The Colorado statesman., 1908-10-24
STATE news ITEMS


Greeley voted to hold its next annual
session at Pueblo.
The Burlington Interurban Company
has its profiles completed and expects
to build its road from Hudson to Gree
ley within year.
On the 21st inst, for the first time
in the history of Pueblo, there was not
a case of contagion registered with the
board of health, nor was there case
in quarantine.
The Denver district of the Pullman
car service is now under the superin-
tendence of F. L. Wood, recently ap-
pointed and transferred from the Gin
cinnati district.
According to Prof c. e. Chadsey,
city superintendent Of schools in Den
yer, it is necessary for Denver, in or
der to keep pace with the growth of
school population, to spend about
S1,O00,000 every five years for school
buildings.
While attempting to repair electric
wires which had broken down under
the heavy SHOWS of Saturday night, j.
]. McCloskey, bookkeeper and office
man of the Northern Colorado Power
Company in Louisville was instantly
killed Sunday morning by touching a
live wire
A live wire dangling in front of the
door of the Lindquist cracker factory
in Denver Monday morning caused the
death of Joseph Henry, aged twenty
one, baker in the establishment, who
ran into the wire when he came to his
work. The wire had been broken
down by the snowstorm.
Denver will have venison for
Thanksgiving, Christmas and New
Years feasts, judging from the num-
ber of storage permits being taken
out in the office of the state game and
fish commission. Over 200 permits
have already been issued and many
hundred deer are being stored in the
cold storage rooms of various ice
companies IN this city.
Without exception the bids sub
mited to the county commissioners of
Pueblo county for the erection of the
new court house exceeded the esti-
mates of both architects and the board.
Five bids were presented, the lowest
being that o5 Frank Taylor of Pueblo,
s44S,30S. Taylor contracts to use Tur-
key Creek stone and to complete the
structure within two years.
Charles H. Mcclure, engineer at the
Denver mint, stood highest in the ex-
animation given by the United States
civil service commission to applicants
for the position of inspector of me-
chanical and electrical engineering in
the supervising architects office in
Washington. He has been ordered to
report at Washington to assume the
position.
A. E. Williams, blacksmith work
ing for the Stratton-Granite company
sixteen miles north of Salida, was evi-
IDENTIFY victim of the heavy snow
storm that ragged in that vicinity Sun
day. He was last seen at the camp
of the company and his frozen body
was found beside the trail a short
distance from the cabin. He had
brother in Aspen and sister in Den
yer.
A collision occurred on the Rock Isl
and road at siding between Ramah
and Mattison at IL a. m. Sunday be
tween passenger train No. and a
west-bound freight train in which
I Frank Bishop, freight engineer, of Col
orado Springs, Clarence G. Williams,
fireman, and William Kline, engineer
on the passenger train were severely
+ injured. G. F. Hendy, mail clerk, re-
ceived severe cut on one of his arms
The grand encampment /. o. o. r.
at Greeley on the 10Th inst. elected the
following officers: Samuel Andrew
| Denver, grand patriarch; H. G. De
Ternne, Pueblo, grand high priest; H.
X. Jensen, Cripple Creek, grand senior
warden; ]. NJ. Norman, grand scribe;
N Koenig, Golden, grand treasurer; }.
J. Hallack, Denver, grand junior war
den; representatives to the grand
lodge. F. C. Goudy, and l.. Nicholson OF
Denver
Denver saloons must close on Sun
day. according to the dictates of Judge
II. C. Riddle of the West Side Court. In
scathing language he arraigned OIL
cials who permit saloonkeepers to con
duct their places of business on Sun
days, and said that many crimes may
be traced directly to Sunday saloons
Judge Riddle said that unless officials
do their duty willingly, he will see to
it that the law is enforced, personally,
and as judge Of the District Court.
At sunset Tuesday, the Goth inst,
war against the deer of Colorado was
declared off for another year, and pos
sibly for several years. More than
| 5000 deer were indiscriminately
slaughtered, according to the state
ment of Game Commissioner d. e.
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