The Colorado statesman., 1909-10-02
COLORADO ITEMS


mysteriously disappeared from Grand
Jpnction
The Routt county school teachers
are holding an institute at Yampu
this week.
Three members of the Miner family
at Grand Junction have died within
ten days.
Charles Woolf of Golden was bound
over to the District Court on charge
OF cattle rustling
A baby a few weeks old was found
in box at the Union depot in Den
yer recently. The youngster was well
and apparently happy. No trace of
the unnatural mother is found
John W. Bailey, ~ years of age, a
trustee of Denver university, died at
Bayonne, N. j., where he had lived for
a year. He is survived by widow
and two sons, and a sister, Mrs. |. T.
Beck, 1432 Grant street
Thirty warrants were issued Mon
day at Pueblo for the arrest of men
living near the Missouri Pacific round
house. who, it is charged by Special
Agent F. J. Cox, have stolen almost
enough tools to start another rail
road. All manner of railroad property
is included in the list, and it is
charged that even a handcar was
taken.
The body of E. Espineza, miner
eighteen years of age, employed by
the Colorado Fuel & Iron Company at
Segundo, was found on the railroad
tracks of the Colorado & Wyoming
at that camp Monday 1t is pre-
sumed that he was trying to beat his
way to Trinidad on a freight when he
fell under the wheels. He was un-
married and lived with his parents.
Driven to desperation by pain, the re-
suit of months of suffering from
stomach trouble, Fred C. Bucherdee,
aged 60, pioneer of Boulder county,
committed suicide in his home at
Lyons He first slashed his wrists
with a butcher knife, but fearing that
his wife would detect his act before
he could bleed to death. he took a
shotgun and blew off the top of his
head.
John L. Caldwell, commander of
Colorado Springs Post No. %, G. A. R.,
died suddenly Sunday morning in San
Diego, Cal He reached San Diego
Friday, having gone there after sew
eral weeks illness in the hospital in
the hopes that the lower altitude
would benefit his health. The direct
cause of his death was heart failure.
Mr.. Caldwell was siXty-five years old
and is survived by his stepdaughter,
Mrs Belle Coulter, with whom he
| lived in Colorado Springs.
Final survey for the proposed cleo
| trio car line from Grand Junction 10
Fruita was commenced Monday under
the direction of Chief Engineer Nose
| ly of the company. The right of way
over the entire course has been Sc
cured and at conference held in
Fruita last Saturday between General
Manager Sunderlin and other officials
of the Interurban Electric Company
and the local committee, which had
in charge the securing of the right of
way, it was formally announced that
the road would be in operation by
January 1st
Tobias MattoX, living a mile south
west of Greeley, will take $1,000 in
fruit from an eight-acre orchard this
season, having cne of the best crops
since he planted it seven years ago.
There are twenty-eight varieties OF
apples, different varieties of plHms,
grapes, pears, peaches, etc. The aver
age harvest of each plum tree brought
a return of $40 and over a ton and a
half ton of grapes will be gathered.
Mattox intends to increase his orch
ard and make a specially of shipping
fruit to Denver, where, he says, the
demand is for the best quality. He
saws that his orchard has brought him
double the returns of any other eight
acres on his farm of 160 acres.
Denver.-Reviewing of the assess
ments of corporations was finished by
the state board of equalization. and
values fixed on telegraph. telephone,
railroad and express companies in the
sum of $56O00, 900, an increase of s4,-
600 600 over. last years assessment.
The state will receive $240,000 in
taxes from this, and the counties COM
bined the sum of s1.70S.00.
The assessments on four corpor-
ations fixed at the April meeting were
changed by the board; the Union Pa
cific was granted a reduction of $780,
600 because it had made mistake in
figuring its bonds of s5O0,000. The
Western Union was reduced $4,000
and the Postal Telegraph company
SCI 900, these reductions being made
on account of losses claimed to have
been sustained in the business. The
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