The Colorado statesman., 1906-06-16
COLORADO NEWS ITEMS

The gross receipts of the Denver
postoffice for May were $71 ,463, against
$50, ,459 for the same month last year,
an increase of s11 1,004.
Mrs. A. E. Hensen of Denver took
teaspoonful of carbolic acid by mis-
take, in place of paregoric, and died
within fifteen minutes.
Twenty-Five marriage licenses were
issued at Denver in one day recently,
but this is still below the record,
which is twenty-nine for day.
The sandstone depot of the Colorado
Midland railroad at Ute Park was de-
stroyed by fire Saturday night, June
10th, the damage approximating
$4,000.
The diocesan council of the Episco-
pal Church of Colorado, at its session
in Denver, voted to add $1,000 to the
annual salary of Bishop Charles S.
Olmstead.
The State Board Of Equalization at
it's last meeting in Denver, June 18th,
adjourned until October 1st, when it
will hear complaints concerning the
assessment of property.
John Quinn is serving a sixty-day
sentence in the Pueblo county Jail for
preventing his ten-year-old son from
reporting regularly at the juvenile
court as ordered by Judge Myrick.
w. D. White, who is grading for the
Florence electric line, has nearly 200
men employed and says that on the
next pay day $4,000 will be distrib-
uted. Mr.. White believes the road will
be finished by the middle of August.
The citizens of Kremmling are pre-
pairing to celebrate the advent of the
Moffat road by giving a three-days' eel
ebration on July 4th, 9th and 9th.
There will be horse racing, broncho
busting, baseball, a fishbake and other
amusementS.
The County Commissioners of Boul-
der county have promised $4,000 to
help the people of Boulder to build
good road up Flagstaff hill, west of the
city. This will make accessible some
of the finest scenic attractions in the
foothills.
The Oldest and largest tree in Gree
ley is a cottonwood that was planted
in 1871 by Mrs. Abigail Dunham, who
is now the Oldest woman in Greeley,
being in her ninetieth year. The tree
is fifteen feet in circumference and
seventy-five feet high.
The ninth annual meeting of the Ar
kansas Valley Press Association was
held at Salida on the 9th instant. Guy
U. Hardy of the Canon City Record
was elected president and p. Byrne of
the Bessemer Vindicator secretary and
treasurer. The location of the next
meeting was left to the executive COM
mittee.
The first train into Telluride from
Denver and Durango without transfer
ring, arrived June 9th, the great slide
on Keystone hill having been cleared
away. One thousand feet of track was
carried away by the landslide, making
it necessary to build new grade and
track. Freight and express have been
conveyed by wagon.
A charter has been granted by the
territorial secretary of Oklahoma to
the Pueblo, Oklahoma & New Orleans
Railroad Company, with $3,500,00 cap
ital stock, and with headquarters at
Oklahoma City. The proposition is to
build line from Pueblo to New Or
leans, distance of 1,050 miles, at an
estimated cost of $21, 100000.
Harry Holt, one of the best known
and Oldest railroad men in Boulder
county, was killed Saturday evening,
June 10th, in Sunset. He was a brake
man on the G. & N. and at the time
was on a freight train. He fell from
the box car as the train was crossing
tho bridge at SuNet and broke his
neck. The coroner's jury found that
death was accidental.
At Littleton, on the 11th inst, Clar-
ence Bair was hurled clear over the
top of freight train by an engine
that struck his wagon at the cross
ing. He landed on a heap of cinders
thirty-five feet distant and was not
seriously hurt. ]. A. Carlon, station
agent, was struck by one of the horses
and hurled against the engine, losing
three fingers of his right hand.
Nearly every lock box in the Colo
RADIO City postoffice was opened some
time between O'Clock Saturday night
and Z O'Clock Sunday morning. One
Of the clerks, upon his arrival in the
morning, found a large quantity of
mail scattered over the floor. Many
mail boxes were also open. Many of
the boxes contained checks, and pay
ment on these has been stopped at the
various banks. Other patrons of the
postoffice report that certain expected
packages have not arrived.
1t is expected that the arid land
northeast of Beaver creek, near Flor
ence will soon be devoted to the cul-
ture of sugar beets. Pueblo men have
bought the land and are perfecting
plans for the construction. of beet
sugar factory that will cost 100000.
There has,been no previous farming in
that section, but deal has been made
whereby water for irrigation can be
secured. One thousand acres will be
planted to beets and the factory will
be ready for the 1907 crop. The land
will be divided into 150-acre tracts
this summer and the irrigating bitches
will be built this year. Most of the
land was bought from the state