The Colorado statesman., 1906-09-01
COLORADO NEWS ITEMS
Labor Day sentemher ad

LoveIand annual corn roast on Labor
Day, September Sd.
The State Fair at Pueblo opens Sep
tember 10th and lasts five days.
The Western Slope Fair will be held
at Moptrose, September 18th to 21st.
About 800 teachers will be employed
in the schools of Denver for the com
ing year.
The Teller county Democratic
county convention has been set for
September 9Th.
The Republican convention for the
Second congressional district will be
held at Colorado Springs September
18th.
In an open letter County Judge Ben
B. Lindsey of Denver formally an
nouEces himself a candidate for the
Democratic nomination for governor.
Frank .. Peabody of Denver, brake
man on the Union Pacific railroad,
was Killed by falling from the top of
car near Fort. Lupton August 9th.
James G.. Pierson, driver for a stor-
age company, fell under a slab of mar
BILE that was jostled off his wagon near
tho United States mint in Denver, and
YVES instantly killed.
The Denver Trades Assembly is
making preparations for an immense
parade on Labor Day, Monday, Sep
tember Sd. 1t is expected that 10000
people will be in the line of march.
Manual training has been adopted as
part of the curriculum of the high
school at Boulder Prof. ]. C. Chester
has been appointed director, and con-
tract let for an extensive Quitting of
tools.
According to the Denver Union Wa
ter Company, the amount of water
used daily in Denver is $50 gallons to
each 1nhabitant of the city. And yet
there are many dirty looking people in
| Denver
The Grand Valley National bank of
Grand Junction has been made a
United States depository. This is a
distinction enjoyed by but one ether
bank on the western slope, the First
National of Montrose.
Little Herman Campbell, the year
old child of Lode Campbell, living near
Littleton, got into a swarm of hornets
a few days since, and was stung on the
head sixty times, barely escaping with
life after terrible suffering.
L. w. Lewis, the negro who was
blown up by premature explosion in
the stone quarry near Starkville, was
taken to Trinidad and had his right leg
| amputated. He lost both eyes, one of
his hands and his left foot.
AS a result of the prevalent whole
sale poisoning of dogs in Colorado
Springs, Humane Agent Neff has
served notices on the druggists that
| failure to make the required record OF
poisons sold will be prosecuted.
George E. Corbin, Sr., member of the
Corbin Dairy Company, died at his
home in Denver August 21st, at the age
of seventy-nine years. Mr.. Corbin was
a cousin of Major General Corbin and
was one of the wealthiest dairy men in
the state.
The famous evangelist, Billy Sunday
and his assistants, will hold big re
vival in Salida, beginning September
goth. Mr. Sunday, known as the base
ball evangelist, at meetings at Canol
City two years ago added over thou
sand converts to the churches
Attorney General Miller, in a com
munication to Governor Mcdonald, an
nounces the opinion that the count,
courts of Colorado have no authority
to naturalize citizens under the new
law passed at the last session of Con
gress.
The cooperative creamery at Rife
at present produces 1000 pounds o
butter per week and can not supply the
increasing demand for it's product
having to scour the adjacent country
as far as Basalt and Carbondale fol
| cream.
The dam and headgate at the outle
of Timberline lake on Beaver creek
some thirty-five miles west of Fort Col
Inns, have been carried away by ;
cloudourst and with them went 10000,
goo cubic feet of water that was being
held back for late irrigation.
Henry o. Morris, Pueblo agent ot
the Colorado Humane Society, notified
a mounted policeman that hereafter
when cows or horses being taken tc
the pound refused to be led or driven
an animal ambulance should be pu
into commission for the purpose.
Robert Waugh, well-known pioneer
of Ell Paso county, has been appointed
financial agent for the Ouray and Uin
tab Indian agency at Fort Duchesne
Utah. He is a Civil War veteran anC
was agent at the same reservation dur
ing President Harrison's administra
tion.
George sGaskill, barber, was rur
down and killed at Denver August
goth, by an automobile driven by Gil
bert H. Denton, president of the Vul
can Iron Works Company. Mr.. Den
ton claims that he was running slowly
and that the bicyclist was on the
wrong side of the street, coming di
rectly toward him.
Joseph Otego, aged fourteen, son o.
| Frank Otego, the wealthiest sheer
owner living on the Apishapa river il