The Colorado statesman., 1908-09-05
COLORADO NEWS

Practically the entire crop OF onion
seed grown in northern Colorado has
been harvested. Robert Boyd, near
Greeley. harvested an eighty-five-acre
field.
A cow belonging to ]. w. Anderson
was Killed at Greeley few days since
by veterinarians because they be-
lieve the animal was suffering from
hydrophobia.
Harry G. Browne, superintendent OF
the Rocky Ford Electric Company, was
instantly killed on the night of the I'd
inst. by coming in contact with the
large fly wheel. His skull was split
open and death was instantaneous. He
is survived by widow, and his mother
resides in Cripple Creek, while a half
brother, Frank Glenn, is paymaster of
the Portland mine at Victor. Browne
was thirty-eight years old.
Thomas Luxen, wealthy Rio Blanco
cattleman living four miles north of
Rifle, Colorado, is defendant in dam
age suit filed in the Federal Court at
Denver, charging him with having al
lowed cattle and horses to Craze upon
the Battlement national forest reserve.
Mr.. LuXen is said to have taken
chances in the hope that a favorable
decision will be reached in the United
States Supreme Court.
The Las Animas County Early Set
tiers annual reunion was held at Trim
idad August 9th. E. ]. Hubbard was
elected president, Mrs. Ed West, sec
retary, and Mrs. Frank Bloom, treas
urer. The roll call showed thirty
eight deaths among the old settlers OF
the county during the last year, one
being DR.. M. Beshoar, who founded the
organization and who was it's presi-
dent during his lifetime.
The official call for a Colorado Min
ing convention, to be held in Denver
Sept. 10th and 18th, has been taken
cogniZance of by the majority of the
mining men throughout the state. Let
ters are being received at Denver by
Secretary James F. Callbreath, Jr.,
stating that the miners are organizing
in the numerous camps and mining cen
ters of the state, for the purpose of
naming members to attend the conven-
ton.
The county commissioners of Pitkin
county have instructed the county
treasurer to accept the certified check
for $3.151.3S and the personal check for
$227.oS given by ex-County Treasurer
w MClNlCHOlS 10 cover I1e dl-
legged shortage created during his term
of office and his half of the expenses
for the recent accounting of the coun-
ty books, and have also instructed that
the civil suit against McNichols be
dismissed.
Colorado's peculiar advantages as a
place of recuperation for persons suf-
fering from pulmonary tubercular
troubles are to be set before the medi-
cal fraternity of the world most forci- ]
bly, at the International Congress on
tuberculosis, which will take place in
Washington, D. c., September 21st to
October 18th. The state will be rep
resented by a large and able delega-
ton of prominent medical practition-
erS.
The formal opening of the Sanitary
company's canning plant at Brighton
took place September 1st. This COM
pany is the successor of the Wilmore
Canning Company late of Denver. The
company has just completed a plant
costing about $4,000 to can tomatoes
and other garden produce There
were several hundred people present
at the opening. Refreshments were
served and music was furnished by the
management.
The Denver & Rio Grande Railroad
Company will soon begin improving
its track through the Royal Gorge by
replacing rails and ties. The construc-
tion gang is already on the ground and
a rail bending machine is to be used
to give the steel rails the curvature
needed to conform to the many crooks
and turns in the famous canon. The
new rails will weigh eighty-five pounds
to the yard and the ties will be of oak
from Oregon and California.
AT Fort Collins on the End inst. S. H.
Atwater of Canon City, for eleven sue
cessive years president of the State
Sunday School Association, was again
elected to that office. In addition to
the election of Mr.. Atwater president,
the convention chose the following Off
GERS: Vice president, H. c. Johnson of
Fort Collins; vice president of the
western slope, f. F. Frazier of Mont
rose; secretary, w. R. Hardy of Rocky
Ford; treasurer, c. S. Watson of Den
yer.
At Leadville on the End inst, after
celebrating for two hours the jury in
the case of Sherman w. Morris, alias
Frank Sherliffe of Des Moines Ia, re-
turned a verdict of guilty of murder in
the second degree. Morris was tried
for the killing of John w. Walsh, a
Leadville saloonkeeper, June %, 1898.
His conviction was obtained wholly
upon circumstantial evidence, it being
brought out at the trial that at various
times he had confessed to acuuaint.
ances the killing of Walsh and that on
certain occasions he had boasted of
the crime.
The one hundred and sixth annual
conference of the Seventh Day. Bap-
lists closed its meeting at Boulder on
the 31st ult. The delegates were large