The La Jara chronicle., 1906-09-14
COLORADO NEWS ITEMS

Douglas County Fair at Castle Rock
September 10th to 22d.
The Adams County Fair will be held
at Brighton September 2Gth to 2Sth.
The Arapahoe County Fair will be
held at Ii tleton October 4th to 9th.
The Mesa County Fair will be held
at Grand Junction September Goth to
2Sth.
The fair at Hotchkiss, in Delta
county, takes place September 26th to
2Sth.
A man eighty-three years old got
drunk in Denver the other day and
was arrested for creating a rough
house"
G. Z. Bachelor, a pioneer of Boul-
der, died at his home in Boulder on the
9Th inst. al the great age of ninety
three years
The Denver Chamber of Commerce
has invited Vice President Fairbanks
to be the guest of honor at Il banquet
September goth.
Jacob Rush, father of State Senator
John A. Rush, died at his home in Den
yer on the 9th inst. at the age of sew
enty-two years.
II. W. Ward, a prominent Canon
City contractor and builder, has been
adjudged insane and placed in the
state asylum at Pueblo
The Flint Automobile Company, or
ganized by eastern capitalists. contem-
plates building large factory in DeE-
yer at cost of 100000.
B. Fred Tritch of Denver, son of the
late George Tritch and secretary of the
ffsD It
home in Denver, September 9th, of ty-
phoid fever.
Mrs. Minnie Brown of Fort Collins
was burned 20 death on the 5th inst.
by the explosion of gasoline which she
was using TO start fire. She was
twenty-eight years of age and leaves
two children.
+. w. Hermann, for two years in
charge of the dry farming experiments
conducted by the government at Chey
enne, is soon to be transferred to begin
drainage investigations along the Rio
Grande in Colorado.
During the last twelve months in
Weld county 1856 marriage licenses
were issued, eleven divorces granted
and thirty-siX persons convicted, sew
enteen of whom were juvenile delin-
quents under sixteen years of age.
At Durango on the 9th inst, Sam
Nichols, aged nifty years, ranchman,
suffering from cancer of the throat,
blew the top of his head off in liv-
cry stable with a revolver. He leaves
a widow. son and two grown daugh-
ters.
General Agent ]. p. Hall of the
Santa Fe, on his return to Denver from
the Arkansas Valley Fair and Water
melon Day at Rocky Ford, stated that |
the fair was the most successful and
most largely attended of the nineteen
that he has visited.
A report just figured out concerning
marriages and divorces in Pueblo |
county during the last twelve months
shows that there were 305 marriages
and los divorces. The number of juven-
lie court cases has also decreased |
more than one-half this year over last. |
Ten miles of panorama including all |
of the valley around Tolland on the |
Moffat road. is the remarkable piece |
of work that has Just been completed |
by photographers for that line. The |
picture shows four grades of track and |
five passenger trains are shown on die |
ferent elevations.
Robert Nelson, possessed of a manii |
for witnessing fires, set firt to st. Jo-
seph's Catholic church in Denver on |
the 9th inst, starting flames in fou
different places. Fortunately the |
smoke was seen by Miss May Creedon,
who gave the alarm in time to save |
the building
While temporarily insane from men,
tai and stomach trouble, James II |
Arkush, a Denver insurance man, be-
longing to the firm of Lehman, Stew
art & Arkush, committed suicide on
the 11th inst. by shooting himself |
through the head. He is said to have |
attempted suicide several times be- |
fore.
Agent II. B. Kerr of the State Bu-
reau of Child and Animal Protection |
has filed complaint against Contractors |
Orman & Crook, charging cruelty to |
animals. At camp No. 10. near Topo.
mas. Colorado, Kerr found fifty horses
that were suffering from sore should
ers. The animals We're in charge of |
Foreman X. Davis
The Teller county commissioners
have voted to Gilbert McClurg, secre-
tary to the chamber of commerce at |
Colorado Springs. $500 for a stereopti-
con lecture on the Cripple Creek dis
trict, to be delivered in the East Grip
pie Creek and Victor. by their respect,
i've City Councils, have each appropri.
ated $3.50 for the same purpose.
Helen Thomas. daughter of Calvin
Thomas of Greeley. has been appointed
assistan librarian in the reference and |
cataloguing department of the library
of the state University of Michigan,
located at Ann Arbor. Miss Thomas is
a graduate of the Greeley High school,
State Normal School, Wellesley, and
Albany. New York. Library School.