The new era. (Walden, Colo.) 1906-19??, 1907-05-23
COLORADO NEWS ITEMS

business to the Hygienic Ice & Coal
Company.
After working and saving seven
years to get ranch Of their own, Net
tie Whitlow, wife of John Whitlow. a
lwell-known citizens, died at Eaton.
Their three-weeks-old baby died few
hours later.
| The coroner's jury which investi-
gated the cause of the death of Will
liam Mikalsky at Lafayette. returned
verdict in which the Burlington rail-
road is censured for furnishing coal
cars with defective brakes.
Three thousand copies OF the annual
report Of the Health Department OF
Colorado Springs are being published
and will be sent broadcast over the
country as an advertisement for that
city. Editions will be sent to English.
German and French cities.
Returning home at night, John Doro-
they, an employe on the Redland
ditch, near Grand Junction, was way
laid by three hobos, beaten up and
robbed Of 49, He lay beside the rail
road track from O'Clock at night I'M
til o'clock in the morning, uncon-
scious.
Pleading guilty to watering the
milk which he sold to customers.
James Ryan. proprietor of the Grand
View dairy at Colorado Springs. was
fined IS and costs. He gave, in ex-
tenuation. the fact that fifteen of his
cows were lost and that he Stretched"
the milk to make 1t go around.
Allen Coulson, aged thirteen, son OF
Edward Coulson, prominent resident
at Grand Junction, lost 4 thumb and
three fingers and may lose the sight
of his right eye as the result Of pick
ing at a dynamite cap. His face was
filled with fragments Of the cap. many
of which lodged In his right eye. He
is in a serious condition.
John Gray of Perry Park, thirteen
miles south of Castle Rock, was ar
rested on charges of selling liquor on
Sunday, waived preliminary hearing
and was bound over to the next term
of the District Court The Complaint
was sworn out by a woman. This
is the first move in campaign to
stop the boot-legging Of whisky in this
county.
Word has been received at Colorado
Springs of the death of w. d. Laing
at Great Bend Kansas. Laing formerly
resided in Colorado Springs and for
He was a pioneer of the county and
was well known as an employe in the
Denver & Rio Grande baggage room
for number of years. He was eighty
years old
One Of the largest funerals ever held
in Denver was that of Mrs. Antonio
Notary, which took place at the resi-
dence Of her son. M. Notary, 2237 Stout.
street. Mrs. Notary was eighty-seven
years Of age and had lived in Denver
twenty-one years. Burial was at Riv-
erside cemetery. 1t required eighty
| seven carriages and two street cars to
convey the friends to the cemetery.
The subject OF freight rates was
taken up at a meeting Of the Mer-
| chants Association at Colorado
Springs and committee was ap-
| pointed to endeayOr to secure 4 mora
satisfactory schedule OF freight rates
for Colorado points. The charge was
made that Colorado Springs was dis
eliminated against in this respect, and
the matter was gone into thoroughly.
Sam Columbo, miner at Berwind.
ten miles north of Trinidad, was cleo
'trocuted. He was going off shift, car
rying can of hot water on his head,
when the can touched an overhead
trolley wire Of the mine tramway, and
the powerful current killed him. The
coroner decided that the death was the
result of the miners own, carelessness.
Columbo was twenty-five years old and
single.
Harry Roberts was burned fearfully
about the face at the MinneQua plant
of the Colorado Fuel C Iron Company
at Pueblo, and is now in the hospital.
oil ,rI, t. T.. ..,:II I..~,
permanently injured. Rogers was
looking through the oil plant, and in
order to see how much oil there n as in
tank pushed lighted torch in front
Of him into the tank. The gas gener-
ated from the oil exploded
After being involved In litigation for
over two years, Mrs. Franklin w.
Gaines of Grand Junction, has come
into possession of her share OF the
million-dollar estate left her by her
father, DR.. L. f. Lowe, a prominent
and wealthy planter of Crystal City.
Mississippi. Four children participated
in the distribution of the property, and
Mrs. Gaines received one-fourth inter-
est.
The Santa Fe is now compile ling ar
rangements for erecting $4,000 hos.
pital at La Junta. The structure is to
be built of cream colored pressed brick
trimmed with white stone and located
near the old hospital. Inclined planes
will be used instead Of stairways. This
plan is taken from the famous C. F. &
l. hospital at Pueblo. When completed,
the building will be one Of the finest in
La Junta.
Zelda Gedney. a thirteen-year-old
Colorado City girl, whom P. c. Dock
stader is accused OF criminally assault
ing, sprang surprise during the trial
of the case in the District Court by
announcing from the witness stand
that she had nothing to say on the sub
ject. "Why not?" asked District