The Colorado statesman., 1905-10-07
COLORADO NEWS ITEMS


for the city and county of Denver for
the year 1905, is s116,212,943.
Ground was broken on the Both ul-
,timo for the new Central high school
building in district 20, Pueblo.
Sheriff Davis of Trinidad has bought
"a pair of bloodhounds, warranted to
follow the scent of criminals.
+, w. E Porter of Loyeland lost two
fingers OF his right hand few days
ago while helping to move a heavy
safe
Lee Bostetter was killed by falling
bucket in shalt of the Gold Sovereign
mine at Cripple Creek on the I'd in
'stant.
Mrs. Kate T. Bennett has been APP
pointed regular and John S. Wilrsie
substitute rural carrier on Route z at
Longmont.
Scarcity of milk in Greeley has oc-
casioned raise in price, dairymen
who formerly charged cents quart
now charging Z.
Gen. William ]. Palmer has contrib
,uted $1,000 to the prosecution of the
Colorado Springs druggists who have
violated the liquor ordinances.
In the District Court at Cripple
| Greek, James Warford and Walter Ken
ley were found guilty of assault with
intent to kill Sheriff Edward Bell.
The orders of the district judges
seem to have put at least temporary
quietus on gambling in Denver. 1t is
| claimed that even the policy shops are
| closed.
The abandonment of HolyoSe as a
| Burlington freight division was COM
| pleted last week when the carpenter
shop and machinists tools were
moved to Curtis, Nebraska.
Judge Dixon has decided that the in
junction issued by the District Court
OIL Pueblo county against the ticket
brokers will stand until the Supreme
Court can pass upon the matter.
Senator Thomas NJ. Patterson ar
rived in Denver on the night of Sep
| 'tember Goth on his return from his
"trip to the Philippines as a member of
Secretary Taft's party. The senator
returned in excellent health.
Ora Haley, cattleman of Wyoming,
has engaged cars on the Moffat road
for the shipment of 500 head of fat
cattle from Sulphur Springs to Den
YER He has started his drives, which
will come in punches of 500 or 600
cattle.
All records for the production of
beet sugar by the American Beet SUI
gar Company, with factories at Rocky
Ford and Lamar, Colorado, will be
broken this season, it is believed by
the officers During this season, the
factories will give employment to 500
laborers who will receive from S21O
to $500 per day for their work.
Following its improvement of its
station grounds at Colorado Springs
the Denver & Rio Grande Railroad
Company will expend several thousand
dollars in charging and improving the
building. The baggage room, now al
the south end of the depot, will be re
moved TO the north, and the presen
building will be occupied by the ex
:. press Companies. ,
Henry Light, a former resident o
Montrose, was killed at Dragon, Utah
on the 29th ultimo, by failing off th'
wagon bridge near the hotel. Hi!
death was instantaneous. Light was
about seventy years OF age and hat
been a resident &C Mon. ose for the
last thirteen years, most of the time
being in the employ of the Denver &
Rio Grande Express Company.
The first convention of it's kind evel
held in any western state, gathering
of secretaries of Colorado chambers o
commerce and boards of trade, will bt
held in Denver, Tuesday, October oath
The convention will be under the aus
,pices of the Colorado State CONNER
'cial Association, and all meetings viii
be held in the headquarters of the as
isociation, 707 Eighteenth street
Governor Mcdonald has been invited
: by the executive committee in charge
to name delegates to the interstate
commercial law convention which i!
to be held at the Auditorium hotel
in Chicago, October 26th and 9th. The
object of the convention is to urge
upon Congress the necessity for gov
ernment supervision of railroad rates
along the lines suggested in the Pres
idents last message.
One hundred and twenty-sever
homestead entries were made at the
Pueblo land office during the month
of September. In the Pueblo land
district there are 52S,275 acres of land
unappropriated at the present time
The district includes parts of Bent
Chaffee, Costilla, Custer, Ebert, Sa
guache, Ell Paso, Teller Fremont
Huerfano, Kiowa Las Animas, Lin
coin, Otero, Park and Pueblo counties
A gathering of citizens at Hahn s
peak. after discussing the proposal ol
Hamlin Garland that national park
be made out of portion of the White
River forest reserve, adopted resolu
tions that the creation of national
park, as proposed. would be hurtful to
the interests of the people of Routt
Rio Blanco, Garfield and Eagle coun
ties, and that the damage would
greatly exceed any possible benefit.
State Coal Mine Inspector John d.
Jones is of the opinion that the output
of coal in 1905 will equal that of 1903