The Colorado statesman., 1907-11-16
COLORADO NEWS ITEMS

Delta county has produced $4,000
worth of honey this year besides
enough for home consumption.
Pueblo has been made the Western
division point for the Rock Islands
fast passenger trains, instead of Ros-
well.
A Florence man says that he Is will
ing to make an affidavit that his sugar
beets went fifty tons to the acre this
year.
The skeleton Of the mammoth re-
Gently discovered near La Veta has
been secured for the museum of the
State University at Boulder.
Inheritance tax on the property OF
the late Frank Jerome of Denver has
been fixed at s1.62750. The value of
the estate IL estimated at S1,374.s5.
The Greeley and Northern Railway
Utility Company expects to have its
electric line between Greeley and
Evans in operation by December 1st.
Some of the Denver grocery stores
have started in to fight the food
trust" by selling twenty pounds of
sugar for dollar in place of sixteen.
The new Congregational church at
vember 10th. 1t Is one of the most
beautiful church buildings in the state.
The new Orpheum theater at Fort
Collins, completed at cost of 100000.
will be dedicated November 21st with
the presentation Of "The Squaw Man"
Sixty men have been at work on
the G. & S. road near Gorham in
Boulder county. binding the rails with
copper for the purpose of electrifying
the road later.
]. F. Jackson has harvested from a
four-acre tract near Fort LUoton
eighty-eight tons of pumpkins, netting
him over $780, They were sold to
canning factory.
November 23d will be observed in
Glenwood Springs as Market Day.
Farmers and stockmen are expected
to be present in great numbers and
make big display.
George ]. Kindel has been awarded
a contract by the board of capitol
managers to install a vacuum clean
ing plant in the sLatehouse at Denver
for the sum of $4,000.
The first American flag to fly from
a flagstaff in the city of Manila, after
the American occupation in 1898, has
been donated to the state war relics
museum by former Governor James
H. Peabody.
The Morgan County National bank
of Fort Morgan has moved into its
new quarters, fine $4,000 block just
completed. The building is 100 feet
and two stories high.
The company which is to build the
new electric line in the Arkansas val
ley has succeeded despite the talk of
hard time in disposing OF $4,000 of
it's 100000 issue of bonds with which
to construct the DAD.
]. w. Danner. a prominent lumber
dealer of Loveland, died on the 5th
inst Of pneumonia. He leaves
widow and four children. He was
serving his second term as alderman
at the time of his death.
The Pueblo Allied Printing Trades
have passed resolutions in opposition
to the use of voting machines. which
they allege would cost too much. IN
cjdentally they would do away w!tn
the printing of ballots.
More than $135,O00 gold coin which
was secured by the American Smelt-
ing & Refining Company from the gov.
ernment in exchange for gold bullion
was paid to employees at Pueblo for
services during October.
The coroner's jury investigating the
death of William Nicholas, who was
killed by falling against table, strik-
ing his head, during boxing bout in
a Lafayette saloon, returned verdict
of accidental death and eXonerated
Fallon, with whom Nicholas was box
ing.
Two notable football games took
place in Colorado Saturday. AT Den
yer the School of Mines team defeated
the University of Denver by a score
of 33 to 0 and al Colorado Springs
Colorado College won from the Uni
versity of Colorado by score of 10
to 0.
For over a year a niece of Horace
Greeley has been living at Greeley
with only a very few people being
aware of the fact. She is Mary Gree
ley Hopkinson, and her father was an
older brother of the great journalist
and statesman after whom the city
was named.
The H. D. Osborne Cigar Company
of Colorado Springs, has made an as
signment, @. C. Osborne taking charge
of the business as assignee. Several
tobacco houses of the East are the
principal creditors. H. D. Osborne
has conducted several retail stores,
besides doing large wholesale busi-
ness.
Brakeman John Thompson had his
arm broken and four JapaneSe were
seriously injured in a collision be-
tween a Denver &; Rio Grande freight
and work train on Cumbres mountain
on the 9th inst. One Japanese had his
skull crushed and died on the train,
another an eye put out, one was in.
jured internally, and the fourth sus-