The La Jara chronicle., 1905-07-21
COLORADO NEWS ITEMS

Consolidated Canning Company at
Loveland has begun operations on
raspberries.
The Colorado & Southern Railroad
Company has deposited 10000 trout
fry in the river at Bailey, all about six
inches in length.
| James F. Maloney, prominent To-
cal politician and alderman of the
| Third ward in Denver. died of heart
disease on the 10th inst.
Attorney General N C. Miller has
gone to Chicago and will be away two
or three weeks. He will spend his va
cation visiting with his brothers and
sisters in Illinois.
| Michael Dowd and Peter Miller, sem
fenced to the penitentiary from Denver
convicted of election irregularities, ar
rived at the penitentiary at Canon City
on the 18th inst.
twenty-five counties of Colorado are
represented in agricultural exhibits at
the Chamber of Commerce building in
Denver and specimens are wanted
from other counties.
A dispatch from Oyster Bay July
18th says: William G. Lewis of Colo
RADIO to-day was appointed to be sur
veyor general of Colorado under the
General Land Office.
In the Western Baseball League Des
Moines and Denver are close competi-
tors for first place and Colorado
Springs and st. Joseph are nip and
tuck for the BOBBY prize.
The fourteen-months-o old baby son OF
Mr.. and Mrs. Hal Baird of Goldfeld
managed to get hold of some strych-
nine tablets on the 10th inst, and ate
enough to cause its death.
c. A. Coryell has been granted a
lease on 1G0 acres of state land in
Arapahoe county for placer mining
purposes. The state shares in the pro
duction at the rate of twenty per cent.
The Morgan County NATIONAL Bank
of Fort Morgan has been authorized to
begin business with a capital OF 500
/ 900. NJ, l.. More is president, n. NJ.
Mandy. vice president. and j. II. Roed-
iger, cashier,
Colorado postofIice appointments
/ have been made as follows: Jefferson,
Park county, Charles f. Peake, vice
Schattinger, resigned; Muriel, Huer'
fano county, Wilmer b. Kenny. Vice E.
l.. Reubendale. resigned.
The grading of the Pennington line
of the Denver & Rio Grande has been
completed as far as Aztec and track
laid for fifteen miles below Durango.
Several of the grading contractors are
preparing to move to other fields,
The next convention to swoops down
on Colorado will be that of ihs- Fra.
ternal Order of Eagles, which VIII
meet at Denver August 1ith An i'm
mense gathering is anticipated and
they propose to soar all over the state
The Pueblo steel works are receiv.
| ing more than 500 tons of iron ore per
day from the iron deposits in Minne'
sofa This. it is said. will continue
until the new deposits in Wyoming ara
opened up to the satisfaction OF the
company.
The state convention of the Amert
can Order of Protection will be held at
Florence July 9th, when delegates to
the supreme convention to be held in
Lincoln in September, will be elected.
Twenty-Five delegates are expected
from outside lodges.
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 lagpole now stands.
June proved a very good month for
collections by the State Land Board,
and shows that the business of the Of
fice is increasing steadily year by year.
The June collections for the past three
years have been as follows: 1908. $20.,
1s1; 1904, SIS ,293; 1905. s21 ,G39.O2.
An old man was robbed and brutally
beaten over the head at La Sale on
/ 4 t,-,,, Nm, h q
being taken TO the Weld county hospi-
tai II was found that his skull was frac-
tured in thirteen different places. He
has been identified as Frank Geron.
VIII C. Ferril, curator at the State
| Museum, kept a record of the visitors
to the department during the week the
Epworth League delegates were In
Denver. Beginning July 5th and end
ing Monday night, July 10th, omitting
| Sunday, the total was 1897. The
largest day was on Saturday, when g.
| 619 visited the rooms.
More foreigners are settling in Col
| orado this year than ever before, ac-
cording to the reports of the immigra'
| ton commissioners of the various rail-
roads coming into the state. Hundreds
are attracted by the work in the sugar
beet fields and other agricultural dis
trlcts, while the mining camps also are
the mecca of many foreigners.
At Golden July 10th Judge Garri-
| CUES of Greeley, who was sitting in
| the District Court for Judge De
France. sentenced Aubury Church to
| the penitentiary for not less than five
nor more than twenty years for Grim
| inal assault. Church pleaded guilty.
He was former inmate of the State
| Industrial School for Boys. His term
expired about t'-s first of the year
Gen. George Cook of the national en-
| campment committee of the G. A. r.,
says he has always maintained there
were no more loyal. law'abiding and
| self-sacrificing citizens in the United
States than the excellent class of men
| that are members of the splendid order
of the Typographical unions" BY the
way. the Denver union has just given
| 500 to the G. A. X. entertainment
| fund.
Governor Mcdonald and party and
Mayor Speer of Denver and party will
| be among the box-holders at Elitch's
| - -J,-. t, I,auyar neyt Monday night