The Colorado statesman., 1907-09-07
COLORADO NEWS ITEMS

MrS. David Henry, pioneer OF COLO
rado, aged 72. died at Trinidad
recently.
Another cloudburst caused havoc
with the railroad tracks in Clear Creek
canon last week.
ODE Croft, famous stallion owned
by DR.. Kelly at Pueblo, is dead. He
leaves a record OF 2:16.
A COW on the track caused a wreck
near Lafayette the other day. She
saw the cowcatcher first.
Anna Hensted, aged 20, is dead at
Colorado Springs as a result of being
burned by the explosion of gasoline.
/ S. NJ. Hadden of the State Normal
school, has just received fine collec-
tion Of native woods from Porto Rico.
A field of Turkey red wheat raised
near Boulder by ]. A. Miller on dry
farm, yielded twenty bushels to the
acre.
Golden pulled off bronocho busting
contest on Labor Day that made Chey-
enne busting look like hobby horse
race.
Every town in the state where labor
ers are employed to any extent OBJ
served Labor Day with proper cere-
mony.
Half a dozen loungers in Denver
saloon were held up recently and made
to turn their coin over to a lone
bandit"
This gambling dens at Boulder we're
raided a few nights ago and the way
the chips flew would have made an old
woodsman green with envy.
Mrs. John Race, highly respected
pioneer, 60 years of age, has disap-
peared from her home at Greeley and
search is being made for her.
May Cater, colored, is suing Frank
R. Marsh of Colorado Springs for
$4,000 because he smashed her buggy
and injured her with his automobile.
kid Wallace, sent to the peniten-
tiary as confederate of Antoine Wood
in the murder of Capt. Rooney, was
pordoned by Governor Buchtel on La
Dor Day.
On Thursday, September 18th, the
citizens of Longmont will celebrate the
eighth annual Pumpkin Pie Day. Spe-
cial trains and ver.~ low rates via Colo
RADIO & Southern railway.
F. C. CRADLES 200-acre farm south
west of Greeley, has given a yield of
1000 bushels of wheat, thirty-five
bushels to the acre. The entire crop
was grown without irrigation.
In cleft in the rocks in Glen Haven,
Estes park, where 1t had probably
been for centuries, F. M. Scott, by a
breaking off of rock, discovered an
ancient vessel of curious workman
ship. 1t fell to pieces when handled,
but has been wired. Mr.. Scott will ex-
plore farther, thinking he may have
uncovered a prehistoric abode of the
Cliff Dwelling type.
1t has remained for a Lake City jury
to disregard the unwritten law of justi-
fication for murder and after listening
to the unbosoming of the soul of the
wife of Patrick q. Donnelan, slayer OF
Anderson Nordquist, who confessed
her shame in the hope of freeing her
husband, twelve men brought in ver-
dict of murder in the first degree and
fixing the sentence at life imprison-
ment.
Frank Kiser and John w. Reeve
were bound over without bail to the
October term of the District Court, on
the charge Of setting fire to the depot
at Boulder and numbering Ira Wilson,
Oscar r. LIE Fevre and A. e. Weeks,
by Magistrate Holiday. The men were
represented by w. G. Houston of Boul
der and w. M. Appel of Denver. They
were tried jointly, as the same evil
dence was used in both cases. Assist
ant District Attorney T. A. McHarg Of
Boulder was in charge for the state,
and was assisted by Ralph Talbot Of
Denver, the special prosecutor, who
took but little part in the examination
of the witnesses.
Richard G. Sayles, 40 years old, col
ored, dropped dead at Greeley while
putting on his shoes, and an autopsy
made by Coroner Macy shows that
heart failure induced by an overdose
Oh acetylene, was the cause of death.
Indications from letters are that the
medicine was prescfbed by an Eastern
physician, with whom Sayles was con-
sulting, both in regard to his health and
love affairs, and that possibly the medi-
cine was taken as love potion. All
knew Sayles as respectable negro,
working as porter in shop here, and
no one dreamed that he was the owner
of two good farms in Kansas and
small ranch near the sugar factory,
which was found to be the case.
Several expeditions have been sent
out from the University of Colorado
this summer to collect geological,
botanical and geological specimens for
the museum. The State Geological
Survey, under Professor Russell d.
George and Instructor Ralph d. Craw-
ford, will collect number of minerals
from the Poudre valley region and in
Routt county; Professor T. d. A.
Cockerell has been at Florissant, Colo
rado, collecting fossil plants and ami
mails, while Professor Francis Rama
ley and a party spent a week in the
neighborhood of Ward collecting
complete set of the plants and animals
of that region, paying especial atten-
ton to the lake region. Judge Junius