The Colorado statesman., 1907-05-04
COLORADO NEWS ITEMS

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one erected forty years ago.
Rocky Ford gave the Odd Fellows
| rousing reception on April &c, the
/ e1ghty-seventh anniversary of the or
I der.
A double track is being built on the
railroad between Canon City and
Florence in order to take care of the
heavy traffic.
A Denver chemist discovers that
California coffee firm puts chicory in
their coffee, and the authorities are
after them.
Gen. William ]. Palmer has sent to
the Civic Improvement leagne OK
Canon City several hundred shrubs for
the state park.
The MacMonnies Indian statue has
caused about as much commotion
among the pioneers of Colorado as the
appearance of the real red men did in
early days.
Walter Cunliffe, a director off the
Bank of England, and private car
party. spent several days in the Pixies
Peak region. The party also visited
Cripple Creek.
Charles Friend won in the High
school oratorical contest at Colorado
Springs, and will represent the school
at the interscholastic contest to be
held in Boulder, May 10th.
r. F. Milford, the caretaker OF the
Silver Lake reservoir telephoned the
city clerk at Boulder that eighteen feet
OF snow had fallen at that place this
winter and FIVE feet this month.
| Mrs. W. H. Miller of Gunnison blew
her brains out with a pistol because
Of dependency over her husband los
! ing his position as station agent. She
had been an invalid for years.
The chared body Of Henry Godfrey.
foreman Of the calcination department
| of the Portland cement works at
Florence was found In the white-hot
tank recently. 1t is thought he COM
n1iited suicide.
Emma Goldman, the female alarm
ist, has been in Denver for a few days
and none the daily papers actually
found 1t necessary to put on an extra
keg of red ink in order to properly
handle her warm remarks.
Mrs. Mary Quisenberry of Trinidad,
70 years old, has gone to Oregon to
be married to the sweetheart of her
youth. Obstinate parents had side
tracked the match many years ago, but
now the barriers are buried away.
An engine on the Colorado C North
western railroad overturned while
bucking snow near Ward, on Sunday,
and tumbled down the mountain side
400 feet, killing Engineer Robt. Cook.
The engine was torn into pieces.
G. H. Patterson, labor commissioner
for the Great Western Sugar Company
) at Loveland, has gone to Nebraska to
engage 1000 Russians for the coming
beet campaign. The acreage this year,
in spite of the silo clause. is greater
than before.
Now that Jack Shire has confessed
to numbering Maurice Caplan in Den
yer, the police and the newspapers of
that city are trying to prove that he
didn't do 1t. Murderers should be very
careful about making confessions
unles they have additional proof.
Little packs of garden seed,
Little plats of ground,
Little early rising,
And little scratching round
Will supply a hungry family
And overflow their cup
In this land of Colorado
II the hens don't scratch 1t up.
The Pioneers Society Of Colorado
raises vigorous protest against the
design for the proposed monument to
be erected in their honor at Denver
The artist suggests the statue Of 9
vicious Indian poised on top Of the
pedestal, and the pioneers object to
having such prominence given the
enemy they had to conquer.
A meeting of the Ouray Development
club was held at the city hall. n is
proposed to raise $4,000 to be ex
pended in advertising resources, es
pecially mineral. during the next two
months. In addition plans are on foot
for big tourist latel, sanitarium and
a swimming pool, mich will utilize the
water from the natursl hot springs.
A cheap and delightful way in which
to spend ones vacation is entertain
ingly described in booklet, Camping
iii the Rocky Mountains" just issued
by the Passenger Department of the
Denver & Rio Grande railroad. This
little book tells where to go, what to
wear, what to take and what it will
cost.
The Boulder Oil Refining Company
will build refinery on Dabney place
east of town. The plant will cost $40,
600. The stills and other machinery
have already been purchased. D. B
Burton OF Denver will be the superin
tendent. The main object of the com
pany is to make by-products Of OIL
rather than paraffin.
After ten years Of patient waiting
the widow of the late H. A. w. Tabor
expects to realize her dream of wealth
which has occupied her mind since her
husbands death. In the Matchless
mine, near Leadville, the one asset
which Mr. Tabor valued more than
anything else, rich body of ore has
been discovered during the last week