The Colorado statesman., 1907-10-26
COLORADO NEWS ITEMS
Denver has seventeen theaters.

BILE.
The Modern Woodmen of America
are to have an elegant home at Colo
RADIO Springs.
The organized unions of Fort Col
inns nave formed a trades assembly
with 250 members.
The assessed valuation of Denver is
approximately $120,O00,00O. This does
not give the real value.
A Denver man married a girl to re-
form her and she had him in Jail be-
fore the honeymoon turned the first
quarter.
R. d. Milestone. frontiersman,
was accidentally thrown from his
wagon near Boulder one day last
week and killed.
The Santa Fe flyer went into the
ditch near Earl 'asL Saturday, and one
death was the result. Many others
were shaken up.
1t will be nip and tuck between
farming and precious metals i'll Colo
RADIO this year. The output in both
commodities has been very heavy.
Dry farming has made good again
in Colorado, and there will, in all
probability, be more land titled under
the new system next year then ever
before.
Over 300 unioa miners in the lig-
mite coal mines near Colorado Springs
walked out on d strike last week.
What blessing this fine, warm Colo
rado weather is.
Mrs. Anna Shandler of New York,
came all the way to Colorado TO see
her son, and sad her awakening when
she found him behind the cold iron
bars at Canon City.
Denver is now wiling to stand OF
the top of Pixies peak and aver that
she has over 100000 good, hustllng
souls within her corporate limits, and
there are none 10 dispute.
Eastern Colorado is coming to the
front with oil and gas. There is no
telling what Colorado will do yet in
the way of furnishing the necessities
of the world. She already has done
more than most states.
e. j. Cavenaugh is running a series
of articles in a Denver paper explain
ing why times are hard" right now.
He says the prices of the necessities
of life rave advanced but common
wages remain the same.
Greeley is now receisi ing its night
electrical current from the Northern
Colorado power plant at Lafayette.
The day current is furnished by the
local plant. Sunday, both night and
day current will be- turned on from
Lafayette.
A party of Spanish engineers are in
Colorado learning from the expert
ence of our farmers in reference to
irrigation. That old song is still
good: "They are coming by thou
sands, from every land, the cause CT
our greatness to see, etc."
New York daily papers came to
Denver recently for two well known
persons, Miss Nell Brinkley, of the
Times, and Paul Thieman of the Post
Miss Brinkley is a Colorado girl and
her skill as an artist has attracted
more than national attention. She re-
ceives $100 a week on the New York
American. with three years con-
tract.
In broad daylight and on the prin-
cipal street of Trinidad, Joe Licklider,
q well-known carpenter, was robbed
of $50, and John Berry. carpenter
from Duffield, was arrested charged
with having committed the crime.
Licklider and Berry had been drinking
together, it is said, and Berry, it is al
legged, ran his hand over Licklider's
shoulder and snatched the wallet from
his inside waistcoat pocket.
The net receipts of the fair given
by the members of st. Peters Cath
olic church, which closed Saturday
night, are $4,000. The Rev. Father
u. B. White, who says that the results
do not show hard times in Cripple
Creek, wishes to express, through the
columns of The News, the apprecia-
ton Of the members of the parish of
the handsome donations by Denver
parties and the people of this district.
c. Fred Nicholas has filed damage
claim for $4,000 against the Colorado
Springs & Interurban Street Railway
Company in the District Court. The
action is the outgrowth of an alleged
fist fight with the conductor of a Man
itou car two months ago. The con-
ductor objected to the persistency OF
Nicholas child In ringing the bell, it
is said, and came to blows with the
father. No report of the matter was
made to the officials of the company.
The supply of teachers in Colorado
has hardly equalled the demand in the
past two or three years. The institu-
tions in the state which prepare stu
dents for the profession cannot fur
nish sufficient graduates to fill the va
cant positions. 1t is only the influx
of people from eastern universities
that sustains the size Of our teaching
force. The University of Colorado has
placed every efficient graduate of its
department of education. There is an
especial need of men.
What is considered the finest speci.
men of tungsten bearing ore in the
world was brought to the Colorado
School of Mines by DR.. Herman Fleck,
professor of chemistry. Saturday DR..