The Colorado statesman., 1906-07-14
COLORADO NEWS ITEMS

September
The architect in charge declares
that the Denver auditorium will be
ready for occupancy May 1, 1907.
Nine-year-old Ernest Storey of Boul-
der lost three fingers of his right hand
by the explosion of a giant cracker
July 4th.
The Elks' convention begins in Den
yer Monday, July 10th, and lasts four
days. Immense preparations are be-
ing made for it.
At Pueblo July 5th the City Council
turned over to the owners of the wa
terworks bonds to the amount of over
s500,00O and the South Side plant for
mally became city property.
The First National Bank at Windsor
has been authorized to begin business
with 100000 capital. John E. Law is
president; Lewis Korn, vice president,
and Frank N. Briggs, cashier.
A prairie dog on a revolving plat
form in the window of Denver bar
ber shop travelled over twenty-siX
miles in twenty-four hours just for ex-
ercise-as shown by cyclometer.
Halsey NJ. Rhoads of Denver, the old
newspaper man. has been appointed in
spector for the Department of Agricul-
ture and collector of statistics of live
stock, sugar beets and wheat for wy
oming and Colorado. .,
Samuel Woodbury. has been declared
insane by jury in the County Court
at Boulder and sent to the stat asy-
lum at Pueblo. Woodbury. went crazy
over trying to perfect patent in con-
nection with irrigation.
Edward Hawks, a Civil War veteran,
was shot and killed at Altman on the
9th instant by Michael McCready in
McCready's saloon. The shooting took
place as the result of saloon quarrel
over private differences.
Over 5000 names have been at
tached to a petition asking the street
car company to reduce the fare be-
tween Colorado Springs and Manitou,
Broadmoor and the Cheyenne canons
from 10 cents to cents.
Heniy Rogers, well-known stock
raiser and resident of Boulder county
since 1870, died at Boulder on the 5th
instant of cancer of the stomach. He
was seventy-two years of age and ma
tive of Cornwall, England.
Samuel C. Carpenter, the Denver po
iliceman who lost leg as the result OF
wounds received at the time of the
election riots in Denver November g.,
1900, has been granted a pension of
$40 month.
The Fourth of July attractions at
Frisco in Summit county included
horse and foot races, drilling contests,
a baseball game and twenty-round
prize fight, together with display of
fireworks from the top of Mount
Royal.
The State Supreme Court has de-
cided that the Oakes Home for Con
sumptives in Denver is exempt from
taxation, it being in the same class as
to charges for service with other hos
pitfalls that have always been SO ex-
empted.
Allen Yard, three years old, while
| fishing with his father on Beaver
| creek, near Florence, few days since,
| caught a nine-inch trout He is the
youngest child that has ever caught a
| fish in the stream. The boy landed
| the fish without assistance.
The Colorado Telephone Company,
| through it's treasurer, E. B. Field, Jr.,
| has contributed $100 for the fund TO
| purchase a silver service for the
| cruiser Colorado. The check was re-
| ceived by Governor Mcdonald and
| turned over to the trustees of the fund.
The report of the business trans
acted by the Pueblo land Office for the
year ending July l, 1906, shows that
| 1,053 homestead entries have been
| made, covering 1872 ,041.62 acres and
| that 223 desert land entries have been
made, covering 46,427.47 acres. This
| lis the largest business done by the
| land office of this district for many
| years.
The date of the Harvest Day Festi-
val at Greeley has been set for August
23d and the day promises to witness
| even a greater celebration than last
| year. The festival will be a county ar
fair and the Harvest Day Festival
Club. which was organized shortly af-
ter last years meeting, has a mem
bership of representative men from all
parts of the county.
Judge Ben B. Lindsey of the juvenile
| court at Denver has ordered Frances
| and Chrissie Burlington, daughters of a
| Pittsburg man, who have occupied
considerable Denver newspaper. space
recently, to be placed in the Home OF
the Good Shepherd. A waiter with
| whom it is said the girls went to Lead
willie, is in the county jail awaiting
prosecution by the girls father.
At a meeting of the Colorado com
mandery of the military order of the
Loyal Region of the United States at
| Denver, David H. Moffat, captain com
pony B. Third Colorado cavalry in the
| War of the Rebellion, was elected an
original first-class member of the or
der. There was large attendance of
companions and Captain Moffat re-
ceived hearty greetings.
The annual meeting of the directors
of the Denver, Northwestern & Pacific
| railroad (Moffat road was held in
Denver on the 9th inst. The directors