The Colorado statesman., 1907-02-02
COLORADO NEWS ITEMS

| rducHudu, dccluentdlly SnOt hlmSelI
while cleaning his gun few days
ago, and died instantly.
The Denver Chamber of Commerce
is to sell its present building to the
city and make arrangements for erect
ing grand new structure.
The minstrel show given by the Den
yer Press Club is reported to have
been a great success. Denver reporters
are all members of the club.
Mrs. Martha Cox Of Greeley recently
celebrated her ninety-third birthday.
She is still active and does consider
able light housework and sewing.
A farmers institute will be held at
Greeley in February, at which a num-
ber of teachers from the Agricultural
college will lecture on scientific farm
ing.
The United States Senate has con-
| firmed the nominations of Samuel A.
Abbey and Leo Fairbanks as registers
Of the Pueblo and Del Norte laud Of
fees.
Tho date of the department encamp-
ment of the Grand Army of the Repub.
lie at Colorado Springs has been
char ged from May 9th to 18th to May
| 14th to 10th.
The report of the commissioner of
| patents shows that 383 patents were
issued to residents of Colorado during
the past year, being one for every l.
400 inhabitants.
A speedway is to be built entirely
around Lake Minnequa at Pueblo The
road will be for the use of automobiles
and carriages and will be about six
miles long and lined with trees.
The Stockmen's National Back of
Brush, Colorado, has been authorized
to begin business with $4,000 capital.
w. A. Cotton is president; E. Mum,
vice president and F. e. Cotton, cash
ier.
DR.. H. w. Callahan, head master of
the State Preparatory School at Boul-
der, has resigned, to take effect Febru-
ary 1st, and has accepted position
with the Hockey school at Tarrytown,
on the Hudson.
The Holly Construction Company
has been soliciting beet sugar acreage
among the farmers near Florence, and
and it is understood that pledges of
| 5000 acres would secure the erection
of sugar factory.
The annual encampment of the De-
partment. of Colorado and Wyoming, G.
| A. R., will be held at Colorado
! Springs, May 14th, 18th and 10th, the
dates being selected at meeting OF
the department council.
The Rev. F. ]. Bruno, who recently
resigned the pastorate of the Pilgrim
| Congregational Church at Pueblo, has
been rendered and has accepted posi-
| ton as head of the Associated Chari-
! ties in Colorado Springs.
Despite the recent cold weather and
the snow on the Mountains, the her
ons BILL" or "hemlock stork's bill" is
blooming just west of Manitou. This
establishes a new record for f1oricul-
ture in the Pixies Peak region.
| M. M. HANNA and E. A. Pfeifler,
| expert accountants of Cripple Creek,
have been engaged by the county COM
missioners of Fremont county to audit
the books of the county officials The
work will take about forty days, and
cost $1,000.
The engine house and hoisting ap-
paratus of the Fremont coal mine,
near Florence, were burned soon after
midnight, January Path, occasioning a
loss of about $1,000. Two hundred
men will be thrown out of employment
for three or four weeks.
w. M. Weaver, night watchman at
the Anaconda cyanide mill at Gold
hill, in the Cripple Creek district, was
| held up on the night of January 25th
| by three masked men, who carried of
| 300 rounds of precipitates valued at
| $500, first tying the watchman.
The Glockner sanitarium at Colo
RADIO Springs will shortly construct
three-story brick addition, accommo-
| dating forty patients and to cost $751;
| 900. The present sanitarium, with it's
hospital ward and tents and cottages
cost S115,000. Work will be started by
March at the latest and will be fin
ished in nine months.
Rev. Samuel William Byrd, a negro
minister at Pueblo, fell dead of apo
plexy a few days ago, while building
kitchen fire for his wife at 5 O'clock
in the morning. Mr.. Byrd was col
/! lege graduate, had been in the minis
try thirty-five years and has held the
offices in the African M. E. Church of
bishop, presiding elder and general
| missionary,
Ex-Governor Adams and wife of Pu-
eblo will probably circumnavigate the
| globe. After a brief visit with rela-
tives in Pasadena, California, they will
sail from San Francisco, February 5th,
on the steamship Corea. They will
first go to Honolulu and then to Japan.
| They will later proceed to China,
whence they will go to Manila and pos
sibly to India.
The Arkansas Valley Electric Com
pany has sold it's abandoned electric
plant at Florence to Denver com.
| many who will dismantle tha h,iiAlNe
and ship 1t to Denver The Florence
Electric Company Is securing its cur
rent from the Colorado Power Com.
pany at Canon City. The Arkansas
valley people have been awarded the
contract to furnish electric liphts for.