The Colorado statesman., 1907-08-03
COLORADO NEWS ITEMS

A very beautiful young girl from
Kansas City, committed suicide at
Colorado Springs recently because of
unreturned love.
A 100000 steel culvert factory may
be established in Colorado Springs. C.
D. Voorhees, of Charlottesville, Ind,
Is in communication with the cham
ber of commerce with this end in
view.
w. B. Miller, an electrical appren-
tice In Denver, came desperately near
falling from the top of the state cap
ltol dome one day recently. He was
In hurry to get down and his foot
Ing was not made secure.
The canvass for money to build the
new canning factory at Loveland has
began in real earnest and it is ex-
pected the entire $4,000 stock will be
subscribed in few days. The people
declare the factory must and will be
built.
Examinations for forest rangers
have been held at Estes Park, five par
icipants passing successfully. Mr..
Wheeler, the new supervisor of the
Medicine Bow national forest, has just
taken charge of the work, following
The resignation of S. N. Hustled.
Six hundred dollars has been raised
for the purchase of distribution of
panoramic views of Trinidad by
committee appointed by the chamber
of commerce. These views will be
placed in the depots of prominent
cities along eastern railroads to ad-
vertise Trinidad and invite visitors.
Three young men, Cameron, Leavitt
and Winsell, were arrested at Lamar,
charged with breaking into Santa Fe
cars and stealing merchandise July
18th. The court discharged them at
that time but the sheriff rearrested
them upon presentation of new evil
dence and they were taken to Holly
for trial.
Albert Hepburger, a teamster, while
coming down Gregory gulch, at Black
Hawk, with a heavy load of ore, had
his leg broken at the ankle by the up
setting of the wagon. The brake
broke, throwing the team. wagon and
driver into the gulch, but the horses
escaped injury. Hepburger managed
to jump and escaped more serious in
Jury.
The Ell Paso County Horticultural
society held meeting recently at
Colorado Springs at which the
woman's advisory board appointed
committees for the annual flower
show to be held next month. Mrs.
Francis W. Goddard, Mrs. w. w.
Price, Mrs. w. w. Williamson and
others will have charge of the society
features.
Hon. ]. NJ Blatt, who lives about
ten miles east of Boulder. says black
rust has gotten into the wheat and is
doing much damage. 1t is feared one
half of the late crop has been ruined.
No farmer in this county remembers
Of ever having seen any indications
of black rust in this state, although
the red rust has at times done much
damage.
John Kienst, aged thirty-two, a top
man employed at the Gold Coin shaft
of the Granite Gold Mining Company,
was crushed to death recently. While
taking off loaded car, the cage slip
ped and Kienst was caught between
the cage and the shaft timbers and
carried twenty feet before the engineer
could apply the brakes. He leaves a
widow and one young child.
Never before in the history of Weld
county have reservoirs, after having
been drawn upon for several weeks,
been full at this season, as is now the
case. The recent prolonged heavy
rains have filed the reservoirs in
Northern Colorado, and the Platte,
Big Thompson and Poudre rivers are
higher than a month ago, during flood
waters. There will be no shortage of
water for irrigation.
The directors of the North Sterling
irrigation district recently met and
canvassed the vote on the question of
issuing bonds for $1,400,000 for the
construction of the Glendale and Point
of Rock reservoirs, with inlet and out
let bitches. The district contains
about 10000 acres of land, which will
be reclaimed by this system. The
vote was unanimous in favor of the
bonds and they will be issued at once
The dead body of Joseph Huffman,
a war veteran, aged about seventy,
was recently discovered in a cabin
in the summit of Gold hill, near Grip
Pile Creek, by William Ware, pros
pector, who had gone to the cabin
for a drink of water. Huffman had
not been seen for several days, and
the body was badly sdecomposed. Lit
tie is known of the old soldier, but
he Is believed to have been a mem
ber of the G. A. r. post at Boulder.
An investigation is being made.
o. X. Packer, chief engineer for the
Beaver Land and Water Company, has
returned from Los Angeles with the
announcement that he is ready to be-
gin work on the Brush Hollow creek
dam, five miles from Florence. The
company will soon advertise for bids
for excavation work for the dam, which
will be built on the site of the old
Wolcott dam, constructed twtnty-five
years ago. Manager ]. Q. Macdonald
says the company has most of its
plans completed, and there should be
no further delay in starting this great
irrigation project, which is destined