The Colorado statesman., 1907-08-24
COLORADO NEWS ITEMS

Colorado.
Colorado's crop of tourists this year
is more abundant than ever.
A Denver tramway car, carrying
| thirty people, was wrecked recently
and many passengers injured.
Miss Emma Gabel of Milwaukee died
at Fort Collins recently from an at
| tack Of appendicitis. She was prac-
tically among strangers, but kind
hands administered to her.
Edward Kyle, aged 81, accidentally
discharged a revolver and killed John
Conrad, a government sheep inspector,
whose home was at Olney, Colorado.
The shooting occurred at Denver.
The structural steel for the new ho-
tel at Boulder, receipt of which was
delayed because of the switchmen's
strike, has reached Boulder, and work
on the hotel has begun anew, but now
there is scarcity of brick.
The first carload of early Greeley po-
tatoes to leave for market was shipped
| by j. Gervin of La Sale to Denver.
| They brought $1.50 hundredweight
and were of superior quality, the car
bringing between $3.50 and $500.
Raymond, son of Eli Jeffreys, paying
teller of the First National bank at
| WAS tuTOWu lTOQ u morse Oh
his fathers ranch and sustained a
broken leg, besides many other bruises.
The boy was brought home and will re-
cover.
At the Country club a dinner-dance
was given by Miss Evelyn Walsh of
Denver and was attended by about
fifty guests, among them being the
elite of Colorado Springs and Denver
society. The function, though informal,
was one Of the most brilliant of the
| present season.
The ice famine at Fort Morgan has
caused the forming of n company to
Immediately build an ice plant and
work on the structure was started at
once. The building will be so by $50
feet and cost about $4,000. L. Offer,
]. e. Williams and E. I. Cook are the
| projectors and expect to supply local
consumers this summer.
The first car of the Fort Collins
, street railway has arrived from Dem
yer and is being fitted for use on the
West Mountain avenue line. II is
brand new. having just been turned out
of the shops in Denver expressly for
service. 1t is attracting a great deal
of attention. Another car, duplicate
of this one, is expected in q day or
| two.
During a severe electrical storm at
Trinidad lightning struck the home Of
Mr.. Howard, at Jansen, three miles
west of there. Mrs. Howard was par
TALLY paralyzed by the shock, and her
recovery is doubtful. The bolt struck
a clothes line by which it was con-
Quoted to the house and the latter
would have been destroyed by fire had
| It not been for the prompt action of
the neighbors.
+, Michael O'Grady of Evans has
brought suit to foreclosc q mortgage
on a large amount of Evans property
valued at many thousands of dollars,
against the heirs-in-law of e. M. Per
kIns. The Perkins mortgage was or
iginally given to S. R. Huffsmith and
covers an undivided one-half interest
in several blocks of Evans property
and waL assigned to O'Grady, who
owns the other half interest of the
property.
Suit for divorce, on the grounds of
extreme cruelty, has been brought in
the county court at Cripple Creek by
| Violet Bragunier, wife of David Bra
gunier. They were married in Chey-
enne about three months ago. Last
February Bragunier's first wife, whom
he married in public at the Elks' car
nival about three years ago, secured a
divorce upon similar grounds. Two
divorce cases inside of six months is
a record in Teller county.
The Ell Paso County Cattle Growers
Association will hold another meeting
to take further action with regard to
the cattle quarantine in this county
State Veterinary Surgeon Land has
notified the executive committee that
the quarantine has been placed or the
cattle by the government as = precau-
ton against mango. This disease, 1t
is claimed, is not prevalent here, and
vigorous action will be instituted in an
effort to relieve the embargo.
In a race war between Greek and
Italians at Bucktown, near Leadville
Joseph Mufago received slight scalp
wound, but is not seriously hurt. Sam
uel Terquillo has been arrested
charged with inflicting the wound. The
shooting, it is said, grew out of a GUAR
rel over the affections of woman
Friends of both men took up the fight
and more than a dozen shots were
fired. Mufago was the only man III
jured. Sheriff Dan Bonner stopped the
fight.
The body of George Walkenshaw
the young boilermarker who was swept
to his death while fishing in the Grand
river near Grand Junction, was recov
cred. Two small boys, who were fish
ing in the stream, discovered the body
floating on the rifle in an elbow OF
the river. They secured a boat
brought the body to shore and it was
taken to an undertaking establishm snt
The remains were sent to Salt lake
for burial. A reward Of $50 offered
for the recovery of the corpse will be
| maid to the bows