The La Jara chronicle., 1905-04-07
COLORADO NEWS ITEMS

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city.
st. Luke's Hospital in Leadville has
been purchased by syndicate of Lead
vile physicians, who will rebuild and
enlarge it.
The Denver & Rio Grande railroad
will build large reservoir on Middle
Monument creek, above Palmer Lake
and Glen Park.
Additional machinery is being in
stalled at the Longmont sugar factory,
which will increase the capacity of the
plant to 1900 tons day.
Ex-Governor John L. Routt is re-
ported to be very i'll in Denver Of an
affection of the heart. He will be sew
enty-nine years old in n few weeks.
Henry Wianand, the Denver wife
killer, was found guilty of murder in
the second degree, which carried a
penalty of from ten years to life i'm
prisonment.
Clarence E. Hagar has been re-
elected secretary of the State Board
of Charities and Corrections for an
other term. He is also secretary for
the Board of Pardons.
Charles B. Sloat, general agent of
the Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific at
for the organization of mountain
climbing club in Colorado.
The State Land Board has decided
to give the Denver Park Commission
twenty-years' leave on forty acres of
ground adjoining the City park on the
west side at yearly rental of $4,000.
The State Fair will be in progress at
Pueblo at the time of the Grand Army
| m Denver
first week in September and special
invitation will be extended to the vet
Grams.
The Denver G. Rio Grande Railroad
Company is said to be considering a
plan to double-track the line between
Denver and Pueblo in order to better
accommodate the constantly increas-
ing traffic.
The Kansas Colorado Oil Company,
which has been boring for oil on the
Culver ranch of Longmont has consol-
idated with a company OF local men,
and the new company will prosecute
the work with vigor.
An expensive cement plant. backed
by Pueblo capital, is to be erected one
mile south of Verde station on the Rio
| Grande, twenty-five miles south of
Pueblo, and H. II. Born will be the
manager of the new concern.
Mrs. Lille Barnes has been ap-
pointed substitute mail carrier for
rural route No. /, and Mrs. Lucy Nc
Donald substitute for route No. 2. at
| Greeley. The husbanCS of these women
are the carriers on the routes.
The Woman's Club of Boulder has
given an order for o.er thousand
trees and shrublhry Sksich are TO be
set out on the Chautauqua grounds
north of the dining room. mainly along
the walks leading to the entrance gate.
The Grand Junction Construction
Company has been organized to build
an electric railroad from Grand juno
tion to Palisades. A bond has been
given that two miles of the line shall
be completed within the next eighteen
months.
The suit of tie Stratton's Independ-
ence Mining Company against the
SIratton estate for alleged sailing of
the mine, which was decided against
the company by the Circuit Court OF
Appeals, is TO be carried to the United
States Supreme Court.
The American Smelling and Refin-
ing Company has announced the adop-
ton of the eighthour system at its
Pueblo plants. applicable to all except
yard men. 1t will first affect the fur
mace and roaster men, but all will
come under its provisions.
All arrangements have been made
for the meeting of the Arkansas Val
ley Press Association at Canon City
May 5th, and President Hardy has
sent out invitations to all newspaper
men from Leadville to the Kansas line
nd to ri INT
dad.
Samuel D. Hunter. who died at Den
yer March goth, was one of the pio-
neers of Greeley and served as mayor
in 1885. He built the Opera House
block, the Park Place block and the
Oasis hotel in Greeley. He had lived
in Denver eleven years previous to his
death.
Denver is being a good deal trou-
bled by the coming of hundreds of in
digent consumptives who are unloaded
on Colorado by Eastern communities.
A report the other day that forty con-
sumptives were to be sent to Denver
from Fort Scott, Iowa, aroused active
remonstrance.
Miss Katharine L. Craig, state super
intendent of public instruction, visited
Summit county the week ending March
25th. She rode from Breckenridge to
Dillon in a sleigh over snow reported
to be nearly ten feet deep and returned
the same way to address the meeting
at Breckenridge.
Anselmo Mestaz, convicted at Du-
range of the killing of Pablo Garcia,
whom he beat to death with a pistol,
was found guilty of voluntary man
slaughter and sentenced to from one
year to sixteen months in the peniten-
tiary. The trouble arose out of jeal-
ousy in relation to the wife of mestaz.
C. S. Clark, farmer living in the
Box Elder valley. six miles northeast
of Fort Collins, has lost nine head of
valuable horses by ptomaine poison
ing from eating musty carrots. DR..
Lamb, state veterinarian, was called
to investigate the case, and his ver-
dict agreed with that of the local doc
tors.
Counterfeit $50 and $40 bills are re-
ported to have been passed in Pueblo
and Cripple Creek, and perhaps other
parts of the state. The description is
as follows: Series 1901, No. 29513972;
face plate 159; back plate ST: check