The La Jara chronicle., 1905-02-03
COLORADO NEWS TIMES

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The President has nominated
Thomas A. Davy for postmaster at
Fort Collins.
The Boulder Valley OIL Company
has paid Off all its indebtedness and
declared its first dividend.
Andrew Carnegie will donate 500
for public library building at Silver
ton, the town to appropriate $1,O0o
year for its maintenance.
The Colorado Springs Carnegie Ii
brary board has already received $4o'-
900 of the 100000 donated by Mr.. Car
pegie, and the building Is nearing
completion.
Wung Lung, who presided over
the Joss house between Blake and Mar
ket streets in Denver for thirty years,
died in the Denver county hospital
few days ago.
Professor Paxson. who has been In
Europe for several months, has re-
turned to Boulder to resume his duties
as professor of history at the Uni
yersity OF Colorado.
The members of the Woman's
League of the State University at
Boulder are raising fund to be loaned
to young ladies who are working their
way through college.
| Loveland has changed its classifica-
tion from a city of the third class to
city of the second class. census
taken by the city in December shows
4 population of 2.457.
At meeting of passenger officials OF
the western roads at Chicago 1t was de-
termined that hereafter all party busi
ness from Colorado common points
must move on tariff rates.
The ore house at Stratton's 1nde-
pendence at Victor was destroyed by
fire on the morning of January 21st.
The structure and its equipments cost
between 0.0O0 and $4,000.
The body of Mexican found in
Four-Mile creek west of Florence.
could not be identified. The man was
apparently upwards of fifty years OF
age A union labor card on his body
was water soaked and illegible.
The application of F. M. Weiland S.
| w. Taylor r. l.. King, ]. o. Nelson and
j. d. Mcdonald to organize the First
| National Bank of Fowler. with $25,OOO
capital, has been approved by the
comptroller of the currency.
! In the District Court at Trinidad
January Goth. LaZaro Trujillo was con-
victed of murder in the first degree for
| the killing of Joe Bosco, near Stark
VILE, October 18th. The penalty was
fixed at Imprisonment for life.
Last year $50 arrests were made
| by the police of Denver, of which S.523
were of males and LOAF of females.
The number found drunk and taken to
the city Jail in the patrol wagon was
2,345.
Telegraphers from all over Colorado
are preparing to attend the first annual
ball of the Denver & Rio Grande div
vision 8, Order OF Railway Telegraph
ers, which will be held in Woodman
hall at Pueblo, on February 2Sth.
Seventy-six cases of burglary were
reported in Denver last year and Chief
of Police Delaney reports that the
burglars were captured in every case
and many of them sent to the peni-
Tertiary.
At recent meeting the Denver
Chamber of Commerce took action to
| greatly increase its membership, 5000
being the figure named. Young and
active men are being pushed to the
| front in that and the Real Estate Elk,
| change.
Pueblo authorities are of the opinion
that fully 800 spurious $40 bills have
been circulated in Pueblo. Some
woman passed many Of these bills at
several dry goods stores, receiving a
large amount of change in each in
stance.
No more timber is to be sold by the
State Land Board. At recent meeting
of the board Governor Adams pre-
sented resolution instructing Regis
ter Woodruff to refuse to consider any
further applications for the purchase OF
state timber.
A Loveland special to the Denver
Republican January 9th says: The
Loveland Reporter, after being under
| the management of w. l.. Thorndyke
for the last twelve years, was sold to-
day to Frank McMeekin of Canon City,
who will take possession tomorrow
Representatives of Frank p Blair
Post of the Grand Army of the Repub-
| lie at St. Louis have already been in
Denver to engage headquarters for the
| post for the national encampment the
| first week in September. They expect
an immense crowd and came early to
avoid the rush.
| DIR. ]. Robert Blair of Omaha, who
recently visited Panama, says that the
| firm of Orman G. Crook, the head OF
which is former Governor James B.
Orman, is doing the most satisfactory
work of all the contractors. He also
/ says tHdl ne ii great uedl OI SOl-
orado cement; that most of the engin-
GERS there favor the use of the Colo
RADIO article over all others.
Commander Downen of the Grand
Army, department of Colorado and
Wyoming, has recommended that the
date of the department encampment
| be changed from May PA to May IT.
| 10 The encampment Is to be held in
Denver. He has information that the
commander in chief, General Black
mer, can Re in Denver on the 10th of
May, returning from a trip to Califor-
mia.
A considerable number of counter
seit ten dollar bills are said to be in cir
culation in the state, many having
been passed in Denver. The imitation
is said to be nearly perfect, except
that the silk threads that appear in
genuine currency are replaced by
minute black pencil marks on the bo-
gus article. The bills are limitations of
the buffalo" series, and are marked
with the letter ID" They are all
numbered "32s09292."