The Delta independent., 1911-02-17
ITEMS OF COLORADO
Epents of Importance
Throughout the State

II ItCfuo W 1HpOftOHCC
Throughout the State
Cripple Creek Payroll, $326, 200.
That large number of men were
employed in the Cripple Creek dis
trict during January is shown by
the heavy payroll for that month
met by the mining companies and
lessees Saturday. Wage checks ap-
proximated s326,2OO.
Telluride Lawyer Dies.
Lee ]. Baker. a young attorney
from Bakersfield, Cal, who recent
ly arrived in Telluride and has since
been associated with Lieutenant
Governor Fitzgarrald, was found
dead from the effects of a hem
orrhage in his room at the New
Sheridan Hotel.
Starts Biggest Hog Ranch.
What is said will be one of the
largest hog ranches in the country
is to be started soon across the
Utah line near Cisco by R. j. Saun-
ders, a Palisade peach grower. Mr..
Saunders has purchased 1000 acres
SIS,
Two Shot Leaving Dance.
Tony Ramponi was shot in the
neck and back, and Charles Domi-
nick was shot in the leg and
stomach with a shot gun while re-
turning home from a dance early
Sunday morning at Central City.
The wounded men probably will re-
cover.
Taylor Urges Quick Work.
In a letter to Grand Junction
commercial organizations Congress
man Ed. Taylor urges that action
be taken at once to get possession
of the Teller Indian school property
TO avoid reversion to the federal
government. Otherwise, he de-
clares. congress is likely to with
draw the opportunity and the state
will lose a valuable property.
Mine Guard is Accused.
A warrant was issued Saturday
for the arrest of Bob Stringer. a
mine guard in the strike district,
charging him with assault with
intent to kill George Pininsky, a
striker. 1t is alleged by Frank
Mcconnell. another guard, that
Stringer fired into the home of Pin
insky five times in November. Pinin-
sky is one of the sixteen sentenced
to serve one year in Jail by Judge
Greeley w. whitford.
Bullet Stops Negro.
Fred Kemp, a negro. arrested on
Sunday at Pueblo. after a chase,
is accused of trying to hold up two
Pueblo citizens. Kemp met the two
men in the Santa Fe railroad yards,
it is claimed. and using a bottle as
weapon. commanded them to
throw up their hands. One of the
men broke away and notified the
police. Kemp was arrested. but. on
reaching the city hall. bolted from
the patrol wagon and attempted to
escape. He was captured after he
had been shot through the leg.
Points Pistol at Detective.
Mary Bryant and II. woody
negroes, We're arrested early Sunday
morning by Detective Henry 7.
Rocker, who says he will fl -e charges
of attempted murder against the wo
man. Woody fired a revolver at a
fire plug the night before and when
Recker followed him TO the viaduct
and searched him for the weapon
he says the negro turned on him.
In the fight that followed Reckers
gun fell and the woman picked it
up, he says. and pointed it at him,
Recker fired twice, neither shot
III, .11s.
at Colorado Springs.
Woman Hold-up.
Clews unearthed Friday which
throw light on the identity of the
woman who is alleged to have rob
bed E. C. Trosta of Denver of $500
in cash and diamonds Tuesday night
of last week, may lead to her ar
rest in Wichita, Kansas, where she
was traced by the police. Trosta,
II is alleged, met the woman in the
Union station and invited her to
dinner. after which they went to a
rooming house. Trosta says he was
drugged, and when aroused the next
day. discovered that he had been |
robbed and that the woman was
missing.
Home For Working Girls.
Ground was broken last week for |
a stone cottage near the Boulder |
grounds. which is to be
used as n home for the working |
girls of Chicago. The project was
started in October by Mrs. James |
Sherwood, president of the art and /
literature department of the Nation
al Federation of women's Clubs,
and money is being raised by sell
ing shares of stock to the working ]