The Colorado statesman., 1906-03-17
COLORADO NEWS ITEMS


in two hours.
Representative Hogg has named as
cadet at the Annapolis naval academy,
Carrollton G. Northcutt, of Trinidad.
The Denver Real Estate Exchange
will raise $1,000 for the purpose of en-
tertaining visitors during the coming
season.
The new Gilpin County Chamber of
Commerce was successfully launched
on the 9TH inst with paid member
ship of about 200.
The Battlement Mesa forest reserve
Will be opened to cattle growers April
list instead of May as was at first
announced by Forester Pinchot.
The taxpayers of La Junta have
voted by majority of over six to one
to bond the city for the sum of $780,,
600 for the purpose of putting in new
water works.
For the first time in the history of
Teller county both the county and
every school district is paying cash,
the last of the county and school war
rants having been called in.
James Unteriner, a miner at the
Great Western coal mine at Heathton,
six miles south of Canon City, fell
167 feet down the shaft of the mine
and was instantly killed on the 9Th
inst.
Joseph Weir, a ranchman, was shot
and killed on Thursday, March Sth,
in Blanco basin, Archuleta county, by
his nephew, Oral Weir, who claims
that the shooting was the result of a
quarrel.
Charles Johnson, employed in one
of the mines of the Big Five in
Boulder county, was fatally injured by
either a falling drill or a rock on the
night of the 5th inst, his skull being
badly crushed.
There are eighty-one applications
for divorce to be disposed of during
the present term of the County and
District Courts at Pueblo. Why not
decree blanket divorce to cover the
entire ,population-or at least all who
want to unhitch?
The Denver Real Estate Exchange
and Colorado Manufacturers Associa-
ton are very much troubled over the
closing of the Rocky Mountain paper
mills and have appointed a commit
tee to consider some plan for retaining
the plant
E. V. Brake, deputy labor commits
sioner, is making strenuous efforts to
enforce the law requiring semi
monthly payday on the part of all
kinds of corporations. He will send
out letter to all the mining COM
panies in the state.
Three camps have been established
on the Holly & Swink railroad grade
at the Holly end of the line They
are located five, eight and twelve
miles, respectively, from Holly, and
have over 200 teams ard {, similar
number of men engaged.
County Judge Mirick, of Pueblo, has
appointed a commission of six persons
whose duty it shall be to assist the
juvenile court in keeping track of the
county's charitable and reformatory
institutions. Three are Republicans
and three Democrats.
The executive committee of the Citi-
zen's alliance at Cripple Creek has
decided to establish an employment bu-
reau for it's members. The club rooms
will be reopened. The president will
appoint large advisory committee to
consist of employees of the mines.
The commissioner of Indian affairs
has appointed John S. Spear TO sue
ceed William NJ. Peterson as superin-
tendent of Fort Lewis Indian school
at Durango. Spear is transferred to
that post from the school at Fort
Lewis, Arizona. Peterson leaves the
service.
Maggie Pututaro, wife of a we'll
known saloonkeeper, was fined S25 and
costs by Justice Bowers at Trinidad,
on the charge of brutally beating H.
year-old Nick Colasco, an Italian boy,
| who had been left in her charge. The
court declared but for the woman's
physical condition he would sentence
her to a term in jail.
Contractors have finished ovec
twenty miles OF the Colorado Fuel &
Iron Company's million dollar canal
under construction between Florence
and Pueblo, for carrying water from
the Arkansas river to the steel works.
Between six and seven hundred men
are employed and the canal will be
completed for the summer high water.
Charles W. Rumble, of Grand juno
tion, a veteran of the Civil War, nas
just received medal of honor for
bravery displayed in the battle before
Vicksburg, May %, 1868. The medal
is of bronze and was made from can
non captured from the Confederates.
There are said to be but 450 men in
this country who are entitled to wear
this medal.
Col. F. r. Davis, adjutant of the de-
partment of the Colorado, has re-
ceived orders from General Baldwin to
inspect the state militia companies of
Colorado. 1t is General Baldwin's
preference that a field officer do this
work and the colonel will personally
conduct il during April These inspec-
tions are made by the army in all
states that are working under the Dick
law and receiving support from the
government.
An enthusiastic meeting was held at