The Colorado statesman., 1908-05-02
STATE NEWS ITEMS

day at Skaguay and taken back to
Canon City.
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 it annually
does, at Mohonk Lake, New York,
May 21st.
A Taft special to the Chicago con-
vention will be run from Pueblo and it
is expected that every town in the Ar
kansas valley and Colorado Springs
VIII send at least one representative,
and that between 100 and 125 will be
on the train
force of men has been set to work
on the Argentine Central railroad,
which ascends Mount Mcclellan above
Georgetown, to get the road in shape
for operation. The road is practically
open now, most of the snow having dis
appeared. 1t is intended to open pas
senger business June 1st.
Gunnison granite has been selected
for use in the drilling contests in the
international mining exposition to be
held in Madison Square Garden, New
York, in May and June. This beautiful
stone is the product of the Aberdeen
quarry, seven miles south of Gunnison,
and is the same as used in the State
Capitol.
The Royal Gorge will have tele-
phone line with wires on brackets on
the solid rocks of the canon. Men will
be let down by means of ropes from
the brim of the chasm to anchor the
wires. The line is to be constructed
by the Colorado Telephone Company,
and will be used in connection with
the new Canon City waterworks.
]. E. Moore's ranch in the Gunnison
valley, which adjoins the city limits of
Delta, has been sold to w. l.. Clark of
Randolph, Pennsylvania, for $40 1000.
1t contains 226 acres of rich sugar beet
land and 1t was on this ranch that the
sugar beets were raised which took the
first premium at the st. Louis worlds
fair.
The N. w. Brock ranch. one of the
largest of the old-time cattle ranches in
Routt county, has been sold 10 the
Yampa Livestock and Land Company.
This ranch comprises about 500 acres
of the cinest bottom land along Bear
river and is one of the best acquisi-
tions yet made to the big Cary Bros
ranch. The price paid is said 10 have
been 100000.
The most elaborate dinner ever CIV
en- at the Cheyenne Mountain Country
club at Colorado Springs was that ten
dered Monday night by Charles M.
MacNeil to Charles Hayden and Will
liam B. Thompson of Boston. Fifty OF
the best known men of this state and
Utah were present. 1t is estimated
that more than S100,Oo0,000 was repre-
sented at the table.
In the District Court at Canon City
the United States Reduction and Re-
filming Company was granted judS-
ment against the Denver & Rio Grande
Railway Company for 100000 for the
burning of the Union mill at Florence
two years ago. The reduction COM
pany brought suit for $250,00O, claim
ing tnat the fire started from a spark
from a passing Rio Grande engine.
Word has come to the University of
Colorado from the University of Mis-
souri, that the latter school is anxious
to have Colorado enter the Mis-
souri, Valley conference, the members
of which are included in Nebraska,
Kansas, Washburn, Washington, Mis-
souri, and others. This conference is
an association of colleges and univer-
stiles merged for the purpose of ath-
letic relations.
A committee from the State Bar AS
sociation, 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
H. Dunham, Albert G. Grier, John H.
Murphy, Charles l. Thomson and
Charles M. 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 penltentiary,
cheated the court by hanging himself
in his cell at the city jail. He used
rope male of strips of mis- bedding. He
was found shortly after midnight and
had evidently been dead for several
hours. The crime of which he was COLI
victed was killing his wife at Coal
Basin last July. His attorneys tried
to prove that his wife committed sui
eide.
The new shops building of the col
lege of engineering at the University of
Colorado was dedicated April 25th. The
program consisted of music remarks
by President James H. Baker, Regent
Charles r. Dudley, Dean Milo S. Ket-
chum, and Harry Curtis for the engi-
neering students. Hon Regis Chauve-
net, former president of the State
School of Mines, gave the principal ad-
dress of the day. The inspection of the
shops followed. They are now in full
operation and on account of their mod
ern equipment and facilities are con-
sidered the best of their kind in the
West.
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