The new era. (Walden, Colo.) 1906-19??, 1907-06-27
COLORADO NEWS ITEMS

The fruit crop In Colorado Is comir4
out on top despite the frosts and bad
| reports.
Peter Christianson, prominent
business man OF Morrison. recently
died after an illness from paralysis.
o. w. Yeager died of Bright's dis
ease. aged flfty-one. He had been an
| honored citizen Of Longmont for years.
The Sisters in charge of ST. Fran
| els Seminary at LOngmont are super
| intending the furnishing of the build
| ing, and expect to open the school Sep
| TENDER LIST.
The new hotel committee at Boulder
has decided to name the new structure
the 'Boulderado." being made out Of
the words Boulder. and Colorado.
Work is beieng pushed rapidly.
| Pueblo captured the 1908 convention
| of the State Federation of Colored
| Women's Clubs. President Ida-Joyce
Jackson of Colorado Springs, and other
officers, hold over until next year.
A Denver girl was kidnapped on the
main business street the other day and
spirited away" to Pueblo. The girl
is II years old. but didn't call for help
until she was 100 miles from home.
Costello and Stevenson, two Oak
Creek merchants before the County
Court charged with the illegal sale Of
liquor, were discharged, the jury con-
sidering the evidence against them in
sufficient to sustain the charge. The
defense offered no evidence.
| A fire at Robinson. near Brecken-
ridge, which originated in mine
boarding house last Sunday, destroyed
ten buildings and for time threat
ened to wipe out the entire place. Loss
$4,000. Elmer HOFFMAN was Sc
verely burned while trying to save his
property.
| Perahps the largest fish ever caught
in running stream in Boulder county
was landed by l.. E. Avery. The fish
was caught in Boulder creek about
three miles from town. 1t was a rain
bow trout, twenty-five and one-half
inches in length, and weighed four and
half pour
The Wellington association Is con-
structing dam for the purpose Of
storing water on the high ground north
west of Boulder for irrigating pur-
poses The dam is to be about 600 feet
long, have base of 100 feet and be
fifty feet high. The reservoir will
cover about thirty acres and will irri-
gate several thousand acres.
]. H. and E. C. Williams are going
to make 600 acres of desert land bloom
with fine products. according to plans
and specifications recorded at Trini-
dad. The papers state that three
reservoirs, with combined capacity OF
3i,500,O0O cubic feet, together with
| will hn
land is near Aguilar, and has never
been used for anything except the
grazing of sheep.
What is said to have.been the first
frame building erected in Fort Col
Inns, is being moved to make room for
a hardware store, 75x125 feet. which
Judge Jay Boughton is building. The
old building was erected in the win
ter of 1923 by Judge Boughton, he
doing most of the work on it. 1t was
built for the use of the secretary OF
the colony, and later used as printing
office. When Judge Boughton was
elected county judge in 1876 he occu-
pied it as court room and office.
Andrew ]. Macky, a wealthy banker
of Boulder, died last week and after
providing for n number of relatives
he willed the remainder of his fortune
to the State University, and for the
purpose of building hospital and
home for dependent children and
widows, the latter to be erected al
Boulder The bequest to the univers
ity provides for the erection and maiu
,tenance of a Macky building to be
devoted to some branch of education
The sum of 100000 is available 70.
this building and $4,000 for the chill
Iren's and widows home.
The Anti-Saloon League claims to
have secured evidence of violations OF
the gambling and Sunday-closing laws
against nearly every saloonkeeper in
Arapahoe county, and District Attor-
ney Smith filed Twenty-Five complaints
in the County Court. The men for
whom warrants were issued are:
Charles Lawlin, Fort Logan, four
cases; Harry Livingston, Fort Logan
four cases; H. Ulind, Fort Logan, two
cases: Patrick Slyney. Fort Logan
James Buck. Petersburg; c. A. Hort
man, Petersburg, five cases; Frank A
Beandle, Petersburg, seven cases; ]. f
Crawford, Littleton, two cases; Henry
Heinev. Littleton. two cases; Lewis
StDckline, Sullivan.
E. II. Chase. feeble old man Of 7G
years, was taken before Judge Lewis
in the federal court in Denver recently
on a bench warrant issued because he
dio not appear before the federal grant
Jury when summoned. The old mar
lives in Pagosa Springs, and although
be has made his home in Colorado TO,
thirty years he told the court that he
had never before visited Denver. H.
explained his failure to obey the sum
mons to his lack of money. He pre-
scented such pitiable appearance that
Judge Lewis dismissed him without
punishment He testified before tn:
grand jury and was allowed three day.S
witness fees in addition to five GEMS
per mile mileage.