The state herald., 1905-11-10
COLORADO NEWS ITEMS

County Medical Society was held at
Greeley on the night of the Both ult.
The Colorado Fuel and Iron football
team of Pueblo does Its practicing by
electric light and is said to be devel.
oping some lightning plays.
A new ditch will be built from Black
Hollow district in Larimer county, q
distance of fourteen miles. The ditch
will irrigate 100 eighty-acre tracts IN
the vicinity of Pierce.
The Las Animas County Medical SO,
ciety has decided TO create a medical
library in Trinidad for the use OF the
physicians In the various counties OF
southern Colorado.
A drug company has been incorpor-
ated at Des Moines, Iowa, with $780,
900 capital and will conduct chain Of
drug stores along the Moffat road. c..
E. Gray of Denver will handle the west
ern business.
AT Salida en- the morning Of the
9th inst, the jewelry store of B. 8.
Dennison and the stationery store Of
Charles Grocer were partially de.
stroyed by fire. The losses are heavy,
especially of the stationery stock.
The Teller county tax levy as an.
nounced by the county commissioners
is only ten mills, which is the lowest
In the history of the county 1t is
based on valuation of $13,366,510, an
increase of 100000 over last year.
Judge Dixon's injunction issued some
time ago against the ticket brokers
and restraining them from trafflcking
In G. a. II. encampment tickets, has
been sustained by the Supreme Court
in a decision rendered by Judge Steele.
Mrs. Emma Tanner of Brecken.
ridge, Michigan. has written County
requesting information of Daniel
George, supposed to be Pixies Peak
pioneer in the early Cos.
By reason of defective brake on a
wagon loaded with stone, William N.
Hodge was thrown under the wheels
and killed in Bear Creek canon near
Colorado Springs on the 2nd inst. He
was fifty-four years old and leaves a
widow and two children.
In the District Court at st. Louis
Frank Willis Card. formerly Of Como,
Colorado, pleaded guilty to the charge
Of numbering Mrs. Beulah Craft, for
whom he had forsaken his wife, and
was sentenced by Judge Reynolds to
ninety-nine years Imprisonment.
A cinnamon bear weighing 175
pounds was killed by Mr.. Ormsby of
the commission firm of Proudft &
Ormsby, Denver. at his ranch near
Sedalia, Douglas county, few days
ago. This Is the first bear that has
been killed In that vicinity for many
years.
Three hundred members of the
japanese colony of Pueblo celebrated
the 53rd anniversary of the birthday
of the Emperor of Japan on the 3rd
inst. The colony is composed ol
Christian Buddhists and Mohamme
dams, all of whom rejoiced In the ma
tionM holiday.
Rolling and crushing machinery to
be used In the construction of mac
adam roads In Fremont county, has
arrived at Florence from the East
The crusher will be set up Immediately
and requisition will be made upon
Warden Cleghorn for convict labor In
crushing the shale TO be used.
Sheriff W. ]. Thompson of La Plata
county las announced that he Is unable
10 grant the petition of seventy taxpay
ers who requested him TO allow gam
hing to be resumed in the county
Many business men of Durango signed
the petition.
A report of the Colorado BAR Asso
citation, covering special meeting
held on January .. 1905. and tn,
eighth annual meeting NJ Colorado
Springs July 9Th and IN of this year
has been issued by the association. Be
sides report OF the business trans
'ncted II contains the address delivered
at these meetings.
A special election will be held In
boulder December 19th ON the ap
,proval by the people of the city's con
trnoi 10 purchase silver lake for sac.
900. also TO authorize the council fol
an additional bond issue of $4,000
supplemonting the bond Issue author
lied ut the general election lasI
spring for s75.0oo.
Brig. Gen. Francis Moore. re
tired. has beon visiting In Denver
lGcneral Moore was one of the Colo
rndO volunteers In 1861 and belonged
TO the First Colorado cavalry, knowr
as "Gilpin's Pets" He carried tn.
message relieving Governor GIlpin q
his Office and announcing the appoint
ment OF Gov. John Evans.
Two accidents happened In the New
house tunnel nj Idaho Springs ON III,
lat inst. by ear jumping the tract
"A. j. Ventress suffered n COMPOUND
fracture Of the right leg just below IN,
knee and John Owen. manager of IN,
Saratoga Development Company, hat
his left leg broken by the collision o.
u hand car with a lumber truck.
AZ Victor on the "a inst. Sam Me
Donald. one OF the oldest and mos
prominent mining mon In III. district
fell n distance Of about forty feet In hi
lease on the Ajax mine and sustained
very dangerous injuries. Several o.
his ribs were fractured and torn from
his breast bone. while he was hun In
lornoiiy and his bend badly iaccfatod
The report OF Cattle Inspector Dar
oilsrt shows that during the montl
OF October s.2iT head of cattle uor,
shipped from Brush. Akron. Yuma
Eokley and Wrny yards. n distance en-
bracins scvon,y'fyc miict of tho semi
arid bch covered by IN. burlington
Several thousand head Of sheep and
few carloads of horses were also gath
"r,d from fho range and sold.
y, y. Riiionhouse. deputy insufanc,
commissioner. II ,ondea,oring it
weed out III. bogus inHufanc,
companies which are OPERATING