The Colorado statesman., 1906-12-22

The Christian Church society of
Canon City is to erect new building
costing $12,50O.
The new South Ward school build
ing in Greeley, built at cost OF $oO,-
000, has just been occupied.
The annual banquet of the alumni OF
the University of Colorado will be
given in Denver, December 29th
The Dairymen's Association in Den
yer has raised the price of milk and
now. gives but fourteen quarts for
dollar in place of sixteen.
r. L. Chambers of Colorado Springs
has secured 2S4,000 acres of mahogany
timber in Tabasco, Mexico, for Den
yer and other Colorado capitalists
Two dozen Japanese, lately arrived,
have been put to work at Eiler smelter
at Pueblo. These are the first Asiatics
given employment by the smelling
company.
The United States surveyor gen
erals department for Colorado in Den
yer has been moved to the fifth floor
of the new Empire building at Six
teenth and Glenarm streets.
Kansas City papers announce that
F. G. Bonfils of the Denver Post is
preparing to build twenty-story office
building in that city, to be fireproof
and cost from 100000 to 100000.
The Denver Chamber of Commerce
has appointed a committee consisting
of James T. Callbreath, Jr., George
TrItch, Charles F. Onderdonk and H.
A. Lindsey to confer with other COM
mittees in regard to a celebration of
Denver's semi-centennial in 1908.
Secretary e. X. Whitehead of the
Humane Society, says that the federal
immigration department in Denver is
taking up the padrone system among
the Greek bootblacks in Denver, and
that the matter will undoubtedly be
taken up in all parts of the country.
Boulder is ready to maintain its
own high school free from connection
with the State Preparatory School and
an effort will be made to have the in
coming Legislature do away with the
State Preparatory School altogether,
as the university no longer needs it.
Ten years Imprisonment and fine of
1,500 was the sentence imposed in the
federal court at Denver by Judge Rob-
ert e. Lewis on DR.. James Denslow Egg
gleston, son of President Eggleston of
the Pacific Express Company, who was
convicted of counterfeiting and MAX.
ing Photographic negatives of a $40
bill
T. S. McMurray of Denver vice pres
ident and general manager of the
Fort Collins Electric Street Railway
Company, and G.. j. Hartman, superin-
tendent of the electrical department OF
the Colorado & Southern, have been at
Fort Collins outlining plans for start
n at
railway.
On the 18th inst. John Worthley was
found guilty in the District Court at
Pueblo of assault with intent to kill
his wife, Alvona Lee Worthley. The
assault took place three months ago,
and but for neighbour who heard
Mrs Worthley's cries for assistance,
her husband would have cut her
throat.
Fifty Japanese arrived at the Pueblo
steel works a few days ago in charge
of one os the Japanese employment
agents who have been bringing Asiat.
les recently from Pacific coast points.
Most of these men are common labor
ers, but few are skilled in certain
ways and command fairly good wages.
This makes total of nearly 600 Japs
in the Bessemer colony.
David Babb, who Is charged with the
murder of his wife's cousin, Bennett
Burleson, at Earl, thirty miles east of
Trinidad, was arraigned before Justice
of the Peace Coney at Trinidad, where
he entered plea of not guilty and
waived preliminary hearing. He was
removed back to the county Jail and
his bond was fixed at $4,000, which he
was not able to furnish.
c. w. Benton, who has been a
sweeper at the Loveland sugar factory
for some time, has with his wife been
awarded S12,000,000 of the estate of an
uncle who recently died, leaving an inn
mense estate near London, Ontario.
Of this they will receive s3,O00,00O In
cash at once, the other $9,000,000 to be
distributed as the estate is settled.
The Bentons will return to Loveland
Immediately after the holidays to make
it their home.
The Colorado-Yale Association will
hold it's twenty-siXth annual meeting
at the University Club in Denver, De.
cember 29th. The officers of the club
are anxious to obtain the names and
addresses of all Yale men who have
come to Colorado recently and are not
members Of the club as it was desired
to have all those who have attended
Yale present at the banquet. Theron
r. Field of the Colorado National Bank
is president of the club and Frederick
H. Morley is secretary.
In common with the citizens of the
other western states, the people OF
Colorado have been asked to partici
pate in the Seattle exposition of 1909
and erect Colorado building at the
Alaska Yukon-Pacif1c exposition A
meeting of the members of the Colo.
RADIO State Society in Seattle passed
resolutions asking the Colorado State
Legislature to appropriate funds for