The Colorado statesman., 1905-03-11
COLORADO NEWS ITEMS


The Mesa county fair will be held
at Grand Junction September 18th to
22d, the first day being entry day.
Azel ID. Galbraith was executed at
Canon City on the same day that the
Supreme Court gave decision sustain
ing the capital punishment act.
There are ISAAC volumes in the Den
yer city library. BY reading book
day person could finish them all in
little more than 242 years-f he
lived that long.
Geo. w. Baumhoff, VINO has secured
an electric railway franchise at Canon
City, will investigate the feasibility OF
constructing an electric line from
Canon City to Cripple Creek.
The First National Bank of Fowler,
in Otero county, has been authorized
to begin business with $4,000 capital.
T. NJ. Weiland is president; j. F. Hall,
vice president; and L. Butler, cashier.
Fitzpatrick Brothers & Collins of
Beatrice, Nebraska, have been granted
a contract by the Denver & Rio Grande
railroad to build the new branch line
from Durango to Pennington, New
Mexico.
The smokestack of the Grant smell
ter in Denver, which is 353 feet high
and one of the tallest chimneys in the
world, will be used as a receiving mast
by the DeForest Wireless Telegraph
Company.
The Supreme Court of Colorado has
denied the petition for rehearing in
the case of Newton Andrews, one of
the three young men convicted of the
murder of Mrs. Amanda Youngblood i'll
Denver. This decision sustains the
capital punishment law.
The body of Azel d. Galbraith, who
was hanged at the state penitentiary,
was buried in the prison plot of the
old city cemetery at Canon City. His
relatives will be permitted to take
the body away later if they wish to
do so.
1t is understood that the postoffice
inspectors will recommend the estab-
lishment of a new rural delivery route
south and east of Fort Collins by which
140 families will be served. This will
make four routes supplied from the
Fort Collins office.
Austin Marsh, the seventeen-year-
old son of the superintendent of the
Eyler smelter at Pueblo, fell sixty feet
from the top of a cliff while out hunt
ing, on the 7tn inst, and had one of
his legs broken in two places besides
receiving other serious injuries.
1t was decided by the HiDernian So
ciety of Denver not to hold celebra-
tion on the anniversary of the birthday
of Robert Emmett, the great Irish ma
tionalist, but join in celebrating St.
Patrick's Day, March 18th, in which
honor shall. be done to both of 1reland's S
heroes.
The members of the Pueblo Typo
graphical Union have prepared me-
mortal to the governor asking him to
select a practical man when he ap-
points a commissioner of printing. The
law requires the appointment of a
printer who has served full appren-
ticeship.
The different railroads in Colorado
will grant half fare to number OF
conventions to be held in Denver this
season, including the Stock Growers
convention, the Eagles national gath
ering, the Epworth League convention
and the Grand Army of the Republic
encampment.
In the District Court at Cripple
Creek Judge Lewis decided against the
unseating of Alderman Hanley and
Shultz, the Democratic candidates of
the Third ward, and the seating of
Vanderweiden and Storey, on the
ground that not sufficient fraud had
been shown. Notice of an appeal was
given.
The Denver Press Club was organ
lied at luncheon held at the Albany
hotel in Denver March 5th. The Of
ficers are: Edward Keating of the
Times, president; Raymond A. Eaton
of the Post, vice president; Harry Rob
inson of the News, secretary, and w.
| Clyde Spencer of the Republican,
treasurer.
Mr.. Culbertson has been appointed
by the federal court at Pueblo as re-
receiver for the Lyon Cattle Company,
whose headquarters are at Ordway,
Colorado. The company has 5000 head
of cattle in Colorado and about $4,000
head at Silver City, New Mexico. The
| company is incorporated under the
laws of New Jersey.
The lecturers of the Colorado State
Realty Association are talking to big
audiences in the East and central West
about the state. The Iowa City Repub-
lican devotes several columns to Gil
bert McClurg's lecture there, and the
Otner speakers are also meeting Will
flattering receptions, which indicate
tnat Colorado is 'in the swim" this
year.
At a meeting of the Farmers league
of Pleasant valley, in Weld county, the
following schedule of wages was
adopted for the season of 1905:
Monthly wages, for March, SIG; from
April LIST to October 1st, $50; for Oc-
tober, $40. Day wages, $1.25 for po-
tato cutting. s1.50 for ditch cleaning
and haying, and s1.75 for potato dig
ging.
On March 1st the interests of the
Greeley, Eaton, Windsor, Loveland,
Fort Collins and Longmont sugar COM
panies were merged under the name