The Delta independent., 1906-09-14
COLORADO NEWS ITEMS

at Canon City September 18th to 21st.
! Sixty thousand young trout have just
been placed in the streams of Boulder
| county.
The Labor day parade at Pueblo had
to b. abandoned on account of soak
ing lain
The annual meeting Of the Colorado
Bar Association will be held at Colo.
RADIO Springs September 9th and 2Sth.
| The Denver Chamber of Commerce
has invited Vice President Fairbanks
10 be the guest of honor at banquet
| September 2Olh.
| The finest of weather and an unus-
| uAlly lalgc and fine parade combined to
| make the Labor day celebration in
Denver one of the most successful ever
held.
B. Fred Tritch of Denver, son OF the
late George Tritch and secretary of the
TIitch Hardware Company. died at his
home in Denver. September 9Th. of ty-
| phoid fever.
Oscar Parks of Durango was danger
ously hurt at Pine River by falling
from a haystack and striking a spike
on hay wagon. The spike pierced
his bladder. necessitating an opera
ton.
The little daughter of Mr.. and Mrs
Andrew Buchanan, two and a half
years old. was drowned September list
In an irrigating ditch at the Buchanan
home in the Animas valley above Du-
range.
Mrs Minnie Brown OF Fort Collins
| was bur ned 20 death on the 5th inst.
by the explosion of gasoline which she
was using to start fire. She was
twenty-eight years of age and leaves
| two children.
F. W. Hermann, for two years in
charge of the dry farming experiments
conducted by the government at Chey-
enne. Is soon to be transferred to begin
drainage investigations along the Rio
| Grande in Colorado.
The Victor Fuel Company has sold
the Mexican Central railroad 100000
tons OF coal, to be delivered at Juarez,
Mexico. Most Of this coal will be TAX
en- from Las Animas county mines and
10000 tons has been delivered.
II the district court at Trinidad the
Murder charge against James 7. Davis,
marshal of Aguilar, indicted for killing
Mexican while trying to stop a street
fight. was nolle pressed on the ith
inst and the defendant discharged.
Clark & Sawdys large livery barn
at Boulder, the oldest in the city, was
burned on the night Of the 7th inst.
Six horses were burned to death and
no vehicles were saved. the loss. in.
Guiding the 5000 hearse belonging to
F. J. Bucheit.
A Republican judicial convention will
be held at Pueblo September 10th for
the Tenth district, embracing the coun-
ties Of Pueblo, Otero and Kiowa. Two
candidates for district judge will be
nominated to succeed Judges Dixon
and Voorhees,.
The attendance at the fall opening
of the State Preparatory School at
Boulder Is beyond the capacity of the
present building. The completion OF
the new high school building, in pro.
cess of construction. has been delayed
by strike of the bricklayers.
Through the efforts of the Woman's
Relief Corps flag poles have been
erected on all the school grounds in
Canon City and in South Canon City
and large flags have also been pre-
scnted The poles were donated by
the Colorado Telephone Company and
the poies were painted and set BY con.
vict labor.
While removing bouders from the
track OF the boom at the Banner placer
near Breckenridge on the 4th inst,
John A. Neslund was struck by rush
of water and carried down the stream,
his head striking the bottom of the
ground sluice in such manner as to
break his neck and fracture his skull,
resulting in instant death.
The tenth annual reunion of old set
tiers of Las Animas county was held at
Trinidad September 1st on the court
house lawn. Every man and woman
who had lived in the county twenty
five years is member of the society
and there was large attendance. DR..
NJ BeshOar was reelected president
and Edward West secretary.
Helen Thomas. daughter of Calvin
Thomas of Greeley. has been appointed
assistan librarian in the reference and
cataloguing department of tn" library
of the state University of Michigan,
located at Ann Arbor. Miss Thomas is
a graduate of the Greeley High school,
State Normal School, Wellesley, and
Albany, New York. Library School.
The Ancient Order of IIibernians at
its annual convention in Denver, Sep
tember 9th, selected Central lily as
the next place of meeting. T. B Finn
! rf Denver was elected president and
! William II. Mc(iee of Leadvlle, secre-
tary. The Ladies' Auxiliary elected
Mrs Mary McGinness of Denver. pres
ident, and Mrs. Mary Callahan, Pueblo.
| secretary.
The Colorado Homeopathic Society
at it's meeting in Denver elected the
following officers: Frederick A. Faust,
NJ. D., Of Colorado Springs. president;
A. c. Stewart, NJ. D., of Denver. first
vice president; Clinton Enos, M D., OF
Denver second vice president; E. b.
Swerdfeger, M. D., of Denver, secre-
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