The Colorado statesman., 1907-06-29
COLORADO NEWS ITEMS

ceived call to go to Cheyenne From
tier week.
John Wolf of Denver, a retired
farmer, has purchased a home a.
Boulder and will occupy it.
A crook from Denver turned I'm In
Boulder the other day, but before he
coulo influence anyone he was shipped
back to Denver.
The Presbyterian church at Florence
was robbed the other day of 81 and the
trustees offer remard for the cap
ture of the thief.
The Shaw Dry Goods Company has
been incorporated at Greeley, capital.
lied at s50,000, with H. A. Shaw, John
Perkins, James Schryer, Ida Sanford,
Frank Wisncr as directors.
A Denver girl was kidnapped on the
main business street the other day and
spirited away" to Pueblo. The girl
Is IL years old. but didn't call for help
until she was 100 miles from home
The frontier committee of Chevenne
has presented silver loving cup to be
given at the Greeley harvest day fes-
tival, August %, for the best deco
rated turnout. Weld county is put
ting forth every effort to make its
Il
A. Garfield offers a S100 banner for
the best agricultural exhibit.
According to the Rev. Earl Hicks OF
st. Louis, June 23d the weather is to be
warm and showery, June oath warm,
but the 25th to the 9th the weather
is to be exceptionally cold for summer.
Whether or not this is to apply to st.
Louis and vicinity only is not stated
If it is to take in Colorado it might be
well for people to get out their winter
clothes for few days.
Arrangements have been perfected
at the electrical plant at Lafayette to
send a current to Boulder to supply
the southern part of the city with
light. 1t is hoped TO have the north.
ern part of the city ready for the cur
rent, soon, and after that the plant
here will no longer be used for elec.
trio lighting, but will furnish power
for the street car service for some
time.
A corps of surveyors, headed by D.
w. Chambers of Boulder, is at work
near Palisade making a preliminary
survey for proposed canal
to reclaim thousands of acree
or land on the south side
of the Grams river. H. W. Lane ami
Judge C. P. Holbrook of Boulder are
interested in the enterprise, and Mr.
Chambers declared that if the canal is
found feasible it will be constructed
and will cost nearly 100000.
About one-half of the fall grain and
alfalfa crop in the vicinity of BRUSH
was damaged by a fierce hail-storm
which visited that section recently
The storm moved from the northwest
to the southeast. The greatest damage
was suffered by a strip of country
three miles wide and ten miles long be
tween Brush and Fort Morgan. The
beet crop was only slightly damaged
| The storm was preceded and followed
by heavy rain which will be bene
| fetal to the district.
| Police Judge D. d. Finch, one Of the
| most prominent and influential Repub
lican politicians in Trinidad, was sert
ously, if not fatally injured in a run.
| away accident. Judge Finch had one
| leg broken below the knee, the bone
protruding through the flesh. He also
| had several ribs broken and it is feared
| that he is injured internally. His
horse collided with telephone pole
demolishing the buggy. Judge Finch
| was thrown violently against the stone
curbing. Judge Finch was at one time
| sheriff.
Virginia Funkhouser, five years old
| who was sent to the Pueblo orphanage
| q week ago, made her third attempt 10
| escape from that institution in order
as she says, to see her mother in Trim
idad, where the latter is working te
support herself and six other children
| The father died about two years ago
! and the mother has since been strug
| Cling to exc out an existence. Ihs
child, early this morning, started oui
| to walk to Trinidad, but was caught al
the Union depot and returned. She
had on two dresses, the outer, as she
| stated, so that she might have clean
one when she met her mother.
United States Senator Simon Gug
| genheim paid Longmont visit re
| Gently. He was met by Mayor Brad
| ley, Judge F. P. Secor and l.. l.. Breck
| enridge. F. M. Downer accompanied
the committee in the drive with the
senator over the city. reception
| was held in the rooms of the CONNER
| cial association, when the business
| men met the senator. Thomas Mo
| honey. secretary of the association,
| gave a short talk in reference to 9
| United States geological survey OF the
country lying between Longmont and
the foothills, the object of which is
| 10 determine whether the gypsum beds
are large enough to warrant the man
| ufacture of cement.
For the purpose of personally
observing the route for proposed
| high line canal, Secretary of the
Interior Garfield and Land Com
missioner Ballinger took an auto spin
| over the Orchard mesa and spent
nearly an hour viewing the land neal
| Grove Junction last week. They were
i favorably impressed. The high line
canal as proposed will cost $1,500,00