The Delta independent., 1907-03-15
COLORADO NEWS ITEMS

road yards at Denver on the 1st.
Greeley citizens have raised $1,000
toward $4,000 public libary build
ing.
Four prisoners broke out Of the jail
at Las Arimas Saturday after over
powering the jailer.
Ground was broken at Greeley on
the 26th for new Congregational
church to cost $4,000.
The Pueblo Automobile Club IL
planning mile posts on roads leading In
all directions from the city.
Mr. and Mrs. A. l.. Barr OF Long
mont were divorced on the 26th after
thirty years OF married life.
The nfth 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 dfty visiting Nasons as
sisted.
Mike Marchard is in the hospital at
Telluride. probably fatally injured. by
a cave-in at the Smuggler-Uni mins
on the 26th.
Louis Padillo was killed in a head-on
collision on the Santa Fe at Thatcher
On lHe SStH, Wnlle TlulnR q
He had 81 on his person.
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 BOX
100 feet in size and will cost $4,000.
Tho contract has also been let for the
new Y. II. c. A. building. to cost $780,
900.
The cornerstone OF the Aew Chris
tian church at Canon City was laid on
the :6th. The building. which Will
cost about $4,000. will be OF Grecian
style OF architecture. and Is to be COM
pleted by August LIST.
The wa,senburg and Western Rail.
way Company wasincorporated at Den
yer on thu 27th; capital stock 100000:
e. ". Gririth. l.. Z. Rowland. F. f
Guy. George c. Barnard. F. J. jackson.
incorporators: Denver.
That . Pullman conductor or porter
10 not a passenger and may not recover
damages against railway company In
case Of injuries sustained through .
WIGSh. 10 NAe No'N -
the State Supreme Court.
The Short Line road management
has arranged with the government
hatcheries for l0o.0 900 trout with which
to stock the famous trout streams
along its line known as Gould. East
Beaver and West Beaver creeks.
The locomotive OF Colorado MID
land passenger train on the night OF the
I'LL f.aI
buck deer near Woodland Park. The
train was stopped and the carcass OF
the deer carried TO Colorado Springs In
the baggage car.
, John DcBakcr. who died At Boulder
on the seth. and who went to that city
in 1869, was the first man to erect .
quart. mill At Gold hill In Boulder
county. II proved n failure. He was
also the first man to erect q Touring
mill In that county. In 1852.
William Berry and Charles Green.
oolorcd. Iged ten and twelve ycars
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.
;crcation which arose while the three
boys were going homo from school, on
the 26th.
One thousand acres OF land lying be-
tween Greeley and Loveland. above
tho Greeley and Lovcland ditch. will
be plowcd this spring and sowed 10
fall wheat next September. This land
belongs to DR.. J. 7. Youtsey and
George A. Jackson OF London. and
will be cultivated by the dry-farmin: |
method.
Old soldier. who are not in good
standing in their various posts VIII
have to refrain from wearing the en-.
blcms OF the Grand Army OF the Re-
public. There Is n law in Colorado
which regulates this matter. and tho
penalty for violation OF this law Is i'm.
prisonmcnt In the county Jail FOR
term not to exceed sixty days. or .
hne OF no: more than $50. or both.
Tho sunual breakfast and elec,io,
OF oficcr, 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 bc discussed ara the removal
Of the headquarters OF the club to 4
more desirable location. the establish.
rent OF q permanent building fund and |
the securing OF an extensive library.
W. Harold Stewart. twenty years
old. son Of w. II. Stewart. postmaster
and ranch owner. lronton. Colorado.
killed himself at his lodgings In Den
vcr Mt about o'clock Thursday |
morning. Fighting OF an imaginary |
assailant while in his sleep. he turned
the muzzl. OF the weapon to his head
and fired. Circumstances that sur
round tho affair show that he was be.
ing tortured by wild visions OF his
sleep. and this alone was responsible.
Surveyors In the employ OF Senator
A. Clark OF Montana. who re-
Gently acquired n $4,000 acre tract OF
coal land forty miles west OF Trinidad.
have begun stalking out right OF way
parallel TO tho Colorado 4 Southern
tracks. which will run from beyond the
Spanish peaks in Las AnimRs county
through Walsenhurg md TO Puehl0