The Glenwood post., 1907-09-07
COLORADO NEWS ITEMS

| pOT LAY
Over six thousand people ate corn
from the cob on Roasting Ear Day at
Loveland.
Mrs. David Henry, pioneer OF Colo
RADIO. aged ~, died at Trinidad
recently.
Another cloudburst caused havoc
| with the railroad tracks in Clear Creek
| canon last week
ODE Croft, famous stallion owned
| by DR.. Kelly at Pueblo, is dead. He
leaves record of PIG.
A COW on the track caused a wreck
| near Lafayette the other day. She
saw the cowcatcher first.
Anna Hensted, aged 30, is dead at
Colorado Springs as a result of being
burned by the explosion of gasoline.
S. NJ Hadden of the State Normal
school, has just received a fine collec-
tion of native woods from Porto Rico
A field of Turkey red wheat raised
near Boulder by ]. A. Miller on a dry
farm, yielded twenty bushels to the
acre.
Golden pulled off bronocho busting
contest on Labor Day that made Chey
enne busting look like a hobby horse
race.
Every town in the state where labor
ers are employed to any extent OBJ
served Labor Day with proper cere-
mony.
Half dozen loungers in Denver
saloon We're held up recently and made
to turn their coin over to a lone
bandit"
This gambling dens at Boulder were
raided a few nights ago and the way
the chips flew would have made an old
woodsman green with envy.
Mrs. John Race, highly respected
pioneer, 60 years of age, has disap-
peared from her home at Greeley and
search is being made for her.
May Cater, colored, is suing Frank
R. Marsh of Colorado Springs for
St, 900 because he smashed her buggy
and injured her with his automobile.
Kid Wallace, sent to the peniten-
tiary as confederate of Antoine Wood
in the murder of Capt. Rooney, was
pordoned by Governor Buchtel on La
Dor Day.
On Thursday, September 18th, the
citizens of Longmont will celebrate the
eighth annual Pumpkin Pie Day. Spe
cial trains and very low rates via Colo
RADIO & Southern railway.
f. C. CRADLES 200.acre farm south
| west of Greeley has given yield of
| 1000 bushels of wheat, thirty-five
| bushels to the acre. The entire crop
was grown without irrigation.
In cleft in the rocks in Glen Haven,
Estes park, where it had probably
been for centuries, F. NJ. Scott, by a
| breaking off of rock, discovered an
ancient vessel of curious workman
| ship. 1t fell to pieces when handled
but has been wired. Mr.. Scott will ex-
plore farther, thinking he may have
uncovered a prehistoric abode of the
/ Cliff Dwelling type.
| 1t has remained for Lake City jury
to disregard the unwritten law of justi-
fication for murder and after listening
| to the unbosoming of the soul of the
wife of Patrick E. Donnelan, slayer of
Anderson Nordquist, who confessed
her shame in the hope of freeing her
husband, twelve men brought in YER
| dict of murder in the first degree and
fixing the sentence at life imprison-
ment.
|
were bound over without bail to the
October term of the District Court, on
the charge of setting fire to the depot
at Boulder and numbering Ira Wilson,
| Oscar r. lie Fevre and A. e. Weeks,
by Magistrate Holiday. The men were
represented by W. G. Houston of Boul-
der and w. NJ. Appel of Denver. They
were tried jointly, as the same evi-
dence was used in both cases. Assist
ant District Attorney 7. A. McHarg OF
Boulder was in charge for the state,
and was assisted by Ralph Talbot Of
| Denver, the special prosecutor, who
took but little part in the examination
of the witnesses.
| Richard C. Sayles, 40 years old, col
ored, dropped dead at Greeley while
putting on his shoes, and an autopsy
made by Coroner Macy shows that
heart failure induced by an overdose
OF acetylene, was the cause Of death
Indications from letters are that the
medicine was prescibed by an Eastern
physician, with whom Sayles was con
sulting. both in regard to his health and
love affairs, and that possibly the medi
cine was taken as a love potion. All
knew Sayles as respectable negro
working as porter in shop here, and
no one dreamed that he was the owner
of two good farms in Kansas and a
small ranch near the sugar factory
which was found to be the case.
Several expeditions have been sent
out from the University of Colorado
this summer to collect geological
botanical and geological specimens fol
the museum. The State Geological
Survey, under Professor Russell d
George and Instructor Ralph d. Craw
ford, will collect number of minerals
from the Poudre valley region and in
Routt county; Professor T. d. A
Cockerell has been at Florissant, Colo
rado collecting fossil plants and ami
mails, while Professor Francis Rama
ley and party spent week in the
neighborhood of Ward collecting q
complete set of the plants and animals
OF that region, paying especial atten
ton to the lake region. Judge Junius