The La Jara chronicle., 1905-03-10
COLORADO NEWS ITEMS


The Colorado State School Princi-
March 30th.
A fall in eggs is reported in the Den
yer market. 1t is the price that was
broken and not the eggs
William F. Ordway has been ap-
pointed postmaster at Dolores, Monte
zhma county, vice A. A. Hosea, re-
signed.
Thomas O'Hara, a trammer, fell 800
feet in the working shaft OF the Dillon
mine at Victor February 2Sth and was
instantly killed.
f. C. Sharer and others are back of
4 movement for the manufacturer OF
briquettes from the slack from, The coal
mines north of Colorado Springs.
Mrs. Mary C. Malone and Mrs. F. w.
Crocker. mother and sister of Judge
Booth NJ. Malone of the District Court
at Denver, were seriously injured in
runaway accident on the Goth ult.
Boulder is to have an extensive cold
storage plant in connection with
large ice factory. 1t is expected to be
ready to begin operations in May and
will care for small fruit and apples.
Fitzpatrick Brothers & Collins OF
Beatrice. Nebraska, have been granted
a contract by the Denver & Rio Grande
railroad to build the new branch line
from Durango to Pennington, New
Mexico.
John NJ. Kuykendall of the Denver
Omnibus and Cab Company. proposes
to operate a number of large automo-
biles in Denver for the use of tourists,
after the fashion of the present See
ing Denver" cars.
The Denver chapters of the Sons and
Daughters of the American Revolution
have given their hearty Endorsement
to the bill now before the Legislature
granting 100 acres of land at Beecher
island and 5000 to the Beecher Island
Memorial Association.
Receiver Malone of the Fidelity Saw
ings Association at Denver has re-
ceived an order in the district court
authorizing him to borrow s135,0O0
with which to pay the vendors lien on
the Concordia lands. the largest asset
of the defunct association.
The advertising department of the
Colorado Midland railway has received
a letter from President Roosevelt stat
ing that he cannot give permission for
the use of photographs of himself
while on his hunting trip in the state
in the advertisements of the route.
1t was decided by the Hibernian So
riety of Denver not to hold a celebra-
ton on the anniversary of the birthday
of Robert Emmet, the great Irish ma
tionalist, but Join in celebrating st.
Patrick's Day, March 18th, in which
honor shall be done to both of Ireland's
heroes.
At Victor on the 27th uit. Louis Pear
son, shift boss at the PORTLAND mine,
was accidentally strEck on the head
by piece of pipe and sustained dan
gerous fracture of the skull. On the
same day William Reidel had his skull
fractured by falling rock at the Mary
Nevin property.
The Colorado National Life 1nsur-
ance Company has been organized at
Denver and received its charter March
LIST. The directors of the company are:
Spencer Penrose, Harry X. Brown. Da-
vid II. Dougan, Tyson S. Dimes, A. Nj.
Stevenson, c. F. Bishop. James NJ. Her
bert, Thomas b. SteaIns, G. c. Hamlin.
Charles NJ. MacNeill and John S. Cary.
The Denver Country Club intends to
hold a polo tournament some time in
September, all of the teams of the
West to be invited to take part. Teams
from Fort Logan, Colorado Springs.
Glenwood Springs and other Colorado
towns will be invited, as well as those
of the military posts of the West, es-
pecially Fort Niobrara, Nebraska.
J.. V. Doud of Chattanooga, Tennes-
see, has written to Secretary of State
Cowie to inquire about his sister, Mrs.
William ]. Morrison, who, he thinks
was kfIled in an Indian insurrection
near the Indian reservation in the vi
cinity of Durango. He has heard (as
Colorado people have noD that some
sixty families were killed there in the
late eighties.
Arter Tabe, colored porter in a
Minneoua barber shop, had a narrow
escape from death from an overdose
Of bananas. He made a wager that he
could eat four dozen bananas at one
sitting. but gave up the task after eat
Ing thirty-one and one-half, saying he
would not eat another for $40. 1t took
a doctors best efforts to keep him
from dying.
C. ]. Gavin of Ration, New Mexico.
gave a talk on Convict Built Roads
before the Denver Chamber of Com
merce. Mr.. Gavin said that his plan
would be of immense benefit to the
state, which would secure fine high
ways at practically no cost. Insanity
in prisons would also be lessened. lie
favored road from Denver to connect
with the New Mexican road at Las
Vegas.
The Weld County Farmers League
has arranged for an institute to be held
at the Pleasant Valley school house
March 18th. Three men from the ex-
pertinent station at the agricultural
college at Fort Collins will deliver ad-
dresses. Professor Carlyle will speak
on 1.-THE Value of Colorado Grain for
Stock Feeding" Professor Paddock
on Potato Diseases" and Professor
Oliu on Selection of Grain for Seed"
On March 1st the interests of the
Greeley, Eaton, Windsor, Loveland,
Fort Collins and Longmont sugar COM
panies were merged under the name
of the Great Western Sugar Company.
The six different factories will carry
on business in exactly the same way
as since their organization and will re-
tain their present officers. The Great
Western Sugar Company is incorpor-
ated under the laws of New Jersey,
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