The Colorado statesman., 1905-07-08
COLORADO NEWS ITEMS

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and grains.
The DeForest American Wireless
Telegraph Company will establish
station at Trinidad
The mountains surrounding Breck-
, enridge were covered with snow on
the morning of the Sd of July.
Idaho Springs is preparing for
great inter-mountain festival, August
I'D. to which all Colorado is invited.
The Denver Typographical union
has donated 800 to the Grand Army
of the Republic national encampment
fund.
Mrs. Clida NJ Adams, wife Of Alva
b. Adams and daughter-in-law of for
mer Governor Adams, died at Pueblo
July 4th, after short illness.
Secretary of State Cowie is dis
tributing Ihe session laws of 1905,
which have just come from the hands
of the printer. 1t is book of Asa
pages.
The revenue to the state from liquor
licenses for the first seven months of
the fiscal year has been 900, which
exceeds the total income for the year
of 1904 by s525.
There were fourteen fires in Denver
on the Fourth of July, but the loss in
each case was small, except at Hurl-
butts store, where the damage may
reach nearly $4,000.
Probation officers of Pueblo will at,
tend the national conference of the
Charities and Corrections Association,
which will be held in Portland, Ore
gon. July 18th to 22d.
Bert Brennan, the nine-year-old son
OF James Brennan, at 11G2 Stout street,
Denver, was instantly killed by light
ming while playing in the yard on the
afternoon of July 1st.
The National Association of Fire
Insurance Agents will meet in CON
vention in Denver August 10th for
three days session. There will prob
ably be 5000 delegates.
Mrs. Bert White of Longmont was
fatally burned on the morning of the
I'd inst. by an explosion of kerosene.
She was about twentyfour years OF
age and leaves three small children.
Postmasters have been appointed in
Colorado as follows: Green Mountain
Falls, Ell Paso county, Francis A. Hart,
vice d. ]. Shoup, resigned; Fulford,
Eagle county, Mary B. Burgess, vice
T. Stremme, resigned.
w. B. Bristol has sold his large stock
and dairy ranch on Box Elder creek,
sixteen miles north of Fort Collins,
containing 5000 acres of hay and pas
ture land. for a sum stated at about
$4,000, to F. C. Cradle.
Great numbers of potato bugs have
appeared in the neighborhood of La
Sale and Big Bend in Weld county.
Some fields, planted on stubble
ground. are reported to be almost en-
tirely destroyed by them.
James R. Mcclure, formerly a miner
at Goldfield. Colorado. committed sui
eide at Trinidad June 9th by shooting
himself through the head. He was
fifty-five years of age and leaves a
wife, son and daughter.
There have been more building per-
mits issued in the first six months of
this year in Denver than were issued
in any whole year from 1893 to the
present time with two exceptions. The
total for the month of June is S761, ,436.
DR.. Taylor, secretary of the State
Board of Health, has sent out letters to
all the county and city boards, as we'll
as to all the physicians in the state,
stating that the law in regard to the
reporting of births must be enforced
hereafter.
The application of F. W. Flanders.
J. w. Paxton, H. l.. Wood, T. P. Nc
Quire and G. A. Bradley to organize
the Longmont National Bank of Long
mont. with $4,000 capital, has been
approved by the comptroller of cur
rency.
The census of manufacturing indus
tries and factory products, which is
being taken in Colorado by the census
bureau, is nearing completion. In
about three weeks more the active
work of gathering statistics will have
been completed.
The Colorado Supreme Court has de-
cided that the fiat tax law passed by
the Thirteenth General Assembly is
valid. The law places a tax of two
cents on each $1,000 of capital stock
in domestic corporations capitalized in
excess of $4,000. and four cents per
81 900 on foreign corporations.
The winners in the rock drilling con-
tests at Aspen July 4th were Chris
Carlson, who drilled seventeen and
three-fourths inches in fifteen minutes
in the single match, and Tom Stewart
and Tom Parson. who drilled thirty
two and three-eighths inches in fifteen
minutes in the double match.
Crop conditions all over the state
are extremely good. according to the
weekly crop bulletin issued by Section
Director F. H. Brandenburg of the
Weather Bureau at Denver. Haying is
nearly general and the alfalfa crop
has been secured in good condition in
many parts of the state with fair to
good yield. The second crop of alfalfa
has started in many localities.
According to the Colorado crop bull
letin fall wheat is filling well, and
Snring wheat oats barley and rye are