The Colorado statesman., 1906-02-24
COLORADO NEWS ITEMS

organized at the University of Denver.
Frances M. Seeley has been ap-
pointed postmaster at Akron, vice C. ].
Irwin, resigned.
The will of the late Gen. Fred Wal
sen leaves number of vacant lots in
Walsenburg to the city to be used for
the site OIL municipal waterworks
plant
Jack Hitler and ]. c. Kerns were
sentenced by Judge Lewis at Colorado
Springs to seven to eight years each
in the penitentiary. They were con-
victed of working confidence games. :
Gen. William ]. Palmer's Monument
Valley park near Colorado Springs is
to be beautifed by the planting of be-
tween 3,0OO and 1000 spruce trees,
brought from the mountain district
south of Florence
George r. Doane, the man who To-
Gated Aspen, and who later located the
Roane-Rambler mine near Battle Lake,
Wyoming, which he sold for $4,000
900, died at Denver on the 18th in
stant of heart failure.
The city and the Rio Grande rail-
road will jointly build new bridge
across the Arkansas at Salida, which
will cost $4,000. 1t will be a modern
structure of concrete, sixty feet wide
and 120 feet long, with a center pier.
The St Charles Mesa Fruit Growers
and Farmers Association, composed
of men residing south and east of Pu-
eblo, is taking vigorous steps to en-
| force the law against shooting quail
| and other legally protected game birds.
George Marshmann, who held up a
ranchman at Henderson in broad day
light three weeks ago, pleaded guilty
to highway robbery and was sentenced
in the District Court at Brighton to
from eight to ten years in the peniten-
tiary.
]. u. Vigil Democratic candidate for
county clerk of Las Animas county,
| ana whose office was contested for by
| Eugene Garcia, Republican candidate.
the latter having been given the Office
by the Supreme Court, has filed mo-
| ton for a rehearing.
Governor Mcdonald has received
handsome diploma from the manage
ment of the Lewis and Clark Exposi-
| ton for distinguished services" The
governor helped in making the Colo
rado exhibit success and made
speech on Colorado Day.
To test the constitutionality of the
| law and decide the question whether
horse with a docked tail can be i'm
| ported to Colorado the cases against
| Charles E. Stubbs and Nehemiah Fit
zell in the District Court at Denver
will be appealed to the Supreme Court.
Business men from all over the state
attended the dollar dinner given by
the Colorado State Commercial Asso'
citation at the Antlers hotel at Colo
raod Springs. The feature of the af
fair was the launching of a movement
f, to secure a million population for Col
orado.
Company H of the First Colorado
| infantry was mustered out of service
at Boulder Thursday, February 18th,
| and Troop d, composed of forty-one
! horsemen mustered in to take its
place. .. Company H had gradually de.
clined and the cavalry service was
more popular.
The owner is being sought for a
ring worth $150 found near Valmont
in Boulder county beside the railroad
track last fall. The finder, AL Teeck,
says there are six diamonds in the
ring and initials which the owner can
describe. He will not give it up until
full description is given, but is anx'
ious to find the owner.
Mrs. Sarah Platt Decker is in st.
Paul, Minnesota, completing arrange
ments for the biennial convention OF
| the General Federation of Woman's
Clubs. Mrs. Decker will be candi'
| date for reelection as president of the
federation, and large delegation oil
Colorado women is expected 20 attend
and support her.
Patents havs been issued to the fol
lowing Coloradans: Aaron B. Allen
Pueblo, nut lock; Charles F. Fifer,
Boulder, claw hammer and spike
puller; Daniel Hug, Denver, water
wheel; George B. Price, Colorado
Springs, fire escape apparatus; Jesse
| II. Sutherland, Dawkins, hayrake at
| tachment; James H Wilson, Denver,
trace carrier.
The will of the late Gen. Fred Wal
sen has been filed in the County Court
at Denver. Fred George Waisen is
named as the residuary legatee in the
| instrument, and the estate is valued
at about 100000. Bonds to the value
| of $4,000 of the Rio Grande Southern
! railroad are left to the widow and $5,-
600 to each of his three daughters,
Freida M. Renshaw, Millie Chamber
| lin and Cora Walsen.
Dennis Callahan, an old resident OF
| Colorado, died at St. Anthony's hos
pital in Denver February 18th after an
| illness covering a period of ten years.
Mr. Callahan was well known through
| out the state, having come to Colorado
| in 1876 He made his home in Louis
vile. where he was engaged for time
railroading, later embarking in the cat
tie business and amassing quite a for
| tune. He was a victim of paralysis.
BY the decision of Judge Riner in
| the federal court at Denver the gov
| ernment has failed in collecting an
extra $4,000 in revenue stamps which
-. nEoin1r, hold chnlIll haNn