The Colorado statesman., 1906-06-09
COLORADO NEWS ITEMS

vention will be held at Colorado
Springs, June 14th to 18th.
Thomas McCasland, formerly agent
of the Equitable Life at Denver, died
at st. Louis, June 1st, of dropsy.
The Colorado Teachers Association
has donated $100 for the relief of the
needy teachers in San Francisco.
The annual state convention of the
society of Christian Endeavor will be
held at Colorado Springs, June 14th
to 18th.
Rural Route No. will be estab-
lished at Monte Vista after July 10th.
1t will serve 2S7 people and eighty-two
houses.
A strong commercial club has been
organized at Elbert. with A. G. Corn
forth as president and j. e. Meyer as
secretary.
Inc annual picnic of the Colorado
Pioneers Ladies' Aid society will be
held at Elitch's Gardens in Denver,
June 23d.
The c. D. Griffith Shoe Company
proposes to erect a large shoe factory
at Denver, which will employ between
200 and 300 men.
Strawberry Day at Glenwood Springs
will be on Saturday, June 10th. There
will be free strawberries and free
baths in the big pool.
A destructive hailstorm visited Sun
flower valley, eight miles east of Trini-
dad, June LIST, and practically ruined
the fruit crop as well as the first crop
oil alfalfa.
Ed Rowe, a bartender in the Sara
tcga saloon at Leadville, was shot
about midnight May goth and instantly
killed by two masked men who at
tempted to hold up the saloon. The
men escaped.
The Colorado Fuel and Iron Com
pany has been installing automatic
dumping cages on the Fremont coal
mine in Fremont. The mine will re-
sumo operations with a force of more
than 300 men.
The oldest and largest tree in Gree
ley is a cottonwood that was planted
in 1871 by Mrs. Abigail Dunham, who
is now the oldest woman in Greeley,
being in her ninetieth year. The tree
is fifteen feet in circumference and
seventy-fve feet high.
The beet growers of Lone Tree, eight
miles east of Greeley, have organized
& Beet Growers association, with a
large membership for the purpose of
securing railroad for that section and
avoiding long and arduous hauls in
getting beets to market.
Trainloads of structural steel are be-
ing received daily at the Minnequa
works to be used in the construction
of the new buildings, which will in
clude new roundhouSe and machine
shop for the Colorado & Wyoming
road, six new open hearth furnaces,
etc.
John Seidler, packing house EN-.
| ploye at Denver, went insane and at
| tackled numerous people. He was ar
rested by Policeman Higdon, who had
| to club him into submission. But the
| demented man died at the county hos
pital from injuries received in one OF
his fights.
The state law requiring the closing
of barber shops on Sunday will stand.
| Recently the Supreme Court an
| nounced an opinion holding that the
| law was constitutional. An applica-
| ton for rehearing was made and the
| court has just entered an order deny.
ing this application.
The miners drilling contest at Boul-
| der will begin on the afternoon of July
| Sd and will be held in the Chautauqua
auditorium, because the seating capac
| ity and the general conveniences.
Prizes for doublehand drilling will be
| 5000 to first, then $125, SIS, $50 and
$25; for single-hand, 800, SIS, $50, $50
and $40.
Passenger agents from various Colo
| arod railroads are expecting to handle
larger tourist business this season
than they have had for years. With
each successive year, according to the
records, tourist travel his increased,
and 1906, it is believed, will almost
double the amount of business handled
in any previous year.
On Memorial Day the convention of
the Western Federation of Miners in
session at Denver held services in
memory of Rev. Myron w. Reed. An
eulogy was read by John M. O'Nein,
editor of the Miners Magazine, and
afterward a committee from the or
ganization went to Fairmount GENE,
terry and decorated Mr.. Reeds grave.
While on a straw ride out from
Pueblo Saturday to Fishers ranch on
the st. Charles, Howard Moore was
badly shocked by lightning, which
struck a tree, breaking off large por-
tion of the top. After working over
ions succeeded in restoring him to con-
sciousness. Three other members OF
the party received slight shocks.
The faculty of the East Denver high
school have awarded the. following
scholarships: Gala McCausland, to
the University of Colorado; Edith
Sawyer, a two years scholarship to
Colorado college; Joseph Weinberger
and Jacob ]. Lieberman, to the Uni
versity of Denver The Methodist
churches of Denver have awarded
scholarships at the University of Den
yer to Irene Lloyd and Roy Correa.