The Colorado statesman., 1906-12-08
COLORADO NEWS ITEMS

Pueblo Sw1tchmen nave been nOtlhed
that an increase of cents an hour has
been granted them on all Colorado
roads.
A Denver policeman on an electric
motor cycle will hereafter run down
and arrest people who run automobiles
faster than the city ordinance permits
Russell Sage, convicted of forgery,
has been pardoned by Governor Nc
Donald. Sage was sentenced to from
two and one-half to five years in the
penitentiary.
The yearly poor report filed with the
Secretary of State by Kiowa county,
shows that there is one poor person
in the county and the cost of caring
for him last year was SS3.43.
Emmett Ardell son of E. A. Ardell.
of Pueblo, has received an appoint
ment to the United States naval acad-
emy at Annapolis. Emmett is seven
teen years old and was born and raised
in Pueblo.
1t Is now violation of the city or
dinance to plant cottonwood or box
elder trees in Denver. The cotton
from the cottonwood tree is strongly
objected to and the boXelder is tabooed
as a breeder Of worms
The Fremont County National bank
at Canon City, formerly the Fremont
County bank. opened for business on
the third inst. 1t is capitalized at $780,
600 and has SS7O.000 in deposits and
S614,000 cash in hand.
The Boulder Riding and Driving
Club has been organized as an offshoot
of the Boulder Commercial Associa-
tion. Its president is +. r. Park; Will
liam Firstbrook, vice president, and
W. S. Bellmsn. secretary.
W. H. Bredleld, pressman at the
Star-Journal Office in Pueblo, had his
hand caught between the plate and
roller of Hoe press on Thanksgiving
day. the veins and nerves on the back
of the hand being torn off.
Felix Powers, an employe of the Sill
yer State Canning 6 Produce company
at Fort Lupton, was badly burned
about the head and face by the eX
plosion of a can of hot pumpkin, while
it was being run through the cooker
The restaurant men and the church
people of Denver have united in an
effort to procure the passage of an ordi
nance abolishing the free lunch system
in saloons. Policemen are said to favor
it in the belief that it will reduce tho
hobo crop"
Ray Fisher and William Quinn of
Denver, fourteen and seventeen years
old. respectively, blind inmates of the
Colorado School for the Deaf and
Blind, were drowned while skating on
Prospect lake at Colorado Springs on
the 30th ult.
At Colorado Springs on Thanksgiv-
ing day crowd of young hoodlums
wantonly attacked F. T. Koupa, mail
carrier, throwing all sorts of missiles
at him. A brickbat hit him on the
forehead and knocked him senseless,
infiicting serious injury.
The new board of directors of the
Colorado State Fair Association met
at Pueblo on the 30th ult. and elected
the following officers for the ensuing
year: President, Paul Wilson; vice
president, ]. H. Voorhees,; treasurer,
C w. Crews; secretary. c. X. McHarg
Former United States Senator
Thomas M. Bowen of Pueblo has just
sold his ranch of several hundred
acres, nine miles from Del Norte, and
between that place and Creede, to John
Cleghorn, warden of the state peniten-
tiary. The purchase price is 100000.
Columbine Homestead No. 141, at
Colorado Springs, with S94 members
is the largest homestead in the Broth
erhood of American Yeomen, in the
country, the next largest being Min
neapolis homestead, with 733 mem
bers. On the night of November 80,
lot candidates were initiated.
Secretary D. w. McNutt Of the COM
mittee in charge of the show of the
Northern Colorado Poultry Association,
which will be held at Boulder, Decem-
ber 18th to 18th, says that the entries
indicates the largest exhibition of this
- h. f.fA FtxrAr ,fty
prizes have been donated by Boulder
business men.
Governor Mcdonald has appointed
Congressman Brooks, Bonynge and
Hogg and Congressman-elect Cook
and Haggott, as delegates from Colo
RADIO to attend the Convention for the
Extension Of Foreign Commerce in
Washington, D. c., January 14th. The
congressman will all be in Washing
ton at that time.
The coroner's jury at Colorado
Springs in the case of the death of
Ray Fisher and William Quinn, the in
mates of the State School for the Deaf
and Blind who were drowned in Pros
pect lake, returned a verdict that the
lessees and management of the lake
were criminally negligent in not pro-
viding protection for their patrons.
At Greeley on the Sd inst. meeting
of farmers. produce shippers, and rep
resentatives of the Greeley Commercial
club petitioned to the Union Pacific for
more freight cars to move 1000 car
loads of potatoes and other vegetables
now "hung up" for want of transporta-
tion. The movement to build an elec-
trio railroad line to Denver was
strongly endorsed
improvements which will cost from