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

the top in the Western League SO lar
this spring.
1t is expected that the Pueblo sta
tion of the De Forest wireless tele-
graph service at Lake Minnequa Will
be in operation within few days.
If experiments that are to be con-
Quoted this season in beet culture are
successful Durango will make strong
bid for beet sugar factory next year
Judge Frank w. Overs of the Fifth
Judicial district is taking a vacation,
having gone East last month via Gal
weston. He will visit England before
his return.
Henry Wianand. who murdered his
wife in Denver last January, has been
sentenced to an indeterminate term
of from ten to fifteen years in the pen
itentiary.
Thursday. June list. has been de-
cided upon as the date for the COM
mencement exercises at the Colorado
State School for the Deaf and Blind.
Six students will graduate.
Miss Belle P Gill of Denver has
been appointed deputy state dairy
commissioner under Mrs. Mary
Wright. Miss Ella Wright held the Of
flee during the past two years.
Fifty thousand young trout We're re,
ceived at Salida recently from the
Gunnison hatchery and taken 10 the
South Arkansas and turned into the
river by committee of citizens.
Mrs. Mary f. Lapier was elected
foreman of a jury in a divorce case at
Cripple Creek a few days since. She
bears the distinction of being the first
woman jurist to serve in Teller county.
The National Electric Light Asso-
citation will hold its twenty-eighth an
nual convention at Denver June 9th to
11th. A broncho busting contest Is
being planned as a part of the enter.
tainment.
The Pueblo City Council has called
on the mayor to appoint committee of
three aldermen and three business
men to take preliminary steps toward
securing a supply of mountain water
for Pueblo.
Colorado will be represented at the
national Library Association, which
convenes in Portland early in July, by
Miss Hattie l.. Stevenson. state libra
rian, and Charles r. Dudley, city libra
rian of Denver.
The Montrose Chamber of Com
merce has issued 10000 pamphlets of
twenty pages each entitled Facts Per
tinent to Montrose County, in the
Heart of the Uncompahgre Valley and
Under the Gunnison Tunnel"
At Salida on the Sth inst. Archie
Kimball, aged seventeen years. cap
tured young mountain lion which had
been driven into the city by the heavy
SHOWS. He made a cage for the animal
and intended to keep it, but during
the night it escaped.
In the recent award of twenty-five
fellowships by the state university OF
Wise r. H. Hess, graduate OF
Colorado College, was chosen fellow in
political economy and Helen Summer
of Denver was made honorary fellow
in the same branch.
The Baptist church, the oldest
church edifice in Greeley, built in the
early '7Os, is receiving an addition.
Partly for the sake of economy and to
show their good will. the men mem
bers of the congregation have under
taken to do all the work of building.
Governor Mcdonald has appointed
DR.. l.. f. Lemen of Denver to be a
member of the State Board of Health
vice Hubert Work of Pueblo. resigned.
Dr. Works reason for resigning is the
fact that he lives so far away from
Denver that he cannot spare time for
the work.
Dressed in overalls and jumpers, 200
students of the University of Denver
recently planted 200 trees on the cam
pus. This was the direct result of
department of landscape gardening.
which has been installed at the uni
versity. Ash, elm and locust trees
were planted.
Great interest is shown by Pueblo
real estate dealers who handle ranch
lands in the soil culture scheme advo-
Gated by the Business Mems Associa-
tion. Many experiments are being
conducted in the growth of different
products on arid lands without irriga'
tion. and thus far they are said to
have been successful.
A Colorado State Library Associa-
tion was formed at Denver on the 9th
inst. with the following officers: A. e.
Whitaker of the State University IL
brary at Boulder; president; fl. f.
Richie of the Denver city library, sec
retary; Miss Katherine Craig and Mrs.
A. NJ. Wells, Prof. T. e. Carter of Gree
ley, vice presidents; J. w. Chapman of
Pueblo, treasurer.
Secretary Hitchcock has issued an
order directing that the Akron land Of
flee, Colorado. be abolished and that
the lands OF the present Akron dis
trict be made a part of the Sterling
district. A consolidation will take
place July LIST, at which time the reg
lister and receiver at Akron will be dis
missed and the records of their office
transferred to Sta1ing.
Mrs. Mary G. Wright. state dairy
commissioner. expects to attend the
annual meeting of the national dairy
and pure food commission at Portland
June goth. The meeting will be held
on the grounds of the Lewis & Clark
Exposition and will continue in ses-
sion ten days. Mrs. Wright will de-
liver an address on the work of the
state department in Colorado.
Oliver A Whittemore. who died at
Denver on the 11th inst. was promi-
nent Colorado pioneer. He built the
first Touring mill in the territory in
1862, and was a member of the terri
torial Legislature. In 1864 he was
elected to the constitutional conven-
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