The Colorado statesman., 1907-06-08
COLORADO NEWS ITEMS

Wofh mas Deen started on Ine new
Santa Fe hospital at La Junta The
building is to cost 100000.
The contract for the construction of
the Catholic church at Boulder has
been let. The cost of the building will
be $17,750.
Colorado has been trying
With all her might and main
To duplicate Ohio
With mud and slush and rain.
The infant son of Max C. Overholt
of Loveland swallowed a safety pin,
and the child was taken to Denver to
insure the safety of the child's life.
Only one marriage license was is
sued in Montrose during the months of
April and May, which is something
that has not happened in twenty-five
years.
j. w. Kelly, passenger agent for the
Moffat road, and Miss Eselyn Brown,
society editor of the Denver Post,
hitched up in double blessedness re.
Gently.
The State Agricultural College has
informed Montrose farmers and citi.
zens that they will be given a farmers
institute beginning August 10th. The
college will send four speakers.
Louis H. Kephard of Holly shipped
1900 sheep, which brought the highes.
price in the Kansas City market ever
paid for sheep. Shorn lambs brought
cents, and the wool lambs 7.9 cents.
The ladies of Eaton now use fine
stationery with their mopograms en-
bossed on it. When it comes to know
ing how to do the proper thing Eaton
isn't SO very far behind New York,
after all.
John Peabody, half-brother of ex-
Governor James II. Peabody, died at
the Place sanitarium at Boulder. He
had been a resident there for three
years and part of that time was store
keeper.
The Pueblo City Council has side
tracked an ordinance which was re-
Gently introduced providing that deal
smelter scrip take out license for
$500 annually.
Acting upon the complaint of numer-
GUS citizens of Grand Junction, the
City Council instructed the chief of
police and city attorney to arrest and
prosecute all druggists who are selling
liquor other than in original bottles or
packages.
Mrs. Mary Sheehan, wife of Jerry
Sheehan of Montrose, fell down stairs
at her home on the Sheehan ranch west
Of town, and sustained concussion OF
the brain. Her injuries may prove
fatal. Mrs. Sheehan has lived near
Montrose for twenty-five years.
The committee in charge of raising
the funds for the erection of Y. NJ. c.
A. building at Cripple Creek an
nounced that the $25,000 has been sub.
scribed, and that construction work
would soon be commenced. The struc-
ture will be modern, with a gym
nasium, Turkish bath, reading rooms
and lecture rooms.
The Eagle Valley stockgrowers have
passed a resolution asking for a spe-
cial meeting of the Colorado Cattle
and Horse Growers Association June
18th for the purpose of securing the
official backing of that organization in
the fight which is being made on the
national forest reserve policy as out
lined by Clifford Pinchot.
The cattle growers associations in
the Glenwoods Springs section have
been holding meetings for the purpose
of naming delegates to the convention
to be held June 18th and Goth in Den
yer, to discuss the public land ques
ton. Many members of the associa
tions will attend the convention in ad
dition to the five delegates allowed
each association.
After living four years like a hermit
and existing only upon bread and wa
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vide to Cripple Creek by Sheriff Won
Phul and placed in the county jail Nc
Clair wears his beard and hair long, a
leather strap resembling sandals fol
shoes, and woman's jacket in place
of a coat. The man has been living in
a cave about one mile from Divide.
B. B. Sipe, secretary and treasurer
of the Colorado Funeral Directors AS
sociation, has just issued the program
for the tenth annual convention to be
held at Glenwood Springs July 10th to
18th. Among the important questions
to come up is the fixing of uniform
price for burial of paupers. Probate
law amendment and exemption from
jury service will also be discussed.
The merchants of Colorado Springs
are beginning an advertising campaign
to work up trade among the farmers
Excursions will be run to towns along
the line of railroads and other means
will be employed to interest the rancn
men living in the more isolated sec
tions. The repairing of the roads, by
the county commissioners, will, it is
expected, encourage the ranchmen tc
do their trading in Colorado Springs
A fight over electric light rates al
Manitou has resulted in the contract
for lighting the town for the next five
years being awarded to the Manitou
Electric Company, of which DR.. w. A
Bell, now residing in England, is the
head The Manitou company's rival
was the Pike Peak Hydro-Electric
Company. The original bids submitted
were rejected by Mayor Nichols be
cause of technioality, and the second
bids submitted did not change the re