The La Jara chronicle., 1906-12-07
COLORADO NEWS ITEMS
Leadville wants a union depot.

The President has nominated Emma
:. Burke as postmaster at Sterling and
J. A. Bunker postmaster at Paonia.
Pueblo switchmen have been notified
that an increase of cents an hour has
been granted them on all Colorado
roads.
Denver policeman on an electric
motor cycle will hereafter run down
and arrest people who run automobiles
faster than the city ordinance permits.
Russell Sage. convicted of forgery.
has been pardoned by Governor Nc
Donald. Sage was sentenced to from
two and cne-half to five years in the
penitentiary.
The yearly poor report fled with the
Secretary of State by Kiowa county.
shows that there is one poor person
in the county and the cost of caring
for him last year was sS3.43.
Emmett Arden son of L. A. Ardell.
of Pueblo has received an appoint
mcnt to the United States naval acad-
envy at Annapolis. Emmett is seven
teen years old and was born and raised
in Pueblo.
1t is now violation OF the city or
dinance to plant cottonwood or box
elder trees in Denver. The cotton
from the cottonwood tree is strongly
objected to and the boxelder is tabooed
as breeder of worms.
The Fremont County National bank
at CanCn City. formerly the Fremont
County bank. opened for business on
the third inst. 1t is capitalized at $780,
600 and has sS70.GO0 in deposits and
S6l4,000 cash in hand.
Tho Boulder Riding and Driving
Club has been organized as an oftshoot
of the Boulder Commercial Associa-
ticn. Its president is +. r. Park; VIII
liam Firstbrook. vice president, and
w. S. Bellmsn. secretary.
w. II Brcdfeld. pressman at the
Star-Journhl Office in Pueblo, had his
hand caught between the plate and
roller of a Hoe press on Thanksgiving
day. the veins and nerves on the back
OF the hand being torn off.
Felix Powers. an employe of the Sil.
vcr State Canning &c Produce company
at Fort Lupton, was badly burned
about the head and face by the OK
plosion of a can of hot pumpkin. while
it was being run through the cooker
The restaurant men and the church
people of Denver have united in an
effort to procure the passage of an ordi-
nance abolishing the free lunch system
in saloons. Pol 'cemen are said to favor
it in the belief that it will reduce the
hobo crop"
Ray Fisher and William Quinn of
Denver. fourteen and seventeen years
old respectively, blind inmates Of the
Colorado School for the Deaf and
Blind. were drowned while skating on
Prospect lake at Colorado Springs on
the 3Oth ult.
At Colorado Springs on ThnnlSsgiv
ing day a crowd of young hoodluma
wantonly attacked F. r Koupa, mail
carrier, throwing all sorts of missiles
at him. A brickbat hit him on the
forehead and knocked him senseless
inficting serious injury.
The new board of directors of the
Colorado State Fair Association met
at Pueblo on the 30th ult. and elected
the following officers for the ensuing
year: President, Paul Wilson; vice
president, j. H. Voorhees,; treasurer
C w. Crews; secretary. C. X. McHarg
Former United States Senator
Thomas NJ. Bowen of Pueblo has just
sold his ranch of several hundred
acres nine miles from Del Norte, and
between that place and Creede, to John
Cleghorn, warden of the state peniten'
tary. The purchase price is 100000.
Columbine Homestead No. 141, at
Colorado Springs, with S94 members
is the largest homestead in the Broth
erhood of American Yeomen, in the
country, the next largest being Min
neapolis homestead, with 1888 mem
bers. On the night of November 80
1O7 candidates were initiated.
Secretary D. W. McNutt CT the com.
mittee in charge of the show of the
Northern Colorado Poultry Association,
which will be held at Boulder, Decem-
Der 18th to 18th, says that the entries
indicates the largest exhibition of this
kind ever held in the state. Twenty
prizes have been donated by Boulder
business men.
Governor Mcdonald has appointed
congressman Brooks, Bonynge and
Hogg and Congressman-elect Cook
and Haggott, as delegates from Colo
RADIO to attend the Convention for the
Extension of Foreign Commerce in
Washington, d. c., January 14th. The
congressman will all be in Washing
ton at that time.
The coroner's jury at Colorado
Springs in the case of the death of
Ray Fisher and William Quinn, the in
mates of the State School for the Deaf
and Blind who were drowned in Pros
pect lake, returned verdict that the
lessees and management of the lake
were criminally negligent in not pro-
viding protection for their patrons.
At Greeley on the Sd inst meeting
of farmers, produce shippers, and rep
resentatives of the Greeley Commercial
club petitioned to the Union Pacific for
more freight cars to move 1000 car
loads of potatoes and other vegetables
now hung up for want of Transports
tion. The movement to build an cleo