The Colorado statesman., 1909-07-17
STATE NEWS ITEMS

trict attorney.
The first box of Grand valley peaches
for the season was shipped from Grand
Junction by the Fruit Growers Asso-
citation on the 10th inst
The Pueblo Savings Bank has ap-
piled for a charter to be known as the
Pueblo Savings Bank G. Trust Com
pany. Former Governor Adams is
president
The Greeley record for single year
is 1000 carloads of potatoes, made
several years ago, but it is confidently
believed that this years output will
come up to the best, if not excel it.
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.
A total of 1923 feet was made in driv-
ing the Newhouse tunnel at Idaho
Springs last month, better progress
than had been made in previous
months on account of the softer char
acter of the ground encountered.
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.
The two-year-old son of Samuel
Straight, living seven miles northeast
OF Greeley, fell into the watering
trough on the 18th inst, and was
drowned. This is the eighth child
drowned in Weld county within a
month.
Early on the morning of the 14th
inst. at Trinchera, thirty-five miles
southeast of Trinidad, tornado un-
rooted the warehouse, blew cars of
the G. & S. into the ditch and caused
a panic among residents. No one was
injured.
Edward Maurin, a young ranchman
of twenty-three, residing on Capitol
Creek, near Aspen, took a dose of
strychnine, supposing he was taking
salts. He rode to a nearby ranch and
died before medical aid could be sum-
moned.
A petition is being circulated in Pu-
SDlO lOl lue Vi special eleC-
ton to vote on the question of adopt
ing charter form of government. The
petition is to be completed by Septem-
Der 10th and will be presented to the
City Council not later than October
4th
Edward B. Carson of Houston, Tex,
who is in Pueblo to establish branch
of an oil refining company, bears the
distinction of being the second man
to scale the walls of Peking during
the Boxer uprising, and proudly wears
badge of honor presented him by
the late President Mckinley.
Simpsons Rest, rugged spot lying
directly north of Trinidad, upon the
crest of which rest the bones of
George Simpson, the poet mountaineer,
is being covered with drives by At
torney P. HI. Murray, who has made a
beginning on an elaborate plan to con-
vert the beautiful historic spot into
one of the finest resorts in Colorado.
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 DIR.
A. A. Johnson, who was retained by
| Register Jefferson as hold-over
from the administration of John F.
| Vivian.
The new Colorado Woman's College,
| pnntiGt OF
suburb of Denver, will have for its
field secretary and advertiser Kather-
inc Craig, the former state superintend-
ent of schools, who will make tour
of the state lecturing on the merits of
the new school. Inc college is now
fully equipped and will open Septem-
Der 1st with Professor Treat, pres-
dent. Special attention will be given
| to the teaching of domestic science.
Work is to be commenced at once
on the extension of the tracks of the
Argentine Central railway from it's
present terminus, the summit of
Mount Mcclellan, to Gray's Peak, A.
AL feet above sea level. 1t is be-
lieved that the line will be completed
| by August goth. Next year a 100
room hotel, an observatory. and a
tower will be erected on the summit of
! Gray's Peak, and tourists will be af-
forded a view of grandeur embracing
400 miles of snow-capped mountains
and level plains.
Weld county has approximately o.
100000 acres of land, and although the
settlement of the county has been
surprising during the last five years,
there still remains open for settlement
502.400 acres. OF this 341,000 acres lie
in the country north and east of Gro.
yer in what is called the Sterling land