The La Jara chronicle. (La Jara, Conejos County, Colo.) 1896-19??, 1905-06-09
COLORADO NEWS ITEMS


vada and Golden on the afternoon OF
May 27th.
Gov. Joseph Folk of Missouri is ex-
pected to visit Colorado this summer
on his way home from the Portland
Exposition.
The five Grand Army posts of Den
yer will unite in holding great June
Fair and Festival at Denver June 2lst
to July list.
Many men are going from Trinidad
to work on the construction of the new
railroad from Durango to Farmington'
New Mexico.
Edwin Williams. formerly at the
head of the sampling works at Boui-
der, died May oath in Idaho. where ne
was engaged in mining.
Many thousands acres of peat
lands have been discovered near lol-
land on the Moffat road. and plans are
being formulated for the manufacture
of fuel from it.
Heavy storms on May 9th caused
the breakage of the dams of the Crater
and Dog Fish reservoirs, near Deita,
Hanson's reservoir near Paonia, ana
the Irwin dam near Holyoke
Miss Nellie Donahue. ex-city treas
urer of Victor. was acquitted by jury
of the charge of misappropriatlng the
sum of STAG, city funds, during the
time she was in office from l9OO 10
1902.
The six.year-old daughter of Mr..
and Mrs. John Ryan of Pryor, Huer-
fano county, set her. dress on hre whiie
working at the kitchen stove on the
29th ult. and was SO badly burned that
she died next day.
Stephen and Charles Imprey, con
victed of a statutory crime against
Gertrude Miller at Leadville, nave
been pardoned. The girl last winter
made an affidavit that she swore
falsely against the men.
J. NJ. Hollands big ranch. twenty
nine miles northeast of Pueblo mas
been sold TO J. J. Rose of Colorado
Springs for $4,000. The ranch com
prises many acres and seNefal thou
sand head of cattle.
The Empson Canning Company at
Longmont is increasing the capacity OF
its plant for the seasons run on peas.
When the machinery now arriving Is
in place, the factory will have capac-
ity of 10000 cans of peas per hour.
May receipts with the State Land
Board show that the business of the
office is growing gradually. The re-
ceipts last month were $25.5o2.25. In
May, 1908, the receipts were $50, I23.1l.
and in 1904 they were $23, 152.34.
Colorado is entitled to twenty dele
gates to the eleventh International
Sunday School convention, which Will
be held in Toronto, Canada, June 23d-
| 9th, and 1t is expected that many be-
sides the delegates will take the trip.
STA Tieng Ang. Chinese graduate
| of the University of Denver, and
young man of much ability. died of con-
sumption at the Cakes Home in Den
| yer, June I'd. Mr.. STA had many ac-
uuaintances in Denver and was very
popular.
The United Brotherhood of Railway
Trainmen, the Eagles, the letter car
riers' union and the carpenters union
are considering the building of homes
and sanitariums in Colorado for the
benefit of their members throughout
the country.
Authority for the expenditure OF $45.
900 for the Improvement of the road
bed between Boulder and Fort Col
Inns on the Colorado & Southern has
been signed by President Frank Trum-
bull. The track will be slagged for the
entire distance.
IN 1910 tht tOlltCtIoh Ioi iiito' a.
censes by the state treasurer amounted
to s47,S75, and in 1904 they reached the
sum of $53,575. 1t looks now as II by
the end of the fiscal present year, in
December next, the collections will
reach the sum of $65,000. This result.
is due to putting out the collectors
over the state.
C. B. Cooper of the American De
Forest Wireless Telegraph Company
has selected site for the main receiv-
ing station for the Cripple Creek dis
trict 1t is at a point west of the Amer
lean Eagles mine on Bull hill, at which
point receiving station will be estab'
lished. The altitude Of Bull hill is
above 10000 feet.
Harry A. Mills, between twenty-five
and twenty-eight years of age, CON
ductor on the High Line electric road,
was killed at s o'clock on the morning
of May 2Sth, at Midway, in the Cripple
Creek district His death was at first
attributed to shock of electricity,
but later it became evident that he
was caught between the cars.
The conversion of the following named
Colorado banks into national banks has
been approved by the comptroller OF
the currency: The Salida State Bank
of Salida into the Commercial National
Bank of Salida, with $4,000 capital;
the Poudre Valley Bank of Fort Col
Inns into the Poudre Valley National
Bank of Fort Collins, with s1o0,O0O
capital.
Colorado Springs and Denver are
becoming cities of national homes. A
national sanitarium for Swedes, and
another for members of the Evangel-
ical Lutheran Church. as well as
third devoted to the order of Bnai
Birth are located in Denver. Colorado
Springs now has the International
Printers Home and the National
Lodge of Odd Fellows is planning to
build.
In the revenue law is clause which
requires all corporations in the state
that are not assessed by the State
Board and which own property in more
than one county, to file tax schedule
with the state auditor. There is pen
ally of 500. and fine of 800 day
for every day this is neglected. Most
of the corporations are neglecting 1t
and Auditor Bent is preparing to get
after them with sharp stick.
The following changes have been an
,o,,,ad in a Snlo rial Of Colorado