The Glenwood post., 1906-02-03
COLORADO NEWS ITEMS


Oscar Telling. for long time dis
trict secretary of the United States
Civil Service Commission, has been APP
pointed confidential clerk to Harry
Tarbeli. coiner in the Denver mint.
The jury in the case of Mrs. L. Pearl
Ebert at Cripple Creek, who was
charged with having murdered Mrs
Sarah Alt several weeks ago, brought
in a verdict of voluntary manslaughter.
Enoch and Barbara Hipp, the father
and mother of John Hipp of Denver,
the prominent Colorado prohibition
leader, celebrated their golden wed
ding at their sons home in Denver Jan
uary goth.
The foreign missionary box in the
Presbyterian church at Florence was
robbed of 81, mostly in pennies, by an
unknown thief. A hammer that had
been used in breaking open the cab
met was left behind
In the case of Annie and Henry Wat
son VS.. the Short Line Company Judge
Seeds at Cripple Creek ordered jude-
ment to issue, Annie Watson thereby
receiving $4,000 and Henry Watson
$1,215 and costs.
l.. a. Lane, proprietor of the Ger
mania house at LongmCnt. committed
suicide January 9th by shooting him
self through the head. He was III the
last stages of consumption and com
mltted the act in fit of deSpondency.
President Roosevelt has sent a mes
sage to Congress urging the payment
of claim of s25,00O to William Rad
cliffe, British subject, on account of
the destruction by a mob of fish
hatchery in Colorado which was owned
by Radcliffe.
Albert Taylor, who tried to get
second pension under the name OF
Alonzo Nightingale, a dead comrade.
was sentenced in the federal court at
Denver TO eighteen months at the
Leavenworth prison. Insanity was
pleaded in his defense.
Charles Copeland, brother of Prof.
A. d. Copeland. superintendent of the
Eaton schools, was instantly killed on
the afternoon of January 29th in
runaway accident a short distance
from his home in Pleasant Valley, six
miles northeast of Greeley.
F. w Morrison, a prominent pio-
neer resident of Evans, was fatally in.
jured in a runaway accident near Ev-
t'iio oOlH anu ultu lllt SdIllt
day. His team took fright at train
and overturned the carriage. He was
seventy-cne years of age.
Dependency, caused by the feeling
that he was hopelessly in the grasp of
consumption, induced Arthur j. How
ard to commit suicide in the Alta
Vista hotel at Colorado Springs by
shooting himself through the head He
Lon. a
son.
The case against r. A. Bradley,
Warren Russell, G. M. Williams and
DR.. Jackson, prominent young men of
Fort Collins, for shooting deer in the
mountains near Livermore, was settled
in the County Court by the defendants
paying fine of $525 for the killing OF ,
a deer.
Mrs. Martha A. Hodges, widow OF
James l.. Hodges, has been appointed
by Governor Mcdonald secretary of
the State Board of Arbitration. The
place carries a salary of $1,000 a year.
The appointment is TO fill the uneX-
pired term of Mr. Hodges, who died
recently.
The jury in the case of Joe Mattel
at Trinidad returned Il verdict of mur.
der in the second degree. Mattel was
accused of the murder of an old Mexi.
can sheep herder near Segundo four
years ago, this being the second time
he was tried, the jury disagreeing at
his former trial.
The following Colorado postmasters
have been appointed: Garnet, Cos
tilla county, Charles Speiser, vice H.
H. Bachell, resigned; Highland Lake,
al -.
George Ritchey, resigned; Montezuma.
Summit county, Eva S. Fairchild vice
E. Elgin, resigned.
The heirs of the late Governor John
Evans, whose interests are incorpor-
ated under the name of the Evans In.
vestment Company, have donated two
lots in Denver, valued at $4,000, for
the site of deaconess' home, to be
erected by the Woman's Home Mis-.
sionary Society OF the Methodist
Church.
State Auditor A. E. Bent and Deputy
State Commissioner of Insurance E. T.
Rittenhouse have gone to Chicago to
attend meeting of insurance commits
sioners, attorney generals and govern
ors, the object of which is to devise
ways and means for securing more uni
form insurance legislation for the
country.
M. H. Okrhara. Japanese working
at Delagua, a Victor fuel camp eigh-
teen miles east of Trinidad, has been
appointed deputy sheriff and IL be-
lieved to be the only Japanese in Colo
RADIO holding such commission He
speaks excellent English and acts as
interpreter for the large number OF
Japs who work at Delagua.
Lying by the roadside between Sill
yer Cliff and Westcliffe unconscious
from exposure, Donald Mitchell. the
fifteen-year-old son Of G. ]. Mitchell of
Silver Cliff, formerly foreman of the
Geyser mine, was found about 8
O'Clock Monday night. He was taken
home and received every attention, but
did not recover consciousness, dying in
a few hours.
Acting Governor Parks granted
conditional pardon to Anulfo Valaz-
quez and Jose Martinez, who were sen