The Colorado statesman., 1909-07-24
COLORADO NEWS

I-aidyettc, DeSlllHlHB august Sun.
State Game Commissioner T. j. Hol-
land has arranged for the stocking OF
the South Platte River with 100000
fry taken from the Denver hatcheries
William X. Mitchell, who made a
murderous assault upon Sheriff
Schraeder at the county Jail in Grand
Junction several weeks ago, has been
adjudged insane and sent to the asy-
lum at Pueblo.
In order to accommodate better the
tourists who are coming to Denver in
greater numbers every day, the Union
Depot Company will establish a new
bureau of information in the general
waiting room.
The American members of the in
ternational executive committee of
the B'Nai Birth, the powerful Jewish
organization, will meet in Denver
August 18th, and extensive plans are
being made for their entertainment.
Over twice the amount of money re-
ceived last year has been paid out this
season to the sheep men of Southern
Colorado and Northern New Mexico,
according to statement of Trinidad
dealers. The wool clip is larger and
the quality better than for several
years and the price received is double
that of last year.
E. c. Fort, who has $50 acres near
Brighton devoted to celery, cabbage
and tomatoes, has just shipped two
cars of cabbage to Texas. Large ship
ments of celery from this farm go to
markets all over the United States
and to Cuba. Mr.. Fort is also a buyer,
and expects to ship $50 cars of cab
bage from Brighton this season.
The Colorado Dental Association at
its convention in Colorado Springs
elected the following officers for the
ensuing year: President, DR.. w. A.
Brierley of Denver, former vice presi-
dent of the association; vice presi-
dent. DR.. F. S. Mckay, Colorado
Springs; treasurer, DR.. William Smed-
ley, Denver; secretary, DIR. C. A. Mon
roe, Boulder.
The Fort Collins City Council has
awarded the contract for the construc-
ton of a filter plant to the Roberts
Filter Manufacturing Company of
Philadelphia. This company's bid
was $34,6S0 for a plant with ca
pacity of 100000 gallons per day.
Bonds in the sum of $4,000 will be
issued for the filter plant and for an
additional reservoir near the city.
Rev. w. G. Hawkins, known as the
oldest clergyman in the Episcopal
church, died on the 18th inst. at Mercy
hospital in Denver after long illness.
He was 81 years old and was one of
the most prominent figures in the
church, having filled a number of i'm.
portant charges and preached for sixty
years. He was retired ten years ago
and went to live with his daughter,
Mrs. Frank Smith of Paonia, Colo.
In an interview at Chicago ex-Gov.
ernor Buchtel, who was credited with
an interview denouncing woman suff-
rage, denied that he had made any
such statements. 81 stated that some
of the best people l know are very
Indifferent to the exercise of the
franchise" he said. "Nothing that |
said could be made to convey the idea
that only the dregs of womankind
vote. That's not true"
On the afternoon of the goth inst.
Green canon, thirty miles north of
Trinidad, causing a flood which swept
away portion of the tramway trestle
leading to the mine of the Green
Canon Coal Company and partially
flooding the mine, causing suspension
of operations. number of houses
were flooded and there was considera-
BILE damage done to furniture.
Horace Havens of Leadville, former
deputy secretary of state and three
times candidate for the secretaryship
on the Democratic ticket, has been
appointed as the mineral inspector of
the State Land Board, the appoint
ment having been made as a result
of the expiration of the term of DR..
A. A. Johnson, who was retained by
Register Jefferson as hold-over
from the administration of John F.
Vivian
H. E. Snider, formerly of Manitou,
and brother of e. E., o. P. and Char
lotte Snider, all of Manitou. and
Charles E. Snider of Denver, was kill
ed in Los Angeles, Cal, on the 10th
inst, by Albert Ryan of Arizona, who
was shooting at Otto Miller, a hotel
porter. Mr.. tSnider was one of the own
ers of the famous Cave of the Winds
in Manitou, forty years old, and un-
married He lived in Manitou ten
years prior to 1891 and was wealthy
Representative Taylor has secured
the adoption by the house of an
amendment to the emergency appro-
priation bill to pay w. H. Clark and
A. H. Adams of Meeker, $500 for
| surveying ten townships of lands in
Routt county for the government in
1904. The original contractor, Will
liam C. O'Brien, failed to make the
SnrYnX which NaS Snhlat w y, hnndc-