The Colorado statesman., 1907-03-30
COLORADO NEWS ITEMS

easier wagon roads are TO De MADE
into Estes Park from Longmont.
Willie Hollinger, aged twelve, was
drowned in a pond near Goldfield
Monday
The Union Pacific has put on new
passenger train between Denver and
Cheyenne.
Fort Collins is going to put on all
kinds of metropolitan airs with
street car system.
Mrs. Mary Dixon, aged seventy, has
just died near Florence. She came to
Colorado tbirty-five years ago.
While wrestling with his father the
other night, Jose Munez, Mexican,
had his neck broken by the fall.
Two men were arrested near Fort
Collins recently on the charge of steal
Ing load of corn and six fat lambs.
Leadville safe-crackers pulled off
another robbing the other night. Over
$4,000 has been stolen there of late.
Miss Alice Mulvaney of Loveland
was badly burned by trying to coax
the kitchen fire along with kerosene.
Nimrods will be pleased to know
that sea gulls and ducks are swarming
the lakes in the neighborhood of Gree
ley.
About fifty students from the Uni.
versity at Boulder will tour the state
in search of knowledge-and butter
flies.
The curtains are again to roll up on
vaudeville in the old California theater
in Florence, after being closed three
years.
Frank Roney, a Pueblo man, has
been arrested for kidnapping his own
child? Why didn't he let the kid do
its own mapping?
Now that Greeley's town marshal
has bought an automobile with which
to run down the wayfaring, no guilty
man auto escape.
A Trinidad man was so considerate
of his brothers welfare that he en-
bezzled $4,000 to keep him out of
trouble. SO he says.
Miss Adar Osborne was seriously
hurt in a runaway near Greeley last
Monday. Her jaw was broken in two
places and her skull badly fractured.
John w. Carol, for a number Of
years conductor on railroad is can
didate for mayor of Salida. He ought
to know how to handle the tickets.
All the carmen on the Colorado G.
Southern employed between Walsen-
burg and Texline, are to receive a
raise of cents an hour after April
list.
The Logan County Advocate and
the Republican at Sterling have been
consolidated and will be conducted by
d. G. Smith, former publisher of the
Republican.
Editor Branch of the Fort Collins
Democrat has branched out in bust.
ness and has launched daily in con-
nection with his great family weekly
newspaper.
1t is optional now with the towns
of the state whether they irrigate their
interiors at home or adopt the dry pro-
cess. Governor Buchtel has signed the
local option bill.
Two Greek bootblacks were fined in
Pueblo police court for paying. undue
attention to young girls. Heart mash
ing isn't where the Greek shine in this
country, anyway.
Julespurg narrowly escaped being
burned 90 this week by fire set from
sparks from an engine. AS it was,
several mead of stock were cremated
on adjacent ranches.
John Zimmerman, a mountaineer,
Inns, trapped ferocious mountain lion
last Tuesday, and now has its skin
tackled on his cabin door,
E. E. Burlingame, one of the most
noted men in Colorado for the last
forty years, died at his residence, 1853
York street, in Denver, at 1 o'clock
Wednesday morning.
John Okey, sixteen-year-old boy,
has been held on the charge of muir 1er-
ing Alexander Albin, ranchman near
Montrose. The deed grew out OF a
quarrel over a line fence.
G. e. Mahoney, acting president OF
the Western Federation of Miners, has
gone to Goldfield, Nevada, where he
was called to settle the strike now in
progress there. He expects to be there
two weeks.
The first automobile club in Wyo-
ming has been organized at Cheyenne.
This ought to open the eyes of East
ern tenderfeet who think that Wyo-
ming is nothing but home for buck
ing broncos.
Sentence of death has been pro-
inounced upon Santiago Tafoya, who
was convicted of numbering Pedro
.Greigo near Sopris, six weeks ago. He
Twill be hanged in the state penitentiary
during the week of July 9Th.
A package containing $4,000 that
was taken from the depot platform at
Aspen a few days ago, has been re-
turned by mail. The name of the con-
science-smitten one who returned 1t
was not given.
DR.. j. A. Holmes has invented
process whereby the lowest grade OF
coal may be made useful The coal
is saturated with mixture. By this
process millions of tons of Colorado
coal will be made valuable.
Scout Oliver Virgins, the Denver
weather propnOsticatOr gives IL ont