The Colorado statesman., 1906-02-03
COLORADO NEWS ITEMS

'ioH oI durango is raising fund 10
erect building.
Oscar Telling, for long time dis
trict secretary of the United States
Civil Service Commission. has been ap-
pointed confidential clerk to Harry
Tarbell, coiner in the Denver mint.
The jury in the case of Mrs. E. Pearl
Ebert at Cripple Creek, who was
charged with having murdered Mrs.
Sarah Alt several weeks ago, brought
IN verdict of voluntary manslaughter.
Enoch and Barbara Hipp, the father
and mother of John Hipp of Denver,
the prominent Color do prohibition
leader, celebrated their golden we'd
ding at their sons home in Denver Jan
uary 29th.
The foreign missionary box in the
Presbyterian church at Florence was
robbed of 81, mostly in pennies, by an
unknown thief A hammer that had
been used in breaking open the cab
met was left behind.
In the case of Annie and Henry Wat
son VS.. the Short Line Company Judge
Seeds at Cripple Creek ordered judg-
ment to issue, Annie Watson thereby
receiving $4,000 and Henry Watson
$1,215 and costs.
L. A. Lane, proprietor of the Ger
mania house at Longmont, committed
suicide January 9th by shooting him
self through the head. He was in the
last stages of consumption and COM
m1tted the act in fit of deSpondency.
President Roosevelt has sent a mes
sage to Congress urging the payment
of claim of $4,000 to William Rad
cliffe, British subject, on account OF
the destruction by mob of a fish
hatchery in Colorado which was owned
by Radcliffe.
Albert Taylor, who tried to get a
second pension under the name of
AlonZo Nightingale, a dead comrade,
was sentenced in the federal court at
Denver to eighteen months at the
Leavenworth prison. Insanity was
pleaded in his defense.
Charles Copeland, brother of Prof.
A. ID. Copeland, superintendent of the
Eaton schools, was instantly killed on
the afternoon of January 29th in Il
runaway accident a short distance
from his home in Pleasant Valley, six
miles northeast of Greeley.
F. w. Morrison, prominent pio-
neer resident of Evans, was fatally in
jured in runaway accident near Ev-
ans January 30th and died the same
and overturned the carriage. He was
seventy-cne years OF age.
Dependency, caused by the feeling
that he was hopelessly in the grasp of
consumption, induced Arthur j. How
ard to commit suicide in the Alta
Vista hotel at Colorado Springs by
shooting himself through the head. He
leaves a widow and an eight-year-old
| son.
The case against R. A. Bradley,
Warren Russell, G. NJ. Williams and
DR.. Jackson, prominent young men of
Fort Collins, for shooting deer in the
mountains near Livermore, was settled
| in the County Court by the defendants
paying a fine of $525 for the killing of
deer.
Mrs. Martha A. Hodges, widow of
James l.. Hodges, has been appointed
by Governor Mcdonald secretary of
| the State Board of Arbitration. The
place carries salary of $1,000 a year.
| The appointment is TO fill the unex-
pired term of Mr.. Hodges, who died
recently.
The jury in the case of Joe Mattel
at Trinidad returned verdict of muir
der in the second degree. Mattel was
| accused of the murder of an old MeXi-
can sheep herder near Segundo four
! years ago. this being the second time
I he was tried, the jury disagreeing at
his former trial
The following Colorado postmasters
have been appointed: Garnett, Cos.
tilla county, Charles Speiser, vice H.
| H. Bachell, resigned; Highland Lake,
Weld county, Cecil V. Holmes, vice
George Ritchey, resigned; Montezuma,
Summit county, Eva S. Fairchild, vice
E. Elgin, resigned.
The heirs of the late Governor John
| Evans, whose interests are incorpor-
ated under the name of the Evans In.
vestment Company, have donated two
lots in Denver, valued at $4,000, for
the site of a deaconess' home, to be
erected by the Woman's Home Mis-.
sionary Society of the Methodist
| Church.
State Auditor A. i. Bent and Deputy
| State Commissioner of Insurance e. E.
| Rittenhouse have gone to Chicago to
attend a meeting of insurance commits.
sioners, attorney generals and govern
ors, the object of which is to devise
ways and means for securing more uni
form insurance legislation for the
country.
Lying by the roadside between Sill
yer Cliff and Westcliffe, unconscious
from exposure, Donald Mitchell. the
fifteen-year-old son of G. ]. Mitchell of
Silver Cliff, formerly foreman of the
Geyser mine, was found about 8
o'clock Monday night. He was taken
home and received every attention, but
did not recover consciousness, dying in
few hours.
Acting Governor Parks granted a
conditional pardon to Anulfo Valaz-
quez and Jose Martinez, who were SEN
| fenced to the Denver county Jail De-