The Colorado statesman., 1905-02-11
COLORADO NEWS ITEMS

5tallation OF its plant at Denver.
The thirteenth annual banquet of the
Denver Bar Association will be held
at the Brown Palace hotel February
21st.
Grading will be commenced imme-
diately on the Pennington branch of
the Denver K Rio Grande, below Dur
ango.
George Bauer of the Bauer Mercan-
tile Company and Bauer Bank at Man
cos. died at a sanitarium in Guadaia-
iara, Mexico, January 31st.
The Grand Aerie of the Fraternal
Order of Eagles will be held in Den
yer next August and is expected to at
tract nearly $4,000 visitors.
Colorado College. at Colorado
Springs, has an endowment fund OF
100000, and will make vigorous eff
fort to increase it to $1,000,000.
George H. Crosby formerly Of Den
yer, has been appointed freight traffic
manager for the Burlington in place OF
the late Thomas Miller, who died re-
Gently.
The United States Senate has con-
firmed the nominations of F. NJ.
Downer as superintendent, Wilbur
Hodgson assayer and j. w. Nilsson
melter and refiner of the Denver mint.
Ray B. Leese was unanimously re-
appointed secretary of the State Board
of equalization and clerk of the Board
of Auditors at recent meeting OF the
board
The Pueblo police magistrates have
decided that the law prohibiting mi
nors from entering saloons must be
enforced against newsboys engaged in
selling papers.
George w. Berger, prominent
blacksmith of Greeley, committed sui
eide February I'd by taking chloroform.
There was nothing in his business or
domestic relations to explain the act.
John U. and Bruce E. Watkins of
the firm OF Watkins Brothers at Pu-
eblo, are informed that they are heirs
with five others to an estate in Pitts
burg, Pennsylvania, valued at $16,OOO,-
900.
Postmaster o. w. Richardson of
Longmont died on the 9th inst. at the
age of 72 years. He had been post
master for six years. During the civil
war he served in the Twelfth Illinois
cavalry.
The new Fremont county hospital at
the poor farm near Canon City has
been completed at a cost of $780, 300. 1t
will accommodate sixty patients and
there are six padded cells for insane
patients.
The Denver Young Mems Building
Association has purchased a building
site, 125X125 feet in size, at Sixteenth
and Lincoln avenues, which is between
the Brown Palace hotel and the Cap
itol building.
At the recent first annual meeting
of the Phillips County Farmers Insti-
tute at Holyoke dry weather farming
was discussed and it was planned to
make experiments of farming by wind
mill irrigation.
The Interior Department has with
drawn from all forms or disposal what
ever, six townships. embracing 13S,240
acres of public lands, in the Glenwood
Springs land district, on account of
irrigation projects
On the arrest of Alexander e. Jack
son on the charge of robbery in Den
| yer, about 81 800 worth of jewelry and
diamonds was recovered. Jackson is
4 negro, and is said to be an extreme
ty successful sneak thief.
At Denver, on the 5th inst, William
Fl. Tallman, a civil engineer, while
standing in a bath tub full of water,
reached up to turn on the electric light
and received a shock of electricity that
caused almost instant death.
Dudley d. Sales, Denver boy, now
| studying at the Stanford University
has chosen to participate in the con
test for the President Carnot prize, Of
fered for he best speech on the gov
ernment or history of France.
Trinidad is to have its two principal
streets paved. Main street will be
paved from Walnut street west to Ami
mas street and Commercial street from
First street to the river. Two layers
of vitrified brick, with a cement fouu.
dation, will be used.
Sam Erickson was killed at the
Camp Bird mine, Ouray, January 3Jth,
by falling 100 feet down a shaft. He
was Finn, 80 years of age. ana sin
gle. Two sisters and brother reside
in Michigan, and his father and mother
are still in Finland.
At Canon City few days ago
twenty-seven drummers for all kinds
of business landed on the afternoon
and night trains the same day. The
inns of the place were able to take
care of them without unlocking the
hotel de Canon City.
The SaliGa Board of Trade recently
adopted resolutions indorsing the
scheme of A. G. Fitzgerald, who is
driving tunnel to tap the Poncha hot
springs. 1t is expected that the tunnel
will also tap deposits of gold and silver
ore and mica.
Arthur Lewis. a Missouri Pacific
trainman. while going back to flag a
train after az accident near Eads, a
station east of Pueblo. was attacked
by ravenous pack of coyotes and only
escaped by brandishing lighted fuse
and retreating to the caboose.