The Colorado statesman., 1907-07-06
COLORADO NEWS ITEMS
Greeley has a new brass band.


Greeley proposes to build boy pal
ace as one of the attractions for the
big exposition to be held there August
81, % and %.
Mrs. A. C. Morris, a farmers wife
living near Durango, committed sui
eide by hanging herself. 1t is thought
she was insane.
W. H. Gribble, one of the state
builders who braved the adversities
of early days. died June 27 at his
home in Canon City.
William Allen White, the author
who became famous by writing
Whats the Matter with Kansas?" is
rusticating at Manitou.
After an illness of many months,
Mrs. e. p. Mawzey, wife of Justice OF
the Peace Mawzey, at Boulder, is dead.
She. was over 70 years old.
Annette, the two-year-old daughter
of Mr.. and Mrs. John Virhillon, was
drowned in an irrigation ditch at Fort
Collins one day last week.
The state bankers held their annual
meeting at Fort Collins last week, and
for few days Young City, was the
richest spot in Colorado.
w. l.. Anderson, a printer from
Eagleville, Missouri, fell beneath the
wheels of a moving train at Grand
Junction and died shortly afterwards
from injuries.
Mrs. o. E. Hawkins, Denver
woman, believing her husband to be
untrue to her, poured coal oil on her
clothes and set them on fire. She was
rescued before serious results.
Pueblo,-John Cook, son of Con-
gressman George w. Cook, of Denver,
died June 80 at a private sanitarium
in Pueblo, where he had been a pa
tient for several months.
Frank Kirk. who is getting out a di-
rectory for Longmont, has counted the
people there who are IS and finds
there are 1888. Estimating that there.
are twice as many people under IS as
there are over that age, he fixes the
population of Longmont at 7.014.
After suffering for over six months
with what he thought was rheuma-
tism, Chief of Police j. r. Gregory of
Colorado City secured relief by draw
ing from his left thigh a needle more
than two inches long. An X-ray phot-
ograph will be taken of his leg in an
effort to trace the course of the
needle.
John Hickey, an old settler living
at Sunlight, was burned to death in
his cabin. Hickey was quite old and
had lived the life OF hermit for sew
eral years. Parties who found the
body this morning in the charred en-
bers ofrhis cabin brought it here.
There Was nothing to indicate the
cause OF the fire.
When his body was found it was in
position showing that he had tried
to fight the blaze, but had been over
come by smoke and fallen just inside
| the door. Hickey had supported him
| self the last few years by doing work
| for neighbors. AS he had no known
relatives, the body was buried at the
| expense Of the county.
Charles Whatles, recently manager
of the Northern Colorado Power Com
pany electric light office at Greeley
| was fould guilty in the District Court
of grand larceny Whatles and Ar
| thur Robertson, foreman of the line
| gang, Were charged with larceny of
| a ton OF copper wire, valued at 5000,
| from the company. Robertson con
| fessed and implicated Whatles.
1.-The Colorado Veterans of the Civil
and Indian Wars Monument Society"
is the name of an organization soon
to be formed by Hon. j. B. Stephen,
Judge John McCoach, w. p. Epper
son and other prominent Colorado City
| residents. The primary object is to
| erect monument to the memory OF
Col. ]. NJ. Chivington of the First Col
| orado Volunteers, the hero of the bat
tie of Sand Creek.
/ Charging that his father-in-law,
George Chandler of Num-, will not
give him sufficient possession of his
two young children. although he has
! been repeatedly begged to do so, j..
Brown of Longmont, aged %, has talk
| IN legal steps to secure the children
| The youngsters are 3 years and s
months old, respectively, and their
mother died last November The IA
ther says his fatherin-law has eight
children Of his own.
A Longmont special of the S0th
| says: Some of the farmers in this
section that were hailed out last Tues
day are cutting their hay that was
eft, one man getting ten tons OFF
eighty acres. Although it is not worth
he work it entails. this must be done
In order to give the second growth Of
alfalfa chance. Others are getting
ready to plow where nothing was left
by the hail. While to those farmers
whose crops were destroyed it was a
great loss, taking this section as a
whole, the loss would not amount to
over 10 per cent. and some of this
was covered by insurance. Beets are
rapidly recovering and promise an un-
usual yield to the acre, and the out.
look for an abundant harvest was new
er better
A meeting of farmers and business
men was held at Greeley to further
consider the financing of an Empson
canning factory there. The propos.-
tion presented by Mr.. Empson is ia.
vorably regarded by the people. Asa
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