The La Jara chronicle., 1906-11-02
COLORADO NEWS ITEMS

Pixies Peak cog road for a week. In
clearing the road from timber line to,
The summit. the men had to shovel
through snow from five to twenty-five
'eet deep.
1t ic said that recent soundings in
[.ocl Iyanhoe on the Colorado Mid
and Railroad west of the Busk tunnel,
have failed to find bottom. The lake
: situated at an altitude of about
II 600 feet
Harry ]. Macy, a fruit grower at
Park Center. near Canon City, com
mitted suicide October 25th by taking
poison. The act is attributed to the
destruction of his fruit crop by the
late storm.
L. E Dorsey. first secretary of the
election commission and formerly re-
rister of the United States land office
at Del Norte, died at his home in
Denver October 2Sth after a short i'll
ness from peritonitis.
The state convention of the Retail
Butchers and Grocers Association
will be held at Pueblo January 18TH
and 18th. 1t is expected that 200 dele
gates will be present and they will be
Hospitality entertained.
Charles E. Ward, a prominent Den
yer druggist, committed suicide in his
store on the morning of October 2Sth.
He suffered from an abscess on the
brain and the pain had become un-
bearable: so he took cyanide OF potas-
sium to end it
The cornerstone of the new Twenty
third Avenue Presbyterian church IN
Denver, which is to replace the old,
historic, once removed building that
was burned six months ago, was laid
Sunday, October 29th. The new build
ing is to cost s34,0
Because he thought his sweetheart
in Italy did not want to marry a
cripple, Tony Cancto, an Italian, com
mitted suicide and was found dead at
his lodging house at Trinidad. He mad
deformed leg, occasioned by an ac'
cident two years ago.
While playing with revolver that
he didn't know was loaded" Bert
Sutton, son of the mayor OF Ensie,
wood. Just south of Denver, shot ana
killed fourteen-year-o Frank Ritt'
man while out hunting near EnSle-
wood Sunday, October 2sth.
While on their way home on bi-
cycles. Henry Roth and Philip Lauck,
car repairers for the Colorado &
Southern Railroad, living in GLOBE
vile, were run down by Union ia,
cific switch engine at Twenty-hrst ana
Wewatta streets in Denver and fatally
injured.
As the result of a dispute over
pick and shovel at the farm OF L, II.
Day near Trinidad, Dominic Cesorlo
is alleged to have shot Raphael Ce'
surio. his brother-in-law, through the
neck with a thirty-eight caliber reFol
yer and also shot Raphaels wife
through the arm.
On october 25th, W. H. Will
liams. a fruit grower living
ON cottonwood avenue, at Canon
CITY. showed a crate of fall strawber
ries of large size and excellent quail
!ty, The berries had been covered for
several days under eighteen inches oil
snow, but were unharmed.
While engaged in switching cars at
the Burlington terminal in Denver
Martin Phillips. thirty-three years Old
nephew of Thomas Phillips. super
intendent of the city street cleaning
department, was knocked under the
wheels of a car and instantly killed.
He leaves a widow and two children.
Mark G. Woodruff, register of the
State Land Board, has resigned that
office to enter the government forestry
service as supervisor of the Pixies
Peak reserve. This is the most I'M
DCrtant government reserve in the
state, as it reaches into Gilpin, Park,
Teller. jefferson and Ell Paso counties
The United Oil Company is expend
ing several thousand dollars remodel
ing its refinery at Florence Most oil
the cid frame buildings. erected
twenty years ago, will be torn down
and replaced with steel structures.
With the improvements the refinery
will be one of the most modern in the
West, and will nearly double its ca
pacity.
Supcrintendent of Schools L. C
Grecnlee of Denver, has received let
to-. from President Nicholas Murray
Butler OF Columbia University, and
Superintendent Maxwell Of the New
York City schools, saving that Denver
viii be one of the cities to be visited
b. the Moseley party of British edu-
gators who are coming to this country
in December
The annual report of the Pueblo ju-
vsnile court, just issued, shows that
during the year ffty-four children
were before the court, six being girls.
Fifteen boys were excused from fur
lher reporting to the court, they hav-
Ing made good their promises. Six
loen boys were sent to the industrial
school and three girls to the state In
stitution for girls.
The contract has been let for the
Durango city library to a Denver firm
for $1,000. In addition TO this s125
VIII be paid for two mantels. Andrew
Carnegie donated s12. 500 for this IL
brary. and the site, two lots valued at
about $4,000, was donated by Gen. W.
j Palmer of Colorado Springs. Du-
range has maintained public library