The Colorado statesman., 1908-05-09

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Ronemus, grand master; j. H. Speltz,
vice president, and Oscar Boiling, for
the car men.
At the school election, May 4th,
Breckenridge voted in favor of a bond
issue of $4,000 to erect new school
building and Sterling voted $15,500 for
the same purpose.
Ira Hodgson of Toponas has pur
/ chased two automobiles and will con-
duct a passenger service this summer
between the end of of the Moffat road
and Steamboat Springs.
A company has been incorporated
for the purpose of erecting mills i'll
Montrose, Ouray, Delta and Mesa
counties to manufacture alfalfa pro
ducts and other stock foods.
Ground was broken at Brighton May
1st for the Wilmore Canning factory,
which is 10 cost 100000 and employ 200
people The factory will be ready for
this years crops.
A party of fifty, consisting of dele
gates and their families, left Denver on
the night of May Sd on a special train
to attend the national convention of
the Retail Grocers Association at Bos-
ton, May 14th.
Thurston White, horticultural inspec-
tor of Fremont county, made an exam
| nation of fruit conditions on Beaver
creek and reports that probably one
third of the apple crop is saved.
The first Japanese baby in the Gree
ley district was born on May Day to
The wife of T. Koshi well-to-do small
farmer. 1t weighed only three pounds,
but is active and strong.
The subject of a foreign country has
the right to sue in the courts of Colo.
RADIO, according to an opinion handed
down by Chief Justice Steele in the
case of Fenice Ferrara VS. the Auric
Mining Company.
Mrs. E. V. Alkire, formerly con
nected with the city and county hos
pital of Denver, has been appointed
superintendent of the Fort Collins
hospital, vice Miss E. NJ. Griep, who
goes to Europe to study.
Governor Buchtel has appointed
Mrs. Helen l.. Grenfel, formerly state
superintendent of public instruction,
to represent Colorado at the lnterna-
tional Women's Suffrage conference
to be held at Amsterdam, Holland
The Pueblo Business Mems Associa-
bration on the opening of the Pueblo
Stove & Iron Supply Company plant.
The plant, which will manufacture
stoves and steel castings, will employ
800 to 400 men.
Maps have been filed at Greeley OF
Rensley reservoir, twenty miles east OF
Fort Lupton in Weld county. 1t will be
built as part of the Henrylyn system.
draw water from the South Platte and
have a capacity of several million Gu
bic feet.
The proceedings instituted in the Su-
preme Court by the Colorado Bar Asso-
citation against Charles o. Erbaugh OF
Denver, charging him with practicine
as an attorney without license, We're
brought to close by the imposition of
a fine of 5000 and costs on Erbaugh or
fine of 5000 and costs on Erbaugh
or a commitmenl to the county jail in
lieu of payment. The judgment was
suspended during good behavior.
In Denver on the 5th inst Burton H.
Koch, fireman, aged thirty-one, shot
and killed Louise Motley, his divorced
wife, aged twenty, wounded Mrs. Ma
tilda Motley and ended his own life
with bullet through his heart. Bert
Lustig, who ruined Mrs. Koch and de-
! Stroyed the young flremanS nome,
lies in the county jail serving ninety
days sentence, imposed two weeks
ago. He was convicted on Mrs. Koch s
testimony that he made white slave
of her.
The Canon City council has in
structed the city attorney to institute
proceedings against the Canon City
Elk Club to compel it to discontinue
the sale of intoxicating liquors to its
members in violation of city ordi-
nances.
Mrs. Elizabeth Duncan, distant
cousin of President Roosevelt, the
second woman to arrive with the east
ern colony which founded Longmont in
1871, died at the home of her daughter
Mrs. Beatty of La Sale. Mrs. Duncan
was born August "a, 1925. Her father
was a cousin of President Roosevelt's
mother.
. Frederick Law Olmstead, the
Charles Elliott professor of landscape
; architecture at Harvard, has been en-
gagged by the Boulder Improvement
Association for the purpose of making
plans for beautifying the city, and &c
! lay out a system of parks.