The state herald., 1905-09-08
COLORADO NEWS ITEMS

Twenty men enlisted In the United
States army at the recruiting station
in Pueblo during the month OF August.
Judge Lindsey of the Denver County
Court has decided that the ordinance
prohibiting brickyards inside the city
limits of Denver is unconstitutional.
John Walker of Columbus. Nebraska
who Is seventy.nine years of age. re-
Gently walked from Manitou Springs
to thc summit OF Pixies Peak and back.
Burglars blew open the safe in the
postofiice at Falcon in El Paso county
on the night OF August 29th and Sc
cuerd about $500 in stamps and money.
The Convention Amusement Com
pany has been organized in Denver to
give entertainments and exhibitions
during the conventions held in the
city.
Forest Inspector Smith Riley, who
has been temporarily placed in charge
of the Holy Cross forest reserve in Col
orado, has established headquarters at
Glenwood Springs.
Mrs. Emma Herey-Meyer has retired
from the Office Of county superintend'
ent of schools in Denver, Judge Palmer
having decided that Miss Lillian Field
is the lawful incumbent.
The harvest FESTIVAL parade at Gree
ley on the 3Otn ult. was twenty-four
| blocks long and consisted Of decorated
automobiles, carriages. bicycles and
floats. The festival drew an immense
crowd.
A party of hunters from Iowa a few
Iatrc
Denver SIPS for hunting licenses. They
proposed to enter the mountains from
Buford. Routt county, for a thirty
days hunt.
Miss Ruby l.. Carstens of Longmont,
a graduate Of the University of Colo
RADIO last June. has received an ap.
pointment of fellowship in the de-
partment OF mathematics in the State
University.
The Denver & Rio Grande railroad
will build new machine shop, 63x297
feet in size. at its shops in Denver, to.
gether with large addition to tho
blacksmith shop. The whole is to cost
about $4,000.
The general committee of the Boul-
der Commercial Association has de.
Boulder falls. one Of the scenic at.
fractions in the foothills above the city
up Boulder canon.
Attorney General Miller has an
nounced an opinion TO the effect that
the exemption of 5000 of personal prop
erty from taxation under the law
passed last winter does not apply to
non-residents.
At Pueblo. on the 3lst ult., Mrs.
Maud Finch Haver, wife of Il. B.
Haver, real estate dealer. drowned
herself and five.year.old son in the Bes.
semer ditch. The act is attributed TO
i'll health and despondency.
When finished. the reservoir OF the
San Luis Land. Irrigation and Power
Company on the Alamosa river above
Monte Vista will be four miles long
and half mile wide and the dam will
be 500 feet long and ls5 feet high.
Owing TO the threatened epidemic
of scarlet fever at Leadville. the State
Board Of Health has notified the local
authorities that the city must be thor
oughly cleaned. Otherwise the State
Board VA take the matter in hand.
The comptroller OF the currency has
authorized the Commercial National
Bank of Salida. Colorado. to begin bus.
iness with capital of $4,000. j. w.
Calhoun Is president. s. w. Sandusky.
vice president, and c. w. Erdlen, cash
ior.
There will be an examination for
stenographers and typewriters In the
federal building at Denver October
a col utn Ia
the salaries range from $500 to 81 200
year. but for the Philippine service
they run from $1,000 10 81 600.
A contract has been let to Francis
Pas,orus of Colorado Springs for the
construction OF an irrigation storage
reservoir on Florida mesa, near Du'
range. designed to irrigate 1000 acres
of land In the c. NJ. Williams estate.
&. NJ. Williams died few months ago
in Colorado Springs. The reservoir
will hold 1900 acre feet OF water.
The State Land Board has acted ia.
vorably upon the request of tho Colo
rado Springs Merchants Association
and the chamber OF commerce. seeking
to purchase 100 acres of state land
near the Union Printers Home. to be
offered to the National Letter Car
riers' Association, soon to convene at
Portland. as a site for the national
home.
The State Land Board has issued n
deed to the land recently granted the
Beecher Island Memorial Association.
The land comprises 100 acres In Yuma
county. and covers the site OF the fam.
Gus Indian fight between Colonel For.
syth and the hordes rndcr Roman
Nose. In September. 1865. The Legis.
lntures of Colorado and Kansas ap.
propriatcd $500 each last winter to
build a monument on the site. whore
Lieutenant Beecher and the other he.
roos who died there lie buried.
Dave Parks. nm cmployo Of the Clyde
Lumber Company, Mt Clyde. on the
Short Line, was arrested August 2Sth
by Deputy Sheriff Underwood and
placed In the county Jail 10 await tho
outcome OF the injury that he inflicted
on william Snyder. proprietor OF
store at Clyde. Parks IN said to have
struck Snyder with scale weights. frnc.
turing his skull. after which he
jumped on him with both feet and Il
Is alleged was only kept from killing
him through the efforts OF the wife
and son.inlnw Of Snyder.
The new chapel and dining room
building at the State Industrial School
for Boys near Golden was formally
dedicated ON the night OF August 2sth.
The building II u handsome brick
structure, two stories and basement;
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