The Colorado statesman., 1905-04-29
COLORADO NEWS ITEMS


will meet at Denver May 9th.
Nearly 100 locomotives of the Denver
& Rio Grande system are being
equipped with electric headlights of
the latest pattern.
The building and machinery of the
Sterling electric light plant was badly
injured by fire on the morning of April
goth, the loss being estimated at about
$4,000.
Mexican owners of a herd of sixty
goats were recently arrested on the
charge of desecrating graves by let
ting the goats browse in the cemetery
at Trinidad.
The First National Bank of Holly
has been authorized to begin business
with $4,000 capital. w. c. Gould,
president; B. B. Brown, vice presi-
dent; ]. S. McMurty, cashier.
The American Stock Growers Asso-
citation will meet at Denver May 9Th
for three days session. A strong
effort will be made to induce Presi-
dent Roosevelt to be present.
A committee has been appointed to
arrange for the establishment of a
Young Mems Christian Association at
Salida. There are nearly 1000 young
men who would be benefited by it.
Harry Hugh Lee, prominent Den
yer lawyer, died at the Hotel Colorado
at Glenwood Springs, April 21st, of
acute kidney disease after few days
illness.
An expert of the United States geo
logical survey will be detailed to make
an investigation of the underground
waters along the South Platte river in
Colorado.
Governor Mcdonald has appointed
two more water commissioners, Fred
Dixon of Paradox, for district No. 81,
and John p. Morgan of Montrose, for
district No. 62.
A permanent farmers institute for
Yuma county was organized at Wray
April 22d with r. M. Reed as presi-
dent and Editor Hawks of the Gazette
as secretary.
Edward Weston, sent to the state re-
formatory at Buena Vista from Grand
Junction for burglary, tried to escape
few days since, but was followed
by hounds and captured.
The work of transcribing the rec
ords of old Arapahoe county, so far
! as they apply to the new county of
Adams, once comprised in Arapahoe,
has been completed at cost of $685.,
900.
At special election held in Fruit
mere, a suburb of Canon City, it was
voted to incorporate as village under
Nthe name of East Canon. The vote
was 76 for incorporation and 20
against.
The annual meeting of the Douglas
County Stock Growers Association
was held at Castle Rock April 22d.
County Judge Robert E. Palm was
elected president of the association,
this being his third term.
Judge w. p. Seeds of the District
Court at Cripple Creek has issued an
order that all gambling must cease in
the district, and as result the rou-
lette wheels, bank and slot machines
are said to have been stored away.
Commissioner Richards of the Gen
eral Land Office has ordered withdrawn
from all forms of disposal township
thirty-two, range thirteen west, in
Durango land district for use in con-
nection with the La Veta river irri
cation project.
While out target shooting at Hagen's
ranch near Denver April 18th C. ID.
Chitwood, secretary of the Walters
Club in Denver was accidentally shot
and killed by Joseph C. Briden. 1t
was another case of didn't know it
was loaded"
Philip Tritch, brother of the late mil
lionaire George Tritch of Denver who
sued for a part of the estate on the
claim that he was a silent partner in
his brothers immense hardware busi-
ness, has lost his case in the District
Court at Denver.
James Traylor, a trammer at the
Cross coal mine, operated by the State
Industrial School for Boys at Golden.
fell down 140-foot shaft on the 18th
instant, receiving injuries from which
he died within a few hours. He leaves
a wife and child at Golden.
John White, who escaped from
Windsor Jail for the second time by
digging his way out, although hand
cuffed, was captured by Deputy Sheriff
Woland at Ault and brought back to
Jail. White was serving five months
tern for bootlegging whiskey in Wind
sor.
The annual High School Day of the
University of Colorado at Boulder will
be observed this year on Saturday,
May 18th. During the morning and in
the afternoon the interscholastic track
meet will be held on Gamble field,
number of handsome prizes being
awarded.
The Colorado Postmasters Associa-
tion met at Colorado Springs April 22d
and was entertained at night at a ban
quet given by the Colorado Springs
Letter Carriers Association and the
Clerks Association at the Alta Vista
hotel. Robert E. Hanna of New Wind
sor was elected president for the en-
suing year.
The Loyal Legion OF Denver gave