The new era. (Walden, Colo.) 1906-19??, 1907-07-04
COLORADO NEWS ITEMS

John Wolf of Denver, a retired
farmer, has purchased a home a..
Boulder and will occupy it.
A crook from Denver turned up In
Boulder the other day, but before he
coulo influence anyone he was shipped
back to Denver.
The Presbyterian church at Florence
was robbed the other day of 81 and the
trustees offer a remard for the cap
ture of the thief.
The Shaw Dry Goods Company has
been incorporated at Greeley, capital
lied at $4,000, with II. A. Shaw, John
Perkins, James Schryer. Ida Sanford,
Frank Wisner as directors.
A Denver girl was kidnapped on the
main business street the other day and
spirited away" to Pueblo. The girl
is II years DID, but didn't call for help
until she was 100 miles from home.
The frontier committee OF CHEYENNE
has presented silver loving cup to be
given at the Greeley harvest day fes-
tival. August 20, for the best deco
rated turnout. Weld county is put
ting forth every effort to make its
agricultural exhibit worth while. D..
A. Garfield offers 800 banner for
the best agricultural exhibit.
According to the Rev Earl Hicks OF
St. Louis, June 23d the weather is to be
warm and showery, June oath warm.
but the 25th to the 9th the weather
| is to be exceptionally cold for summer.
Whether or not this is to apply to St.
Louis and vicinity only is not stated.
Ii 1t is to take in Colorado it might DE
well for people to get out their winter
clothes for few days.
Arrangements have been perfected
at the electrical plant at Lafayette to
send current to Boulder to supply
the southern part of the city with
light. 1t is hoped 10 have the north.
ern part of the city ready for the cur.
| rent, soon, and after that the plant
here will no longer be used for cleo
| trio lighting, but will furnish power
| for the street car service for some
| time.
A corps of surveyors, headed by D.
| w. Chambers of Boulder, is at WORK
near Palisade making a preliminary
| survey for a proposed canal
to reclaim thousands OF acres
or land on the south side
of the Grans river. H. w. Lane and
Judge C. P. Holbrook of Boulder are
interested in the enterprise, and Mr.
Chambers declared that If the canal is
found feasible 1t will be constructed
and will cost nearl! 100000.
About one-half of the fall grain and
alfalfa crop in the vicinity Of Brush
was damaged by a fierce hail-storn
| which visited that section recently
| The storm moved from the northwest
| to the southeast. The greatest damage
| was suffered by a strip of country
| three miles wide and ten miles long be
tween Brush and Fort Morgan. The
beet crop was only slightly damaged
The storm was preceded and followed
| by a heavy rain which will be bene
| fetal to the district.
Police Judge d. D. Finch, one of the
most prominent and influential Repub
lican politicians in Trinidad, was sert
ously, If not fatally injured in a run
away accident. Judge Finch had one
leg broken below the knee, the bont
protruding through the flesh. He also
had several ribs broken and 1t is feared
that he is injured internally. His
horse collided with telephone pole,
demolishing the buggy. Judge Finch
was thrown violently against the stone
| curbing. Judge Finch was at one time
| sheriff.
Virginia Funkhouser, five years old
who was sent to the Pueblo orphanage
a week ago, made her third attempt te
escape from that institution in order
as she says, to see her mother in Trim
idad, where the latter is working te
support herself and six other children
| The father died about two years ago
| and the mother has since been strug
| Cling to exc out an existence. Inc
| child, early this morning, started ou'
to walk to Trinidad, but was caught al
| the Union depot and returned. She
had on two dresses, the outer, as she
| stated, so that she might have clear
| one when she met her mother.
United States Senator Simon Gug
| genheim paid Longmont visit re
Gently. He was met by Mayor Brad
ley, Judge F. P. Secor and l.. l.. Brock
enridge. F. NJ Downer accompanied
the committee in the drive with the
senator over the city. A reception
was held in the rooms of the CONNER
cial association, when the business
men met the senator. Thomas MO
honey, secretary of the association
| gave short talk in reference to
United States geological survey OF the
| country lying between LOnemont dno
| the foothills, the object of which i.
| to determine whether the gypsum beds
| are large enough to warrant the man
| ufacture of cement.
For the purpose of personally
observing the route for proposed
| high line canal, Secretary of the
Interior Garfield and Land Com
missioner Ballinger took an auto spin
| over the Orchard mesa and spent
nearly an hour viewing the land neal
| Grove Junction last week. They were
favorably impressed. The high line
canal as proposed will cost $1,000, 0O0
and reclaim hundreds Of acres of land
Its construction by the government has
been urged for years. but today is the
On Il.