The La Jara chronicle., 1906-09-28
COLORADO NEWS ITEMS


A cabbage exhibited by w. s. Brown
at Florence is five feet in circumfer-
ence and weighs nearly forty-five
pounds.
The girl students at the State Nor
NAL School at Greeley still quite gen
orally keep up the custom. inaugurated
some two years ago, of going without
hats.
l.. n Zalinger, formerly publisher of
the Denver Eye, has started new
weekly paper in Denver, the South
| Denver Sun. which will advocate Re
| publican politics.
The application of w. A. Merriell, X.
F.. Skelley, A. A. Belts, E. ]. Dalton
and o. D. Belts, to organize the First
| National Bank of Fruita, with s25,O00
capital. has been approved by the
comptroller of the currency.
Walter l.. Barnes. for four years Ii
brarian at Albany, New York, has been
appointed assistant librarian at the
buckingham library. University of Col
who has rendered her resignation after
serving three hears as assistant.
The Fremont County Fair closed on
the 21st, j.nd was the most successful
event in the history of the association,
and the directors rejoiced tonight
over the fact of the large surplus in
the treasury after paying all the bills.
Mrs Rebecca Eaton, wife of the late
ex-Gov. B. H. Eaton. will give a $1,000
pipe organ to the Park Congregational
| Church at Greeley, to commemorate
| the life and character of her daughter.
| Mrs Jennie Eaton-Petrikin, who died
recently.
Supervising Architect Taylor, of the
| Treasury Department, is expected to
arrive in Denver December list to ex-
anime the sites that have been offered
for the new Denver postofice building.
Congress has appropriated 100000 for
the purchase of site.
BY the use Of tam of forty-eight
oxen, Senator Clayton has constructed
bitches on marshy land north of Gree
ley. whereby $50 acres of land has
been drained. This land will now be
| valuable for garden purposes and will
be plated in five-acre tracts.
Thomas Appleton. recently in
charge of the Evanston, Wyoming,
public building, has been ordered to
| Colorado to examine the sites offered
for the proposed federal building at
Boulder and trinidad, for which the
sun. of 5000 each has been appro.
| priated.
Greeley taxpayers voted by a large
majority in favor of granting the Gree
| ley Gas & Electric Company a fran
chise. The company will now issue
bonds. enlarge its plant, build a new
| power house and install a new system
of making gas. About $4,000 will be
| expended.
Agents of the General Land Office
are waging an energetic campaign
against locators of mining claims on
| forest reservations where there is no
| evidence Of mineral on the land. In
number of instances contest proceed
/ ings have been brought in a local
land Office against holders of such
| claims.
Miss Ethlyn Feger, a graduate of
| the Greeley high school and of Colo
| RADIO College and daughter of J. F.
| Feger at Greeley, passed successfully
| the state examination for pharmacist
| in Denver last week and is now en-
titled to be known as registered
| druggist. Miss Feger is twenty-four
years old. fine chemist and will as
| sist her father in the store.
The fame of Colorado fruit is to be
spread to Boston this month, because
Mrs. Martha A. Shute of the State Hor-
ticultural Board will leave for a
.
| Hampshire and Canada. And she has
packed one trunk TO the limit with
| choice specimens of Colorado apples
with which to astonish the owners OF
New England and Canadian orchards.
J. C. Lawrence, aged slXty-eight,
wealthy and successful veterinary sur
geon, died at Canon City Monday un-
| der circumstances that have caused
| talk of suicide. Lawrence, 1t is said,
! became intoxicated during the fair the
previous week and remained from that
| time until his death in stupor In
his room was found a bottle labeled
laudanum and it is believed that he
took about four ounces of the drug dur
ing the week.
Albert Lawrence, living four miles
east of Greeley on land near the river,
is said to have just harvested the big
| gest crop of onions on record in the
district. Twenty acres planted to well
| low globe onions averaged Acc sacks to
the acre, making a crop OF 5000 sacks.
| At the present price of 10 cents
per hundred, the crop brings So
500 1t cost just $50 an acre to grow
and place the crop on the market, thus
leaving the grower $500 as net gain.
Kemary Ritter, wealthy stockman,
| whose family lives at Walsenburg, Col
| orado, and who owned large interests
at Naravista, Colorado, died at the Ter
| ritorial Insane Asylum here last night,
saws an east Las Vegas dispatch of
| September 23d. He was admitted
from Union county, this territory,
| where he had lived for time The
body has been shipped to Walsenburg
| for burial. Ritter made his most sue
cessful financial deal after his mind
was unhinged. just before he was
| brought to the asylum, eighteen
months ago.