The Colorado statesman., 1906-11-03
COLORADO NEWS ITEMS

Inc recent Dig STORM CLOSED tHe
Pixies Peak cog road for week. In
clearing the road from timber line to,
The summit, the men had to shovel
through snow from five to twenty-five
teet deep.
I 1t is said that recent soundings in
Loch Ivanhoe, on the Colorado Mid
and Railroad west of the Busk tunnel,
have failed to find bottom. The lake
Is situated at an altitude of about
1000 feet.
Harry J. Macy, fruit grower at
Park Center, near Canon City, COM
mitted suicide October 25th by taking
poison. The act is attributed to the
destruction of his fruit crop by the
late storm.
f. E. Dorsey, first secretary OF the
election commission and formerly re-
gister of the United States land ofhce
at Del Norte, died at his home In
Denver October 2Sth after short ILL
ness from peritonitis.
The state convention Of the Retail
Butchers and Grocers' Association
will be held at Pueblo January 18TH
and 18th. 1t is expected that 2GG dele
gates will be present and they Will De
Hospitality entertained.
Charles E. Ward, prominent Den
yer druggist, committed suicide in ms
store on the morning of October 2Sth
He suffered from an abscess on the
brain and the pain had become I'M
bearable; SO he took cyanide OF potas-
SUM to end it.
The cornerstone OF the new Twenty
third Avenue Presbyterian church IN
Denver, which is to replace the old,
historic, once removed building that
was burned six months ago, was laid
Sunday, October 29th. The new build
ing is to cost $34,O00.
Because he thought his sweetheart
in Italy did not want to marry
cripple, Tony Cancto, an Italian, COM
mitted suicide and was found dead at
his lodging house at Trinidad. He mad
a deformed leg, occasioned by an ac-
cident two years ago.
While playing with revolver that
he didn't know was loaded, Bert
Sutton, son of the mayor of Engle.
wood, Just south of Denver, shot ana
killed fourteen-year-old Frank Ritt'
man while out hunting near Engle'
wood Sunday, October 2sth.
While on their way home on bi'
cycles. Henry Roth and Philip Lauck,
car repairers for the Colorado
Southern Railroad, living in Globe
vile, were run down by Union Pa.
cific switch engine at Twenty-first and
Wewatta streets in Denver and fatally
| injured
AS the result of a. dispute over
pick and shovel at the farm of E. II.
Day near Trinidad, Dominic Cesorio
Is alleged to have shot Raphael Ce'
sorio. his brother-in-law, through the
neck with a thirty-eight caliber revol'
yer and also shot Raphaels wife
| through the arm.
On October 25th, W. H. Will
| liams. a fruit grower living
on Cottonwood avenue. at Canon
| CITY. showed a crate of fall strawber'
ries of large size and excellent quail
| .ty. The berries had been covered for
I several days under eighteen inches OF
| snow, but were unharmed.
While engaged in switching cars at
| the Burlington terminal in Denver
Martin Phillips. thirty-three years old
| a nephew of Thomas Phillips. super
intendent of the city street cleaning
department, was knocked under the
wheels of a car and instantly killed.
| He leaves a widow and two children.
Mark G. Woodruff, register OF the
State Land Board, has resigned that
office to enter the government forestry
| service as supervisor of the Pixies
| Peak reserve. This is the most I'M
portant government reserve in the
state, as it reaches into Gilpin, Park,
| Teller, Jefferson and Ell Paso counties.
The United Oil Company is expend
ing several thousand dollars remodel
| ing its refinery at Florence. Most OF
the old frame buildings, erected
twenty years ago, will be torn down
and replaced with steel structures.
! With the improvements the refinery
will be one of the most modern in the
| West, and will nearly double its ca
pacity.
Superintendent of Schools L. c
Greenlee of Denver, has received a let
ter from President Nicholas Murray
Butler of Columbia University, and
Superintendent Maxwell of the New
York City schools, saying that Denver
will be one of the cities to be visited
| By the Moseley party of British edu
| gators who are coming to this country
| in December
The annual report of the Pueblo ju
venile court, just issued, shows that
during the year fifty-four children
were before the court, six being girls.
Fifteen boys were excused from fur
her reporting to the court, they hav-
ing made good their promises. Six
Teen boys were sent to the industrial
school and three girls to the state in
stitution for girls.
The contract has been let for the
Durango city library to a Denver firm
for S11,040. In addition to this S125
will be paid for two mantels. Andrew
Carnegie donated $12.5OO for this IL
hrary, and the site, two lots valued at
about $4,000. was donated by Gen. w.