The Colorado statesman., 1905-04-01
COLORADO NEWS ITEMS


tourist travel next summer.
The annual convention of the Ma
tional Federation of Musical Clubs will
be held in Denver the week beginning
June 5th.
st. Luke's Hospital in Leadville has
been purchased by syndicate of Lead
vile physicians, who will rebuild and
enlarge it.
Active preparations are being made
for the annual convention of the
American Stockgrowers' Association,
which meets at Denver May 9Th.
Ex-Governor John l.. Routt is re-
ported to be very ill in Denver OF an
affection of the heart. He will be sew
enty-nine years old in a few weeks.
Herman Lesche, barber, commit
ted suicide at Cripple Creek few
days ago by shooting himself through
the body. He had barber shop in the
Masonic building.
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.
On March oath William Wood, a
miner, was precipitated 800 feet down
the breaking of one of the rounds of
a ladder. Death was instantaneous.
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 Douglas County Ditch and Res
ervoir Company, capitalized at $780,
900, has been formed to construct two
large reservoirs, one Icing in Stone
canon and one just south of the Santa
F'e bridge at Larkspur.
An expensive cement plant, backed
by Pueblo capital, is 10 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. l. and Mrs. Lucy Nc
Donald substitute for route No 2, at
Greeley The husbands of these women
are the carriers on the routes.
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.
Little three-year-old Earl Francis
Purcell son of Mr.. and MRS. William
Francis Purcell of Denver, awole
March 23rd, after a sleep that had
lasted seven days and nights. When
the sleep began he had been exhausted
by epileptic commissions.
The American Smelling and Rein
ing Company has announced the adop-
ton of the eight-hour system at It's
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.
Frank Sundberg, farmer who lives
nine miles northeast of Berthoud. had
a heavy team of draft horses Aolen
during the night of March 22d. He
traced them to Denver and recovered
the horses at livery stable, where the
thief had sold them for 5000.
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
and from Colorado Springs to Trini-
dad.
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.
| 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.
C. S. Clark, a 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. DIR.
Lamb, state veterinarian, was called
to Investigate the case, and his ver
dict agreed with that of the local doc
tors.
Counterfeit $40 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
letter d; signed Lyons, register; Rob
erts, treasurer; portraits of Lewis and
Clark. The bills are duplicates of the
Buffalo series.
Mrs. Elizabeth Cass Goddard of Col
orado Springs, granddaughter of Gen.
Lewis Cass of Revolutionary fame,
sister of President Henry B. Ledyard
of the Michigan Central railroad, and
one of the most prominent women in
Colorado, has been appointed deputy
sheriff by Sheriff o. B. Grimes of Ell
Paso county. Mrs. Stoddard's special