The Colorado statesman., 1910-02-19
COLORADO NEWS

buh lHt eIetllOu VI a 81
building.
The Denver Rock Drill and Machine
Company is preparing to erect a $780,
00O factory building in Denver.
The pension application of Rsplh Da'
Wis Of Denver has been allowed. carry
ing with it 81 900 back pension.
The production of the new oil we'll
of the Fidelity Company in the Boul-
der district may exceed 100 barrels a
day, according to present indications.
A carload of hogs was sold on the
Denver market on the 11th inst. for
Ss75 per hundred, which is the record
price up to that date.
Asahel Sutton, for more than twen-
ty years cashier of the First National
Bank of Colorado Springs, died sud
denly on the 14th inst. OF angina
pectoris.
Dr. Hubert Work of Pueblo has been
elected chairman of the Colorado Re'
publican State Central committee
Mrs. Thalia Rhoads will be continued
as vice chairman.
The body of Reuben Dougherty, one
of the American victims of the Pri-
nero mine explosion, was taken from
the mine on the 18th inst. bringing
the total of bodies recovered to sixty
six.
Judge Dixon of the Denver County
Court has held the act regulating
horseshoers and requiring them to be
examined and pay a license fee, which
was passed in 1897, to be unconstitu'
tional.
The Automobile show of the Den
yer Motor Club will be held in the
Denver Auditorium February 23d t.
26th. Special rates to the show have
been granted by the Colorado rail
roads.
1t is announced that a new theater
and hotel will be built in Greeley on
the old Catholic church property, at
cost of 100000. The structure will
be 1OOx190 feet and will have seat
ing capacity of 1900.
Beet Growers in the Greeley district
are to be paid according to the sugar
content of the crop this year. For all
beets over 12 per cent. sugar and un-
der 10 per cent, the price will be So
per ton. For over 15 per cent. SOS,
and an increase of % cents for every
cent gained in sugar content.
The 100000 necessary to be raised
at Lamar for the Denver & Gulf rail-
way has been deposited in Lamar
bank 1t will be turned over to the
directors of the railroad upon its COM
pletion, which is to be not later than
July /, 1911. The railroad also gets
twenty acres of land for roundhouses
and yards, and residents furnished the
right of way for fifty-one miles south.
The line will run to Texhoma, Texas.
in a circular issued by Trinidad
miners Union, No. 1873, Western Fed
Grafton of Miners, charges are made
against the competency of State Coal
Mine Inspector John ID. Jones, Super
intendent Fitzpatrick, and Mine Boss
Williams of the Primero mine, and
against the management of the Colo
RADIO Fuel & Iron Company in the Pri-
nero disaster.
A feature of Hobby night of the
National Press Club at Washington
was the distribution by d. NJ. Aupper-
lie of supply of apples from Grand
valley, Colo. Speaker Cannon, Champ
Clark, DR.. Wiley, as well as several
hundred other notaole guests and
members of the Press Club, munched
Colorado apples after Speaker Cannon
finished his speech.
Aged and infirm, unable to get out,
sixty residents of the Denver Old
Ladies' Home enjoyed immensely the
concert given by Bellstedt's band and
other musical artists at the Auditc-
rum Sunday. Though three mil IS
away, the aged women sat in easy
chairs, heard and enjoyed the num-
bers as though the musicians had
been in an adjoining room.
The second state indoor rifle match
of the national guard of Colorado has
Just been finished. The first prize
was won by troop A of Walsenburg,
the second by troop ID of Boulder ana
the third by company NJ of Golden
The contesting teams did the shooting
in their own quarters and the results
were sent to the executive committee
in Denver, who made the decisions and
will award the prizes.
James A. Warford. charged with the
murder of Chris Miller and Ike Leibo
in 1904, has just been released from
jail in Canon City, where he has been
held since his trial. During the cleo
ton of 1904, Warford is alleged To
have killed at Goldfield, Colo, Chris
Miller and Ike Leibo, shooting them
dead as they sat on fence. He was
convicted and sentenced to life i'm
prisonment, but was granted a ne"
trial on a writ of error issued by the
state Supreme Court. Securing n
change of venue, his second trial III
Canon City resulted in disagreement