The Colorado statesman., 1907-11-02
COLORADO NEWS ITEMS

ended to kill Mr.. and Mrs. Simon
Calich, was bound over to the District
Court. Before his case comes to trial
an inquiry will be made as to his
sanity.
Miss Jean Whipple, president of the
Junior class of Colorado college, and
one of the most popular students in the
institution, died at her home in Canon
City of typhoid fever contracted sew
eral weeks ago.
Vert Gregory, local station agent at
Florence for the Rio Grande for the last
three years, who resigned a week ago
to join the Office force of the new
Canon City Electric Street Railway
Company, was succeeded by ]. p
Stroube.
Losing his balance while working on
the roof of the Rio Grande Western
pumping plant at Cisco near Grand
JUNCTION, E. E. Strand, carpenter, fell
twenty-five feet to the ground. Four
ribs were broken, he suffered minor
bruises and is in serious condition.
Lawrence Gipson, former Greeley
boy, a grandson of Henry T. West,
after graduating from Oxford college,
England, where he was sent on secur-
ing the Rhodes scholarship, has been
appointed to the chair of history and
languages in the College of Idaho.
Fred Gilbert, young rancher OF
Dix, near Durango, was killed by
fall from his horge. His neck was
broken. He was forty-four years of
age and unmarried. Two brothers,
John and George, are prominent Du-
range business men.
Articles of Incorporation of the
South Park Land and Live Stock
Company were filed at Cripple Creek
with the county clerk. The company
is capitalized at $500. The company
is formed to purchase and lease real
estate and grazing land. James b.
Hustled is at the head of the company.
DR.. F. N. Carrier of the State Board
of Health has urged the City Council
of Canon City to appoint a milk and
pure food inspector to donate his en-
tire time to the work. The doctor has
exercised the right of inspection as
a member of the state board, and has
improved dairies here and closed one
slaughter house.
A Chinaman at Durango by the name
of Skeet took two shots at another
Chinaman by the name of joe The
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shot went into the right side The in
jured man was taken to the hospital
and is not expected to live. The China
man who did the shooting is under ar
rest. The cause of the trouble is not
known.
Fearing that the Victor Record Of
flee would be raided at night, George
e. Kyner, owner and editor, had his
establishment guarded b yarmed men.
1t was rumored that because of Sc
we're criticisms bearing upon Mayor
John II. Williams and Alderman ]. E.
Elliott relative to bills for work done
by those officials for the city, that their
friends had threatened to take revenge
on Kyner and his printing office.
The Pierce Irrigation Company held
an important meeting recently when
plans were talked over for extending
the Pierce lateral twenty miles eight
miles farther to Owl creek. This calls
for an expenditure of 100000 and
brings 10000 acres in the vicinity OF
Pierce and Ault under cultivation. The
Pierce lateral belongs to the Water
Su1p,y & Storage Company system.
Forty farmers whose land is to be ben
Gifted by the ditch are meeting all
costa. The lateral will be finished by
January 1st.
Greeley potatoes have long been IA
nous in the West, and to a certain ex-
tent in the East, but an order given the
Wolf Londoner Grocery Company by
j. j. Fillius. in the name of B. B. Law
renee of New York, shows the opinion
OF many small consumers in the EN-.
pire State, regarding Greeley's product
Through Mr.. Fillius Mr.. Lawrence has
ordered barrel of the Greeley pota-
toes shipped straight to him, and he
says that he is willing to pay the heavy
freight charges for the Colorado vege-
table rather than take any other kind
of potato.
It is stated that all the section men
working on the Union Pacific railroad
because of cut in their wages to S1.35
day, had quit and joined the grading
gang on the electric road of the Gree
ley & Northern Railroad e. Utility Com
pany, because of the higher wages paid
by the latter. At present forty men
and teams are working ON the new cleo
trio line which parallels the Union Pa
ciflc between Sixteenth street and Nor
NAL hill. 1t is understood that the
Union Pacific is much distressed over
the building of the electric line, and
has sent engineers to trace carefully
the new line, on which about one-half
mile of grading is completed.
The first examination of applicants
for positions in the railway mail serv-
ice ever held in Canon City is an
nounced for November 10th. Hereto
fore examinations for this service have
been held only in the larger cities, but
the increasing demand for clerks has
caused the civil service commission to
extend ,nese examinations to the
smaller cities. The age limit is from
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