The Colorado statesman., 1906-01-20
COLORADO NEWS ITEMS

IN quarrel over a woman at Pue-
plo on the 10th inst, Gus Matthews, a
colored man, shot and killed Frank
Smith, also colored. Matthews got
away.
The place of B. II. Freeman, COM
missioner of Phillips county, who re-
signed recently, has been filed by
Governor Mcdonald by the appoint
ment of Henry Mitchell.
Mason Weems has been sentenced to
the Buena Vista reformatory for eight
cen months by the County Court at
Golden, for stealing bicycles in Denver
and selling them in Golden.
William Z. Sweet has donated s25.-
600 toward the erection of a 5000 900
y. NJ. c. A. building in Denver, pro-
vlded the rest of the amount can be
raised by February 13, 1906.
The Colorado Conference of Chari-
ties and Corrections will be in session
at Pueblo January 21st to 23d. 1t will
be an important gathering with many
delegates and prominent speakers.
Louis R. Smith, the timber warden
charged with carelessness and ineff-
cheney in connection with the Gylles-
ten land deal, has been discharged
The secretary of agriculture has au.
thorized the issuance of permits for
the grazing of 10000 cattle on the
Colorado part of the Medicine Bow
forest reserve and 10000 in Wyoming.
company of Cripple Creek men,
headed by F. ]. Burk, has closed a long
term lease for 1G0 acres of state land
one mile south of Rockvale, in Ere
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velop the coal veins.
The Fort Collins Pioneer Association
was organized on the 18th inst with
seventy-five charter members. John
q. Mccoy was elected president; Rob
ert S. Fedder, secretary; and Mrs. w.
w. Taylor, historian.
John Meany, an employe at the
Workman mine, twelve miles frcm
Leadville, on the South Park line, fell
from scaffolding sixty feet into the
shaft as he was going to work and only
received slight injuries.
The cases against forty-one saloon
keepers of Cripple Creek and Victor
were dismissed on agreement of the
defendants not to be open Sunday, to
pay all costs and to aid in the enforce
ment Of saloon and gambling laws.
Governor Mcdonald has appoined
three delegates to the convention to
be held in Washington, D. c., February
18th, for the drawing up of uniform di-
vorce laws. The delegates are Mrs.
C. G. Bradford, John DeWeese and R.
w. Bonynge.
Gen. w. ]. Palmer has granted a
lease for five years of a block of
ground to be used for athletic pur-
poses by the Colorado Springs high
school. A club house, quarter-mile
cinder track and baseball diamond will
be built before spring.
w. H. Howard, retiring superintend-
ent of the Pueblo plant of the Ameri-
can Smelling & Refining Company,
was presented with a handsome gold
watch by the employees of the plant,
who also presented Mrs. Howard with
fine pair of opera glasses.
Bonds of the city of Trinidad to the
amount of 100000 have been sold for
the purchase of North Lake, which is
expected to furnish an inexhaustible
water supply for the city. Work will
soon be commenced on the water
works extension that will have to be
run thirty miles to the lake, which
is in the mountains.
Joseph Divine, a deputy sheriff at
Rouse in Huerfano county, has been
bound over to the next term of the
district court by justice of the peace
at Aguilar on a charge of assault with
intent to kill. Divine quarreled with
a Mexican named Lopez at broncho
busting contest at Rugby, and is said
TO have fired two shots at him.
William Strachan of Colorado
Springs has sold to William Barth of
Denver the Strachan sheep ranch,
thirty miles east of tie Springs, and
the largest in Ell Paso county. Mr..
Barth will organize a stock company
to take over the holdings, and Harry
Raaf, an experienced sheep raiser of
Colorado Springs, will manage the af-
fairs of the company.
Great preparations are being made
in Denver for the Western Live Stock
Show, January Goth to February 3D.
Meetings will be held in Denver dur
ing the same week by the American
Stock Growers Association, the Ma
tional Live Stock Association, the Ma
tional Wool Growers Association and
the Colorado Cattle and Horse Grow
ers' Association. 1t will also be Farm
ers' week in Denver
Governor Mcdonald has appointed
Mrs. Helen NJ. Grenfell as a member
of the board of control of the State
Home for Neglected and Dependent
Children to fill the vacancy caused by
the resignation of Mrs. Louise l.. Ar
kins. Mrs. Arkins wrote letter De-
cember 18th resigning from the board,
stating that she would be unable to at
tend any of It's meetings for at least
a year as she is going out of Denver,
in which the home is located.
The State Board of Equalization has
granted the county commissioners of
San Juan county authority to lower
the assessments on three railroads, the
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