The Colorado statesman., 1907-06-15
COLORADO NEWS ITEMS

Denver now boasts of a population
Of over 100000.
Dr. B. Beshoar of Trinidad has taken
unto himself wife.
Normal diplomas were awarded to
2O2 graduates at Greeley.
Colorado Springs turned out forty
nine high school graduates.
Arvada Commercial Club is still
after cent street car rate to Denver.
Ex-Governor Peabody and daughter
are witnesses in the famous Haywood
murder trial at Boise.
Mr.. and Mrs. Henry T. West recent
ly celebrated their 62nd wedding an
niversary at Greeley.
Every teacher employed in the
Boulder graded schools has been reap
pointed for next term.
Cripple Creek will celebate the ma
tional holiday with two-day jollifi-
cation July 4th and 5th.
Denver and Greeley are to be con-
nected by an electric line. Articles of
Importance have been filed.
A shaft is being sunk on the Rock
wall coal vein in the vicinity of Flor
ence by an independent company.
]. B. Bailey, a coal miner at Flor
ence, fell dead the other night. He
had been complaining Of not feeling
well for several days.
A horse( which ran away on one Of
the main streets of Grand Junction the
other day, was badly injured by run
ming into bunch of tree stumps.
Mrs. Cynthia NJ. Marshall wife of
the money order clerk at the post
office in Colorado Springs, died at the
family residence, 412 East Huerfano
street.
A car containing bottled beer was
broken into at Eaton and 40 bottles
stolen. Today Sheriff Florence recov-
cred all but thirty bottles. Tramps are
suspected.
Major Otis Remick, pioneer of Col
orado Springs of the West, died at
st. Francis hospital. He had been i'll
for several months, suffering from
general decline.
Gov. Buchtel has received the resig-
nation of Senator M. E. Lewis of Ere
mont county. He has just been ap-
pointed postmaster of Florence and
resigned before the expiration of his
term
John Corne, probation officer of
Weld county for the last five years.
resigned and p. Tisdel, known as
Father Tisdel, who devotes his life
to looking after the unfortunate in
Weld county, was appointed to the va
cancy.
Lucille Murtis, one of the most prom
inent graduates of the Trinidad High
school this year, was thrown from a
buggy and fatally injured at Berint-
Vile, Ia. She was prominent in the
young society set and the sad news
is received with great regret.
Instead of draining slough on his
land, as is usual, G.. S. Allsebrook near
Fort Lupton, will use the seepage, flood
and waste waters, which fill the
slough, for irrigation, by building a
dam and erecting pumping plant by
which the water will be taken to 80
acres adjoining. The plant will cost
$1,000.
State Dairy Commissioner Bishopp
is testing the herd of 20 cows at the
State Home for Dependent and Neg
lected Children for tuberculosis. The
dairy cattle at each state institution
are being put through test Of this
kind, and the one at the Buena Vista
state reformatory will come in next
for inspection and examination.
Mrs. Zoa Gillespie, sixteen-year-old
bride of John Gillespie, at Grand juno
ton, was committed by jury in the
Juvenile Court. Mrs. Rosetta Johnson
alleged that one of her dresses had
been taken by the girl when she went
to Delta to get married. The girl said
she merely meant to borrow the gar
ment to be married in and then to re-
turn it.
Miss Flossie Moore, valedictorian of
the 1907 class of the Florence high
high school, graduates with a perfect
record She stands highest in scolar-
ship and during the entire four years
&C Lrse has never been absent or tardy
She is eighteen years old and is the
daughter of former State Senator
Frank Moore. She was born and reared
in that section.
Mrs. David T. Kimmel, about 65
years old, of Florence, broke her right
arm while shoveling dirt. Her foot
slipped from the shovel, throwing her
to the ground, breaking a small bone
in the right wrist Her husband, aged
"a, fell from a scaffold a month ago
and broke mis- right leg. They have
been married nearly 40 years and these
are the first misfortunes that have
overtaken. them.
Two irrigation cases were settled at
Fort Collins in Judge Garrigues'
Court, in which Larimer Coun-
ty No. ditch is given the
right to take water from the
Poudre river through what is known
as the old city ditch, and the Arthur
ttah &c, oil tn rha itc nf
diversion of the river water. These
cases have been pending in the courts
here for sixteen years.
Mario Gallina, an eight-year-old
Italian boy, was instantly killed at the