th.
The Colorado State Board of Health
met in Denver April 10th and effected
an organization as follows: DR.. w. H.
Davis, president; DR.. George C. Ste
men, vice president; DIR. F. n. Currier
of canon City, treasurer; DR.. dugh L,
Taylor, secretary.
William Webster. postmaster at
Box Elder, in Larimer county, died
suddenly on the 5th instant at the age
OF seventy-three years. He had been
postmaster through several admins
trations and was probably the oldest
postmaster in Colorado.
MT. ana MrS. JOnn Platt celebrated
their golden wedding at Greeley April
7th and Mrs. Platt received a letter
of congratulation from her mother at
Mendoza, Illinois. who is ninety-seven
years old. 1t is not often that a
mother survives the date of her daugh-
ter's golden wedding.
The Pueblo Orphanage Association
has been formed and Incorporated by
the Protestant churches of Pueblo as
purely charitable enterprise Tenn
porary quarters will be opened at the
Deaconess home and the directors of
the association will begin raising funds
at once to purchase or construct suit
able building.
Applications have been made in the