The Colorado statesman., 1909-09-25
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path to President Taft
Colorado weather just couldn't be-
have itself long enough to show the
President the best side.
Joseph Richard, miner from Rug
by, says he was hypnotized in Den
yer and relieved of $50.
Despondent because he could not
secure a renewal of his farm lease,
Gus Pape committed suicide at Broom
field by shooting himself in the head
with rifle.
The body of ]. j. Hagerman, who
died at Milan, Italy, will be sent to
the United States on September 25th,
the date he and Mrs. Hagerman ex-
pected to sail for home.
Land in Jefferson county, near Den
yer, is increasing in value, as is
shown by the recent purchase of a
quarter section three miles north of
the city, by Nathanitl Ketchel of Den
yer. Ketchel purchased the land from
VIM. w. Wahl, paying s25,00O for it,
This same tract was on the market
two years ago for $4,000. but no one
seemed to want it at that price.
preacher who quit the pulpit to
become a newspaper man. and who in
turn quit that business to go back to
the church, has been appointed pastor
of the Methodist church of Goldfield,
Colo. He is Rev. NJ. M. Eaton, for
merly considered the most brilliant
preacher and platform orator of West
ern New York. He left the pulpit be-
cause of failing health and returned
when he became cured
A railroad survey party reported to
be closely allied with the Colorado &
Southern, is making survey from the
little town of Mesa to Palisade and
Grand Junction. The party have been
in the field nearly week, are at pres
ent working up Rapid creek. 1t is
reported that the surveyors have
found a new route that presents a
better line than the one usually fol-
lowed
Congressman Martin at Pueblo re-
ceived notice of the granting of pen
sion to Jose Ignacio Trujillo of Sc
gundo, who served in the Third Colo
RADIO cavalry and was wounded in the
famous battle of Sand Creek. Novem-
ber 90, 1864. For years the veteran
has been unable to get pension be-
cause the enlisting officer spelled his
name as it is pronounced, 'Troheo."
He will now receive S3.SOo back pay
and SIT per month for life.
State Coal Mine Inspector ]. D.
Jones has filed his semi-annual re-
port with Governor Shafroth, showing
an increase in production for the first
six months of the year of 406,936 tons.
The total production in the state
amounted to 4,S2S,412 tons. The larg-
est Increases shown in the report are
in Huerfano and Las Animas, 147,393
tons and 22,960 tons respectively.
Jones reports that all of the mines
OF the state are making preparations
for a big season.
A movement is on foot to reopen the
Belle Vista hotel in Golden, which
would give Golden as large and mod
ern hostelry as any OF the smaller
cities in the West. The Belle Vista
was built twenty-five years ago when
the hotel and the lavish style in which
it was conducted were fully quar-
ter of a century ahead OF the town
and its surroundings After brief
career it was closed and has since
been used as a student rooming
house.
Officers of the Golden National
Guard company have taken prelimi.
nary steps toward it's reorganization
into a corps of engineers. On ac-
count of having so many students,
who are taking technical courses, in
the ranks, it is believed the change
would be advantageous to the state
as well as the company General John
Chase favors the plan and Captain
Bleil and other local officers are con-
fident they will be permitted to make
the change.
The $125,000 Temple of Comemrce
to be built by the Denver Chamber
of Commerce, adjoining the Ideal
building, on Champa street between
Seventeenth and Eighteenth streets,
will be started October LIST. Entirely
new plans furnished by Marean &
Norton have been accepted and the
work is to be pushed forward as rap
idly as possible. The building is a
five-story affair, with roof garden
and will be one Of the finest struc-
lures of it's kind west of the Missis-
sippi river.
big strike of copper-lead ore is re-
ported just over the range in Grand
county, from Boulder, on the property
OF the Consolidated Copper Mining,
Milling & Smelling Company, whose
offices are in Denver. A four-foot
body of ore has been opened on the
western SloDe of the AraDahOe pass