The La Jara chronicle., 1906-11-23
COLORADO NEWS ITEMS


| land, died November 18th after an Ill
ness of several months from Brigh.'s
| disease.
| of Durango fell and struck on his head
so hard as to cause his death a day or
TWO later.
The new 1,c00ton sugar beet factory
mt Swink was opened November goth,
tue formal celebration and barbecue
being set for Thanksgiving day.
The Santa Fe Railroad Company will
spend s60, 900 on the yards of the com
pary in Trinidad. The freight depot
viii be moved up near the passenger
depot and enlarged.
\ sugar beet recently brought to
| the Greeley factory by Gordie McMil-
Han of La Sale weighed twenty -one
! pounds when trimmed and ready for
grinding.
\ reduction of twenty-five per cent
| on telephone charges will become eff
\ fective at Florence December LIST, and
the rate on Canon City conversations
will be reduced.
The Grand Junction sugar factory
| recently turned out 1,529 bags of
sugar in one day and the seasons pro-
duction is expected to exceed 100000
bags. as against $4,000 last year.
Paymaster U. G. Amman. retired,
| United States navy, has been ordered
TO duty as pay officer, purchasing pay
officer and general storekeeper at the
naval hospital at New Fort Lyon
| Colorado.
Six thousand eight hundred and
siXty-seven books have been added to
the library Of the University of Colo
rado during the last year. Two wings
arc to be added to the present library
building.
Chancellor Buchtel. governor-elect,
made the principal address at the deii-
| cation of the new Methodist church at
Greeley on Sunday, the 18th inst. The
building is a fine one and will seat
thousand people.
The Denver Fire and Police Board
has passed a resolution that there shall
be no increase of the number of sa-
looms in the city. New licenses will be
granted only as old ones are relin.
quished or revoked.
DIR. Duren ] Ward, anthropologist in
the State University of Iowa, will move
to Boulder next winter, to continue his
investigations of the American Indian.
He will be affiliated with the Unitarian
movement near Boulder.
The Durango alleged horse and cat
tie thieves, Red Satriano and Edward
DuFgan. who were trdiled by the Du-
rango sheriff into New Mexico, went 10
Gallup. The sheriff at Gallup captured
tae horses and camping outfit. but the
men got away.
Most of the apparatus for the new
Trojan powder works at OvertGn,
eight miles north of Pueblo, has ar
rived. The buildings are almost com
pleted and It is thought the manufac-
ture of powder will be started before
December 1st.
David Matthias, of the freshman
class of the State Agricultural College
at Fort Collins, lost all the fingers OF
his left hand at the second joint on
the 18th inst, while at work with a
buzz-saw in the college shops. Ma.
thias is from Monte Vista.
The applications of B.. n. Freeman
Of Durango, w. C. Chapman. Frank
Eldredge, E. NJ. Hampton, B. G. Hamp-
ton and A. T. Sulenberger to organ.
ize the First National Bank of Pagosa
Springs, with capital of s25,000, has
been approved by the comptroller OF
the currency.
Charles Irvine, sixty years old and
an employe Of the Greeley sugar fac,
tory, who had been arrested on the
charge of assaulting an eight-year-old
girl, committed suicide on the 18th
inst. by shooting himself through the
/ head few minutes before the prelim-
mary hearing was to have begun,
Governor Mcdonald has appointed
Hon H c. Stimson on the board OF
control Of the State Industrial School
for Girls. to succeed Attorney Freder-
icR S. Ellsworth, resigned. Mr.. Tits.
worth was Democratic appointee,
and his successor. Judge Stimson, was
candidate for governor on the Demo
cratic ticket several years ago.
The funeral of the late Gen. George
West was held in the Methodist church
at Golden on the 18th INST. and was
largely attended, not only by the peo.
pie of Golden, but by pioneers, Civil
War veterans. members of the Ma.
ticnal Guard and newspaper men from
other towns
\ peculiar accident occurred on the
| 18th inst. ten miles north of Central
City. The fourteen-year old son of Mr..
| and Mrs. Tom Tregay. while out hunt.
lDg laDDlts, ieaned MS ShOiSun against
a stump and his dog knocked it down,
| cruising its discharge The shot struck
the boys right arm above the wrist in.
| hicting a very bad wound.
There seems to be no room for doubt
that Judge James NJ. Ellis of Denver
was burned to death in the recent hotel
| fire at Goldfeld, Nevada. Judge Ellis
came to Denver in 1856 as receiver OF
tine land office and aftprwnrd served ~
city attorney and as police magistrate.