The Delta independent., 1910-09-30
ITEMS OF COLORADO
Eoents of Importance
Throughout the State
Pastor Becomes Undertaken.

Pastor Becomes Undertaken.
Rev. d. A. Mclean, former pastor
of the Bethel Methodist church of
Grand Junction, has decided to be-
come an undertaken He has enter
ed the employ of firm of that city
and expects to soon become an eX-
pert embalmer and take the state
board examination.
Sent TO National Congress.
Major c. c. Townsend of the Nat
ional Guard of Greeley, was ap-
pointed from Colorado to the Nat
ional Military Congress in st Louis,
October 3rd. continuing three days.
This is an annual meeting composed
of representatives from each state in
Guiding many of the regular army.
Another Irrigation Project.
At meeting last Friday in Gree
ley of the Camfield Development Co,
plans We're made for an irrigation
district near Julesburg which win
reclaim 5000 acres at a cost of
s67 900 There are to be nine res
ervoirs in the system with a total
capacity of 10000 acre feet. The
water will be obtained from flood
waters of the Plate.
Italian is Acquitted
T. Magneilli, foreman of Rock
Island blasting crew. which was
charged with being indirectly re-
sponsible for the death of an Ital
ian child, and injury to several
others and damage to considerable
property in the italian quarter while
blasting was in progress. was tried
in Pueblo last week and acquitted.
Bitten by Mad Dog.
The 9-year-old son of John Bott.
Russian beet worker of Fort Col
Inns, who was bitten by a mad dog,
was taken to the Pasteur Institute
at Boulder. The city council of Fort
Collins has taken drastic action to
prevent the spread of hydrophobia.
Several animals were bitten by rab-
id dogs and killed two weeks ago.
Girls Break Jail.
Prying a bar from the window of
their cell and using blanket as
rope. Amelia and Aurelia Royval of
Trinidad. two pretty girls aged 16
and II years respectively, escaped
from the womens' quarters of the
county Jail at Trinidad last Sat
| urday night The pair had been con-
victed as delinpuents and were held
pending removal to the girls indus
trial school. In April of last year
their mother was shot and killed by
Juan Morino. The girls are home
less.
Escapes Impersonating Sheriff.
That Henry Wortham, halfbreed
Indian. alleged to have assaulted
Annie Hawkins at Pictou. near Trim
idad two weeks ago. has escaped
from the Trinidad Jail by imperson-
ating a deputy sheriff. is the belief
OF the Trinidad authorities. Ii was
learned last Saturday that two ne
groes, heavily armed. went to the
ranch of James Dotson. seventeen
miles northeast of there and asked
for food and tried to buy horse
and buggy. They said they We're
looking for Wortham. The descrip-
ton of one of them leads the police
to believe he is the fugitive.
Killed i'm Electric Storms.
AS a result of the terrific cleo
trio storms in the vicinity of Colo
RADIO Springs the latter part of last
week, seven persons were killed by
tightening. The victims were six
men AMI one woman, only three of
whom have been identified. Mrs.
Gus Kratz. wife of a ranchman living
near Elbert. James Bland of Platts-
burg, Missouri and Charles Lolcomo.
ranchman. are the three Identified
dead. C. Bethel of Colorado Springs.
who took Blands body there. took
the news that four other men were
dead near kiowa.
Colorado Springs Laundry Isaidesi.
The old chinese laundry in Colo
rado City that is fictiously pointed
TO tourists as the first capitol of
Colorado. was raided by U. S. Of
fcers last Friday night and an
opium layout seized. Sam wah. who
has been conducting the laundry for
several years was arrested and tax
en- to Denver. A kettle for cooking
OPIUM. a quart jar of some kind of
drug and two boxes of ''yen She
uaro ceizad no wara x2Q In money