The Colorado statesman., 1906-05-12
COLORADO NEWS ITEMS

ildSIluSS IueSuay. Inc DOy was HunI-
ing and Paroline tried to drive him
away from his farm by shooting at
him.
Fire caused by spontaneous combus-
tion destroyed the plant of the West
ern Glass Company at Denver on the
4th. The plant is a total wreck, at a
loss of $150,000. The loss is two-thirds
insured. About 200 are thrown out of
employment by the fire.
Unofficial returns from the school
census show an increase in Cripple
Creek Of twenty pupils over last year.
Victor has lost 200. The outlying
towns have gained practically all that
the district, 166. Total number of
children OF school age, 3,344.
The Cathedral Fund Association has
been Incorporated at Denver for the
purpose of receiving donations of
money and property to create a fund
to aid in the construction, erection
and furnishing of cathedral church.
The directors are John G. Martin, Will
lam Sayer and Herbert Fairall.
Carleton Northcutt, son of Judge
Jesse G. Northcutt, and John Hendrick
son of ]. ]. Hendrick, city attorney of
Trinidad, have passed the final exam
ination for admission to the naval
academy at Annapolis. Both were
born and raised in Trinidad and re-
ceived their appointments through
Congressman Hogg.
Plans for the entertainment of the
Missouri Pacific Immigration Bureau
in Denver in June provide for a state
dinner to be given by the Colorado
State Commercial Association on June
18th, trip over the Moffat road on the
following day and an automobile trip
through the city of Denver itself on
the morning of June 18th.
Perry Beeney, George w. Ball, sher-
iff of Washington county, and Ezra
Stone appeared before Judge Robert e.
Lewis of the federal court at Denver,
May I'd, to answer to an indictment re-
turned by the federal grand jury
charging the two first with gross land
frauds, and the last with cutting tim
ber from government reserves.
On May I'd Lige Yoakum, a young
man of twenty-one years, working with
a gang of lumber choppers at Carlisle,
near Portland, in Fremont county,
where they are getting out ties for the
new electric railroad, had his foot sew
cred from the ankle at the sawmill
used in the camp. He was taken to
Graves hospital in Canon City.
Mrs. Julia NJ Bayley, wife of the
Rev. Frank T. Bayley, pastor of the
Plymouth Congregational church in
Denver, died of pneumonia at Snohom-
ish, Washington, on the Sd inst. Mrs.
Bayley had only recently reached that
place on a visit to her son, the Rev.
Dwight S. Bayley. She had been res
ident of Denver for seventeen years.
Denver's last carload of clothing was
shipped by the Chamber of Commerce
Relief Committee to Oakland to be
distributed by the Colorado Relief So
ciety among suffering hundreds who
formerly called Colorado their home,
and the contents of the car are now
clothing, warmly and neatly many who
lost their all in the San Francisco
catastrophe.
Counterfeit silver dollars bearing
the mark 20" of the New Orleans
mint, and stamped with the dates 1898,
1896 or 1901, are being circulated in
Denver, and a large number of the
coins have been passed on tramway
conductors in the last week. The
coins are underweight, have scarcely
any ring to them, and most of them
have been merely washed in silver.
The first forty-five miles of the
Northside canal of the Pathfinder irri-
cation project on the North Platte
river were completed April 30th. This
canal was built jointly by the govern
ment and the North Platte Irrigation
& Colonization Company, of which H.
d. Lingle of Denvsr is chief owner. 1t
will reclaim $4,000 acres Of corporation
land and a large area of public Land
lying in Wyoming and Nebraska.
The Moffat road has reached point
| beyond Sulphur Springs and new
station has been established at Pas
chal. Track laying is progressing
daily, and freight is being moved west
of Sulphur Springs by every train that
goes over the range. Kremmling, the
point which will be the terminus of
the road during the present summer,
is being rapidly built up, and will be a
thriving town. The freight business
over the line is assuming large pro-
portions.
Edward Springer of La Veta shot
and instantly killed Aurelio Ezparsa
near Sunnyside last Sunday night. The
killing was kept quiet in order to pre-
vent possible trouble from friends of the
dead man. Springer had left his horse
tied in front of saloon and friend
took 1t and rode it to the Rocky Noun
tain mine. Springer telephoned to the
mine for his horse and the man who
rode it away sent it back by EZparsa.
Springer met Ezparsa on the road rid
ing his horse and Immediately shot
him dead. Rev. Mr.. Millsap, a Meth
odist minister of Gardner, was an eye
witness to the killing. Springer had
been drinking.
The exmption clause of the state in
heritance tax law must be applied so
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