The state herald., 1907-01-25
COLORADO NEWS ITEMS

lied at Steamboat Springs, with NJ. H.
Houston for president and Archie
| Withers, secretary.
left Noonan, an old time prospector'
WAS found dead in front of his cabin
in Leadville on the 18th inst. His
death is attributed to heart disease.
A new market has been opened to
Colorado for its onions. Five thous'
and sacks, making n total of eighteen
carloads, were shipped last week to
New York.
A gang of convicts at the Colorado
State Penitentiary is cutting and stor
ing 400 tons of ice from the lakes IN
Grape creek canon, three miles from
| the prison.
The Colorado & Southern Railroad
Company will expend $15O,OOo In re
building and equipping its coach shops
| and wood working mill in Denver
which were burned last year.
Representative Bonynge has recon-
| mended the appointment of Mrs. Car
rie James as postmistress at Loveiahu
She is the widow Of the former lhcuih
bent of the office, David Jones.
The Pixies Peak Cog road has aban
doned its project of using oil instead
of coal for fuel, and will continue the
present methods. Oil burning tests
have proven decidedly unsuccessful.
Miss Katherine Craig, state superin
tendent of public instruction, Will ad
dress the state superintendents DE
partment of the National Educational
| ,,,htrh in ('hlcAvO
February 26th to 2sth.
A parrot, two squirrels and guinea
pig were burned to death, and a mon
key so badly injured that 1t Will DIE
as a result of q fire which destroyed
a monkey house belonging to DR.. A
Blackman at Colorado Springs.
Within the next few weeks the
Santa Fe railroad company will begin
opening coal mines on several large
veins in different parts of Fremont
county. The company has decided, II
is said, to supply its entire system
with coal from Fremont county.
Mayor Speer OF Denver was thrown
from his carriage on the 14th inst,
and received some bad, but not dan
gerous bruises on his head. Mrs
Speer. who was with him, escaped
| without serious injury. The mayors
spirited horses were frightened by al
automobile.
| st. Mary's Academy, one OF the old
est schools in Denver, conducted b,
the Sisters OF Loretto, is to be re
moved from its site at Fourteenth ant
| California streets to Fourteenth av
enue and Pennsylvania. where six lots
have been purchased on which to erecI
n handsome new building.
The Santa Fe railroad is completing
plans to transform Its present passen
ger depot In Colorado Springs. at the
intersection of Pixies Peak avenue
with the tracks, into n freight depot
and to build $4,000 hotel and depo
two blocks further south, between Gu
charas and vcrmijo streets.
1t is stated that Pueblo's japanese
colony will be depleted considerably
before spring. Sixty employed ut th'
Ellers smelter are said to have quit
saying they were obliged to pay com
missions TO countrymen and that the
cost OF living was higher than ex
pected. leaving them little at the enc
OF the month.
The Colorado City Chamber OF Com
merce will cooperate with the Colo
RADIO Springs Chamber Of Commerce II
constructing sugar palace In Colo
RADIO Springs. The plan Is to call OF
| the sugar factories OF the state 4
contribute about twenty tons OF bee
sugar and coat the blocks with |
waterproof mineral veneer.
It is expected that Boggs Flat. |
large arid section OF land about tel
| miles southeast OF Florence. will b.
brought under irrigation by n system
| OF artesian wells which are TO b.
drilled at various depths within tn
next few weeks. The plans for tn
campaign have been finished and der
ricks and drilling ma:hiner, ordered
Arrangements have been complete,
for the fifth annual bench show OF tn
| Colorado Kennel Club, to be held n
Coliseum hall In Denver on Fcbruar
?Gth. eth and 2sth. About $4,000 Il
cash prizes will be given away. an
James Mortimer will ofiiciatc as judg
will close on February 18th. II. {
bryan OI boo otNtuh''uNH bNIt't, bct
yer. is sccrctaiy OF the club.
The members OF both houses OF IN
General Assembly at Denver have nc
ccptcd the invitation OF Govcrno
Henry A. Buchtcl to u good fellow
ship" dinner Mt the Savoy hotel on tn
night OF January 3ist. The Invitation
also includes the Justices OF the S,
prcmc Court and the state officers. an
the heads Of the various institution
In tho state. and OF some OF the con
mcrciai organizations OF Denver.
Charles Warren Dakc. founder @
Pine Grove, Colorado, and author @
tho state game law. died on tho i7t
inst. nt his ranch near Pine Grove. u
the agc OF sixty.cight years. Mr.. Oak
wns formerly n member Of tho stat
LEGISLATURE, being elected member @
1.-THE lower house from Jefferson count
In 1892. While In the Legislature h
framed tho state game law. and di
much for the State School Of Mines a
Golden.
Al last tho water has been turnc
into tho now G. r.. and ]. canal nca
Adobe station. thirty miles west q
Pueblo. This II tho canal which cos
.a...s at mn mn and xsna huiis far 81,