The Colorado statesman., 1907-07-27
COLORADO NEWS ITEMS

Some Larimer county men have been
arrested on a charge of cattle rust
ling.
The state lumber dealers held their
annual meet at Colorado Springs re-
Gently.
Up to July goth there had been
thirty-one divorces granted in the
courts of Denver this month
Mrs. Robert w. Hearne was badly
hurt in driving accident at Central
| City one evening last week.
The Denver papers are having a
hard time finding the first capitol
building. They might ask Oliver Wig
gins.
| While splitting kindling wood, Mrs.
Della Dodge at Grand junction,
chopped off the forefinger of her left
hand.
The bite of a gnat caused the death
Of James Chase at Plateau. Blood
poisoning set in, caused by scratching
the bitten place.
Eugene F. Ware, former United
States commissioner of pensions, is
taking his vacation at Camp Never
Mind in Ute pass.
The State Editorial association, 125
| strong, paid their respects to Hot Sui
phur Springs on the 23d of July in
their midsummer outing.
A Trinidad street car conductor has
| been fined for swearing. Evidently the
trial Judge thought that prerogativs
belonged to the patrons.
Students of the Golden School of
| Mines are to be given practical knowl-
edge of mining by driving a tunnel
into Mount Zion, near Golden.
Chief Delaney of Denver police force
| has decided to stop the malignant
form of murder now prevalent in that
city among automobile speed maniacs.
The recklessness of some Of the driv-
ers was something fearful.
Search your dirty linen! A tramp
| was stealing a ride in linen closet on
a train that pulled into Pueblo found
| a pocketbook containing $4,000. 1t
| had been gathered up from the birth
tramp home with him and will give
him a responsible position.
A boarding house and grocery store
owned by ]. ]. Abendschan in Colo
RADIO City were totally destroyed by
fire, the loss approximating $4,000
Mr.. and Mrs. William Gastwell, who
were aroused by the firemen breaking
in their room, and escaped in their
night clothes.
A heavy rain west and north of Trim
idad raised the Las Animas river six
feet, the highest it has been since the
flood Of two years ago. Two Colorado
G. Wyoming railway bridges, one at
Madrid and another between Madrid
and Segundo, are reported gone and
some damage is reported from Longs
| canon.
The Rocky Mountain Chautauqua
opened it's first session at Salida on
July 23. There were fully 1000 peo.
pie in attendance. The attractions
were the Minneapolis Quartette and
H. F. Huntington, humorist. The
Chautauqua will last ten days and is
to be made an annual affair in River.
side Park, one mile north of Salida
on the banks of the Arkansas.
Nathan Naum, who has been attend
ing the State University from Manske,
Russia, and who is now employed in
sociological work among the Jewish
immigrants to this country who come
to New York, is doing remarkable
work and will not return to the uni
versity next year. His work has to
do with bettering the condition of the
thousands of foreign pauper Jews who
find their way to American shores,
and of securing for them openings in
western industries.
Douglas Clemens, the eight-year-old
son of Walter Clemens of jamestown,
was taken to the University hospital
where he must have three fingers and
the first joint of the thumb, all on the
left hand, amputated. He with some
other children had secured some giant
caps at the Wano mill above James
town. The little fellow tried to crack
one of the caps and the explosion ter
ribly lacerated his hand. He was also
injured about the face and left thigh
but not seriously.
]. H. Weisse & Co. of South Omaha
have been awarded the contract for
building the new postoffice at Colorado
Springs, the contract price being $173,-
673. 1t was recently reported that
this firms bid was s206,958, which
would have necessitatcd a readver
tisement for bids, since this amount,
with the cost for furnishings, would
have made total IN excess of the
100000 set aside for the building.
The site cost $4,000 and congress ap-
propriated s275,O00 for building and
site.
Louis Stein, arrested several weeks
ago at Trinidad, on the charge of writ
ing BLACK Hand" letters, was released
from the county jail on his own recog-
nizance. The recent arrest of Charles
Keesee, who is also charged with writ
ing threatening and obscene letters,
has removed the burden of blame from
STEMS shoulders and there is no evil
dehce against him sufficient to hold
him. Kesee was placed under bonds
of $1,000 yesterday and was taken to