The Colorado statesman., 1909-07-10
COLORADO NEWS

boat Springs has been finished by the
contractors.
Not marriage license was issued
in San Miguel county in June and not
a wedding took place in Telluride.
The flagstaff on the top of the Colo
rado Telephone Company's big building
in Denver was struck by lightning
July 4th, jarring the entire structure.
No one was hurt.
The new Majestic, the first modern
theater building in Grand Junction
was opened on the night of July 1st.
1t seats 700 and has stage much lar
ger than the old opera house.
Eddie and Agnes Garland, nine and
six years old respectively, children
of Mr. and Mrs. Patrick Garland, were
killed by lightning while at play on
the afternoon of July 3rd in their home
at 240 Washington street in Denver.
Arrangements are being made for
big meeting at Boulder July 31st in
the interest of the Metal Mining AS
sociation of Boulder county. The
meeting will be addressed by Capt. ].
I. Smith and another prominent min
John R. Wood and speakers from va
rious mining camps of the county.
w. E. Walton of Fort Collins has
been engaged to take charge of the
poultry department of the Colorado
Agricultural College, new departure
in college work. Mr.. Walton is versed
in the theory of poultry culture, as
well as practice, having long been
among the best known and most sue
cessful producers of chickens in the
state.
The election prescribed by law nee
essary for the completion of the for
nation of irrigation districts, has been
held in the new st. Vrain district, un-
der Standley lake, three precincts in
Weld county voting. The proposition
to organize a district carried unani-
mously insuring the organization of
district containing 10000 acres of ir-
rigable land.
Lying in the San Raphael hospital
in Trinidad his body paralyzed below
the waist, is William Hudson, aide de
camp on the personal staff of Gen
eral U. S. Grant during the Civil War
and a nephew of the great warrior.
Hudson's mother was a sister of Gen
eral Grant and Hudson's grandfather
was business partner of Grants
father in a tannery near Covington,
KY, before the war.
At Denver July 3rd, shooting and
killing Gussie Green, negress, in the
| doorway of Cottrells drug store at
] ctr
| William G. Hughes, a negro express
man, led the police in a chase to his
home at 3417 Humboldt street, barri-
caded himself in stable and, as pa
trolmen and detectives were batter
ing down the door, fired a bullet into
his own head.
George H. Putnam, a mining en-
gineer of Denver, who graduated at
the State School of Mines four years
ago, was murdered at Pilares, Mex,
July 7th, by Eleno Uriarte, a police
man, who called him out of moving
picture show and shot him twice
through the body. Putnam was only
twenty-five years old and the only son
of Mrs. F. C. Putnam, a widow, who
resides in Denver, where his body will
be brought for interment.
The records made by the Reilng
dredge boat of the French Gulch Gold
Mining Company, operating in French
gulch about a mile easterly from
Breckenridge, in the way of clean-ups
so far, have been broken by the last
one made in June. The last eight days
yielded roughly weighed on a plat
form scale II pounds avoirdupois. The
gold is estimated as being worth S1650
per ounce troy, which would make the
eight days cleanup worth $1S,513.
The Colorado Union of Christian En-
deavor societies at it's session in Den.
yer July 4th unanimously adopted res
olutions favoring the passage of laws
providing for the initiative, referen
dunn, recall and direct primary, the alb
olition of saloons, abolition Of
straight tickets" and compulsory
grand jury system. Governor Sha
froth was asked to call a special ses
sion of the Legislature to be held be
fore April 1, 1910, for the purpose o.
passing such measures.
A permanent organization of Colo
RADIO Republicans living in the city o
Washington has been effected with
Joseph Williams of Denver, president
Robert R. Davidson, Denver, secre
tary, and Oney Carstarphen, Silver
Cliff, treasurer. Membership in the
organization is restricted to Republi
cans who are residents or former resi-
dents of Colorado either permanently
or temporarily residing in Washing
ton who have not forfeited their righ
to vote in Colorado. One of the OBJ
iects of the association will be to pre-