The Colorado statesman., 1906-09-08
COLORADO NEWS ITEMS

Western Slope Fair at Montrose Sep
tembcr 18th to 21st.
The Fremont county fair will be held
at Canon City September 10Th to 21st
Sixty thousand young trout have just
been placed in the streams of Boulder
county.
The Labor day parade at Pueblo had
to be abandoned on account of a soak
ing rain.
Free delivery was established at the
La Junta postoffice September 1st, be-
ginning with two carriers.
The annual meeting of the Colorado
Bar Association will be held at Colo,
rado Springs September 9th and 2Sth.
On August 31st, for the first time in
the history of the health department OF
Denver, there was not single case
of diphtheria in the city.
The finest of weather and an unus-
ually large and fine parade combined to
make the Labor day celebration in
Denver one of the most successful ever
held.
Labor day at Colorado Springs was
mostly devoted to excursions and pic
MICS. Judge w. p Seeds and Judge
Ben B. Lindsey addressed a large au-
dience at the union picnic in Stratton
park.
The little daughter Of Mr.. and Mrs.
Andrew Buchanan, two and half
years old, was drowned September 1st
in an irrigating ditch at the Buchanan
home in the Animas valley above Du-
range.
The Democratic candidate in Maine
for governor, Cyrus w. Davis Of Wa
terville, has made his fortune largely
in Colorado mines. He has been in
terested in various Colorado properties
for many years.
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.
Denver will have an assessed valu-
alton of $115,75O,00O for the coming
year. AS Denver is credited with over
one hundred millionaires, it is appar-
ent that they are the only people in
the city who own taxable property.
In the district court at Trinidad the
| Murder charge against James T. Davis,
| marshal of Aguilar, indicted for killing
Mexican while trying to stop street
| fight, was nolle pressed on the 4th
inst. and the defendant discharged.
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 Trinidad City Park Company
been organized for the purpose of es.
tahlishing a park and pleasure resort
at Trinidad on the Day Lake proper
| ty. The intention is to construct a
fine baseball ground, dancing pa
vilion, band stand, boathouse and cleo
trio prismatic fountain.
| G.. r. Frey, engineer of a Burlington
| passenger train, was killed in COLI.
sion at Schram, twenty-four miles west
| of Wray, on the morning of September
| 1st. His train ran into the rear por.
tion of a freight train which had brolS.
en- off from the main body.
Justice of the Peace Hudson, of Den.
| yer, laid down the law to saloon
keeper who recently tried to hold a
suit of clothes to enforce payment of
a liquor bill. The booze man was told
that it couldn't be done and was given
an hour to deliver the clothes, under
penalty of punishment for larceny.
While removing boulders from the
| track OF the boom at the Banner placer
near Breckenridge ON the 4th inst,
| John A. Neslund was struck by a 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 a member of the society
| and there was a 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 the 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
By express few days ago Governor
Mcdonald received a box containing
three dozen fine mountain trout. The
gift came from George Roosevelt,
nephew of President Roosevelt, who,
in company with Lieutenant Land of
the United States army, has been fish
ing in the Gunnison. The fish sent
to the governor at Denver represented
two days catch Of George Roose-
welt and party.
Enveloped in flames through the ig-
milton of matches which he carried
in his pocket, William A. Haffey, a
substitute elevator pilot at the state
capitol, in Denver, barely escaped q
horrible death, and the sight of his
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