The La Jara chronicle. (La Jara, Conejos County, Colo.) 1896-19??, 1905-07-07
COLORADO NEWS ITEMS

OF the Republic national encampment
fund.
| The Western Passenger Association
will grant excursion rates from ali
towns in Colorado to the state fair at
Pueblo in September.
| Secretary of State Cowie is dis
tributing the session laws of 1905.
which have Just come from the hands
of the printer 1t is a book of 45i
pages.
| The revenue to the state from liquor
| licenses for the first seven months of
the fiscal year has been s54 900 which
exceeds the total income for the year
of 1904 by s525.
| Bert Brennan, the nine-year-old son
| of James Brennan, at 1852 Stout street.
Denver, was instantly killed by light
ming while playing in the yard on the
| afternoon of July LIST.
The National Association of Fire
| Insurance Agents will meet in con-
vention in Denver August 18th for
three days session. There will prob
ably be 5000 delegates.
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.
Mrs Bert White of Longmont was
fatally burned on. the morning of the
I'd inst. by an explosion of kerosene.
She was about twenty-four years of
age and leaves three small children.
The First National Bank of Granada,
Colorado, has been authorized to begin
business with $4,000 capital. Starr
G. Gregory is president; Limburn
Boggs, vice president, and James
Mayfield, cashier
Postmasters have been appointed in
| Colorado as follows: Green Mountain
Falls, Ell Paso county. Francis A. Hart.
vice u. 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 sum stated at about
100000, to f. C. Cradle.
Max Rub formerly editor of the
Glasmik of Calumet Michigan, has
purchased the printing apparatus and
good will of the Mir Publishing Com
panv and will publish weekly Aus
trian newspaper at Pueblo.
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-
tirelv DESTROYED by them
James R. Mcclure, formerly miner
at Goldfield Colorado. committed sui
eide at Trinidad June 9th by shooting
himself through the head. He was
ffty-five years of age and leaves
wife. son and daughter.
tha
school people of Colorado to raise a
fund sufficient to install an educational
exhibit at the Portland fair, the state
board of managers not having money
enough for this purpose.
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 $761. 436.
DIR. Taylor, secretary of the State
Board of Health. has sent out letters to
NIL the county and city boards, as well
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.
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| llulT1 ana Z. a. bTduley "
The Longmont National Bank of Long
mont, with $4,000 capital has been
approved by the comptroller of cur
sency.
Charles o. Peters, the remaining
one of the trio of Youngblood muir
herers, who was reprieved on account
of alleged insanity, is said to be rap
IDLY growing worse at Canon City and
he is not expected to live more than a
few months.
The University of Colorado has Sc
cured Prof. Saul Epsteen to fill the
vacancy in the department of mathe-
mates, caused by the departure OF
Prof. Arnold Finch. who has accepted
chair of mathematics in Switzer-
land.
The census of manufacturing indus
,ries 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 Union Printers Home in Colo
RADIO Springs, erected for old and ind
gent members of the International
Typographical Union. is rapidly be-
coming crowded to its capacity now
having 1877 inmates. The trustees
have been notified of this condition.
Hon. James b. Belford of Denver
ha won his suit in the District Court
at Colorado Springs against the w. G.,
Stratton estate for a balance claimed
to be due him by Mr. Stratton for at
torney fees. The verdict is for $4,000.
but the executors have given notice of
an appeal.
Michael Harding. superintendent of
the Joe Dandy miae in the Cripple
Creek district, was covered with nearly
six feet of rock from a chute few days
since, but was dug out alive after four
hours of work by some twenty-five min
ers. He was badly bruised, but is ex-
pected to fully recover
William Burte. a miner thlrty-hve
years of age. was electrocuted at the
mines in Bowen. Las Animas county.
June 9th. Burte was walking into
the mine, when he slipped and fell
backwards against the trolley wire
which supplies power for the tram