The Colorado statesman., 1905-03-25
COLORADO NEWS ITEMS

President c. P. Dodge of the Colo
rado Springs Y. M. C. A. has received
a donation of $500 from Helen Gould.
The state equalization board will
meet in Denver April 1st. Governor
Mcdonald will preside at it's sessions.
Adjt. Gen. Sherman M. Bell has in
formed the governor that he will re-
tire April 1st after a service of eX-
actly two years.
Rural route No. 1 has been ordered
established April 18th. at Collbran,
Mesa county, serving 364 people and
ninety-one houses.
Mrs. Helen Grenfell addressed six
ty teachers present at the meeting OF
the Weld County Teachers Associa-
tion at La Sale March 18th.
A suit has been appealed to the state
Supreme Court which will test the
eight of county Judge to grant ali
mony in excess of $1,000.
The blacksmiths of Boulder have en-
tered into an agreement to raise the
price of work done by them, because
of the increased price CT material.
A civil service reform association
has been organized at Boulder with
DR.. Walter II. Nichols as president
and DR.. John B. Phillips as secretary.
Nicholas Miller, while at work on
the roof of the Capital Ice Company's
plant at Denver on the 18th inst.
touched live wire and was instantly
killed.
The Colorado & Wyoming railroad Is
| making arrangements to open num-
ber of new coal fields in Las Animas
| county this summer preparatory TO
opening them next fall.
| company has been organized with
| $4,000 capital to build a new bath
house at Manitou Springs. 1t will be
built on the site of the Norris hotel,
which burned last fall.
The annual state championships at
golf will be decided in Colorado
Springs on June 21st, 22d and 23d,
the dates having been accepted by the
! golf players of the state.
Forged tickets over the Colorado e
Southern for points between Denver
and Fort Worth, Texas, are reported
to have been discovered and to have
been taken up by conductors.
William NJ. Danner has just been
elected as general secretary of the
Young Mems Christian Association of
Denver for the eighth year. The board
also voted to raise his salary.
The teachers institute of the Fifth
normal district, comprising the coun-
ties OF Teller, Ell Paso, Douglas and
Elbert, will be held in Colorado
Springs during the week of July 31st.
The Greeley starch factory began
operations on the 18th inst. Four
tons of potatoes were consumed the
| first day, but it is expected that up
wards Of fifty tons day will be used
soon.
The Grand Valley Fair Association
has filed amended articles of incorpor-
etion with the secretary of state
changing the name to the Mesa
County Industrial and Fruit Fair Asso-
citation.
kid" Mccoy, a local prize fighter,
and S. harrisburg, got into a fight at
Salida on the night of the 18th inst,
in which eleven shots were fired, but
nobody hit-not even an innocent by
stander.
The Intercollegiate Association OF
Colorado has changed it's title to the
Rocky Mountain Intercollegiate Ath-
letic Association, designed eventually
to cover Utah and Wyoming, as well
as Colorado.
The coroner's jury in the case Of
Gus. Neufeld, who was shot by Will
lam G. Smith March 18th in Denver,
brought in verdict discriminating
Smith, who has been held on the
charge of murder.
H. Clay Cowles, one OF the oldest
and best known prospecto's in Clear
| Creek county, was found dead in bed
in cabin at Georgetown on the morn
ing of the 14tl inst. His death re-
suited from dropsy.
A Cheyenne dispatch says that that
city and Laramie are preparing to
send teams to the firemen's tourna-
ment at Fort Collins July 4th to com
pete for the $1,000 in prizes to be of
fered on that occasion.
Barney McQueeney, who was crush
ed between the cage and the station
roof in the Reindeer mine on the 18th
inst. and died the next day, was the
seventh victim of mine accidents in
Leadville since February 18th.
The report of the State Board of
Health shows that there were SS1
deaths and 81 still births in Colorado
during the month of February last
past. This shows a death rate of a
little over nineteen per Thousand per
annum.
Richard Pierce, who died at Lead
vile March 18th from the effect of
injuries received by the explosion of
missed shot in the Bessie Wilgus
mine the previous Tuesday was a
member of the Roosevelt Rough Rid
ers. His father-in-law, Jacob Cald
well. was instantly killed by the same
shot.
Active work along the surveyed
route of the Moffat road to Hot
Sulphur Springs will be begun at once.
Laborers in gangs of 100 men each Sre
being sent to points along the route
to within a mile of Hot Sulphur