The Colorado statesman., 1908-10-03
COLORADO NEWS

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Denver has endorsed the proposed erec-
ton of fourteen story sllyscraper.
They hold that it would benefit the
city.
The gross earnings of the Denver
City Tramway system for the year
ending August 81. 1908, are reported at
$3,O6l, ,902.64, an increase over the pre-
vious year of 1921, ,653.90.
John Susick, aged nineteen. was in
stantly killed in the mine of the Colo
rado Fuel & Iron Company at Ber-
wind Tuesday morning by being caught
In cave-in of rock and dirt.
Gov. ]. frank Hanly of Indiana will
be in Colorado October Sth, 9th and
10th and will deliver addresses under
the auspices fthe Anti-Saloon league.
He will speak in Denver October 10th.
Seventy-five thousand trout fry from
the state hatchery at Glenwood Springs
have been received by Sam w. Wider,
deputy game warden at Cripple Creek,
and placed in Four Mile and Oil creeks.
The Eastern Colorado Poultry Asso-
citation has been formed at Fort Nor
will be invited to join the association,
which plans a poultry show in Decem-
ber
The statement of the associated
banks of Boulder, Just published, shows
aggregate deposits of 81, ,So4. .157.5S. and
for the first time in eighteen months,
an increase in deposits over that of the
preceding statement.
DIR. Clough T. Burnett, a graduate
of Michigan University, has been ap-
Iointed professor in bacteriology at
the University OF Colorado, succeed
ing to the chair held last year by DR..
Bessie Robertson, now Mrs. Frank l..
Barrows
The engineers of the Denver City
Tramway Company are preparing
plans for extending its present car line
| system to Valverde, Overland park and
Fort Logan, districts. These lines were
provided for in franchise voted by the
taxpayers of the city in 1906.
AT a meeting in Grand Junction be-
tween the representatives of the
| Woodland Construction Company of
| Chicago and the Orchard Mesa Irriga
ton district of Grand Junction, a
contract was signed by which the con
suuction company undertakes to. in
stall a complete irrigation system on
the OrchardMesa within twelve
:ronths. The consideration involved
is 100000.
Attracted by a noise on a window of
| her house at Fort Collins Mrs. Nettie
| Robeson fastened out to learn the
cause and found large crane perched
on the narrow sash. With the assist
apce. of others she captured the bird
and sent it to the Agricultural college
museum. The bird measures seventy
inches from tip to tip, is known as a
thunder pumper," and is one of the
rarest of it's species.
The temporary writ issued bv the
District Court at Cripple Creek several
weeks ago prohibiting County Judge
| T. H. Thomas from proceeding further
i'll the contempt case against the may
or, city council and city attorney of
Goldfield, was made permanent Mon
day by District Judge James Owen.
| The alleged contempt was in paying a
warrant to DR.. Hayes in disregard of
an order of the county judge.
In its movement to preserve speci-
Lens of the American bison for the
benefit of future generations the Amer
lean Bison Society has sent a request
! to the Denver Chamber of Commerce
tnat $3.50 be raised in this state. That
sum is the amount which has been pro-
| rortioned to Colorado out of the S10,-
| 400 which must be collected to fulfill
tie plans. Already the government
has through Congress contributed a
range for the animals in Montana
which is worth $4,000
The cornerstone of the new $4,000
Masonic temple at Sterling was laid
| Tuesday by the officers of the grand
lodge of Colorado. The grand officers
present were John F. Gaddy. most wor-
shipful grand master of Del Norte
Charles B. Jacobson, grand secretary,
and Melville B. Edwards, grand lee
turer of Denver They were accom-
panied by prominent Masons from Den
yer and other towns in the state. Work
on the temple is progressing and it
will be completed about Jan. 1st.
Claiming that he and Mrs. Clara ALL
ward (white) of Hardin, adjudged in
sane and now in the state asylum, We're
married in Denver twenty-four years
ago, C. Brown, negro, who has
worked on the Allward ranch near
Greeley for years, asserts his right to
care for the property of Mrs. Allward,
which is worth $4,000. Brown who was
once a policeman in Denver says he
and Mrs. Allward were married by
Rev Murphy, a colored minister OF
Denver, and that only colored people
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