The Colorado statesman., 1906-04-14
COLORADO NEWS ITEMS

Boulder hotel are coming in rapidly.
The Denver G. Rio Grande Railroad
Company report for February shows
surplus of S150,3S5, an increase of $685.
73O.
Attorney James D. Merwin, who was
a candidate for governor of Colorado
on the Populist ticket in 1904, died at
his residence in Denver April 9th, OF
acute pneumonia.
d. Carolus Duran has finished paint
ing his portrait of the Pope, which ex-
Empress Eugenia will present as a
wedding gift to Princess Ena, fiance of
King Alfonso of Spain.
James Cannon, Jr., formerly presi-
dent of the Northern Coal Company,
died at Denver on the 10th inst. after
a lingering illness. He is survived by
his widow and two children.
Lieutenant General Miles, formerly
commander-in-chi of the United
States army, will make the commence
ment address at the University of Col
orado June 9th of commencement
week.
Bills raised from the denomination
of 50 to SO have been circulated at
Trinidad and officers of the secret ser
vice in Denver were notified. Many of
these bills have also been circulated
in Las Vegas and Ration.
Five extraordinary candidate were
initiated by the Florence aerie OF
Eagles one night recently. Each was
six feet or more in height, their aggre-
gate length being thirty-one feet one
inch, and their aggregate weight 1,100
pounds.
Prince William of Schaumburg-
Lippe died of heart failure April 4th,
at his castle at Nachod, Bohemia. His
daughter-in-law. Princess Louise, a
daughter of the King of Denmark,
died five hours later of meningitis at
the same castle.
Governor Stokes of New Jersey has
signed the bill passed by the Legisla-
ture to substitute electrocution for
hanging. The measure takes effect
March II, 1907. At the instance of
Prison Keeper Osborne, who declared
he would resign rather than take hui
man life, the bill was SO amended to
enable the principal keeper to employ
a deputy.
A. d. Jones died at Colorado Springs
April Sd of paralysis. Mr.. Jones was
one of the locators of the famous Phar-
macist mine in Cripple Creek and was
prominent in its management until his
death. He was one of the best known
Democratic politicians of Colorado
Springs and was well known among
the Masons and Knights Templar, with
whome he was affiliated.
Virgil G. Bogue. chief engineer of
the Western Pacific railway, has is
sued a circular letter, asking contrac-
tors throughout the United States to
submit lids for the immediate con-
struction of 110 miles of road bed and
track. This section is to begin at the
point where Nevada and Utah join and
run to Deeth, a small settlement on
the Humboldt river.
The latest railroad company to file
incorporation papers with the secre-
tary of state is the Golden Pacific
Railroad Company, which proposes to
build a line of railroad from Golden
in Jefferson county, to Bergen park.
Interested in the project are George
N. Davenport, Charles l.. Dyer, James
r. Mitchell and E. A. Stephens. The
capitalization is 81 100000
Crushed to death under the weight
of twenty tons of stone and cement,
Peter w. Johnson and Harry Hardwick
were instantly killed on the 10th inst
at the Iron springs, Manitou, as re-
suit of the sudden collapse of the thir-
ty-foot stone arch which they had just
built over Ruxton creek. The men
were removing the wooden framework
which supported the stone, and the ce-
ment had not hardened sufficiently to
hold together.
The passenger department of the Den
yer & Rio Grande has just issued a
new book on Colorado agriculture. 1t
is entitled Fertile Lands of Colorado"
In the Introductory it is announced
that the railroad has no lands for sale
and is interested in booming no par
ticular section, and that the book is
for information. The book takes up
agriculture, stock raising, irrigation
and kindred topics and also shows the
advantages that each section has to
offer.
Charges of fraud, malice and willful
deceit in appropriating $6,475 from the
treasury of the Fidelity Savings Asso-
citation of Denver have been made
against Gibson w. Campbell, who was
secretary of the defunct concern a few
months before it's failure in July, 1904.
The allegations of the use of the funds
OF the association without the knowl-
edge or consent of the officers and di-
rectors are made by Receiver R. H.
Malone in suit filed in the District
Court at Denver.
AS soon as he completes his sem
tence in the house of correction at
Peoria, Illinois, c. w. Steele will have
to come back to Colorado and answer
a charge of forgery that has been made
against him in Chaffee county. Gov
ernor Mcdonald has issued a requisi-
ton for Steele, which will be taken to
Peoria by Sheriff Charles Ankele.
Steele is accused of forging the name
of G. S. Given to a check for S35 and
cashing the same at the First National
Bank Of Salida last January.