The Colorado statesman., 1908-09-19
COLORADO NEWS

year ended June Both were $2S,5 500.
Train service between Denver and
1ampa, on the Moffat road, began Men
day.
The Keystone grocery at Colorado
Springs was robbed of $500 in cash and
checks Sunday night
James Ogilvy, near Greeley, had
twenty-seven acres of wheat which
yielded forty-two bushels to the acre.
William G. Kerr, bystander who
was shot by John Ryan in labor row
at Denver Sunday, died Monday morn
ing.
The Denver postoffice, alone among
The fifty largest cities of the country
showed an increase in receipts over
last year
The Morgan county fair at Fort Nor
gan attracted remarkably fine exhibits,
especially of horses and cattle and the
attendance was very large.
The annual Tri-county fair of Gar
field, Eagle and Pitkin counties on
Thursday, Friday and Saturday, broke
the record both as to display of prod
ucts and attendance
The town of Grand Valley celebrated
its first annual Fruit day on the 10th
inst. After the show was over the fruit
display was shipped to the Tri-county
fair at Glenwood Springs.
S. l. Bush, on the Liggett ranch, two
miles south of Wellington, Larimer
county, has just threshed an eleven
acre field of oats yielding 41,400
pounds, or an acreage of over 121 bush
els an acre.
Prohibitionists of the city and coun-
ty of Denver will hold their county
convention Thursday afternoon, Sept.
"a, at p. m. in the lecture room of the
Peoples Tabernacle, Twentieth and
Lawrence streets.
BY the will of the late Mrs. Kathryn
Mclaughlin, who died in Denver re-
Gently, her entire estate escept few
minor bequests will go to the Old La
dies Home Association of Denver. The
income is estimated at $50 a month.
Miss Jessie Edmonds of FIT. Collins,
B. A, University of Colorado, 1908, has
gone to Porto Rico to teach in the
United States government schools IN
San Juan, having passed the examind-
tion under the civil service rules.
Superintendent Deacon OF the Union
Printers Home will take charge of
the homes exhibit at the International
tuberculosis Congress in Washington,
ID. c., September 21st. A model steam
heated tent, patterned after those
used at the home, will be feature
of the exhibit.
Governor Buchtel has appointed two
more delegates to represent Colorado
at the National Irrigation Congress in
Albuquerque, New Mexico, opening
September 30. They are T. c. Waite
meyer of Boulder and Frederick Welt
ger of Rocky Ford. Both men are in
terested in the questions which will
come before the meeting and are stu
dents of irrigation problems.
At Colorado Springs Wednesday
Henry Trowbridge. assistant district
attorney for the last two years and
WHO has also served as districs attor-
ney, was nominated for district attor-
ney by the Republican Fourth judicial
district convention The district en-
braces Ell Paso, Teller, Cheyenne, Lin
coin, Kit Carson Douglas and Ebert
counties.
Because he violated the civil SER
vice rule which prohibits any political
activity of employees of the govern
ment, j. Fl. Rhinehart, letter carrier
attached to the Denver office, is now
$500 year poorer than he would have
been had he refrained from political
meddling. Rhinehart's salary was re-
duced from $1,100 to $500 a year by
the civil service commission.
Brush, Colo.-Company H, First regi-
ment Colorado National Guard, was
mustered in here Tuesday night with
fifty Inen by General Zeph Hill and Ad-
jutani General Kelley F. F. Rhine
hart was elected captain, David Wal
lace. first lieutenant, and George Bah
cock. second lieutenant. The business
men of Brush have agreed to build a
$4,000 armory for the company.
S. j. Schenck has been elected bust
ness agent of the Farmers Cooperative
and Educational union, and will open
headquarters in Pueblo. The union
will ask, through legislative commit
tee, the passage of laws concerning the
following matters: Initiative and ref
erendum. recall of officials, guaranty
bank law modelled after that of Okla
homa, railroad commission with eX-
tensive powers to regulate, and mine
inspection law.
The United States government has
entered suit against James w. Zim-
norman. sheriff of Garfield county.
charging him with allowing his cattle
to run on the Holy Cross and Battle
ment Mesa national forest reserves.
judgment in the sum of $1,1OO is
asked. Zimmerman is accused of fail
ing to take out a permit and also of
attempting to influence other cattle
raisers to refuse to pay the government
the amount charged for allowing cattle
to Craze on forest reserves.
Montrose, Colo.-The second day of
the big western slope fair, Wednesday,
attracted vast crowds. The exhibits
eclipsed anything shown at previous
fairs. Some of the apples and peaches
measured twelve inches in circumfer-