The Colorado statesman., 1908-06-20
STATE NEWS ITEMS


preparing for big Fourth of July cele-
brations.
Contracts have been let for the com
pletion of the Cripple Creek Y. NJ. c.
A. building.
The Colorado Chautauqua at Boul-
der will be opened July 4th with an at
tractive program.
The Colorado Springs High school
has just graduated sixty-six pupils, of
whom forty-four are girls and twenty
two boys.
The Camp Bird mine, near Ouray, re-
ported net profit of S1iS,700 for the
month of April. Who wouldn't call
that 'bird?"
The American Bankers Association
will hold its convention at Denver Sep
tember 9th and an attendance of
5000 is expected.
The hand drilling contest at Eldora
July 3rd and 4th promises to be not
able event for the residents of Boul-
der and adjoining counties. IS
The new wagon road between Grip
pie Creek and Victor is finished. re-
ducing the Pike distance between the
two cities from six to four and a half
miles
The state will get $4OO in inheri-
tance tax from the estate of Edward
P. George George left $4,000 worth
of property assessable under the in
heritance tax law.
Colorado has a Japanese newspaper,
just started in Denver by T. Homa-
tani, with T. Ono as editor. 1t is
four-column folio, published weekly in
Japanese characters.
A number of Greeley men have
started for Matamoras, Mexico, where
they have secured option on $4,000
acres of land which they intend to de-
velop by irrigation projects.
John D. McGilvray, stone contractor
and formerly a noted local politician of
Denver, was seriously injured in run
away accident at San Francisco, his
present home, on the 14th inst.
The throwing out of the Patterson
delegation from Denver and the seat
ing of the Speer delegation was dra-
matte event of the Democratic State
convention at Glenwood Springs.
The Fort Morgan Chamber of Com
merce has printed 10000 leaflets Civ
ing a description of Fort Morgan and
Morgan county. They will be used
during the Democratic National con-
vention in Denver.
George Goode, known from coast to
coast as crack shot and the winner
of several cups and many prizes, was
so badly injured at Cripple Creek re-
Gently by the explosion of gunpowder
as to endanger the sight of both eyes.
The following promotions have been
made in the Boulder postoffice: One
clerk, from $500 to $500; two clerks,
from 5000 to $1,000 one clerk, from
$1,000 to S1,100; one clerk, from 81, 100
to $1,000; and one carrier, from 81 900
to $1,100
Capt. E. l.. Berthoud, noted engi-
neer, explorer, pioneer and railroad
builder, died at Golden on the 14th
inst, at the age of eighty-three Ber-
thoud Pass, named in his honor and
the town of Berthoud, will long per
petuate his memory.
An immense deposit of gypsum in
the foothills eighteen miles northwest
of Fort Collins is to be opened imme-
diately to furnish material for plas-
ter and cement mill. The Ingleside
branch of the Colorado & Southern is
to be extended from its present term
mus two miles, so that the product can
be marketed by rail.
1t is said that w. Q. Hung, Chinese
official interpreter for Denver, has
been dismissed from the service on ac-
count of complaint filed with gov
ernment officials, charging him with
operating gambling joint and accept
ing money from Chinese gamblers to
keep the information of the operation
of the joints from the police.
Mrs. Julia James, who was shot and
Gltr IAl l,,, I
who at the same time killed her daugh-
ter Sarah, has left Pueblo with her five
children for Seattle, Washington, to
make their home with her sister Mrs.
James has practically recovered from
the wounds Lynn inflicted Lynn is
under conviction for murder with the
death penalty hanging over him.
Manager Kenne states that it is ex-
pected that the Greeley canning fac
tory Will be in operation by June 25th.
The thirteen hundred acres of peas are
| looking fine and early peas will be
matured by June 21st. These will be
canned, followed by the later variety,
which will take the time of the two
hundred employees until the tomato
crop is ready. The cabbage crop is
to be made into kraut
j. F. Kummel, of the forest reserve,
is authority for the statement that the
department is bending every effort to-
ward its plan of planting 100000
trees per year in the Pixies Peak for
est reserve. This he thinks will have
the effect of almost doubling the
amount of water conserved and turned
into the reservoirs of Colorado
Springs. the watershed of which is the
most important in the Pixies Peak re-
serve.
Louis Persinger, son of A. w. Per-
singer of Colorado Springs, who has
gained many laurels in European mu-
sical circles, has just been appointed