The Colorado statesman., 1907-01-26
COLORADO NEWS ITEMS

block of ground at Grand Junction
and will erect a canning factory to cost
$4,000
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.
Representative Bonynge has recon-
mended the appointment of Mrs. Car
rie James as postmistress at Loveland
She is the widow of the former incum
bent of the office, David Jones.
The Pixies Peak Cog road has aban-
doned it's project of using oil instead
of coal for fuel, and will continue the
present methods. Oil burning tests
have proven decidedly unsuccessful.
A parrot, two squirrels and guinea
pig were burned to death, and mon
key SO badly injured that 1t will die,
as result of a fire which destroyed
monkey house belonging to DR.. A.
Blackman at Colorado Springs.
In the District Court at Trinidad.
]. d. Romero, who, while deputy sher'
iff at Starkville, shot and killed Louis
Bianchi, was convicted on the 18th
inst, of murder in the second degree.
His defense was that he was forced
to shoot to quell disturbance.
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, 1t
is said, to supply it's entire system
with coal from Fremont county.
A. T. Lewis, head of the great dry
goods firm of A. 7. Lewis & Son OF
Denver, died at his villa in Greenwich,
Connecticut, on the goth inst, at the
age of seventy-five years. Mr.. Lewis
is survived by a wife and three sons,
Aaron D., John r., and Frederick 7.
1t is stated by those in position
to know, that the fourteen salaried po-
sitions which Simon Guggenheim, the
great smelter magnate, resigned from
in order to give his full time to his
duties as United States senator from
Colorado, brought him in $4,000 a
year.
Acting Chief of staff Thomas H.
Barry at Washington, said that the re-
port that the army department head
quarters are to be removed from Den
yer is entirely without foundation.
There is no intention on the part of
the War Department to make any
change.
It is stated that Pueblo's Japanese
colony will be depleted considerably
before spring. Sixty employed at the
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 end
of the month.
Joseph Morgan of Lafayette. brother
of State Senator Morgan, has been
placed in the insane ward at Boulder.
Saturday Morgan attempted to COM
init suicide at Lafayette and was taken
to the University hospital at Boulder
Sunday for treatment, but developed
such symptoms thatit was deemed un-
safe to keep him there.
The Colorado City Chamber OF Com
merce will cooperate with the Colo
RADIO Springs Chamber Of Commerce in
constructing a sugar palace in Colo
rado Springs. The plan is to call on
the sugar factories of the state to
contribute about twenty tons OF beet
sugar and coat the blocks with a
waterproof mineral veneer.
Arrangements have been completed
for the fifth annual bench show of the
Colorado Kennel Club, to be held at
Coliseum hall in Denver on February
26th, 9th and 2Sth. About $4,000 in
cash prizes will be given away, and
James Mortimer will officiate as judge
of all breeds. The entries to the show
will close on February 18th. H. c.
Bryan of 533 Seventeenth street, Den
yer, is secretary of the club.
Claims aggregating more than
$4,000, it is said, will be presented
against the Stratton estate by d.
e. Whitted, Judge Luther M. God
dard and Henry McAlister, Jr.,
all of Denver, for legal services in con-
nection with the suit brought against
the estate by the Venture corporation
of London, in the United States court.
The attorneys have already received
large fees.
The members of both houses of the
General Assembly at Denver have ac.
cepted the invitation Of Governor
Henry A. Buchtel to good fellow
ship" dinner at the Savoy hotel on the
night of January 31st The invitation
also includes the justices of the Su-
preme Court and the state officers, and
the heads of the various institutions
in the state, and Of some of the COM
mercial organizations OF Denver.
More than 200 girl students of Colo
RADIO Springs escorted from the college
grounds in carriages to General w. j.
Palmer's residence at Glen Dyrie on
the 18th inst and rendered reception
by the general and Miss Palmer. Tea
and light refreshments were served.
General Palmer is so far recovered
from his recent injury that he is able
to sit up and is wheeled about in a
chair through the grounds surround
ing Glen Eyrie.
Assaulted, bound, gagged, robbed
and left to freeze in room in the rear
of his laundry was the experience of
Yee HI, a Chinaman at Georgetown.