The Monte Vista journal., 1908-07-18
COLORADO ITEMS

The new 100000 hospital Of the San.
t. Fe railroad at La Junta was for
mally opened July 14th.
Rural route No. / 10 ordered estab-
lished October LIT at Austin, Delta.
county. serving 700 people and 100
families.
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. J. Palmer has donated
building site for Jewish synagogue
in Colorado Springs. and q $4,000
building will shortly be constructed.
Chief Game Warden Charles Puring-
ton has provided $4,000 trout eggs to
stock the Denver fish hatcheries. The
eggs were taken from Trapper's lake.
1t took fifty-two persons to do the
janitor work and keep the big Denver
Auditorium clean during the Demo-
cratic national convention. to whom
was paid the sum Of $1,000.
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.
The Denver Auditorium. with It's
decorations intact, after the adjourn
ment of the Democratic National con-
vention. was thrown open to the In
spection Of the public Saturday night
and Sunday afternoon.
Judge II. 8. 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 q few days.
conducted by . company composed of
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 q loan fund from which small
amounts will be lent to the deserv' ng
poor. notes and securities being taken
whenever Lossible. The initial
amount Of the fund is 500.
The big steel tank, thirty feet high
and thirty feet in diameter. which has
stood for twenty years on the hill
south Of Greeley and been used dur
ing the entire time without repairs In
connection with the old city water
works, has been sold to the Windsor
sugar factory as a storage tank for
syrup. Ia-Er Jdh
Louis Schneider. an old time. ranch.
man living near Glenn. a small post
Office twenty-five miles 2 nofthesst ct
Llmoa. was shot IN tAer leg TUESDAY
after . quarrel With 9 heiShbor 0vet
line fence between their homestsads.
After shooting Schneider It h said the
homesteader used the butt Of his gun
shooter was arrested. irfnt :
Plans for . new $4,000 jaii hsvs
been brought to Denver for inspec.
ton at the State Board Of Charities
and Corrections office. by Architect
Roe OF Pueblo, who has the contract
for the building. The new ian II
for Pueblo county and 10 to be one
Of the most modern In the country
when finished and will contain sew
eral features new to this sec ion.
After being ice-bound for six week.
the steamship Ohio. ON which Edward
w. Yetter Of Denver, president Of the
Western Elaterite Roof Company was
. passenger. has safely arrived In
Nome. Since June LIST the ship was
Embedded in the ice foes Of Be.ing
sea. Finally II was sighted by passing
ships and towed to Nome harbor by
the revenue cutters Thetis and McCal.
ioch.
The total number Of Deaths from all
causes IN Colorado during the months
Of January. February ind March, 1908,
according to the sanitary bulletin Of
the State Board Of Health Just issued
10 1905. with an annual death rate Of
only 1925. This rate excludes still
births. Scarlet fever caused seventy.
three deaths. diphtheria forty-eight.
and typhoid fever thirty during the
quarter.
James 8. Barber. one Of the frs,
settlers In the Platte valley, died near
Evans on the 10th inst, aged sixty.
three. He was born In Meadvilie,
/ Pennsylvania. and came 10 Colorado
Ia 1873. settling on . big ranch, where
be lived continually. He was Q mem.
Der Of the Legislature during Governor
Peabody's term. county commissioner
several years, A knight Tcmplar and
Q member Of the Woodmen Of tho
World.
Three Nexicaus. who arr ALLEGED IN