The Colorado statesman., 1909-09-04


Twenty-nine carloads of fruit were
urday, according to a statement issued
by the Grand Junction Fruit Growers
Association.
Five families have been quaran-
tined in Louisville owing to an cpl
demic of smallpox, which has had
pronounced run in the mining town
for the last two weeks.
The noted 3-R ranch, embracing
4,965 acres and twenty-six cubic feet
of water right, located near Beulah,
was sold by R. F. Weitbrec to former
Senator Hume Lewis for $125,0O0.
The opinion of farmers of Logan
county and others fully competent to
Judge of agricultural conditions, is
that that section of the state will
yield the greatest crops ever known.
Thirty thousand acres of land were
disposed of at public auction in Den
yer, by the State Land oBard, for
100000. This is the largest sale ever
held by the board, but another to be
held next month will equal it.
Jim Flynn, the Pueblo fighting fire
man who is to meet Bill Pettus at Pu-
eblo on September 22nd in ten
round bout for the benefit of the Pu-
eblo baseball club, has arrived from
California and will open up training
quarters soon. Pettus is expected to
arrHte soon and start training.
An exhibit of pottery, drawings and
other art objects made by students of
the State Normal School is being
shown at the teachers institute at
Cheyenne. The work of both the
training school and mature students
is included. Prof. Richard Ernesti,
head of the art department, is giving
a course of lectures.
There is $4,000 worth of buildings
being erected in Eaton at the present
time, including a $4,000 high school
building, new building for the Eaton
National Bank. the Sandberg & Pier
son implement house and a new laun-
dry which is being put up by j. A.
Warren. Six miles of sidewalk have
been laid.
Joe Shea, II years old, the son of
w. H. Shea, clerk of the District
Court, while working on the reservoir
OF the Denver Union Water Company,
near Morrison, fell twelve feet onto
the concrete cement pavement, light
ing on his head. 1t is believed that
the young man sustained concussion
of the brain. His condition is critical.
At the new town of Gill the con-
struction gang of the Union Pacific
arrived and broke ground for the new
station of the road at that point in
conjunction with gang of working
men which began installing the big
scales for commission house. The
switch tracks of the branch line have
been completed and work ON the
depot will be rushed.
Henry Horst of Loveland, in COM
pany with a Weld county officer, has
been securing the country between
Loveland and Grover in an effort to
catch the man who is alleged to have
stolen horse from Horst's pasture
last Thursday. A party of Loveland
people stated that they met the man
and horse, which they recognized,
near Grover.
Ed lillian, notorious horsethief and
ex-convict, who escaped from the Del
ia jail July 28th, has been recaptured
in Monticello, Utah. When he escaped
lillian had a hand-to-hand encounter
with Sheriff Williams, whom he near
ly murdered. Extraordinary efforts
were made by officers in all of this
inter-mountain country to find the
man. lillian was recognized by for
mer pal, who gave the officers a hint
of his whereabouts, his rearrest result
ing Sheriff Williams will leave to-
night to bring him back
The Santa Fe railroad will have to
pay its annual license to the state OF
Colorado or quit running its trains
across the state line. This, in effect.
was the decision of Federal Judge
Lewis in Denver, when he sustained
the demurrer filed by the attorneys
for Timothy O'Connor, former Secre-
tary of State, holding that the tax of
50 fer every $1,000 of capitalization of
corporations doing business in Colo
RADIO was a valid one and that the plea
of the railroad that the imposition OF
the tax was an interference with inter-
state commerce was not based on
legal grounds.
Leandro Martinez, charged with be-
ing the leader of the gang which at
tempted to steal the payroll Of the
Victor American Fuel Company, Aug
ust IA, was held to the next term of
the District Court at Trinidad under
live separate charges. Two of the
charges are for the larceny of live
stock, one growing out of the fact that
he took the horse of Senator Casamira
Barela on the day Of the hold-up, and
another that he took the horse of Leo
Lente, a herd boy, who was at work