The Colorado statesman., 1906-01-06
COLORADO NEWS ITEMS

county.
disported themselves on the lake in the
City park at Denver on New Years
Day.
Lawrence Wolf, we'll known real
estate man, committed suicide in Den
yer on the 2Sth ult He leaves a widow
and six children,
Judge j. NJ. Minor. prominent pio-
neer of Fremont county, died at Canon
City on the I'd inst, at the age of
eighty-four years.
Simon B. Sutherland, a resident of
Boulder county for thirty-eight years
and pioneer miner and gardener,
died January 1st at the age of sixty
eight years
+. Leon G. Johnson, a prominent resi-
dent OF Fruita, was seriously. burned
by the explosion of can of powder
at the Nugent coal mine, December
18th, died on the goth.
The fifth annual meeting of the
Colorado Horticultural Society will be
held in the Chamber of Commerce
building at Denver the latter part of
January and first of February
Mrs. Booker 7. Washington of Tus-
kegee Institute, Alabama, is coming to
Colorado Springs to speak under the
auspices of the Colored Woman's Club.
The Advancement of Colored
Women" will be her subject
w. D. Wilholt OF Lincoln, Nebraska,
who was struck by lightning on the
summit of Pixies Peak last July, has
collected insurance from three sepa-
rate companies, all acknowledging the
responsibility, despite the omission of
a lightning clause in the policies.
All of the buildings comprising the
Philadelphia Smelling plant at Pueblo
are being thoroughly overhauled and
painted. For long time the Philadel-
phia has not been in operation and
most of the machinery has been moved
and added to the other three smelters.
At the close of its session in Denver
the Colorado Teachers Association
elected the following officers: Presi-
dent. Y. z. Snyder, Greeley; secretary,
w. w. Remington, Denver; treasurer,
H. S. Phillips, Denver; director, W. A.
Oliphant, Monte Vista; auditor, Fred
Dick. Denver.
On request from State Treasurer
Holmberg, Assistant Attorney General
Melville has rendered an opinion de-
ciaring that all social and athletic
clubs which sell liquors will have to
pay the state license of S25 to sell
liquor. Some of the clubs of the state
have not been paying this license.
The Union Pacific is making a num-
Der of improvements at Carr station.
twenty miles south of Cheyenne. which
is taken to indicate that the road has
no intention of building a cutoff which
would eliminate Athol hill, the steepest
grade on the line between Cheyenne
and Denver
Two large circus tents have been Sc
cured for the Western Live Stock
show, which will open in the Union
Stock Yards in Denver the last week in
January. \ third tent is being figured
on. The committee on arrangements
is preparing for the greatest display OF
stock ever seen west of Chicago.
The body of Claude A. Bagby. the Du-
range student who was recently killed
at Notre Dame, while attempting TO
play a joke on fellow student there.
was brought to Durango for interment.
lsBagby. as a practical joke, imperson-
ated hold-up. but the victim thought
he was in earnest and shot and killed
him.
| An interurban electric railroad to
connect Canon City with Florence and
the coal camps of the county is prac-
| tically assured. The same company
will build an electric line to the top of
the famous Royal Gorge, which will be
hardly less attractive to tourists than
the cog road to the summit of Pixies
Peak.
Mrs. Eliza Bliss, the Oldest woman
\ in Pueblo, celebrated her 101st ami
I versary December 30th in good health,
being still able to assist in housework.
She was born in Richfield, Connecticut,
and remembers helping to sew tents
for the soldiers of the war of 1912. She
has daughter eighty years old, living
IN California.
Denver had added largely to its park
area the past year and the end is not
yet. There were over 400 acres pur-
chased during 1905, the greater portion
| being in Highlands, and the intention
is to purchase 100 acres of school land
adjoining the City Park and forty-five
acres to round out Washington Park.
The total park acreage of Denver at
the present time is 1,012.63.
The following new patents have been
| issued to residents of Colorado: Gill
| bert II. Denton, Denver, landing chair
for mining cage; Frank Goff, Denver,
device for circulating steam, ETC.; JUS
tin H. Haynes and w. ID. Engle, Den
yer, treating ores; Ebert r. Hobbs,
Lamar, ringer for telephones and the
like; Charles c. Roth, Denver, com
bined smoke fiue and ventilating de-
vice; Frederick Tieman, Ordway, SUI
gar beet seeder; Herman Weber, Colo
RADIO Springs, truck.
The following regular spring exami-
nations for positions in the postoffice
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