The state herald., 1905-09-15
COLORADO NEWS ITEMS

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Rev. Henry j. C, Gerland, pastor of
the German Evangelical Lutheran
church on Evans avenue, died on the
9th inst.
w. Van Austen of Crested Butte,
who marched in the Grand Army pa
rade at Denver is past eighty-three
years of age.
Victor was pretty badly flooded by
IN electric storm on the night of the
9Th inst. There was a heavy fall OF
both rain and hail,
Gilbert McClmg has been employed
by Denver business men to give
twenty lectures on Colorado at the
Portland exposition.
The success of the recent Harvest
Day festival. at Greeley has resulted
In the formation Of an organization 10
make 1t an annra! affair
Mayor Conner Of Cripple Creek ap-
pointed committee of 500 citizens to
entertain the Visiting members of the
Grand Army OF the Republic.
James Alvord a miner working the
Mammoth shaft al Leadville. was
killed on the 9Th inst. by the falling OF
rock from a car above him,
The City CounciI of Colorado Springs
approprlatedSwl 10 for the entertain
ment OF visiting 6. A. r veterans and
the citizens raised $1,000 more.
Prizes have been awarded to chill.
dren, schools aud organizations for
successful competition in raising flow
ers and vegetables the past summer.
Major F. + F'oote. a G A. II. veteran
and pioneer resident OF El Paso county,
lell down an elevator shaft at Colorado
Springs on the I'd inst. and suffered a
fracture of the lcit thigh.
Dean Richardson of the Harvard
Medical school has notified the author
tiles of Colorado college that work
done in the college will be accepted in
the Harvard Medical school.
Walter G. Bradshaw. who was en-
ployed at the ]. G. Reynolds livery,
was struck by lightning and killed on
the 9th inst while walking IN Eas;
Moreno street in Colorado Springs
w. II. Tabor, for several years head
of the police department at Florence,
died at Folsom. New Mexico; on .he
Bth inst. of straagulation OF the gall
duct. He was forty.four years of ago
Gen. A. j. Sampson, formerly Of
Colorado and now envoy extraordinary
aud minister plenipotentiary for the
United States 10 Ecuador, was present
at the Grand Army oncampment in
Denver.
Lightning struck the engine room Of
the Pueblo Chleftan on the morning OF
the list inst. and filled the composing
and editorial rooms with smoke from
burning fuses but the blaze was soon
extinguished.
The South Cheyenne Canon com.
pany at Colorado Springs offers to re.
ducc its admission charges from so
rents to % cents II the city will grant
a franchise for \ trolley line 10 the
entrance gate.
A run of the Denver fire department
bn Fourteenth street, with red fire and
Roman candle accomplishments. was
bne Of the nest striking features OF
the entertainments offered to the
Grand Army visitors at Denver
The annual report of Commissioner
Of Pensions WJner shows that on
sion rolls S,lSl residents OF Colorado,
who. during the fiscal year ended June
30th, drew pensions aggregatipg ST.
1874 ,i02.
The application Of o. II. Shoup Of
Colorado Springs. Max Buchanan, J.
l.. Warren, J. Il McKinn!c. a. ] Bon
die and V. Y. Reed to organize the
American National Bank of Alamosa,
Colorado. with $50 600 capital. has bcon
approved by the comptroller CT the
currency and the bank authorized 10
commence business.
At Durango on ;hc Sth inst Judge
Ruenell sentenced Robert J. Taylor 10
not lota than three years nor mo-c
than i've years In the pcnltentiary and
Mira. May Wilson to not less than two
yearB nor more than three for the
crime OF robbery. Taylor and Mrs.
Wilson last June held up T. J. Parker
and took SIS from him.
The second annual fair Of Mesa
county. September 18th TO 22d inclu.
slye, promises To surpass all other
events OF a similar nature held at
Grand Junction, There will be horse
and bicycle races, baseball and trap
shooting. There Will be increased
prizes on frults. Farm products and
stock.
The FIRST section Of Santa Fe west.
bound passenger train was wrecked
one half mile east OF Boone, twenty
miles east " Pueblo, Monday after.
noon. Eight or nine persons were in
jured. but the railway officials claim
that their Injnrlc3 were slight In every
ease except two, and those will soon
recover.
When Wilfcri Howard was dis.
charged from .al. AT Trinidad on the
Sth Inst. after thirty days conhno.
meat. he was again arrested and tried
for the Gama offence, being given sixty
days more. lie was deputy game
warden and II IN alleged that he OK.
toricd money from nnsophisticated
persons whom he found hunting with
out llrcnseH.
william Van I,rlmor. father Of Mira.
J. Z. Patton and Mrs Frank Goodon
Of Trinidad. former resident of Trim
dad Tor many years and now an In
mate o. The foldlors' homo at Lonvcn.
worth. knr ~. las fallen heir 10 for
tune ol $500 900. He ig one Of twenty
-four holrs 70 si?.ooo.000 lcf. by rela.
liyen In Holland Tho settlement Of
the estate has been N the courts Tor
thirty years,
The county commissioners Of San
Juan county havc granted franchise
10 5, II. MAR and associates TO con.
hltuct street railway along the