The Colorado statesman., 1906-08-04
COLORADO NEWS ITEMS

-, 80, NSHSlS Institute IOr t1e
Twellth district opened at Gunnison
July "Oth with good attendance.
Rural route No. l is ordered estab-
lisned October 1st at Oiney, Otero
county, Colorado, serving 32O people
and ninety-six houses.
A. Z. Teachout, proprietor of the
Eserton House at Gunnison and one
OF the pioneers Of Gunnison county,
died July S1st after short illness.
The Denver Baseball Club of the
western League has dropped down to
fourth place and still sliding. Pueblo
seems to be securely anchored at the
bottom.
a Civil Service examination will be
held August 18th at Leadville; August
lSth at Grand Junction and Pueblo, for
the positions of clerk and carrier in
the postoffice service.
Work of completing blast furnace F
oil the Minnequa plant at Pueblo will
soon be started again. Work on this
furnace was commenced about four
years ago, but was stopped when the
plant closed down.
Lars Nelson, who died in Denver re-
Gently of pneumonia, was one of the
largest land owners and stock grow
ers OF Park county, having lived on
the Cottage Grove ranch near Alma
since 1873.
e. P. Miller, employed on the Mer-
ritt lease of the Reno property on Gold
mill in the Cripple Creek district, was
killed by an explosion on the morning
of July 9th. The accident was due to
a missed shot.
Dan McKinnie, who terrorized the
guests at a party at the Bodl1in home
in Highland Lake some two weeks ago,
assaulted Constable Coates, escaped
and was captured, was sentenced to
sixty days in Jail at Greeley.
Chester Seger, seven-year-old
child, was crushed under the wheels
OF an ice wagon in Denver a few days
ago and died within two hours. He
vas climbing on the wagon for ice and
his clothing caught in a wheel.
While L. R. Warren was attending
the band concert at Colorado Springs
on the night of the S0th ult. his home
at 23l North Wahsatch avenue was
robbed of 5000 in diamonds and jew
elry, $50 in cash being overlooked.
It is stated that the two hundred
houses to be built at Riley gulch, near
Trinidad, for the men employed by
the Carbon Coal and Coke Company,
an auxiliary, of the American Smelling
and Refining Company, will all be of
brick
L. S. Barnes, an old soldier and a
pioneer resident of Colorado, has been
appointed superintendent of the state
fish hatchery at Durango to take the
place of w. E. Patrick, who recently
was removed by the state game and
fish commissioner.
Fortimo Naveretto, the Mexican
who shot the hat off another Mexican's
head at North Longmont, was bound
over to the District Court. Naveretto
is brother of the Naveretto who
Gtabbed to death Yenes Dais near the
Longmont cemetery year ago.
The geological survey has made an
allotment of money for and will soon
commence the topographic survey of
the Fort Collins, Livermore and Love
land quadrangles in Colorado and the
initial survey and triangulation of the
Colorado Springs and Eaton quad
rangles.
BY appointment of the state game
and fish commissioner Robert o.
Throckmorton will be in Charge OF the
new fish hatchery in Hot Sulphur
Springs, known as the Grand county
hatchery and Henry T. Dawson has
been named superintendent of the
Glenwood hatchery.
The annual session of the normal in
stitute of district No. 2. embracing
7 nt.t,, NT~1,
convened at the Normal school July
SOth, One hundred and thirty teach
ers were enrolled, an increase of near
ly thirty over the opening day of last
year. The institute will be in session
two weeks, and a total enrolment of
175 is expected.
With the exception of the letters
"A-V," tattooed on his right arm, there
was no identification marks upon the
body of the tramp who was killed by
Rio Grande train at Fountain July
S0th. The head was mashed beyond
recognition, and no papers or cards on
the body served to identify the un-
known victim.
Members of the official board of the
Vincent Methodist Episcopal Church OF
Spokane, Washington, have voted
unanimously to request Bishop War
rem, who is to preside at the next ses-
sion of the Columbia River conference,
to appoint Rev. Clarence o. Kimball,
pastor of the First Methodist Church
of Trinidad, Colorado, to the pastorate
of the Vincent Church.
Thomas McNeill, who was deported
from Victor and dumped on the Kan
sas plains two years ago, claims to
have struck it rich in the new gold
fields of Nevada. In a letter to his
wife at Victor, he states he has opened
up five-foot vein in the Pixies Peak
Four claim, which carries values rang
ing from $500 to $500 to the ton and
that there is plenty of ore in sight
A large 1orce of decorators, painters
and plumbers is putting the finishing
touches on the interior of the new