The Delta independent., 1907-01-04
COLORADO NEWS ITEMS

SoSOboOS.
The Greeley Gas and Electric Com
pany has purchased a site and will
erect an extensive gas plant, with all
the latest improvements.
At the Empson Canning Company's
| plant in Longmont 600 tons of Colo
rado-grown pumpkins are piled up
awaiting the canning process.
The new federal building at Trinidad
| Is to be located on East Main street. 1t
will contain the postoffice, federal Off
ces and federal court room, and will
| cost 100000.
President S. S. Bernard Of the
| Cripple Creek Drainage & Tunnel Com.
| pany has called meeting of the direct
ors for December 29th, when definite
| action will be taken with regard to the
| tunnel.
Samuel Mcfarland, miner at work
| in the Specimen mine on Bull hill, in
the Cripple Creek district, was caught
and instantly killed by falling rock on
the night Of December Goth. He leaves
a widow and three children.
Will Eaton, the nineteen-yearold
boy bound over at Greeley to the May
term of the District Court on the
| charge of attempting to kill his
mother, was allowed to plead guilty
| and was sentenced to the State reform
| atory.
At a hearing in Denver December
21st, Judge Armour made an order ad-
hitting to bail in the sum of $4,000
| each Geret J. and Wourtje Van Wyk.
| pending a new trial for murder. An
| application for a change of venue has
also been made.
Plans are being arranged by which
the city hall of Denver, the downtown
| fire stations, city shops, city street
| cleaning department and city market
will all be supplied by the 100000
electric light plant that will be placed
in the new auditorium building.
A son born to DIR. and Mrs. Gerald
Webb at Colorado Springs few days
ago, is the only greatgrandson OF JEFF
| ferson Davis. president Of the
| Southern Confederacy. Mrs. Webb is
daughter of Mrs. J. A. Hayes. and
granddaughter of the dead Southern
leader.
Two thousand head of cattle have
| been put on n feed of beet pulp and
beet tops hear Johnstown by George
Harvey, 4 cattle man of the Middle
Park country. Twelve thousand cattle
are feeding on pulp along thirteen
miles of railway between Johnstown
and Loveland.
The new armory OF Company l.
First infantry. N. G. c., at Fort Nor
gan, was formally opened on the night
OF December 22nd, by ball and gem
eral jollification. The new quarters
are a part Of the Masonic Temple re-
Gently erected at cost Of $4,000.
which gives the soldiers a model room
for their purpose.
The Cripple Creek Short Line will
(next summer establish system OF
wireless telegraphy in connection with
the train service between Colorado
Springs and Cripple Creek. The appa-
ratus will be installed in each obserya-
tion car, the sender and receiver be-
ing attuned to the same pitch as that
of the Forest wireless system at the
Springs.
| The Interstate Commerce Commits
sion Is in need of expert stenograph-
ers and an examination will be held in
Denver on January End to secure eligi-
bles to fill five vacancies. The posi-.
tion pays $500 per annum and trav-
cling expenses. Applicants wishing to
take the examination should apply to
the secretary of the board Of examin-
| crS at Denver.
| An appropriation OF 100000 will be
| asked of the General Assembly this
year by the board OF trustees OF the
| Colorado State School of Mines. Forty
thousand dollars of this money will be
used If secured. for the erection OF an
up-to-date natatorium and gymnasium.
and $4,000 will be used to help wipe
out the Indebtedness of s37,021.s1 now
hanging over the school.
| The Mountains Reservoir Company.
which has incorporated with capital
OF $125,000, proposes to operate several
reservoirs in Clear Creek, Jefferson
and Arapahoe counties. known as Loeb
Lomond, Lake Caroline, Lake Stew.
art, Gilman lake, Ice lake, Chinn's
lake and Fall River reservoir. Water
| will be taken from Fall river, Clear
Creek and the Agricultural ditch.
The following letter was received by
/ the state treasurer at Denver few
days ago: Dear Sir:-Having broken
the laws OF the state OF Colorado, [
will endeavor to make 1t right by en-.
closing IS. Respectfully yours" No
name was signed to the letter, but the
money was enclosed. II Is the first
conscience money ever turned into the
state treasurer's office. No explana-
tion was made regarding the manner Of
breaking the law.
Mrs. Jas. NJ. Lehman, eighty-three
years old and an invalid, who for sew
eral years had been a county charge,
was burned to death in her cabin in
the west end OF Idaho Springs, on the
| afternoon OF December 21st. She had
been a sufferer from paralysis, and 1t Is
/ supposed that some rags, hung up to
dry near the stovepipe, caught fire.
and that when she tried to extinguish
the blaze the flames were communi-
Gated to her clothing.
w. H. Pigg has imported twenty