The Colorado statesman., 1907-09-14
COLORADO NEWS ITEMS

The National Association of the
Deaf Will be held in Colorado Springs
in 1910.
The Chamber of Commerce Of Den
yer is after the local coal trust with a
hot poker.
The sheep feeders in Weld county
are beginning to feed field peas and ex-
pect profitable results.
The Western slope veterans of the
Civil War are having their annual en-
campment at Delta this week.
The contracts have been let to To-
cal men for the erection of the Empson
canning factory at Greeley.
The two-year-old-child of DR.. and
Mrs. B. A. Murray, at Victor, ate sew
eral strychnine tablets she found in
her papa's Office, and died in terrible
agony.
The annual convention of the Colo
rado Baptist association, embracing Ell
Paso, Teller Lake and Pitkin counties,
opened in the First Baptist church at
Colorado Springs Monday night for
three days session.
Arthur Coor,' who is under arrest at
Greeley on charge of mayhem, be-
ing accused of having bitten off the
lower lip of Lee Brady of Severance,
was arraigned and placed under $1,000
bond, which he furnished.
The Sioux City colony is the latest
organization in Denver, and has been
formed with the hope of bringing into
closer touch all former citizens of
Sioux City for mutual benefit and
pleasure. Officers have been elected
and the society is contemplating Sc
ries of picnics.
Sunday night a bold burglary was
committed when the clothing store of
the Bethel company at Canon City was
looted and clothing and gents furnish
ing goods valued at $400 carried away.
The booty taken consisted of broken
and complete suits of clothes, under
wear, shirts, neckties and other fur
nishings.
]. T. Fashbaugh, one of the earliest
pioneers of Evans, and for thirty-three
years station agent here, died sud-
denly of heart failure. He was seventy
two years old and two years ago was
put on the retired list of the railroad
service. He is survived by widow,
two sons, Will and Frank, and daugh-
ter, Carrie.
The first biennial convention of the
Christian EndeavOr workers of the
eastern district of the Colorado Chris
tian Endeavor union, consisting of the
counties of Gilpin, Clear Creek, Jeffer-
son, Denver, Adams, Arapahoe, Wash
ington and Yuma, will be held on Sep
;ember 18th, 14th and 18th, in the
First Presbyterian church at Golden.
Mrs. Mary Hayden, aged seventy
five is dead at Boulder. She lived in
the neighborhood for thirty years. Her
husband died twenty years ago. She
leaves three daughters, Mrs. Robert
Montgomery and Mrs. Flora Prince of
this county, and Mrs. Marshal Cham
bers of Leadville, also two sons, Will
liam and Edward of Grand Encamp.
ment, Wyoming.
Plans for opening Westminster uni
versity at Denver have been completed
and the faculty engaged. The board of
trustees announces that the university
will open at the Central Presbyterian
church, Wednesday, September 18th.
Just as soon as the repairs on the big
building north of the city are COM
pleted and the electric line is started.
the work will be transferred to the uni
versity buildings.
In connection with a report recently
published that there are 12,000.000 de.
rective children in the United States,
the highly favorable annual report of
the Board of Health of Colorado
Springs is most interesting. Out of a
total of $500 school pupils only twenty
are mentally defective, but few more
are defective physically. On an aver
age of one child out of fifty is absent
on account of illness.
More important to Denver than any
thing previously accomplished by the
Colorado Manufacturers Association
is the new reduction in rates on sixty
eight different commodities between
Colorado common points and Ell Paso,
Texas The new schedule, which will
go into effect on legal notice, in about
forty-five days, will give Denver ship
Lers a horizontal reduction in COM
modify rates averaging 20 per cent.
This will give the Denver shippers a
corresponding differential ounder st.
Louis and the Missouri river points
and will open up new territory for
Colorado products the importance OF
which it is difficult to estimate.
Preferring to die rather than attend
high school, it is alleged, Hazel Stick
nell, the eighteen-year-old daughter of
w. r. Stickneil, a prominent resident
of Kansas City, shot herself in the
breast with 3S-caliber revolver at
Colorado Springs, sustaining probably
fatal injuries. The last word spoken
by her before the attempt to
erd her life was to her aunt. She
asked if she must attend high school.
Mrs. Owen replied that she knew her
fathers wishes in the matter and that
she should start to school, Miss
Sticknell then went to her room, os-
tensibly to dress for school. A few
minutes later pistol shot was heard
and Mr.. and Mrs. owen, rushing up
stairs, found the girl lying face down.
ward on the bed, the revolver by her