The Colorado statesman., 1906-09-15
COLORADO NEWS ITEMS

held at Littleton October 4th to 9th.
The Mesa County Fair will be held
at Grand Junction September 26th to
2Sth.
The fair at Hotchkiss, in Delta
county, takes place September 26th to
2Sth.
a man eighty-three years old got
drunk in Denver the other day and
was arrested for creating trough
house."
G. C. Bachelor, pioneer of Boul-
der, died at his home in Boulder on the
9th inst. at the great age of ninety
three years.
The Denver Chamber of Commerce
has invited Vice President Fairbanks
to be the guest of honor at banquet
September goth.
Jacob Rush, father of State Senator
John A Rush, died at his home in Den
yer on the 9th inst. at the age of sew
enty-two years.
City contractor and builder, has been
adjudged insane and placed in the
state asylum at Pueblo.
The Flint Automobile Company, or
ganized by eastern capitalists, contem-
yer at cost of 100000.
B. Fred Tritch of Denver, son OF the
late George Tritch and secretary of the
Tritch Hardware Company, died at his
home in Denver, September 9Th, of ty-
phoid fever.
Mrs. Minnie Brown of Fort Collins
was burned 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.
During the last twelve months in
Weld county 156 marriage licenses
were issued, eleven divorces granted
and thirty-six persons convicted, sew
enteen of whom were juvenile delin-
quents under sixteen years of age.
At Durango on the 9th inst, Sam
Nichols, aged fifty years, ranchman,
suffering from cancer of the throat,
blew the top of his head off in liv-
cry stable with a revolver. He leaves
q
ters.
General Agent J. P. Hall of the
Santa Fe, on his return to Denver from
the Arkansas Valley Fair and Water
melon Day at Rocky Ford, stated that
the fair was the most successful and
most largely attended of the nineteen
that he has visited.
A report just figured out concerning
marriages and divorces in Pueblo
county during the last twelve months
shows that there were 305 marriages
and 10S divorces. The number of juven-
lie court cases has also decreased
more than one-half this year over last
While temporarily insane from men,
tai and stomach trouble, James H
Arkush, a Denver insurance man, be-
longing to the firm of Lehman, Stew
art G Arkush, committed suicide on
the 18th inst. by shooting himself
through the head. He is said to have
attempted suicide several times be-
fore.
Agent II. B. Kerr of the State Bu-
reau of Child and Animal Protection
has filed complaint against Contractors
Orman & Crook, charging cruelty to
animals. At camp No. TO- near Topo-
mas, Colorado, Kerr found fifty horses
that were suffering from soro should
ers. The animals were in charge of
Foreman r. Davis.
The Teller county commissioners
have voted to Gilbert McClurg, secre-
tary to the chamber of commerce at
Colorado Springs, $500 for a stereopti-
con lecture on the Cripple Creek dis
trict, to be delivered in the East. Grip
pie Creek and Victor, by their respect
i've City Councils, have each appropri
ated $3.50 for the same purpose
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.
The Ancient Order of Hibernians at
its annual convention in Denver, Sep
tember 5th, selected Central City as
the next place of meeting. T. B Finn
of Denver was elected president and
William H. MCGEE of Leadville, secre-
tary. The Ladies Auxiliary elected
Mrs. Mary McGinness of Denver, pres
ident, and Mrs. Mary Callahan, Pueblo,
secretary.
The Colorado Homeopathic Society
at its meeting in Denver elected the
following officers: Frederick A. Faust,
M. 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. 3.
Swerdfeger, NJ. D., of Denver, secre-
tary; DR.. ]. B. Brown, NJ. D., of Den
yer, treasurer.
There were ten applications before
the State Board of Pardons at it's reg.
ular monthly meeting in Denver on the