The La Jara chronicle. (La Jara, Conejos County, Colo.) 1896-19??, 1905-01-13
COLORADO NEWS ITEMS

with $4,000 capital.
The Colorado Telephone Company
has 1000 telephones in use in the
Cripple Creek district.
Father Thomas II. Malone of Den
yer was given n private audience with
the Pope on Christmas Day.
The oil company organized by Sa-
Ida business men proposes to SINK 4
we'll in the Gil belt south of town.
There was only one business failure
in Cripple Creek last year, and that Il
mercantile concern Which will pay Out
dollar for dollar.
The Salida and Chafee County Pho.
neers' Association has been organized
to preserve the memory of the early
days.
Denver has 22G miles of regular sew
erage, besides tifty-one miles of storm
sewers. The aggregate cost was nearly
S3,00O.00O.
The town of Arrowhead, on the
Molfat road, In Grand county. has hled
it's articles of incorporation with the
secretary Of state.
The annual meeting of the Colorado
Editorial Association will be held in
Denver January 23rd, which is week
earlier than the date first set for 1t.
Gen. William ]. Palmer has con
structed public bride path to CRYSTAL
park, on tie southeast slope of Pixies
peak, above Manitou.
Capt. Levy Ethan Allen of the Weld
County Abstract Company at greeley
n veteran of the Civil War. died at
Long Beach, California, January S?d.
A fashionable hotel and club room
vii soon be erected in Denver by the
United Commercial Travellers of Amer
lea. One OF its features will be roof
garden.
Union revival meetings under the di-
rection of Rcv. Wilbur Chapman be
gan in Denver January 4th. Daily
meetings will be held in n large mum
Der of churches.
Foul air in the Conundrum shaft on
Gold hill, in the Cripple Creek dis
trict, occasioned the death Of William
Phillips. a machinist in the mine, on
December 29th.
William Nicholas, foreman of the
Hawley- Gardner mine near Nevada
Vile. in Gilpin county. was caught in
the betting at the shaft house ana
killed on the 9th inst.
The physicians of La Junta have in
corporated the La Junta Sanitariun
association with a capitalization OF
S25 900 1t is proposed to begin work
soon on general hospital.
Superintendent John Dietrich of the
Colorado Springs schools has received
IRON the board of directors of the In
terrational Anti-Cigarette League a
certificate of appointment as state
president for Colorado.
Mrs. John Dreyer. prominent So
ciety and lodge woman of Silverton,
committed suicide January list by
shooting herself through the heart
with a revolver. The act is attributed
to mental depression and i'll health.
The game warden is having trouble
with persons who have been shooting
quail near Florence in violation OF the
law, which allows no open season Tor
quail until 1907. One man was recently
fined $50 and costs for this offense.
A party of Denver capitalists are
planning to erect 100000 bath house
in Manitou on the site of the Norris
house, which recently burned. They
have asked Manitou for bonus of S.
600, $4,000 of which has already been
raised.
RI. Sprague, chief clerk of the state
fish and game commissioner, sent no.
tices to game wardens over the state,
asking them to notify hunters that all
hunting licenses expire the last day
of December, without regard to when
they were issued.
Statistics of the University of Colo
RADIO at Boulder show Il gain of an
even 100 students for the year l9O4-Oa
over the year 1903-0i. This is in the
college proper, which includes a few
over COO. The attendance at the State
Preparatory School is over 400.
The iourneymen barbcrs of Denver
have had "A bill drafted for licensing
of all BARRIERS norlling in Colorado and
will ask the Legislature to make it
law. The bill is similar to the one
presented unsucccslGlly TO the Legs
lature at its last term.
]. II. Inquinton of the reclamation
service has beul detailed to act as su-
pervising engineer for Colorado, Ne
braska and the North Platte river
basin. He will take general charge of
all government irrigation work in this
district, and will have headquarters at
Denver.
r. C. Elliott, pioneer attorney of
Monument, ultu Oli lI4t 'S'i iilp'' -b4'
Elliott was a law partner of Joseph ii.
Choate in New York before coming to
Colorado and received his certificate
of membership in the New York Bar
Association from President Rooseuelt's
grandfather.
Work has begun on n $4,000 water
and electric light plant mt Evans. A
soft water well 100 feet deep in the
center of the town, supposed to be
supplied directly from an underfiow
from the mountains, will supply the
water works. a gasoline pumping
plant will be used.
John Delaney, twenty-five years of
age, committed suicide at George
town January 5th. He left home about
2:3O u. M, telling his mother he was
going hunting. 1t seems he went into
an abandoned machine shop; fastened
the gun in wise and rullcd the trig-
ger, the ball entering his left breast
The body of the woman found dead
on Cutler mountain December 18th,
and supposed to be that of Mrs. Bessie
Bouton of Syracuse, New York. has
been positively identified as such by
confessional nurse Miss Curtis of