The new era., 1909-10-07
COLORADO NEWS

Fire destroyed forty hives of bees
and their honey. with loss of $500, on
the Charles Adams ranch near Kuner.
Prepared for three days carnival
of fun, the town Of Monte Vista and
the entire San Luis valley are a-bustle
on the occasion of the seventh annual
fair.
Despondent because he could not
secure a renewal of his farm lease.
Gus Pape committed suicide at Broom
field by shooting himself in the head
with rifle.
The body of ]. ]. Hagerman, who
died at Milan. Italy, will be sent to
the United States on September 25th,
the date he and Mrs. Hagermaff ex.
pected to sail for home. -
Because Peter Nelson, an embalm-
er, was overheard saying II hope Taft
will fall and break his neck" the Den
yer police locked him in jail until the
president departed.
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, 72 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 sister, Mrs. l. 7.
Beck, 1892 Grant street.
Harry Cramer and Howard Ire
lease, while searching for firewood on
the hillside about mile below Tel
luride near San Miguel. discovered
the remains of Arthur w. Allen, who
mysteriously disappeared November
IS, 1908. There was little beyond the
bones and fragments of clothes, and
the remains were identified by Ma
sonic watch charm attached to the
chain.
Rev. Beadle of Denver, an evangel-
ist. and Professor Sutherland, Chi
cago singer, are conducting an ener-
getic revival at Lafayette. The meet
ings have been going on now for over
two weeks and the nightly attendance
is from 500 to 1000 people. There are
from three to ten conversions daily.
A chorus of sixty voices, together with
the Lafayette Welsh choir, assists in
the singing.
John E. 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.
Rasmus Hanson, one of the most
prominent and successful mining men
of this county, died at his home at
Silverton on Tuesday, after a brief ILL
ness. He had been sufferer from
tuberculosis for years, but was able to
attend to business until two weeks
ago, when he took a severe cold,
which developed into grip and pneu-
monia. Hanson was born in Denmark,
March 25. 1S47. He came to America
in 1868 and to Colorado in 1870, en-
gaging in mining in Gilpin and Clear
Creek counties.
The superintendent of the Grover
division of the Burlington road says
that surveyors will reach Grover this
month and line thence run westward
to Greeley. Grover will be made
division point. BY the building of this
line the Burlington will be enabled to
compete with the Union Pacific for
Weld county freight and there will
also be given to the fast developing
region between Grover and Greeley
railroad facilities for which it is now
handicapped
AS a memorial to her husband. the
late ex-governor B. H. Eaton, Mrs Re
becca Eaton of Greeley will present
to that town a $4,000 public library
building. The building will be of con-
crete and complete in every way
Plans are drawn and work of building
will soon begin. The town of Eaton
was founded over twenty-five years
ago, was named after Governor Eaton,
who promoted the first large irriga-
tion system in that region and devel-
oped thousands of acres of prairie
into farms.
Tobias Mattox, living mile south
west of Greeley, will take $1,000 in
fruit from an eight-acre orchard this
season, having one of the best crops
since lie planted it seven years ago.
There are twenty-eight varieties of
apples, different varieties of plums,
grapes, pears, peaches. etc. The aver
age harvest of each plum tree brought
return Of $40 and over a ton and u
half ton of grapes will be gathered.
Mattox intends to increase his orch
ard and make a specially of 3hipping
fruit to Denver, where, he says, the
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