The Colorado statesman., 1907-01-19
COLORADO NEWS ITEMS

The Denver Press Club will give
minstrel show at the Broadway the
ater in Denver on the night of Janu-
ary 25th.
1t is probable that a six months
course in cooking will be introduced
in the medical department of the Uni
versity of Colorado.
JEFF Noonan, an old time prospector,
was found dead in front of his cabin
in Leadville on the 18th inst. His
death is attributed to heart disease.
The adjourned meeting of the Colo
RADIO Baptist state convention Will be
held at the Galilee Baptist church IN
Denver ON January oath and 25th.
Thomas Kneale will represent the
Boulder Commercial Association in Sc
curing beet acreage for the proposed
new sugar factory at Boulder.
A new market has been opened to
Colorado for it's onions. Five thouI-
and sacks, making total of eighteen
carloads, were shipped last week to
New York.
John w. Seaman. one of the best
known citizens Of Loveland, formerly
postmaster and assessor, died on the
9th inst. of Bright's disease at the
age of sixty-five.
Inc & NAM OeN
Company will expend s150,000 in re-
building and equipping it's coach shops
and wood working mill in Denver,
which were burned last year.
Capt. Thomas M. Anderson, Jr., OF
the Seventh U. s. infantry, who has
been drilling the cadets at the Agri-
cultural college, has been ordered to
rejoin his regiment at Detroit, Michi-
gan.
Negotiations have been taken up
with the railroads running into Den
yer for the purpose of securing reduced
rates to the annual tournament OF the
Western Bowling Congress to be held
in Denver in March.
Miss Katherine Craig, state superin
tendent of public instruction, will ad'
dress the state superintendent de-
partment of the National Educational
Association, which meets in Chicago,
February 26th to 2Sth.
j. M Hover, general manager OF
the Dorcas Mining, Milling & Develop
ment Company, died at Florence on
the 9th inst. of pneumonia, at the age
of sixty-seven years. He had recently
returned from a trip to Nevada
The preliminary for the University
of Colorado oratorical contest Will De
held February list. The final contest
will take place February 22d. Prizes
of $25 and SIS have been offered fol-
the winners Of the first two places.
Mr.. Susan Bierhower superintendent
of the Pueblo Hospital Association for
fifteen years, has filed her resignation
which has been accepted to take place
next month at the annual meeting
Her management has been very sue
cessful.
The lifeless body of William A
Walter, who had not been heard from
for several weeks, was found on the
9th inst. by a party of searchers al
the bottom of 70-foot shaft at his
mine on Red mountain, nine miles
from Silverton.
Last month was the warmest De
cember in Colorado Springs in twenty
six years, according to the report oi
the United States weather bureau
at Colorado College. The highest
Temperature was 68 degrees, the lowest
being degrees.
w. e. Dingman, clerk of the Dis
trict Court at Cripple Creek, has sued
the Denver Post for $4,000. the
amount of damages Which he claims
to have sustained through the publica'
ton of an article under the heading
of Cripple Creek Officials Short"
Mayor Speer of Denver was thrown
from his carriage on the 14th inst.
and received some bad, but not dan
gerous bruises on his head. Mrs
Speer, who was with him, escaped
without serious injury The mayors
spirited horses were frightened by ar
automobile.
The regents of the State University
have just imposed compulsory gym,
nasium work upon the freshmen o.
the college of liberal arts. The worl
is to begin next November and will
continue until May. The freshmen o.
this department are less subject t.
exercise than those of any other de-
partment.
While East recently Judge Lindsey
of the juvenile court in Denver was
invited to Ottawa, the capital of Can.
ada, to assist in framing a law SINH
lar to that in force in Colorado
While there he was the guest of Lore
Grey, governor general of Canada
The measure is now before the Cana
dian Parliament.
1t is expected that Boggs Flat, {
large arid section of land about ter
miles southeast of Florence, will be
brought under irrigation by system
of artesian wells which are to be
drilled at various depths within the
next few weeks. The plans for the
campaign have been finished and der
ricks and drilling machinery ordered
Kulver is the name of a new towr
started at the terminus of the Blaci
Hollow branch of the Colorado 6
Southern railroad. The road runs eas
and west some eight miles, and the
town is to be built on this spur neal
the aastarn end ten miles north o.