The Colorado statesman., 1906-12-15
COLORADO NEWS ITEMS

from June 27th to December 4th.
Dr- L. F. Ingersoll, a pioneer physi-
clan OF Grand Junction, and one of the
most prominent doctors in western
Colorado, died suddenly in his Office
on the Sth inst. of heart disease.
The Democratic county committee
at Pueblo reports an expenditure of a
little less than $1,000 for election ex-
penses and the Republican committee
a nttle more than $11 500, of which
S5,OOO came from Denver
For the sum of S22,50O ten Greeley
business men have purchased the J..
Armstrong 160-acre farm one mile
from the center of the city and west of
the State Normal School, for the pur-
pose OF converting it into fine coun-
try club.
The colored orphanage at the Old
Folks Home in Pueblo was formally
dedicated with elaborate ceremonies
on Sunday, the 9th inst A number
OF prominent colored people from Den
yer and other cities of the state were
present
Edwin " Brake, state labor commits
6ioner, is preparing a factory inspec-
ton law to be introduced at the next
Legislature to protect the employees
from working in cramped quarters and
see that the factories are kept in a san
itary condition.
Harry Lee of Colorado Springs, who
has made considerable reputation by
photographing wild animals in their
native haunts, has gone to the Pacific
coast and proposes before he returns to
attempt the ascent of Mount McKin-
ley in Alaska.
The restaurant men and the church
people of Denver have united in an
effort to procure the passage of an ordi-
nance abolishing the free lunch. system
in saloons. Policemen are said to favor
it in the belief that it will reduce the
hobo crop"
BY careful canvass Frank Lamper
of Weldon was found to be the largest
beet grower in the Greeley district.
Lamper farmed 23S acres of beets,
from which he harvested 5000 tons
and for which he received 1000 cash
from sugar company.
The Great Northern Oil Company
has started a new well on the Major
Jain farm. about six miles north of
Boulder. This is three-quarters of a
mile northwest of the well of the In.
land Oil Company, on the Largridge
land, which has record of 410 barrels
day.
Figures from the state treasurer's
Office show that collection of interest
on state credits during the past bi-
ennial, period has been 51,9S90C Dur
Ing the period from 10000 the collec-
tions amounted to s42,354.46, showing
an increase of $9,625.60 for the period
just olosing.s, x
j. B. Stroube, day operator at the
Rio Grande depot at Florence, has
been promoted to the agency at To-
luca, two miles from Sedalia, where
the Dupont Powder Company is con-
structing large powder works. As
soon as the factory is completed the
new station will be called Dupont
q. NJ Gets of Delta county, who Wis
tied the State Horticultural Department
at Denver few days ago, reported
that C. j. Leppart and numerous other
fruit growers of his section have been
raising strawberries up to within the
past two weeks. The berries have all
been full grown and suitable for table
use. q
A number of eastern physicians
with d. A. Garfield and Greeley bust
ness men, are planning to build $3.50,
900 sanitarium on the hill south OF
Greeley. If the project succeeds DR.
George Pogue of Greeley, who has had
long and successful experience in the
treatment of tuberculosis, will have
charge of the institution.
Frank Miller, fifteen-year-old or
phan boy, living with H. e. Keller, oH
a ranch three miles northwest oi
Brighton, was found dead on the Sth
inst. He is believed to have swallowed
strychnine because he feared he
would be arrested for stealing, as il
was alleged that he broke into q
satchel belonging to a workman and
took clothes.
Word has been received of the es
cape from the Jackson, Missouri, jail
in Kansas City, of Henry Hurley, alias
Ed. Foley, the notorious lone high
wayman" who terrorized scores of drug
stores in Denver three years ago, and
who was sentenced last spring by the
Kansas City authorities to serve six
years for highway robbery. A reward
of $100 is offered for his arrest.
The Social Philanthropic Club at
Pueblo, composed of prominent char
ity workers, will raise fund for the
building of a contagion ward at the
McClelland orphanage, an institution
recently established at a cost of about
$4,000. In this ward all children af
flicted with contagious children's dis
eases will be taken care of. An elab
crate charity ball will be the first
move.
The State Teachers Association will
meet in Denver the Goth, 9th and 2Sth
of December. This association is be
coming one of the largest meetings
The membership this year will reach
nearly two thousand. DR.. q. X. Sny-
der, president of the normal school at
Greeley, is the president of the aSsoci.