The Colorado statesman., 1907-07-13
COLORADO NEWS ITEMS

Grand Junction comes to the fore
with charges against cattle rustler.
Greeley comes to the fore with tho
second native tarantula of the season.
Senator Guggenheim sent a check
of 5000 to the Greeley library fund As
q starter.
A team ran away with DR.. Sol G.
Kahn at Leadville, injuring him Sc
verely.
It's a hard matter for one who lives
In Colorado to find place away from
home where he can enjoy his vacation.
Now that "the glorious Fourth" has
been rounded up and hog-tied for an
other year, all Colorado is back to busi-
Eess.
Three separate companies are seek
ing franchises for ihterurban electric
lines from Denver to Greeley and the
north.
Gold has been discovered in a Delta
orchard, but the fruit yield is SO rich
the owner doesn't need the new dis
covery.
A Fort Collins woman sues for di-
vorce because she says her husband
forces her to work on Saturday, her
Sabbath.
Ben B. Lindsay has finally been set
aside as county Judge in Denver, and
will now have his own little juvenile
pet court all by himself.
The married men of Greeley went out
on the diamond and proved to the bach
a1a fhat fhov cti11 Ennxu how TO
handle the bat.
Colorados crop of tourists this year
shows a marked increase over former
seasons, despite the late rains and
slow trains from the East.
A new town, which has not yet been
named, is being started six miles east
of Colorado Springs. 1t will be sup
ported by sugar beet culture.
Some fear is expressed at Fort Col
Inns that conspiracy has been entered
into by thugs to murder the entire po-
lice force there. The supposition does
not seem to be well founded.
Information has come to light which
says the late ]. G. Allen, marshal, who
was murdered at Fort Collins, has
wife and children at Parsons, Kansas.
He had posed as a single man.
Margaret Yont, the four-year-old
child of Bert Yont, living near Grand
junction, was nearly burned to death
one day recently while playing with
gasoline lamp, which exploded.
Timothy Babb, aged sixty-one, COM
mander of ]. w. Anderson Post, G. a.
r., at Cripple Creek, has answered 10
the final roll call. This is the third
comrade of this post to die in ono
year.
A prominent social family" living
near Platteville, gathered up their
ready cash and wrapping the cloaks Of
night about them, departed for fields
more green. A large circle of cred
itors mourn their departure. 1t was
30 sudden. l
A vast tract of grazing land at the
edge of the forest reserve, twenty-five
miles northwest of Gunnison, has be-
come SO overgrown with larkspur that
the cattle which have been feeding
upon 1t are dying by scores, and the
stockmen are considering plans for the
removal of their herds until the plant
ceases Towering.
A committee of forty, appointed by
the Greeley Commercial Club to solicit
funds for the building of the Empson
canning factory, is meeting with much
success, and after one days work re-
ports $4,000 subscribed. The acreage
committee is also busy solicitating l.
300 acres to be planted for the factory,
for which 500 have been pledged.
Forty thousand acres in the Arkan-
sas valley east of Pueblo and this side
of the Kansas line, are covered with
fiourishing crops of sugar beets. These
figures are given out by competent Pu-
eblo authorities and show an increase
of about forty per cent. over last year.
Indications are that the average will
be at least twenty tons an acre and
that there will be enough beets to
keep all the sugar factories in the vail
ley busy until next April.
Footsore and weary after miles of
globe-trotting across the deserts of
Utah, an aged Greek whose name is un-
known, fell exhausted in front of the
home of George Anderson in Grand
Junction. Policeman Paterson removed
him to Jail. A physician found that the
Greek was deranged as the result of
his experience. He speaks only
broken English, but from his discon-
nected story it was believed that he
had walked several hundred miles with
scarcely any food.
George Carver, an inmate of the
county Jail at Greeley, arrested recent
ly on a charge of violating tne liquor
law in Eaton. who was recently run
over by car at La Junta, which cut
off both his legs just below the knee.
has been placed in the county hospital.
because he suffers excruciating pains,
he says, in his toes. His limbs, he
says, do not bother him, but only those
parts Of his legs and feet removed IN
the accident. Carver is about thirty
five years old, highly educated, and
says he is of a prominent Cincinnati,
Ohio, family; that his brothers are