The La Jara chronicle. (La Jara, Conejos County, Colo.) 1896-19??, 1906-12-21

The Christian Church society of
Canon City is to erect a new building
costing s12.50O.
The new South Ward school build
ing in Greeley, built at cost OF $780,
900. has just been occupied.
The annual banquet of the alumni OF
the University of Colorado will be
given in Denver, December 29th.
The Dairymen's Association in Den
yer has raised the price of milk and
now gives but fourteen quarts for
dollar in place of sixteen.
r. l.. Chambers of Colorado Springs
has secured 2S4,000 acres of mahogany
timber in Tabasco, Mexico, for Den
yer and other Colorado capitalists.
Two dozen japanese, lately arrived,
have been put to work at Eiler smelter
at Pueblo. These are the first Asiatics
given employment by the smelling
| company.
The United States surveyor gen
| erals department for Colorado in Den
yer has been moved to the fifth floor
| of the new Empire building at Six
teenth and Glenarm streets.
Kansas City papers announce that
F. G. Bonfls of the Denver Post Is
preparing to build twenty-story Office
building in that city, to be freproof
| and cost from 100000 to 100000.
The Denver Chamber of Commerce
has appointed committee consisting
| of James T. Callbreath, Jr., George
| Ii1tch, Charles F. Onderdonk and II.
| A Lindsey to confer with other com
mittees in regard to celebration OF
| Denver's semi-centennial in 1908.
Secretary E. X. Whitehead of the
tho federal
| immigration department in Denver is
taking up the padrone system among
| the Greek bootblacks in Denver. and
| that the matter will undoubtedly be
taken up in all parts of the country.
Boulder is ready TO maintain its
own high school free from connection
with the State Preparatory School and
| an effort will be made to have the IN
| coming Legislature do away with the
State Preparatory School altogether,
as the university no longer needs it.
Ten years Imprisonment and fine OF
| $1,000 was the sentence imposed in the
| federal court at Denver by Judge Rob
ert F. Lewis on Dr. James Denslow Egg,
| gleston, son of President Eggleston oil
the Pacific Express Company, who was
conT icted of counterfeiting and max.
ing Photographic negatives OF SlJ
bill.
T. S. McMurray of Denver, vice pres
| ident and general manager of the
Fort Collins Electric Street Railway
Company, and G. ]. Hartman, suDerin-
| tendent nj the electrical department OF
the Colorado & Southern, have been at
| Fort Collins outlining plans for start
| ing work on the Fort Collins street
railway.
On the 18th inst John Worthley was
found guilty in the District Court at
Pueblo of assault with intent to XIII
his wife, Alvona Lee Worthley. The
| assault took place three months ago
and but for a neighbor, who heard
Mrs Worthley's cries for assistance
her husband would have cut her
throat.
Fifty Japanese arrived at the Pueblo
steel works few days ago in charge
of one % the Japanese employment
agents who have been bringing Asiat
les recently from Pacific coast points
Most of these men are common labor
ers. but a few are skilled in certain
ways and command fairly good wages
This makes total of nearly 600 Japs
in the Bessemer colony.
David Babb, who is charged with the
murder of his wife's cousin, Bennett
Burleson, at Earl, thirty miles east OF
Trinidad was arraigned before Justice
of the Peace Coney at Trinidad, where
he entered a plea of not guilty and
waived a preliminary hearing. He was
removed back to the county Jail and
his bond was fixed at $1,000 which he
was not able to furnish.
C. w. Benton, who has been &
sweeper at the Loveland sugar factory
for some time. has with his wife beer
awarded S12,000,0O0 of the estate OF ar
uncle who recently died, leaving an i'm
mense estate near London, Ontario
OF this they will receive S3,0O0,OOO II
cash at once, the other s9,OOO,OOO to be
distributed as the estate is settled
The Bentons will return to Lovelant
Immediately after the holidays to make
it their home.
The Colorado Yale Association viii
hold its twenty-sixth annual meetini
at the University Club in Denver, De
cember 29th. The officers of the clul
are anxious to obtain the names ant
addresses of all Yale men who hav'
come to Colorado recently and are no
members Of the club, as it was desired
to have all those who have ATTENDED
Yale present at the banquet. Therol
: r. Field of the Colorado National BAN
is president of the club and Fredericl
II. Morley is secretary.
In common with the citizens of tn
other western states, the people o
Colorado have been asked to partic
pate in the Seattle exposition Of 100
, and erect a Colorado building at tn
Alaska Y ukon-Pacific exposition.
!, meeting of the members of the Colo
RADIO State Society in Seattle passe
resolutions asking the Colorado Stat
I Legislature to appropriate funds TO
. the exposition building SO that Cole