The Colorado statesman., 1908-08-22
STATE NEWS ITEMS

before.
A two-year-old black bear was cap
tured eight miles from Trinidad a few
days ago by two Mexicans, who sold
1t to Trinidad butcher.
The semi-annual meeting of the Col
orado Osteopathic Association will
convene at Colorado Springs, Friday
and Saturday, August 2Sth and 29th.
State Dairy Commissioner B. G. d.
Bishopp is preparing to file charges
with District Attorney Stidger at Den
yer against more than twenty peddlers
for selling unbranded oleomargarine.
James p. Grant, graduate of the
University of Colorado last year, has
been appointed teacher of physics at
Foo Chow, China. He has left Boul-
der for California and will sail for
China in a few weeks.
number of capitalists, including c.
G. Parks of Glenwood Springs are in
terested in reservoir proposition on
Hunter Mesa, near Rifle, which, if car
ried through, will furnish sufficient
water to irrigate between 5000 and
5000 acres.
At Greeley Monday Chozo Koiko,
cisco, who was on his way to Wash
ington, held an informal reception to
his countrymen at the station while the
train stopped. About 100 Japanese,
carrying American and Japanese flags,
welcomed him.
1t is exactly 400 PAGES from the
summit of Pixies Peak to the depot of
the cog road, in Manitou, according to
a careful count made by Prof. X. Nc
Kay of Sanbury, o., who recently
walked down the peak The number
from the summit to the Half Way
house is 11,675.
The annual polo contest for the Dew
ereaux challenge cup will be held at
Glenwood Springs the latter part of
this month, probably on August 9th,
between teams from Glenwood Springs,
Denver and Colorado Springs. The
challenge cup is now held by the
Glenwood Springs team.
On Sunday the 18th William F. viii,
son, Jr., aged seventeen, of Denver,
while hunting doves near Leyden,
northwest of the city, accidentally shot
himself and died soon after On the
same day Gordon Kyle of the same age
as Wilson, was accidentally drowned
by the upsetting of a canoe at the lake
in the City park at Denver.
Ten thousand souvenir books adver-
tising Colorados advantages for health
seekers will be distributed at the Ma.
tional tuberculosis congress at Wash
ington. DIR. Charles Denison of Den
yer, DR.. William Beggs and other au-
thorities on the white plague will COM
pile the books, each contributing an
article.
By far the most ambitious effort to
water large area by underground
streams will be that made by ]. C.
Dodd of Grover, in Weld county. He
will sink well twenty feet in diameter
on his land, which will pierce a de.
preston where the water boils up from
an underground stream. With a pump
he expects to draw sufficient water to
irrigate 420 acres.
Since the resignation of John F
Myers as manager of the Colorado work
shop for the blind in Denver, Foreman
l.. c. Johnson of the broom depart
ment and his assistants have been run
ming the factory of the school. A com.
mittee has been appointed to name
manager and is looking for the right
man. Meantime, everything is re.
ported to be running smoothly.
The annual rifle matches of the Col.
orado State Rifle Association will be
held Sept. 10th and 11th at the state
rifle range near Golden. A number of
prizes have been offered to competi.
tors and special merchants prizes
which have been offered to induce the
store keepers to enter the matches are
among the trophies. Pistol and rifle
matches will be held by the Colorado
national guard Sept. 18th and 18th at
the same range.
Lake San Cristobal in Hinsdale
county is to be the center of one of
the finest pleasure and health resorts
in Colorado. Incorporation papers were
taken out Monday by prominent bust
ness men of Lake City, who will spend
100000 on preliminary plans for the
resort. Hotels, cottages and various
amusement places will be built around
the lake. The company is incorporated
under the name of the San Cristobal
Health & Pleasure Company.
AT the instance of DR.. Hugh L. Tay-
lor and Wilbur F. Cannon of the state
boards of health and pure foods and
drugs. respectively, a vigorous prosecu-
ton will be started at once against
erocers and keepers of meat markets
who are found violating the law in re-
gard to proper care of ice boxes, pres
ervation of produce, meats and other
perishable goods. Mr.. Cannon says
that flies must be kept away from
organic matter and vegetables and that
screening or glass must protect the
goods which are placed on the market.
Committees of the Denver Conven-
ton League have started in to raise
$4,000 for the entertainment of four
conventions which will be in Denver
within the next two months The Ma.