The state herald., 1908-05-01
COLORADO NEWS


Clifford, Lincoln county, with w. Mike
Monahan as postmaster.
Lewis Il. Webber and Ben McGee
TRUSTEES, who escaped from the peniten
tiary April 23rd, were captured next
day at Skaguay and taken back tC
Canon City.
Pains famous Carnival and Naples
and Eruption of Vesuvius" will be the
big night attraction at Overland park
| in Denver during the Colorado inter
state fair and exposition, September
7th TO 18th.
The strike of the $50 marble cut
ters employed by the Colorado Yule
Marble Company has been settled, the
men to work nine hours instead of
eight, and to receive an increase of 80
cents day in wages,
Henry Van Kleeck has been ap-
| pointed as delegate to represent the
Denver Chamber of Commerce at the
| National Conference of Peace Arbitra-
| tion which will meet, as 1t annually
does. at Mohonk Lake, New York,
May 21st.
The town OF Craig, one of the prin-
| cipal places along the line of the Mof-
fat road In Routt county, has decided
to incorporate by vote of eighty TO
| forty-nine This is the elimination of
an agitation that has covered the past
| two years.
Effective May LIST l.. d. Knowles.
general agent in Milwaukee for several
years of the Missouri Pacific system.
has been appointed general western
agent Of the same system, with head.
quarters at Denver Mr.. Knowles has
been In the railroad business twenty
five years.
Mayor Green OF Greeley issued a
proclamation April 23rd. ordering that
all dogs in the city must be either
muzzled or temporarily confined by
their owners. because many dogs
have recently been bitten by or eX-
posed to biting by dog suffering with
hydrophobia. Every dog not muzZled
or confined was ordered to be killed
by the marshal.
In the District Court at Canon City
the United States Reduction and Re.
filming Company wns granted IA judg-
ment against the Denver g. Rio Grande
Railway Company for 100000 for the
burning of thef Union mill at Florence
two years ago. The reduction com.
pany brought suit for s250.000. claim
ing that the fire started from spark
from n passing Rio Grande engine.
A committee from the State Bar As.
socistion, headed by Halsted L. Ritter.
held memorial services in the Federal
Court at Denver. April 23rd. passing
appropriate resolutions on the death
OF various members during the past
year. The members who passed away
were Charles w. Tankersley. Herman
II. Durham. Albert G. Grier. John II.
Murphy. Charles l. Thomson and
Charles NJ. Brown.
At Glenwood Springs on the night OF
April 22nd. John l.. Taylor, convicted
of second degree murder for killing
his wife. and sentenced TO not less than
twenty years in the penitentiar,.
cheated the court by hanging himself
In his cell at the city jail. He rsed a
rope male of strips OF nis bedding. lie
was found shortly after midnight and
had evidently been dead for several
hours. The crime OF which he was con,
victed was killing his wife at Coal
Basin last July. His attorneys tried
10 prove that his wife committed SUI
eide.
Considerable attention was attracted
by hnlfgrown mountain lion e1hib-
tied In the window Of the Moffat road
ticket office in Denver. The animal
was captured by II. |. Horne on Gore
range. up the Moffat road. and will be
sold TO park In Washington. Some.
l.Na q a..
tondont OF the Denver City Park 100.
intends TO 30 up to an elevation OF
5000 feet In the country near the Moi.
fat road and capture n number Of
young mountain sheep. These lambs
will be brought down to the plnney
ranch, 5000 feet high. where they will
be kept until they are old enough TO
be- brought to Denver aud placed In the
park.
Governor II. A. Buchtel has been
asked TO give $1,000 from some state
fund for the construction OF topo.
graphical map. iGSil feet, from which
copies may be made for exhibition mt
the International Congress OF Tuber'
culosls 10 be held at Washington next
September. A committee from the
Chamber OF Commerce and the Den.
yer Medical Society called upon III"
governor with this request. Those on
the committee We're T.. l.. Seholtz, W.
Y. II. Mills and Dra W. n. BcggH w,
W Grant. q. W. Holden. II. II. Whit,
noy. Charles DcnniSon and George II.
Stoyor, Tho governor may possibly
be able 90 appropriate the sum asked
for from the building mnd,
AZ the annual meeting Of tho State
Board Of Charities and Corrections at
Denver April gard. Rabbi W. \, Fried.
man was reelected president ot the
board. All the members were present.
including Dr, u. II. Dousan. Mrs. James
Williams. Father Malone. Mrs. CaapAr
and Judge Thomas Of breckenridge,
Mrs, Stanley NJ. Caapar was elected
vice president and Father Malone was
delegated 20 attend the national con,
yention Of charitable organizations In
Richmond this year, Reports from the
various institutions controlled by the
board were received and found 10 be
encouraging A resolution was adopted
calling fof the Improvement of the
] laws governing tho functions of the