The Colorado statesman., 1908-07-18
COLORADO NEWS

The new 100000 hospital of the San
ia Fe railroad at La Junta was for
mally opened July 14th.
The women of. Greeley have under
taken to furnish the new public library
which will be completed by September
lst.
The Great Western Sugar Company
will construct warehouse for storing
sugar, which will double its storage
capacity at Fort Morgan.
Mrs. Thomas Macon, wife of the
late Judge Macon, died at her home in
Denver on the 10th inst. Her health
had been failing for some time.
Gen. w. ]. Palmer has donated
building site for Jewish synagogue
in Colorado Springs, and $4,000
building will shortly be constructed
Calvin Madison, who was drowned
on the 18th instant in the Gunnison
river near Delta, was a member of
the Knights of Pythias lodge at Gree
ley.
A vein of lthograph stone four feet
thick has been found at Turkey creek
near Pueblo. The stone is of good
quality, and has been used in Pueblo.
1t is worth $400 ton.
Glenwood Springs has a new ce.
ment factory which is turning out good
| material and a number of new cement
block houses are under way, the first
one being nearly completed.
William Ash is reported to have
made rich strike of graphite ore,
sixty per cent. pure, between Grape
and Texas creeks, in Fremont county.
The vein is eight inches wide and is
continuous.
1t is expected that January /, 1909,
the Moffat road will run into Steam
boat Springs. The road is now cont
pleted beyond McCoy's and new con-
tract will be let on the first of the
month to complete the road nearly 10
Steamboat.
Judge NJ. S. Bailey of Canon City,
decided that the injunction suit to re-
strain the county commissioners OF
Pueblo county from going ahead with
the building of the new county court
house, was without merit and dissolved
the Injunction.
A factory for the manufacture of
the Carr beet dump wagon will be in
operation at Greeley in few days.
conducted by company composed or
Greeley business men and capitalized
at $4,000 Seventy-five farmers nave
given orders for wagons.
The socitl science department of the
Woman's club of Denver has estab-
lished loan fund from which small
amounts will be lent to the deserving
poor, notes and securities being taken
whenever possible. The initial
amount of the fund is 500.
Elias Valdez, aged twenty-one, of
| Capulin, Conejos county, was killed on
the night of July 14th by lightning.
| There was small hole in the top OF
his head, the lightning in its course
had burned out his tongue. and there
was jagged hole in his abdomen.
]. D. Gwyn, the new chief engineer
of the Rio Grande, left Denver
Wednesday for general tour. of in
spection of the road in company with
General Manager A. C. Ridgeway and
General Superintendent A. E. Welby.
The Western Pacific will soon be com
pleted and the Rio Grande system will
be put in the best shape possible 10
make the connection perfect.
After being ice-bound for six weeks
the steamship Ohio, on which Edward
w. Yetter of Denver, president of the
Western Elaterite Roof Company was
a passenger, has safely arrived in
Nome. Since June 1st the ship was
imbedded in the ice floes of Bering
sea. Finally it was sighted by passing
ships and towed to Nome harbor by
the revenue cutters Thetis and McCul-
loch.
The total number of deaths from all
causes in Colorado during the months
of January, February and March, 1908,
according to the sanitary bulletin OF
the State Board of Health just issued
is 1905, with an annual death rate of
only 1896. This rate excludes still
births. Scarlet fever caused seventy
three deaths, diphtheria forty-eight
and typhoid fever thirty during the
quarter.
The first hearing before the State
Railway Commission has been set for
July 31st, when the complaint brought
by Congressman George w. Cook
against the Colorado Midland viii
come up. The specific basis for the
charge was the shipment of mangan-
ese ore from Leadville mines owned by
Mr.. Cook Because of the exorbitant
rate fixed by the road, he claims that
the mines had to be shut down.
| Inc new uouDle track between FLOR
ence and Canon City on the Denver *
Rio Grande, which was tested Sunday,
has been formally opened for traffic.
Surveyors are at work in the Roya!
Gorge and it is believed it is the IN.
tention of the company to extend the
double track to Salida.
The Loveland- Estes Park auto stage
line now makes two daily trips each
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