The Colorado statesman., 1910-01-22
STATE NEWS ITEMS

from Washington stating that Gov
ernor Shafroth has announced that he
will not seek a denomination for gov
ernor.
J. w. Austin, one of the pioneer placer
miners of Georgetown and the first
park commissioner of Denver, died at
the home of his son in Denver on the
18th inst.
A national park 100000 acres in ex-
tent and including Estes Park is pro
vided for in a bill prepared for intro
duction by Sentor Hughes and Con-
gresham Taylor.
Addison K Iadue, former clerk OF
Lincoln county. having held that Of
flee for eighteen years, died at his
home in Hugo on the 18th inst, OF
Bright's disease.
The Union Pacific has begun in
junction proceedings in the United
States Court at Denver to enforce its
claim to a 400-foot right of way
through the city of Greeley.
The second regular train on the Den
yer. Laramie & Northwestern from
Miniken to Denver, which was operat-
ed on the 18th inst, carried forty peo-
pie to Denver from the various towns
en- route.
Farmers residing near Rocky Ford
received S15O,00O for sugar beets de-
livered in December, from the Amer
lean Beet Sugar Company, making
the total for the year more than $780,
900.
Philadelphia capitalists propose to
purchase a tract of 1000 acres of land
three miles northwest of Pueblo, under
the Canon City, Florence and Pueblo
Water Company's proposed ditch.
They will pay $4,000 for the tract.
which could have been purchased for
one-third that amount two years ago.
Governor Shafroth has declined to
include good road legislation in his
call for the special session of the Leg
islature. In reply to a committee
which called on him he said that he
favors the legislation, but he hopes to
have the special session disposed of
as quickly as possible and he wants to
minimize the number of bills to be con-
sidered.
Owing to a strike of the pressmen,
Denver was without its big daily news
papers for day and half, Friday
and Saturday, the 14th and 18th. The
two evening papers, the Post ana
Times, missed both days and neither
the News nor Republican were print
ed Saturday morning. The strike was
~ 70 ntIf
Sunday papers.
One of three large timber wolves,
which came within fifteen feet of Ros-
coe cottage, near the Victor mine on
Bull hill, in the Cripple Creek district,
was killed few days since by Frank
Roscoe, president of the Roscoe Leas-
ing Company. The animal measured
five and three-quarters feet from tip
to tip, and weighed seventy-two and
half pounds.
The people of Delta already have be-
gun to perfect an organization to take
charge of exhibits for the apple show
at Denver next year. The new organ
ization which is being formed will be
entirely independent of all existing as
sociations, and will work entirely in
getting exhibits and stimulating the
rowers to save their best fruit for
this purpose.
Glasses are to be established during
the coming year by the Colorado State
Association for the Prevention and
Control of tuberculosis, where patients
may meet physicians and nurses and
have their condition noted, and where
the nurses may become acquainted
with them, and thus make their way
into homes and give proper 1nstruc-
ton and care. The association Will
also establish a dispensary.
THAT the Denver postoffice does
million dollar business a year is the
cause for the recent raise in box rent, Z
is the statement of Postmaster Sours
at the state capital. Many of the ap-
plicants for boxes have been surprised
to find that the box rent increased
January 1st. Denver has now one of
the leading postoffices in the country.
The gross receipts for 1909 were over
a million dollars.
A sanatorium for the exclusive use
of negroes suffering with tuberculosis
will be established in Denver next
summer by ]. H. Harper. as employe
of the state board of capitol managers
This, it is said, will be the first estab-
lishment of its kind in the world lts
object is to take the sick negroes out
of the cheap lodging houses, where
they receive improper care and place
them in home specially adapted TO
the care of tuberculosis.
In estimating the attendance at the
Denver Cattle and Horse show, Col.
w. e. Skinner stated that the suspen-
sion of the publication of the newspa-
pers Friday afternoon and Saturday
morning caused loss of over $1,000
to the management His figures Tor
the week, by days, are: Sunday. 5000;