The Colorado statesman., 1906-08-25
COLORADO NEWS ITEMS

Io'" incl cledsed lts annual dividend from
SIX per cent. to seven per cent.
John Monahan, aged about thirty.
Two, committed suicide at Victor on the
19th inst, by taking carbolic acid.
u. q. Simmons, owner of the Pixies
Seak cog road, has sold the Iron
springs hotel in Manitou to John Raw
for $4,000.
Inc Colorado Federation of Wo-
men Clubs will meet in twelfth an
nuai convention at Pueblo October lst,
continuing in session five days.
Mrs. Izetta George, who has been In
charge of the Colorado Relief Bureau
at San Francisco, has about finished
her work and will return in a few DAYS
to Denver.
James G. Pierson, driver for a stor-
age company, fell under a slab of mar
Die that was jostled off his wagon near
tho United States mint in Denver, and
was instantly killed.
| The Western Slope District Confer
ence, Federation of Women's Clubs,
Will meet at Gunnison August Both and
31st. An. open rate of one fare and a
nth has been authorized by this rail-
roads.
Manual training has been adopted as
a part of the curriculum of the high
school at Boulder. Prof ]. G. Chester
has been appointed director, and a con-
tract let for an extensive Quitting of
tools.
According to the Denver Union Wa
ter Company, the amount of water
used daily in Denver is $50 gallons to
each inhabitant of the city. And yet
there are many dirty looking people in
Denver.
The value of real estate in Trinidad
has increased twenty per cent. in the
last year, according to real estate men,
who attribute the rise to the coming
of upwards of 1000 people to the city
in that time.
Mrs. Carry Nation, who was arrested
and put in Jail for drawing a crowd in
her attempt to open a crusade in the
worst section of the Denver, was re-
leased by Mayor Speer without being
required to give bail.
L. w. Lewis, the negro who was
blown up by premature explosion in
the stone quarry near Starkville, was
taken to Trinidad and had his right leg
amputated. He lost both eyes, one OF
his hands and his left foot.
Louis Knox Kelso has been sen.
fenced to twenty months in jail at
Pueblo for selling bogus one-quarter
interests in mining claims said TO be
located in Grand county. There were
ten complaints against him, mostly by
women.
George E. Corbin, Sr., member of the
Corbin Dairy Company, died at his
home in Denver August 21st, at the age
of seventy-nine years. Mr.. Corbin was
a cousin of Major General Corbin and
was one of the wealthiest dairy men in
| the state.
In a At of alteration of mind Mrs
Mary Anne Begley of North Denver
wandered away from home and was
drowned in a shallow ditch neal
Golden. She was from Scotland and
thought that she was going to the
Grampian hills.
In helping to eXtinguish a fire in ar
outbuilding of the Barstow mine, neal
Ouray, Jack Mccoy was struck in the
thigh and seriously hurt by bullet
from d revolver in the building, which
was exploded by the heat. His thigh
bone was fractured.
Frank Conway, alias George Fergu
son, admitted in police court at Pu
eblo that he had changed his name
1
camp in order that he might not be
forced to pay the employment agent
who mad secured him the job.
The famous evangelist, Billy Sunday
ard his assistants, will hold a big re-
vival in Salida, beginning September
goth. Mr.. Sunday, known as the base
ball evangelist, at meetings at Canon
City two years ago added over thou.
sand converts to the churches.
Henry o. Morris, Pueblo agent OF
the Colorado Humane Society, notified
mounted policeman that hereafter
when COWS or horses being taken TO
the pound refused to be led or driven,
an animal ambulance should be put
into commission for the purpose.
Miss Martha C. McCaulley of Welles-
ley College, has been appointed dean
of women in the State University at
| Boulder, filling the position made va
cant by the resignation of Miss Hen
| rietta j. Meetneer, the well-known
and successful former dean of women.
Durango's public library is assured.
| Andrew Carnegie has given $500 for
building, plans and specifications are
being drawn by a Denver architect,
and bids will be called for within three
weeks The site is three lots on Sec
ond avenue, donated by General w. ].
Palmer of Colorado Springs and val
ued at $4,000.
George Gaskill, a barber, was run
down and killed at Denver August
goth, by an automobile driven by Gill
bert H. Denton, president of the Vul-
can Iron Works Company. Mr.. Den
ton claims that he was running slowly
and that the bicyclist was on the
wrong side of the street, coming di-
rectly toward him.