The Colorado statesman., 1911-06-03

When the home of James Bronelli
burned at Pueblo he lost $500 in cur
rency.
Paving the business section of Colo
RADIO Springs will be started about the
middle of August.
The plan for the construction of a
100000 Elks home in Denver is TAX
ing definite shape.
OF the total tax of $950,000 to be
collected in Weld county this year. but
100000 has been paid.
Two attorneys of Walsenburg were
fined $500 each by District Judge
Hunter for contempt of court.
The county commissioners of Chat
fee county are getting the roads in
that vicinity in good condition.
John w. Green of Paonia has been
appointed magnetic observer in the
coast and geodetic survey service.
Arthur Given, living on homestead
near Orchard, was burned to death In
fire which destroyed his home.
Farmers of northern Colorado are
rejoicing over a twelve-hour rain that
came just in time to save the crops.
DR.. R. L. O'Brien of Akron, while re-
turning from a call in the country,
lost control of his auto and was
killed.
The proposed consolidation of the
Palisade and Mt. Lincoln high schools
has been rejected by the Mt Lincoln
people.
A movement is on foot to invite
President Taft to speak at Steam
boat Springs on his Western tour in
Septe mber
Denver lodges of Odd Fellows have
decided upon June 18th as the date for
Memorial services for those who died
during the year.
Robert Sweasey, reported burned at
the stake by outlaws in Mexico, was
former resident of Sopris and well
known in Trinidad.
A burglar entered the home of
Chas. F. Arcularius, in Colorado
Springs, in daylight and carried away
$500 worth of silver.
Mrs. C. w. Cole, living near Rog-
gen, Weld county, took a dose of
strycbnine by mistake, from the eff
fects of which she died.
Ed Mason, held at Steamboat
Springs on the charge of horse steal
ing at Hahn's Peak, escaped by set
ting fire to the county Jail.
The commissioners of Ell Paso
county have increased their subscrip-
ton to the International Dry Farming
Congress from $500 to $4,000.
Because the management refused
them half holiday, twenty women
clerks in the Kress 10-cent store at
Trinidad have gone on strike.
A large shaft building on the Cliff
ton Belle mine in the Russell district,
was struck by lightning and burned
to the ground. The loss was $1,5oO.
The most exciting series of baseball
games ever played in Cheyenne end
ed when the Cheyenne Indians defeat
ed the fast Cottrell team of Denver
second time.
Senator Guggenheim has requested
the postoffice department to establish
daily mail service between Longmont
and Lyons at hours recommended by
the Lyons Commercial Association.
Arvada is the only town in Colorado
east of the range to have Strawberry
day, and Saturday, June II, has been
decided upon as the date. 1t is pro-
posed to make this an annual event
While shooting at sparrows in his
strawberry patch with a shotgun, at
Canon City, William Wright shot into
the house of a neighbcr, painfully
wounding Mrs. A. H. Jones and her
daughter.
Escaping from the insane asylum at
Pueblo, clad only in his underwear
and a suit of overalls. Walkin White.
fourteen years old, patient, travelled
fifty miles across country to Colorado
Springs.
Averaging a mile in one minute and
three seconds, for the elapsed time,
the National car, driven by E. McMil-
Ian won the feature event at the Sable
racetrack at Denver-the 200-mile
race for non-stock "class CT cars. Its
time for the course was 3 hours 80
minutes and 80 3-5 seconds.
Governor Shafroth will sign the
Court of Appeals bill without further
delay. baceuse, he says, he is firmly
convinced that he has the constitu-
tioral right to appoint the judges to
the bench of the court while the Sen
ate is not in session, and further.
that his appointees will have the right
to serve until the Legislature con-
venes two years from now.
The sheepmen of Montrose have in
augurated a determined campaign OF
eradication against lip and leg ulcera-
tion, now troubling flocks in that vi
cinity.