The Colorado statesman., 1909-09-18
STATE NEWS ITEMS

'Hal SHOW OF tne season tell In tne
mountain region Sunday.
President Taft day at Denver will
be a rouser. from all indications.
Nilkie Edwards, a Colorado Springs
club man, recently died at San Fran
cisco
Denver" the burro presented to
Tom Taggart, at the Democratic ma
tional convention in Denver, has foaled
young Denver, but it's name is Pluto.
Never IN the history of Denver
schools has the enrolment of school
children been so large nor the lack
OF adequate accommodations for them
felt so keenly as at the opening of the
present scnool year There are 2S,932
enrolled.
Following an Abdominal operation
f. j. Sweet, seventy years old, a ri
oneer railroad man near Cripple
Greek, died. He was brakeman on the
.orence & Cripple Creeks first train
into the camp and had run steadily
on that train ever since.
By the first of the coming year
there will be in operation in Denver
a new life insurance company. organ
lied under the laws of Colorado, with
a paid-up capital of S25O,OOO and Il
board of directors composed entirely
of residents of this state
From the effects of a bad beating
received in a fight, it is alleged, AL
bert kero, an aged tailor living at
1897 Walnut street, died in St Jo-
GanH'g FOL
going an operation performed in hope
of saving his life. The alleged as
sailant of the dead man is Eldridge M.
Osborn, thirty-five years old, an agent
for the Stiles collection agency.
Gen. Edward Moody McCook, twice
territorial governor of Colorado, The
man who paved the way for Sher-
mans march to the sea, and former
minister to Hawaii, died in Chicago
Sept 8. The end came at the Chi
cago Baptist hospital, after long suf-
ferring from Bright's disease. His
brother. Gen. Arson G. McCook of
New York, was at his bedside.
A 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. M. NJ. 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.
Believing that her eighteen-year-o
daughter was buried alive while in
state of coma, Mrs. j. H. Pfaff. wife
of a dairyman living one mile east of
Globeville, asked the city health de-
partment of Denver what she could
do to relieve her mind of the horri-
BILE doubt hanging over it. She was
advised to have the body disinterred
from its grave in the Riverside GENE
terry.
The Colorado Sunday School Asso-
citation is making preparations to take
religious census of the entire state
on October 1. Every county and town
in the state is being thoroughly or
ganized for this purpose. More vol
unteer helpers, however, are needed,
and those willing to assist are re-
quested to write to the secretary of
the association, POS Empire Building,
Denver, for instructions.
Colorado Springs people are making
efforts to obtain a lease on the Brown
Palace hotel in Denver, owned by the
Stratton estate. The hotel has been
conducted for years by n. Maxcy Ia
Dor, whose lease expires October 31st
Tabor is anxious to retain the hotel.
The hotel will be given a complete
Overhauling and made entirely mod
ern. This work will begin October
1st and means the expenditure of
$250.000
Congressman Martin at Pueblo re-
ceived notice of the granting of a 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 30, 1864. For years the veteran
has been unable to get pension be-
cause the enlistng officer spelled his
name as it is pronounced. "Troheo."
He will now receive $3,S00 back pay
and SIT per month for life.
Contracts have been signed in Den
yer by the Greeley-Poudre irrigation
district and the Laramie-Poudre Res
ervoir G. Irrigation Company for the
construction Of the greatest irrigation
system in the West, not excepting
government projects completed or un-
der construction. 1t will require eX-
penditure of about s5,OOO,OOO. This
is the largest enterprise undertaken
by d. A. Camfield of this city. his as
sociates of Denver and of the East.
The project has been fully financed
and construction of the reservoirs.
bitches and the great tunnel through
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