The La Jara chronicle. (La Jara, Conejos County, Colo.) 1896-19??, 1906-12-28
COLORADO NEWS ITEMS


of about 100000.
The Greeley Gas and Electric Com
pany has purchased site and Will
erect an extensive gas plant, with all
the latest improvements.
At the Empson Canning Company's
plant in Longmont 600 tons of Colo
bridegroom pumpkins are piled up
awaiting the canning process.
The new federal building at Trinidad
is to be located on East Main street. 1t
will contain the postoffice, federal ON
ces and federal court room, and Will
cost $4,000.
President S. s. Bernard of the
Cripple Creek Drainage & Tunnel Com
pany has called a meeting of the direct
ors for December 29th. when definite
action will be taken with regard to the
tunnel.
Samuel Mcfarland, miner at work
in the Specimen mine on Bull hill, in
the Cripple Creek district. was caught
and instantly killed by falling rock on
the night Of December Goth. He leaves
a widow and three children.
Will Eaton. the nineteen-year-old
boy bound over at Greeley to the May
term of the District Court on the
charge of attempting to kill his
mother. was allowed to plead guilty
and was sentenced to the State reform
atory.
At a hearing in Denver December
21st, Judge Armour made an order adj
hitting to bail in the sum of $1,000
each Geret ]. and Wourtje Van Wyk.
pending a new trial for murder. An
application for a change of venue has
also been made.
the city hall of Denver, the downtown
fire stations, city shops, city street
cleaning department and city market
will all be supplied by the 100000
electric light plant that will be placed
in the new auditorium building.
A son born TO DIR. and Mrs. Gerald
Webb at Colorado Springs a few days
ago. is the only greatgrandson of JET
ferson Davis, president OF the
Southern Confederacy. Mrs. Webb is
a daughter of Mrs. J. A. Hayes, and
granddaughter of the dead Southern
leader.
Two thousand head of cattle have
been put on a feed of beet pulp and
beet tops near Johnstown by George
Harvey, a cattle man of the Middle
Park country Twelve thousand cattle
are feeding on pulp along thirteen
miles of railway between Johnstown
and Loveland.
The new armory of Company l,
First infantry. n. C. C., at Fort Nor
gan. was formally opened on the night
of December 22nd, by ball and gem
eral Notification. The new quarters
are a part of the Masonic Temple re-
Gently erected at a cost of $4,000,
which gives the soldiers a model room
for their purpose.
The Cripple Creek Short Line will
next summer establish a system OF
wireless telegraphy in connection with
the train service between Colorado
Springs and Cripple Creek. The appa-
ratus will be installed in each observa-
ton car, the sender and receiver pc
ing attuned to the same pitch as that
of the Forest wireless system at the
Springs.
The Interstate Commerce Commits
sion is in need of expert stenograph-
ers and an examination will be held in
Denver on January End to secure eligi-
bles to fill five vacancies The posi-
ton pays $500 per annum and trav-
cling expenses. Applicants wishing to
take the examination should apply to
the secretary of the board of examin-
ers at Denver.
An appropriation of 100000 will be
asked of the General Assembly TINS
year by the board of trustees OF the
Colorado State School of Mines. Forty
thousand dollars of this money will be
used If secured, for the erection OF an
up-todate natatorium and gymnasium,
and $4,000 will be used to help wipe
out the Indebtedness of $31,O21.S1 now
hanging over the school.
The Mountains Reservoir Company,
which has incorporated with capital
of s125,OOO, proposes to operate several
reservoirs in Clear Creek, JEFFERSON
and Arapahoe counties, known as Loeb
Lomond, Lake Caroline, Lake Stew
art, Gilman lake, Ice lake, Chinn
lake and Fall River reservoir. Water
will be taken from Fall river, Clear
Creek and the Agricultural ditch.
The following letter was received by
the state treasurer at Denver few
days ago: Dear Sir:-Having broken
the laws Of the state of Colorado.
will endeavor to make it right by en-
closing IS. Respectfully yours" No
name was signed to the letter, but the
money was enclosed. 1t is the first
conscience money ever turned into the
state treasurer's office. No explana-
ton was made regarding the manner of
breaking the law.
Mrs. Jas. NJ. Lehman, eighty-three
years old and an invalid, who for sew
eral years had been a county charge,
was burned to death in her cabin in
the west end of Idaho Springs, on the
afternoon of December 21st. She had
been a sufferer from paralysis, and it is
supposed that some rags, hung up to
dry near the stovepipe, caught fire,
and that when she tried to extinguish
the blaze the flames were commune
Gated to her clothing