The Colorado statesman., 1907-03-09
COLORADO NEWS ITEMS

rOau yardS at Denver on tne ISL.
Greeley citizens have raised $4,000
toward $4,000 public libary build
ing.
Four prisoners broke out Of the Jail
at Las Apimas Saturday after over
powering the jailer
Ground was broken at. Greeley on
the 26th for a new Congregational
church to cost $4,000.
The Pueblo Automobile Club is
planning mile posts on roads leading in
all directions from the city.
Mr.. and Mrs. A. l.. Barr of Long
mont were divorced on the 26th after
thirty years of married life.
The fifth annual dog show at Denver
lase week was the most successful
ever held by the association.
new Masonic temple was dedi
Gated at Fruita on the 26th. One hun
dred and fifty visiting Masons as
sisted.
Mike Marchard is in the hospital at
Telluride. probably fatally injured, by
a cave-in at the SmugglerUnion mine
on the 26th.
Louis Padillo was killed in head-on
collision on the Santa Fe at Thatcher
on the 26th, while riding brake beam.
He had SIT on his person.
Mrs. Alice Moore and Grippon
Turner, a negro, have been placed in
Jail at Trinidad on the charge Of the
murder of Manuel Charez, preferred
against them by the authorities of
Starkville.
The contract has ben let for the new
armory at Fort Collins. 1t will be 50x
100 feet in size and will cost $4,000.
The contract has also been let for the
new Y. NJ. c. A. building. to cost $685.
900.
The cornerstone of the new Chris
tian church at Canon City was laid on
the 26th. The building. which will
cost about $4,000, will be Of Grecian
style of architecture, and is to be COM
pleted by August 1st.
The Wa,senburg and Western Rail
way Company was sincorporated at Den
YER on the 27th; capital stock 100000;
e. w. Griffith, l.. e. Rowland, F. E.
Guy, George c. Barnard. F. ]. Jackson,
incorporators; Denver.
That Pullman conductor or porter
is not a passenger and may not recover
damages against a railway company in
case of injuries sustained through a
wreck, is the doctrine enunciated by
the State Supreme Court.
Tho Short Line road management
has arranged with the government
hatcherfes for 100000 trout with which
to stock the famous trout streams
along it's line known as Gould, East
Beaver and West Beaver creeks.
The locomotive of Colorado Mid
land passenger train on the night Of the
18th inst. struck and killed a large
buck deer near Woodland Park. The
train was stopped and the carcass OF
ha tod To 90 ~,
the baggage car.
John DeBaker, who died at Boulder
on the 26th, and who went to that city
in 1859, was the first man to erect a
quartz mill at Gold hill in Boulder
county. It proved failure. He was
also the first man to erect a Touring
mill in that county, in 1862.
William Berry and Charles Green,
colored, aged ten and twelve years
respectively, are in Jail at La Junta,
charged with the murder of Freeman
Henry Austin, aged six, by beating him
on the head with brick, during an al
tercation which arose while the three
boys were going home from school, on
the 26th.
One thousand acres of land lying be-
tween Greeley and Loveland above
the Greeley and Loveland ditch. Will
be plowed this spring and sowed to
fall wheat next September. This land
belongs to DR.. ]. T. Youtsey and
George A. Jackson of London, and
will be cultivated by the dry-farming
method.
Old soldiers who are not in good
standing in their various posts will
have to refrain from wearing the en-
blems of the Grand Army Of the Re-
public. There Is a law in Colorado
which regulates this matter, and the
penalty for violation of this law Is I'M
prisonment in the county Jail for a
term not to exceed sixty days, or a
fine of no. more than $40, or both.
The annual breakfast and election
of officers of the Denver Press Club
has been arranged for Sunday morn
ing, March 10, at the Albany hotel in
Denver. Among the important mat
ters to be discussed are the removal
of the Headquarters of the club to a
more desirable location, the establish
rent of permanent building fund and
the securing of an extensive library.
w. Harold Stewart, twenty years
old, son of w. II. Stewart, postmaster
and ranch owner, Ironton. Colorado.
killed himself at his lodgings in Den
ver at about o'clock Thursday
morning. Fighting off an imaginary
assailant while in his sleep, ne turned
the muzzle of the weapon to his head
and fired. Circumstances that sur
round the affair show that he was be-
ing tortured by wild visions Of his
sleep, and this alone was responsible.
Surveyors in the employ of Senator
William A. Clark of Montana, who re-
Gently acquired a $4,000 acre tract of
coal land forty miles west of Trinidad,
have begun stalking out right of way
parallel to the Colorado & Southern
tracks, which will run from beyond the