The Colorado statesman., 1908-01-25
COLORADO NEWS ITEMS


the Young Mems Christian Association
will be held at Greeley, February 9Th,
18th and Sth.
The farmers in the Hollandville dis
trict northwest of Grand Junction,
have organized an independent tele-
phone company.
Jacob Hilderman, living on farm
twenty-five miles southeast of Greeley,
has given an acre of ground for the
site of new school house.
William R. Mason and Joseph Van
derweide, charged with being the slay-
ers of Secret Service Agent Joseph
Walker, will be tried at Durango Feb.
TIN.
DR.. Ella Mead of Greeley has been
appointed register of deaths and births
of Weld county by the secretary of the
State Board of Health. DR.. Mead is
also city physician.
John P. Kleckner, a veteran Of the
Civil War, in which he served as cap
tain of Pennsylvania company, fell
dead on the goth inst. while making
call at the Love ranch, near Fountain.
In the District Court at Trinidad
Monday Judge Henry Hunter SEN
fenced Charles Martin, convicted on
the 18th inst. of the murder of Willis
Leary, December 26th, to life impris-
onment.
Saving their earnings for their work
in the beet fields for the last five
years, number of Japanese surprised
Greeley real estate men by asking to
purchase 20 and 40-acre tracts on
which to grow beets.
James A. McIlwee, superintendent of
the Delmonico mine at Cripple Creek,
has patented propelling apparatus for
boats which is operated by pedal at
tachment and is claimed to be easier
and more rapid than the use Of oars.
Ault has practically completed it's
$780, 900 water system, and water was
turned into it's mains on the 18th inst.
The water is obtained from wells and
controlled by air pressure. Later, deep
wells will be added to the system for
the domestic supply.
The United States Senate passed the
bill providing for increasing the cost
limit of the federal building at Colo
RADIO Springs from $275, 900 to $780,
900, the increase to be employed in
substituting granite for sandstone in
construction.
The postmaster generals report of
postoftice business for December
shows that the business transacted at
Denver amounted to $100,9S3 against
$SS,966 for the same month in the pre-
vious year, showing an increase for
1907 over 1906 of $11,967.
A petition has been filed in the
county court of Weld county for the
incorporation of the town of Firestone,
in southwestern Weld county. Daco-
] n iPly
Gated less than a year ago, and the
first two have been incorporated.
Battery A of the field artillery Of
the Colorado national guard has been
organized at Walsenburg with 25 mem
bers. Tho battery which will be un-
der the command of Capt. j. C. Exline,
has gathered guns and weekly prac-
tice will be held on ground north OF
town.
Rev. w. A. Frazer, pastor of the
First Presbyterian church at Holly,
died on the night of the 18th inst,
from hemorrhage on a train between
Fountain and Colorado Springs, while
on his way to Denver to enter tuber-
culosis sanitarium. He was thirty
years old.
An unique piece of tapestry needle
work has been purchased by the State
Normal School to be placed in the in
dustrial museum. 1t was made by a
Swedish girl and represents King Alta
of Sweden playing harp by the sea.
1t is skilful blending of painting and
embroidery.
Mrs. Jennie Feiner, aged forty-two
years, wife of peddler, was overtaken
on the trestle over the Platte river OF
the Denver & Intermountain railroad
at Denver, and jumped into the stream,
breaking through the ice. She was res
cued but sustained injuries to her
spine that were thought to be probably
fatal.
Richard Vernon, an Englishman, who
earned fame in Pueblo by shooting Ed
Barnett six times and then having him
sent to the penitentiary, has written
| to friends in Pueblo from Switzerland
that he expects to soon come into an
inheritance which will give him an in
come of 100000 a year. He is now
studying mathematics at Zurich.
DR.. John B. Phillips, professor of So
ciology and economics at the State
University at Boulder, has been
granted leave of absence for a year
and half to take the position of pro-
fessor of politics and administrative
law at the University Of Michigan, in
place of DR.. Fairlie, who goes to Wash
ington, d. c., on government work.
N. Shirashi, a Japanese; was found
at Pueblo on the morning of the 18th
inst. with his head severed from his
body A bullet hole was also found in
his breast and the scene showed evil
dence of desperate struggle. The
crime had been committed but few
hours before the body was found as
large pools of fresh blood covered the
floor.
The Stonewall Valley Electric rail
way and it's equipment, recently pur-
chased with other electric and power
plans In Trinidad and vicinity by the