The Colorado statesman., 1906-06-02
COLORADO NEWS ITEMS

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year.
The park commissioners of Denver
are fitting up outdoor Fairgrounds for
children in which suitable gymnastic
apparatus will be placed.
The Loveland Chamber of Commerce
has inaugurated series of luncheons
like those SO popular in Denver, and is
increasing it's membership.
The class of boys belonging to the
Colorado Springs Young Mems Chris
tian Association will start on a gypsy
camping trip June 11th, visiting the
Cripple Creek district and Canon City.
The Colorado Canning Company OF
Canon City has increased it's capital
stock and is adding a large two-story
brick building to its plant. During
the canning season it expects to en-
ploy seventy-five persons.
The preliminary hearing at Greeley
of Tom O'Neill, Sam Scoville and Fred
Meier, charged with completely in the
murder of Jack Boyle, the Chalk Bluff
ranchman, has been postponed until
July 18th, at the request of the defense
Representative Bonynge has recon
mended for appointment as postmaster
at Littleton, Clarke q. CouZZins, to sue
ceed Maud G. Olmstead, whose term is
about to expire. Couzzins is a pioneer
of Colorado and a veteran of the Civil
War.
The county school superintendents
of Custer, Pueblo and Fremont coun-
ties have arranged for the eighteenth
annual session of the Seventh District
Normal Institute, which will be held
in the Washington school building in
Canon City from July Both to August
18th.
Colonel Robert S. Moore, a veteran
of both the Mexican and the Civil wars,
died at Denver May 23d at the age of
eighty-five years. He was colonel OF
the Eighth Illinois and was wounded at
Stone River, Pennington, Corinth and
Perryville. During the Mexican War
he was captain in the Fourth Ken
lucky.
Marks Whiteman, prominent Jew
ish merchant at Roswell, New Mexico
who committed suicide at Alamogordo
a few days since, formerly resided in
Denver and Pueblo. He was the origi-
nal of "Whiteman, the Jew Merchant"
in Emerson Hough's novel, Hearts
Desire"
Mrs. Lucretia L. Hall, aged seventy
five, and the Oldest woman pioneer of
Ell Paso county, died May 26th, at the
Hall ranch, near Fountain. She is sur
vived by husband, Benjamin Hall, aged
eighty, and by two sons. A daughter,
Mrs. A. E. Hatcher, was killed year
ago by train.
The West Side Neighborhood House
| Association in Denver has begun work
on a new building to cost $4,000. 1t
will be the home of day nursery, kin
dergarten, various clubs, night schools,
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| weaving, hand and tool work, mechani-
cal drawing, etc.
Officers of the Colorado State Grange
still hope that Denver will get the Ma
tional Grange convention, which is to
meet November 10th to oath next, and
which it was feared would be lost to
the state on account of the failure TO
get as low railroad rates as had been
| expected and thought necessary.
George A. Reese of Trinidad has re-
| ceived a telegram from the captain of
| the battleship Maine, stating that his
son, Dwight Austin Reese, had fallen
overheard and was drowned. The boy
| was born and raised in trinidad and
was seventeen years ed. He was ex-
pected home this me1th for vacation.
The Denver Fresh Air Fund camp
will be established this year at Glen
more lake, forty-five miles from Den
yer in the Platte canon. Sick and en-
feebled children will be taken to the
camp for rest and recuperation under
the care of the Juvenile Improvement
Association and the Visiting Nurses.
Association.
On May 23d during small thunder
shower Fred Brown was killed by a
stroke of lightning while working on
reservoir at the foot of Mt. Lamborn,
near Paonia. Five other men were
with him at the time and they were all
shocked, but none killed. Mr.. Brown
was an old settler and well known in
the county. He leaves wife and two
children.
David K. Wall of Denver, who came
to Colorado in 1859 with a good supply
of garden seeds and who was the first
man to demonstrate the agricultural
possibilities of the state, celebrated
his eightieth birthday May Goth. He is
still strong and active. Before coming
to Colorado he was a forty-niner in
California and made money in mining
and gardening.
The following new patents have been
issued to Colorado investors: Melzar
L. Ballard, Durango, synchronizer;
William Chatter, Denver, combined
match receptacle and igniter; A. q.
Johnson, Denver, assignor to Johnson
Furnace and Engineering company,
Colorado Springs, water-cooled CRATE;
Albert Perry, Caribou, ore separator;
John Thompson and H. H. Schrader,
Greeley, shingle bracket.
To make their progress easier up the
hill from the State University campus
to the Chautauqua on the occasion of
the commencement, June 9Th, when
Gen. Nelson A. Miles, former bead of
tho army will ha tho orator. oP ha