The Colorado statesman., 1906-01-13
COLORADO NEWS ITEMS

Leadville is having something like
an epidemic of pneumonia
BY unanimous vote the taxpayers
of Lake City voted to refund the out
standing water bonds.
Fort Morgan has decided by a vote
of two to one to have municipality
owned electric lights.
Twenty-eight persons had small
pox in Denver last year, every one of
whom recovered, and eighty-one cases
of erysipelas resulted in no deaths.
The Boulder oil refinery has been
leased for a long term of years to
Harry Casaday, the agent of the
Standard Oil Company in Boulder.
Score one more for Colorado. John
Sanders, the six-months-old son of
Justice OF the Peace John c. Sanders
of Florence, has cut both his eye
teeth.
The Second Infantry, now stationeA
at Fort Logan, has been ordered to the
Philippines. The troops must be at
/ San Francisco ready to embark, be-
fore January 9th.
The Colorado Springs Humane So
ciety has affiliated with the State
Bureau OF Child and Animal Protec
ton. DR.. w F. Slocum is president
and w. f. Richards, secretary.
DR.. U. d. Mcdowell, a well known
| physician of Longmont, died January
Sd of consumption. He was a brother
| of Bishop w. F. Mcdowell, formerly
chancellor of the University of Den
yer.
The First National Bank of Ber-
thoud has been authorized to begin
business with $4,000. Thomas II.
Robertson, PRESIDENT John A. Cross,
vice president; Guy L. Loomis,
cashier.
Benz. f. harrington. formerly county
Judge of Arapahoe county, died at Den
yer, January 5th. He came to Colorado
in 1871 and was well known and popu
lar, holding at various times many i'm
portant offices.
The bell boys in the different Den
yer hotels propose to form a club and
endeavor to build a hotel, to be known
as The Bells" for the use of bell
boys and other male hotel employees
exclusively.
The weather bureau at Denver re-
ports that during the siXty-eight days
intervening between October 30th anC
January 9Th, there was no precipira-
tion, and only four days during that
period when bright Colorado sunshine
did not prevail.
A verdict of suicide was rendered at
Colorado Springs by the jury in the
case of f. Crane Wilson, the wealthy
Chicago shirt manufacturer who was
found dead with bullet in his brain
on the Franceville road, eight miles
east of the city.
Charles W. Martin. former we'll
known Colorado hotel man, having
been manager of the Denver Club, as
sistant manager of the Antlers at Colo
RADIO Springs, and manager of Hotel
Colorado at Glenwood, died at Canton,
Ohio, January 9Th.
The farmers in the Arkansas valley,
north and west of Lamar, and north of
Las Animas, are rejoicing in the pros
pect of a new railroad, which will be
commeRsSA this spring and pass
, through the northern part of Prowers,
Bent and Otero counties.
Judge Moses Hallett, executor of
the Clayton estate in Denver, has au-
thorized the announcement that early
in the spring he will begin the erec-
tion of the Clayton Memorial college
/ on the eighty-acre tract belonging to
/ the estate near the City Park.
While skating on Hayden's lake near
Boulder on the night of the 9TH inst,
J Irvine Finney, aged seventeen, broke
: through the ice and vAls drowned.
Young Finney's father was killed by
an explosion of giant powder at Neder-
land only about two weeks before.
Postmasters appointed: Edward B
Wise, Cuatro, Las Animas county
vice C. C. McWilliams, resigned; /;
Charles E. Higgins. Pallas, Routt
county, vice B. C. Myers, resigned :;
Ollie ]. Willford, Pearl, Larimer
county, vice M. Crawford. resigned
January goth has been set as the
date for the farewell reception to the
officers of the Second Infantry to be
given by the Denver Chamber of Com
merce. The affair is to be rendered as
a testimonial to the officers prior TO
their departure for the Philippines.
The application of w. E. Combe,
Lewis Linebarger, NJ. l. Linebarger,
H. N. Linbarger,. Mark Burke and
c. +. Parker, to organize the
First National Bank of Julesburg
with $4,000 capital, has been ap-
proved by the comptroller of the cur
rency.
The State Bureau of Child and Ami
NAL Protection will endeavor to have
a bill passed by Congress, through the
offices of one or more of the Colorado
members of that body, compelling the
railroads to give live stock shipments
the right Of way over dead freight and
empty caS.
The Eastern Colorado Medical AS
sociation, composed of physicians of
Morgan, Washington and Yuma coun-
ties, held it's quarterly meeting at