The new era., 1909-09-23
COLORADO ITEMS

Denver is to have q new hotel tc
cost $1.50O.O00.
First snow OF the season fell In the
mountain region Sunday.
President Taft day at Denver will
be rouser. from all indications.
Wilkie Edwards. Colorado Springs
club man. recently died at San Fran
cisco.
Light frosts are reported from all
18th. No great damage was done to
crops.
A. w. Powers, merchant at Or
londo. OKLA. cut his throat at Colo
RADIO Springs Monday because his
wife did not love him." Funeral at
Orlondo.
The chief attraction at the Canon
City Fair was the giving away of five
tons OF fruit to visitors. This was
accomplished from stand erected for
the purpose under large tent near
the entrance to the grounds.
By the first of the coming year
there will be In operation in Denver
lied under the laws of Colorado. with
paid-up capital of s25O.OOO and II
board of directors composed entirely
Of residents OF this state.
Having saved $1,000 out Of wages
and tips received while bellboy at
the Northern hotel for two years, at
Fort Collins, Arnold Stecher. aged
nineteen, left for Boulder to enter
high school in preparation for the
State University.
Major Cochran. father-in-law of
Frank DeMantel. proprietor OF Peters
burg, and Henry Cook. deputy mar
shal Of Petersburg. were each fined
$25 and costs by Justice Stewart for
resisting Colonel MacAlexander. a
game warden. two weeks ago.
Disappointed in love. Miss Maggie
Hoover, the 19-year-old daughter Of
Mrs. Clara Hoover. former matron at
the city Jail. In Pueblo, took strych-
nine and died as she was being rushed
to st. Marys hospital. She was found
on the floor in commissions by her
brother Frank, and DIR. PEARS, city
physician, was called.
Because of lack of funds, st. Paul
M. E. church. South, Denver. has been
forced to abandon its plans to enter
the, institutional field and build a new
church with clubrooms. library. gym
nasium and home for working girls.
A new church will be built. but on q
smaller scale. 1t will be located some
where on Capitol hill.
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. O. The end came at the Chi
cago Baptist hospital. after long suf-
ferring from Bright's disease. His
brother. Gen. Anson G. McCook OF
New York, was at his bedside.
Believing that her eighteen-year-old
| daughter was buried alive while in a
state of coma, Mrs. ]. H. Pfaff, wife
of 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 body of William poherty, a
well known ranchman Of Trinchera.
who was drowned near that place,
was recovered several miles from the
scene OF the drowning. Doherty and
his brother attempted to cross an ar
roya near their home, when the rig
was overturned and both were thrown
struggle, Joseph escaped. but his
brother was swept down with the
flood. He was 2S years old and is
survived by seven brothers and five
sisters.
Land adjoining Gill, sold for $3.50 an
acre. without water. The purchaser
was a man who had been a tenant on
the land for years and he will quit
farming and do market gardening.
Fifteen years ago Gill and the sur
rounding territory was open range. 1t
Is now station on the new Union
IdClllC LlHc. ne OHlOH tdClilC is
erecting depot and business men OF
Greeley are building big warehouse.
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 $5.00O.0O0. This
is the largest enterprise undertaken
by D. A. Camfield Of this city. his as.
sociates of Denver and Of the East.
Tho project has been fully financed
and construction Of the reservoirs.
bitches and the great tunnel through