The state herald., 1907-03-08
COLORADO NEWS ITEMS


Mr.. and Mrs. A. l.. Barr of Long
mont were divorced on the 26th after
thirty years Of married life.
The fifth annual dog show at Denver
lase week was the most successful
ever held by the association.
A new Masonic temple was dedi
Gated at Fruita on the 26th. One hun
dred and fifty visiting Masons as
sisted.
Mike Marchard is in the hospital at
Telluride, probably fatally injured, by
| a cave.in at the Smuggler-Union mine
on the 26th.
Louis Padillo was killed in head-on
| collision on the Santa Fe at Thatcher
on the 26th. while riding brake beam.
He had SIT on his person.
Jerry Harmon. an old time restau-
rant man and an early settler of Las
| Animas county, died on the 26th at
Trinidad, OF pneumonia, aged sixty
seven years.
Mrs. Alice Moore and Grippon
| Turner a negro, have been placed In
| jail at Trinidad on the charge Of the
murder of Manuel Charez. preferred
| against them by the authorities OF
Starkville.
The contract has ben let for the new
armory at Fort Collins. 1t will be 5Ox
| 100 feet In size and will cost $4,000.
| The contract has also been let for the
new Y. NJ. C. A. building, to cost $685.
| 900.
The cornerstone of the new Chris.
| tian church at Canon City was laid on
| hn he h,,ilIipu xxrhtrh will
| cost about $4,000, will be OF Grecian
style of architecture, and is to be com:
pleted by August 1st.
The Wa,senburg and Western Rail
way Company was incorporated at Den.
yer on the eth: capital stock 100000;
L. w. Griffith. l.. E. Rowland. +. f.
Guy, George C. Barnard, F. ]. jackson,
incorporators; Denver.
John DeBaker. who died at Boulder
on the 26th, and who went to that city
In 1859, was the first man to erect a
| quartz mill at Gold hill In Boulder
county. It proved failure. He was
also the first man to erect Touring
mill In that county, In 1862.
The locomotive OF n Colorado Mid
| land passenger train on the night OF the
18th inst. struck and killed large
buck deer near Woodland Park. The
train was stopped and the carcass OF
the deer carried to Colorado Springs In
the baggage car
A county bridge four miles north OF
Salida collapsed and N. G. Laws. n
ranchman. who was driving over the
| bridge with n load. was precipitated
I'M, the Arkansas river and seriously
injured. The bridge was condemned
| by the county commissioners several
years ago. but had never been closed
to traffic.
William Berry and Charles Green.
colored. aged ten and twelve years
respectively. are In Jail at La Junta,
charged with the murder OF Freeman
Henry Austin. aged six. by beating him
on the head with brick, during an al
tercation which arose while the three
boys were going home from school. on
the 2Gth.
| One thousand acres OF land lying be.
tween Greeley and Loveland. above
the Greeley and Loveland ditch, will
be plowed this spring and sowed TO
fall wheat next September. This land
belongs to DIR. ]. T. Youtsey and
George A. Jackson OF London, and
will be cultivated by the dry.farmlng
method.
Februar, proved record breaker
In the building line at Denver. During
the month 233 permits were taken out.
the largest number on record. Tho
Increase ever those issued during the
same period last year was 30. while
the cost of the buildings erected was
3l3930 more than the aggregate
amount expended in January. being
s427.700.
The annual breakfast md election
o. officers Of the Denver Press Club
has been arranged for Sunday morn
ing. March 10. at the Albany hotel IN
Denver. Among the important mat
ters TO he discussed ara the removal
OF the headquarters OF the club to n
moro desirable location. the establish.
rent OF n permanent building fund and
the securing OF an extensive library.
| -Lc dates for the next livestock
show In Denver have been set, and II
has been decided TO make II national
shov. throwing the competition open
TO tho world. with special clnssinca'
tim and premiums for the territory
covered by the last show. the short
| grass country, The executive commit.
tco OF the Western Stock Show Asso'
citation yesterday set the dates for thd
ntxt show for the week OF January
20th.25th. 1908.
W. Harold Stewart. twenty ycnra
old. son of W. II. Stewart. postmaster
and ranch owner. Ironton. Colorado,
killed himself at his lodgings In Dem
yer Mt about . O'Clock Thursday
morning. Fighting on mn imaginary
nnsnilant while In his sleep. he turned
tn. mnxzl, Of the weapon to his hond
and fired. Circumstances that sur
round tho AFFAIR show that he was be,
linz tortured by wild visions Of his
sleep. and this alone was responsible,
The February business In tho United
States lana Office Mt Pueblo In n record
breaker. showing 227 homestead on.
tries. tho largest number ever recorded
In n month. and thirty more than for
January. In February. 1906. tho casi,
entries numbered fifteen. and this year
twcnty.seyon. In February Inst year
| there wpfa forty.tWu rha ottuher al