The Colorado statesman., 1908-07-11
STATE NEWS ITEMS


z. Lee, with his family, visited rela
tives in Denver during the Democratic
convention
]. B. Farnsworth has been appoint
cd to I'LL the unexpired term of County
Treasurer Shelton, deceased, OF Nor
gan county
The Leadville tonnage for the month
of June was about the same as for the
previous month, $4,000 tons of all
classes of ore.
Chief Game Warden Charles Puring-
ton has provided $4,000 trout eggs to
stock the Denver fish hatcheries. The
eggs were taken from Trapper's lake.
Telegraphic reports snow that the
Fourth of July crowds in nearly every
town and resort in Colorado broke all
records. There's a big crop of people
this year.
Governor Buchel has appointed Fla
vius Naylor, Michael Donovan and
Frank Auken commissioners for The
purchasing of burial places for old sol
diers at Victor.
Four live Teddy bears have been on
exhibition in the California street win
dow of the Colorado Midland railroad
office in Denver. The bears were cap
tured by j. F. Wakefield OF Paonia.
In answer to reports concerning the
alleged unhealthy state of the water
of Colorado Springs City Health Com
missioner Hanford has prepared an Of
fetal tabulation of analyses of the wa
ter for June and three days of July.
He says the water is as pure as is pos
sible in any city in the United States,
being all from melted snow
.Iorrell Law of Denver, and recently
connected with the Colorado Midland
railroad, has been appointed traffic
manager of the Santa Fe Central and
Albuquerque Eastern railways, with
headquarters at Santa Fe. Samuel B.
Grimshaw, formerly of Denver, re-
signed as general manager and assist
ant to the vice president of these two
lines
State Dairy Commissioner Bishopp
stated recently that he had an applica-
tion from Twin Falls, Idaho, for 1000
Colorado milch cows. and that he was
in position to supply only few hun
dred head at the present time. Some
time ago Charles Brand of Colorado
Springs shipped about forty head OF
Red Polls to Idaho which We're abso-
lutely free from tuberculosis.
Secretary McCrillis of the State
Stock Inspection Board. has received
word of the death of Edward o. Lock
er, the inspector for the board at Kan
sas City For fifteen years Mr.. Lock
er looked after the interest of Colo
rado cattlemen in Kansas City and was
one of the best in the work At a
meeting of the board July 20th the va
cancy left by Mr.. Lockers death will
be filed
George n. Raymond, editor of the
Evening Herald OF Durango, who has
been writing "P NJ" after his name
for the past five years, is no longer
postmaster of Durango, having been
succeeded by w. w. Parshal. 1t is.
understood that Mr. Parshall will re
tain S. w. Strader as deputy and will
make no changes in clerks. Mr.. Ray
mond proposes to devote his entire
time to the Herald.
Seven damage suits, aggregating
s37, 500, We're filed in the District
Court at Pueblo on the Bird inst,
against the Colorado Fuel & Iron Com
pany. as the result of a gas explosion
at the Minnequa plant about year
ago, when five men lost their lives
and two others received injuries which
totally disabled them. The victims
were nearly all foreigners and the suits
are filed by relatives.
Miss Susa Carpenter, the Colorado
singer (born in Grand Junction) who
appeared at the Auditorium benefit
concert in Denver, last Sunday night,
is a dramatic soprano with fine
voice, well cultivated. Her studies
and career abroad have met with sue.
cess and she is shortly to return to
Rome, where she is under contract
with the National Italian theater to ap-
pear in grand opera
While attempting to board a Rio
Grande train between the engine and
the baggage car at Salida on the 6th
inst, James f Jennings of Leadville
caught his foot In the frog of a switch
was pulled under the train and run
over, his head being crushed in such a
manner as to cause instant death. His
father, Peter Jennings, was in Denver
at the time of the accident to attend
the Democratic convention.
AT meeting of the city council of
Boulder the bequest of the late A. j.
Macky of $4,000 for a hospital and
home for poor widow and orphan chill
dren, while sick and unable to care for
themselves, conditioned that the city
or the county support and maintain the
same, was declined in favor of Boul-
der county, providing the county would
accept all the obligations. 1t is under
stood that the county commissioners
are willing to do this.
Dead in seat in chair car on a
Santa Fe train, the body of Charles w.
Coppleman, until recently an employe
of the Denver Gas & Electric company,
was found when the conductor ap
preached him for his ticket Tuesday
morning. Coppleman was on his way
to Denver from Colorado Springs, and
the hOdY WAS discovered soon after the