The La Jara chronicle., 1905-07-28
COLORADO NEWS ITEMS

lJuilnS the week enulnS july l0tn,
! 1900 tourists visited the Cripple
Creek district. Most of them We're Ep-
worth League tourists.
The Denver Chamber of Commerce
is planning a big excursion over the
Moffat road when the line is completed
to Hot Sulphur Springs.
Greely is to have new city hall at
cost of 100000 and new armory
building costing $1,000, to be rented
by the builder to the state.
Company B of the First infantry, n.
G. c.. was mustered out at Pueblo
July goth. new company to take its
place will be organized next fall.
DIR. Charles G. Lamb, state veterin-
arian, reports that it was not anthrax
but bad feed and water that killed fif-
teen head of cattle at-Amity recently.
Miss Rosa NJ Layton of Denver has
been appointed stenographer and type
writer, and assigned to duty in the
Denver Office of the reclamation ser
vice
Colorado Springs and eastern capi-
talists are interested in the develop
ment of $500 acres of promising coal
land in La Plata and Archuleta coun-
ties.
At Brookside. Fremont county, on
the afternoon of July 18th, Felix Mos
chetti shot and killed Camilla Yer
lengia. whom he accused of having in
suited his wife.
The old Palisades hotel at Gunnison
was burned on the morning of the 18th
inst. 1t was built about twenty-five
years ago at reported cost of S3O.OO
and was insured for a considerable
sum.
Leroy Triplett. convicted at Denver
of the murder of Lafayette Marsh
banks on the night of June 10Th, was
sentenced by Judge Booth Malone to a
term of from twenty to twenty-five
years in the penitentiary.
E. A. Frish. senior conductor in the
Salida division, Order of Railway Con
ductors, committed suicide at Salida,
July 21st by cutting his throat with
razor His wife died last October and
he leaves one child four-year-old
daughter.
The new city directory now being
printed for Florence contains the
names of 2,25S people. There are 1900
school children in addition to loo
young people whose names do not ap-
pear in the directory, giving the city
a population of i,600.
The state memorial statue to be
erected in honor of the Coloradans
who served in the Civil War, for which
$4,000 was appropriated by the last
Legislature, will be placed in front OF
the capitol building in Denver, where
the fagpole now stands.
Mrs. Ben Davis and her two-year-old
baby boy and sixteen-year-old daughter
Alga, were hurled over seventy-tive-
foot cliff to the bottom of the gulch in
runaway, near Carbondale July 21st,
all of them being seriously, but 1t Is
hoped not dangerously, injured.
Melvin Acorn, the eager employed in
the 10 Dandy mine on Raven hill at
Cripple Creek, was killed on the 18th
inst, by falling off the cage and going
down the shaft 100 feet. He had gone
down to the fourth level to bring the
miners up to surface for dinner.
The cornerstone of the new Simon
Guggenheim hall, to be used as the
administration building for the State
School of Mines at Golden. will be
laid September 30th. Mr.. Guggenheim's
first donation for this building was
$50 900, which was recently raised to
SIS 900.
Pueblo people have purchased the
Western League baseball franchise so
long held by Colorado Springs. and the
fans" at the Springs will now have to
content themselves with amateur
games. The Pueblo club begins way
down next to the bottom, where it left
off at Colorado Springs.
Col. C. w. Barker. for many years
proprietor of the Barker house at Man
tou. and widely known throughout the
state, died of heart disease at Manitou
..uly 18th at the age of sixty-six years.
Colonel Barker was veteran of the
Civil War, having served as commnn-
der of the First Indiana cavalry.
John w. HOLES of Bradner, Ohio.
Ohio. has written to the governor that
he is coming to the G. A. X. encanlp-
ment and is bringing an excellent por-
trait of Gen. James w. Denver, arter
whom the city was named. He was a
soldier under General Denver whom
he pronounces to have been capable
and efficient officer.
Governor Mcdonald has appointed
Mrs. b. +. Sdokley of Leadville and
Mrs. ]. ID. Whitmore of Denver to be
members of the board in control
of the travelling Library Association.
The other members of the board are
Mrs. Y. Y. Snyder of Greeley, Mrs. A.
M. Welles of Denver and Mrs. NJ. Il.
Churchill of Greeley.
Word has been received at the office
of the state game and fish commits
sioner in Denver, that two prosecutions
for violation of the game laws have
been successful before magistrate at
Paonia. Robert l.. Young was fined
$50 and costs for killing deer out of
season, and A. McAdams has been
fined s2j for killing beaver.
For the first time in nine years the
ordinances of the city of Pueblo are
being compiled. Associate City Attor-
hey John A. Martin has charge of the
work of compiling the ordinances.
Near.y 1000 have been passed since
the consolidation of the towns which
comprise Pueblo. Little more than
half of this number are in book form.
June was healthy month in Colo
RADIO, according to the bulletin issued
by the State Board of Health. There
we're 649 deaths during the month in
a population estimated at Gi3,0GG. OF
these eight were from diphtheria.
seven from typhoid and three from