The La Jara chronicle. (La Jara, Conejos County, Colo.) 1896-19??, 1905-05-26
COLORADO NEWS ITEMS


Growers Association is laying plans
for the wholesale destruction OF pral-
RE dogs on the ranges.
One hundred squirrels have been set
loose in the City Park at Denver. A
prairie dog village is another attrac-
ton for the children.
The association of railway tele-
graph superintendents at its session
in Chattanooga, selected Denver as the
next place of meeting.
A telephone exchange will be In
stalled at the state capitol building at
Denver to accommodate the thirty
three Offices using telephones.
Mr.. North, the director of the census.
estimates the present population Of
over the estimate for last year.
Colorado Springs has an ordinance
forbidding the beating of carpets inside
dust enough from other sources.
Senator Patterson has announced
that he will name Caesar r. Roberts,
Denver attorney, for a cadetship at
West Point.
The Denver posts of the Grand
engagements for an immense June fair
and festival. beginning June 21st and
lasting nine days.
James Mcbride of Barela in Las An
imas county, was bitten by rattle
snake on the 18th inst. and, insteadd
of resorting to orthodox whiskey,
drank twenty pounds of milk and re-
covered.
TUNA Tor. rnnniVpn
authority from Washington to adver-
tise for bids for the construction of the
United Safes postoffice in Colorado
Springs, to be erected at cost OF
s135,000.
Rev. William Potts George, who was
succeeded by DR.. J. S. Montgomery at
Trinity NJ. e. church, Denver, will &C
cept the call of Bishop Hamilton to fill
the pulpit of Washington Street Nj. Il.
church at Poughkeepsie, New York.
George Huber Weiss of Elizabeth,
Colorado, while bathing at Santa Mon
lea, California, on the 10th. was car
ried out to sea by the undertow and
drowned. Weiss was twenty-four years
of age and leaves a mother at Eliza
beth.
The CarpenteSs' District Union of
Denver has issued a statement that the
mechanics have not combined with the
builders to raise prices. They also
state that the cost of building is no
greater now than at any time for the
past five years.
BY the falling of bin under which
they were working in the Portland &C.
ment works at Florence on the 18th
inst, Grove Miller, Reuben Bayliss and
George Leonard were crushed to
death. They were all young men and
single.
The first excursion of the present
year over the Moffat road will be given
on June Sth, when the Denver, North
western & Pacific company will carry
the employees of the Denver Tramway
Company to Holland on their annual
picnic.
The Santa Fe company will drive
a new tunnel under Ration hill, south of
Trinidad, at a cost of $1,000,000. The
contract has been let to the firm of
Corrigan G. Mcdonald of Pueblo, which
will place force of several hundred
men at work in few days.
Evidence on the part of Colorado be.
fore the Kansas Colorado water suit
commission was closed May 18th. AT
ter an interval of two weeks the COM
lHlSSlOH VIII again COlNeut III hduSdS,
where for about three weeks final evil
dence for that state will be taken.
The following postmosters have been
appointed in Colorado: Charles NJ.
Ayres. Needleton, La Plata county.
vice A. A. Steward, resigned; John S.
Kemnitz, Rosita, Custer county, vice
w. L. Kirk. resigned; George NJ. White,
Vega, Mesa county, vice II. N. Camp
bell, resigned.
Dean H. Martyr Hart of ST. Johns
Episcopal cathedral in Denver is on
the way to Europe, where he will
visit the bell foundries at Nauheim,
Germany. where the magnificent
chimes for the new cathedral are being
made. The chimes, which will cost
$4,000 exclusive of the duty of $1,000,
will be among the finest in the coun-
try.
At Cripple Greer on the 18th inst.
James Warford and Thomas c. Brown,
under indictment for the shooting of
Chris Miller and Isaac Liebe at Gold
field on election day last fall. were dis
charged and the cases against them
dismissed by Deputy District Attorney
G. A. Gillett. A trial of the case some
time ago resulted in disagreement of
the jury.
Actuated by jealousy. Frank f.
Cowles shot and killed Miss Stella
Boice at Pueblo May 18th, and then
shot himself through the head, dying
within few hours. Cowles is said
to have been a member of the Order of
Railway Conductors. and the girl he
shot is reported to have formerly
been employed in a dance hall at Grip.
pie Creek.
The report of the earnings of the
Denver & Rio Grande for the first
week in May shows substantial in.
crease over the corresponding week
last year. The earnings this year
to 100000. an increase of
$4,000. The earnings from July 1st
to May 18th show an increase of S319.-
900 over the corresponding period OF
the year before.
Leslie w. Popejoy. in accordance
with an order of the District Court at
Colorado Springs, has filed bill of
particulars against Tyson S. Dimes and
the other executors of the Stratton
estate for sS,000,000. In particularly.
ing his claim. Popejoy declares that
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