The Colorado statesman., 1906-02-17
COLORADO NEWS ITEMS

Will d Dlu IOT Tie lOCd'
ton of the Colorado & Southern's new
car shops.
A national golf tournament is being
planned for the Pixies Peak centen,
nial celebration at Colorado Springs.
Gen. William ]. Palmer of Colorado
Springs has donated three valuable
lots in Durango to the Durango Pub
lie Library.
Maj. Aaron Cove of Denver has been
before the Senate committee on the
Philippines in opposition to the pro-
posed reduction in the sugar tariff.
Wallace Elliott of La Junta was
killed at Guanajuato, Mexico, by con-
tact with q live electric wire. His re-
mains were brought home for inter-
'ment.
7. A. Gunnell, father of Judge A. T.
Gunnell of Colorado Springs, died at
his home in Colorado Springs on the
18th instant at the age of eighty-five
| years.
The framework has been erected for
the new shops of the Florence & Grip
| pie Creek railroad at Canon City and
work is progressing rapidly. The cost
will be about 100000.
A company of Durango men being
organized to build $4,000 hotel is
| headed by Giles T. Vandergrift, Tom
Lofts and Charles E. Herr. Thirty
| thousand dollars has been pledged.
A collision between a Santa Fe train
and Pueblo fire apparatus resulted in
the smashing of Pueblo's neweGN and
best steam fire engine, which cost So
600. In running to fire the driver
| got in front of a freight tran.
Artio1ac Of boua hapD
| filed for the laying out of townsite at
Dacono, six miles northeast of Erie.
! The new town came into existence
when the Consolidated Coal & Coke
Company began mining last fall.
Charles C. Welch, an employe of the
Globe smelter in Denver, committed
suicide on the 18th instant by swal-
lowing strychnine and laudanum. Ill
health, by reason of inhaling gas
fumes, is supposed to be the cause.
John Clay & Co. of Chicago and
| Clay, Robinson & Co. of Omaha, have
organized the First National Bank of
| Ault. with a capital stock of $25,000.
| Temporary quarters will be estab-
lished until a new $1,000 building can
| be erected.
Register Mark G. Woodruff of the
| State Land Board has sent out about
| $50 notices to various parts of the state
| announcing that February 21st has
been set aside as the date for the
consideration by the board of the ap
pllcations for the selection of indem
nifty school lands.
Morrison is jefferson county's lat
est incorporated town. The following
officials will serve for the first year,
having been elected on Citizens
ticket: Mayor, T. C. Morrison; trus-
tees, DR.. f. l.. Luce, Jacob Schneider
Charles Dixie, John w. Mclean, Ed
ward LeGrow and p. Olsen.
Otto Fehringer, who, as proprietor
of four drug stores in Colorado
Springs, has during the past year
been arrested every few days for vio-
lating the liquor ordinance, has sold ali
his four stores and announced his de-
termination to retire permanently
from the business.
A Navajo Indian blanket made from
the clothing of dead soldiers and
known to be over 125 years old, is
owned by Alderman j. H. Kahn of
Trinidad. Mr.. Kahn recently refused
$3.50 for the blanket. 1t was purchased
by Mr.. Kahn from an Indian twenty
five years ago, near Durango.
The owner is being sought for
ring worth $3.50 found near Valmonti
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
a full description is given, but is anx-
ious to find the owner.
The yacht Anemone, which C. L.
Tut of Colorado Springs has entered
for the New York Yacht Clubs race
from San Francisco to Honolulu, has a
Denver registry. Mr.. Tutt wanted to
give the boat a Colorado Springs reg
istry, but that city not being port of
entry, he was compelled to register the
yacht at Denver, or go outside of Col
orado, which he would not do.
Notice has been received in the Of
flee of the state game and fish COM
missioner of shipment of 100000
eastern brook trout eggs from Ply
mouth. Massachusetts. The eggs will
be sent to the Denver hatchery and
later will be distributed in various
streams in the state. A total of about
100000 eggs will be purchased by the
state from the Plymouth hatchery.
Because SOAR c;.c bad Z real or fan
cied grievance against Candido Barela,
Republican member of the last Legis-
lature, an attempt was made to blow
his saloon and another building ad-'
joining off the face of the earth with
dynamite, at Weston, sixteen miles
west of Trinidad, on the night of the
18th instant. The principal damage
done was shattering the windows.
Patents have been issued TO the fol-
lowing Colorado people: John a. Fer
guson, Denver, press for concrete
building blocks; James F. Ferry. Lead
ville cooking utensils; Eli Forester,
Denver. railway rail joint: Frank w.