The Colorado statesman., 1908-07-04
COLORADO ITEMS

Eastern capitalists are interested in
a new brewery to be erected in Denver
at an early date at cost of $2OO,O0o.
Secretary O'Connor thinks there will
be at the Denver state fish hatchery
this year 100000 fish for distribu-
tion.
1t has been given out on official au-
thority that work on the Union Pacif1c
roundhouse at Hugo will be resumed
early in July.
G. w. Shelton, county treasurer OF
Morgan county. died June 3Oth of peri
tonitis. He was completing his second
term in office.
Pueblo shoe merchants have re-
ported to the police that a man has
been buying shoes and getting small
sums in change by the use of forged
checks.
A special election for the purpose
of approving the issuance by the city
for $55, 900 in water bonds was held
at Fort Morgan and carried by vote
of 2S4 to 1G.
Mrs. Martha A. Shute of the State
Horticultural Society received an
elaborate fruit exhibit from Fremont
county for display during the Demo
cratic convention.
The Hawkeye club, composed OF
more than 500 former residents of
Iowa, will keep open house at the Al
bany hotel in Denver during conven-
ton week for the Iowa visitors.
The Green Mountain Falls hotel at
Green Mountain Falls, costing $4,000,
owned by j. d. Robertson, was burned
by fire Monday afternoon that orig
mated from an exploding kerosene
lamp.
The following Colorado postmasters
have been appointed: Ignacio, La
Plata county, Hans Aspaas, vice H. L.
Hall, resigned; Schley, Ebert county,
N. H. Baird, vice William Welas, re-
signed.
Approximately $500 acres of state
land was sold at auction by Register
John F. Vivian in the office of the land
board at the State house in Denver
July 1st. The land brought from 81 to
$25 per acre.
A miniature tornado struck Cheraw,
small settlement ten miles from La
Junta Wednesday afternoon. Water
in a lake was whirled to height of
thirty feet. There was no rain but
heavy hail accompanied the wind.
Under authority of an act of the
Sixteenth Legislature, Lieutenant-Gov-
ernor Harper has just appointed two
commissions to purchase burial places
for old soldiers. One request for an
appointment came from Cripple Creek
and ]. c. Denny, M. j. Walsh and Hen
ry Gessell were appointed. w. ID. Otis,
r. B. Spencer and ]. F. Arbuckle were
appointed for Fort Morgan.
Under the Welcome Arch at Denver
there should be sign, Beware of Bar
bers." Certain BARRIERS, who are most
| ly to be found on lower Seventeenth
| street. have a practice of keeping a
man in the chair until they have done
enough work to amount to as much as
| S1.50 or So in some cases. They do
this by going ahead with so-called ton
les, rubs, etc., without asking per
mission of the patron.
d. P. Maven found himself the victim
of recordbreaking justice in Pueblo.
At 1880 he stole $3.50 worth of clothes
and jewelry from an automobile be-
| longing to G. F. Morrow of Lawrence,
Kansas, while it stood in front of the
Grand hotel At 2:30 p. m. he was in
the District Court charged with the
crime and a few minutes later he had
been sentenced to one year in the pen
| itentiary.
According to a report issued by Sec
retary of State O'Connor, TO corpor-
ations We're organized in Colorado dur
| ing the six months ending May 31st.
! OF these a large number include man
ufacturing companies and irrigation en-
terprises in which millions of dollars
are being invested The fees collected
by the state for the issuance of incor-
| poration papers alone amounted to
$39,020.S5 during the six months.
James Lynn, the negro who MUIR
dered Sarah James, a white girl, May
| 18th, was sentenced to be hanged dur
| ing the week ending October 10th by
Judge Essex in the District Court at
Pueblo, Tuesday. Lynn broke into the
house of Mrs. Julia James, and after
an alteration with white man who
was there, drove Mrs. James and her
daughter into the street. He then shot
both, killing the girl and badly wound
ing the mother.
At the meeting of the Colorado State
Federation of Labor, which will con-
vene at Denver August 10th with 200
delegates from 126 local unions, it is
said that the principal question to be
considered will be that of politics.
| 1t is the intention this fall to
have a systematic campaign of the
full abor vote. To facilitate this the
state headquarters will have the di
rection of affairs while local political
committees will be appointed in the
different cities.
All condemnation suits brought by
the town of Ault against the Union Pa
cific for rights of way for crossings
over the railway in Au,t were dis
missed by the contestants perfecting a
compromise. The road granted one
crossing of the two asked for and the
| town withdrew its test case.
Formal announcement was made at
| Colorado Springs Tuesday that the
Colorado-Kansas Company, recently