The Colorado statesman., 1908-02-01
COLORADO NEWS ITEMS

sundays and holidays.
A large party of Colorado and Wyom-
ing people left Denver, January 2Sth.
for months excursion in Old Mexico.
The first vaudeville theater in Gree
ley opened its doors on the night of
January goth, and another will be es-
tablished soon.
Rural free delivery route No. 3 has
been ordered established April 1st, at
Hugo. Lincoln county. serving 600 peo-
pie and 1877 families.
The University of Colorado has
Joined the Archaeological Institute of
America and the regents appropriated
$500 to assist in the research work.
Mrs. Mary Downey, colored woman
at Pueblo, recently gave birth to a
fifteen-pound boy. which is record for
Pueblo county and is said to approach
the worlds record.
DR.. Ella Mead of Greeley has been
appointed register of deaths and births
of Weld county by the secretary of the
State Board of Health. DR.. Mead is
also city physician.
Grapes brought all the way from
South Africa are in the market at Den
yer. They are from the Cecil Rhodes
ably only multi-millionaires dare ask
the price.
The comptroller of the currency has
approved the conversion of the First
National Bank of Montezuma Valley,
at Cortez. into the Montezuma Val
ley National bank of Cortez, with a
capital of 100000.
w. Rolla Wilson and Alfred Lewis
txrth I,,.1 70, .s.xl- yxNf,
forty-two miles east of Eaton, to cost
$4,000. 1t will have capacity of 35,-
600 cubic feet and receive its water
from Maverick gulch.
The state will receive S6,651.70 in in
heritance tax with six per cent. inter
est, dated from October, 1902, from the
estate of Frederick j. Keener of Den
yer, who died over five years ago, leav
Ing fortune of 1892, $500.
John II. Shoepfe, general manager
of the Western Sugar and Land Com
pany, at Grand Junction, has rendered
his resignation to take effect March
1st. He will be succeeded by Fred G.
Holmes, now assistant manager.
The high saloon license ordinance,
raising the annual license from 5000
to $1,000 a year, was passed by the
u
bat one OF the aldermen voted for the
measure and it will go into effect
July 1st.
1t is reported that coyotes in some
parts of Weld county, which have been
unusually numerous and destructive
this winter, are being decimated by
disease, supposed to be mango, con-
tracted from eating carcasses of dis
eased cattle.
Out of the 1,285,349 immigrant aliens
admitted into the United States during
the year ending June 80, 1907, Colorado
got 1852. This was more than any
other state west of the Mississippi
river received, with the exception of
California and Washington.
By order of District Judge Sheafor
the gambling devices, q consisting of
faro tables and roulette wheels seized
at Cripple Creek in recent raid, were
burned in public on Bennett avenue
Saturday. A similar fire took place
early in the week. The total value of
the devices destroyed in this manner
is estimated at 100000.
City Park in Denver, is to have a
magnificent electric fountain next sum-
mer, according to the plans of the park
board. The fountain will be placed
in the center of the big lake and will
be one Of the largest ever constructed
in the United States. The tramway
will furnish current for lighting and
the pumping station at the park will
keep the water in play. 1t will be op-
Grated for two hours every night dur
ing the season.
An eloquent address was given be-
fore large gathering of colored peo-
pie in Denver by Hon. w. T. Vernon,
register of the United States treasury,
on, THE Negro, His Opportunities and
Problems" In his address he said that
the negro has nearly 10000 school
teachers, 500 young negroes pursuing
courses in the greatest institutions Of
learning in this and foreign countries,
and he is paying taxes on quite $780,
100000 worth of property.
The Colorado Fuel e Iron Company
has just made record shipment of
wire from its plant at Pueblo. 1t went
to Ottawa, KaS., on a special train of
twenty cars, decorated with banners.
This is the third large shipment that
has been made to Ottawa in the last
eighteen months, although this one is
the largest and is thought to be the
largest wire shipment ever made. 1t
is estimated that there is enough wire
In the consignment to reach two-thirds
of the way aroun' The world.
The body of Peter Sartos, a Greek
miner, was found Sunday night in the
entry to room 13 of the Victor Fuel and
Iron Company mine at Delagua, thirty
miles north of Trinidad. The mans
clothing was disarranged, and a money
belt known to have contained $500 was
slashed open and the coin gone. A
bullet hole in the mans left temple in.
dicated the manner of his death. A
coroner's inquest failed to find clue
to the identity of the murderer.