The Colorado statesman., 1906-11-24
COLORADO NEWS ITEMS

Mrs S. A. Danes. aged seventy-four
| years, dropped dead in front of her
4 home in Durango few days ago.
David James. postmaster at Love-
land, died November 18th after an ILL.,
ness of several months from Brights
disease.
The twoyear-old son of John Hanna
OF Durango fell and struck on his head
so hard as to cause his death day or
| two later.
The new 1,oOO-ton sugar beet factory
at Swipk was opened November goth,
the formal celebration and barbecue
being set for Thanksgiving day.
The Santa Fe Railroad Company will
spend $60,O0O on the yards of the COM
pany In Trinidad. The freight depot
will be moved up near the passenger
depot and enlarged.
A sugar beet recently brought to
the Greeley factory by Gordie McMil-
Ian Of La Sale weighed twenty-one
| pounds when trimmed and ready for
| grinding.
reduction of twenty-five per cent
| on telephone charges will become ef-
fective at Florence December 1st, and
the rate on Canon City conversations
will be reduced
| The Grand Junction sugar factory
recently turned out 1929 bags of
sugar in one day and the seasons pro-
duction is expected to exceed 100000
bags. as against $4,000 last year.
Paymaster U. G. Amman, retired.
United States navy, has been ordered
to duty as pay officer, purchasing pay
officer and general storekeeper at the
naval hospital at New Fort Lyon
Colorado.
Six thousand eight hundred and
siXty-seven books have been added to
the library Of the University of Colo
rado during the last year. Two wings
are to be added to the present library
building.
Chancellor Buchtel, governor-elect,
made the principal address at the dedi
cation of the new Methodist church at
Greeley on Sunday, the 18th inst. The
| building is fine one and will seat
thousand people
| The Denver Fire and Police Board
has passed resolution that there shall
| be no increase of the number of sa-
looms in the city. New licenses will be
| granted only as old ones are relin-
quished OF revoked.
DR.. Duren ]. Ward, anthropologist in
the State University of Iowa, will move
to Boulder next winter, to continue his
investigations of the American Indian.
He will be affiliated with the Unitarian
movement near Boulder.
The Durango alleged horse and cat
tie thieves, Red Satriano and Edward
| Duggan, who were trailed by the Du.
rango sheriff into New Mexico, went to
Gallup. The sheriff at Gallup captured
the horses and camping outfit, but the
men got away.
| Most of the apparatus for the new
| Trojan powder works at Overton,
eight miles north of Pueblo. has ar.
rived. The buildings are almost COM
pleted and 1t is thought the manufac.
ture of powder will be started before
iDecember LIST.
David Matthias, of the freshman
class of the State Agricultural College
at Fort Collins, lost all the fingers of
his left hand at the second joint on
the 14th inst, while at work with a
buzz-saw in the college shops. Ma.
thias is from Monte Vista.
The applications of B. N Freeman
OF Durango, W. C. Chapman, Frank
Eldredge, E. M Hampton, B. G. Hamp-
| ton and A. T. Sullenberger to organ
| ize the First National Bank of Pagosa
Springs with capital of $25,000, has
been approved by the comptroller OF
the currency.
Charles Irvine, sixty years old and
an employe Of the Greeley sugar fac
tory, who had been arrested on the
| charge of assaulting an eight-year-old
girl. committed suicide on the 18th
inst. by shooting himself through the
head few minutes before the prelim-
mary hearing was to have begun.
Governor Mcdonald has appointed
| Hon. H. G. Stimson on the board OF
control of the State Industrial School
| for Girls, to succeed Attorney Freder-
ick S. Ellsworth, resigned. Mr.. Tits.
worth was Democratic appointee,
and his successor, Judge Stimson. was
candidate for governor on the Demo.
cratic ticket several years ago.
The funeral of the late Gen. George
West was held in the Methodist church
| at Golden on the 18th inst, and was
largely attended, not only by the peo.
pie of Golden, but by pioneers. Civil
War veterans. members of the Ma.
tional Guard and newspaper men from
| other towns.
A peculiar accident occurred on the
18th inst, ten miles north of Central
City. The fourteen-year-old son of Mr..
and Mrs. Tom Tregay, while out hunt.
ing rabbits, leaned his shotgun against
a stump and his dog knocked 1t down.
causing its discharge The shot struck
the boys right arm above the wrist in.
ficting a very bad wound