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Newspaper
Canon City Record
Location
Canon City, Colorado, United States of America
Date
Oct 08, 1908
Page
2
W A Matlock announces Beaver Land Irrigation plans to start the Schaeffer dam by month’s end. A temporary eight mile water pipe line, three feet in diameter tapering to half, will be installed by the 25th, with construction to follow rapidly as conditions permit.
The plan aims to wash down surrounding sand hills to obtain material for a large dam to impound thousands of acre feet of flood waters. The hydraulic work is expected to attract many visitors from the city and nearby areas when launched, a sight unseen in this region of Colorado.
Sheriff Esser and Under Sheriff Chetelat were summoned from Portland after a man fired a Winchester rifle into the rear Pullman sleeper of Denver and Rio Grande No. 4 near Denver around 8 pm, wounding a passenger. No motive or suspect identified, and no inquiry until daylight.
A Denver and Rio Grande track walker was killed near Portland by passenger train No. 9 late Thursday. The body, unclaimed namewise, is with Coroner Whitmore at his 626 Main street establishment. An inquest may be held if needed.
Dan DeWeese filed with the county clerk detailed maps and specifications for a power conduit to generate electricity in Fremont and Custer counties. The intake on Grap e Creek near the DeWeese-Dye Ditch storage dam would move about sixty cubic feet per second through pipes flumes and tunnels over about fifteen miles to re enter Grap Creek powering water wheels for mining and manufacturing at an estimated cost of 42000 dollars.
Rev Alan Bell of Lincoln Park was nominated Wednesday afternoon by the Democratic convention in the district court room as the candidate for float representative from Fremont and Chaffee counties to the seventeenth Colorado General Assembly. Clarence Jones of Florence was the opposing candidate. Bell received 42 votes to Jones 14. Bell, a 37 year old pastor of the Presbyterian church in Florence, is expected to gain broad support in the county.
J. E. Scott, a Fremont County ranchman, was convicted of larceny of livestock after a two day trial. He allegedly drove Wolfe estate cattle to Fremont County and sold them, while he claimed he bought the animals from Melrose and produced a bill of sale. The jury rejected the bill of sale as false.
The Colorado Souvenir Book issued by the Colorado State organization for the International Congress on Tuberculosis is a seven by ten inch, 200 page volume with maps and half tone engravings. It promotes Colorado climate as healthful against tuberculosis and includes Canon City advertising to attract residents with the disease concerns.
The penitentiary will start its school program next week, with non compulsory classes spanning primary to sciences and higher mathematics. Last year about 120 inmates attended five evenings weekly, and the program began with 20 illiterate men who progressed to readers and writing, later becoming library patrons.
W J Davis Jr consulting electrical railroad engineer and A W Paine sales manager returned to Pueblo from Garden City Kansas reporting strong enthusiasm for the Kansas Colorado Electrical Transmission Co project. A field working force will likely be placed in the Kansas district this month to advance the power end of the system. Mrs S C Clark of 226 River Street is ill with heart trouble and is a member of the Ladies of the G A R Victor Lodge No 8. her daughter Maidie Clark is visiting from Victor.
G. V. Hodgin has purchased from A. E. Sharman the residence on Elm Avenue Lincoln Park and takes possession as a home. Sharman secures Hodgin property at 711 Mystic Avenue as part of the deal.
The two partners in the furniture business Francis J. Dickson and Frank Emmerson have dissolved their two and a half year partnership. Dickson buys Emmerson’s share and will run the firm as Dickson Furniture Company. Emmerson plans to seek new independent work, likely returning to a former line.
The Denver and Rio Grande trackwalker Amberis Gonzales a native of Old Mexico aged about twenty two was struck and killed by a west bound freight locomotive near Concrete last Thursday afternoon. He was found unconscious on the tracks and died en route to the morgue. Coroner Whitmore holds the body at 626 Main Street pending burial likely Tuesday or Wednesday. Gonzales had been in the United States a short time and had no known relatives here. He was unmarried and had worked at a Mexican smelting plant where he reportedly endured episodes of fainting linked to lead exposure.
Fayette New York veteran of Gettysburg David Parker credits Electric Bitters with curing his stomach trouble after costly doctor treatments. He says the tonic kept him strong and well and values it highly after the Civil War experiences.
The Fisher-Dempsey Construction company pushes concrete sidewalk work in improvement district No. 6. If progress holds, contract may finish by month end. Sixth street sidewalks finished. Seventh street underway. Completion will yield a top quality system for Canon City. residents urged to inspect.
Announcement by H. G. Maddox local agent of the company that special excursions will run from Canon City and Florence over the F and C C to Cripple Creek district each Sunday in October for 1.50 round trip. Trains depart Canon City and Florence at 8:00 a m returning Cripple Creek at 5:00 p m. The plan to continue these popular trips this month pleases the public.
Tuesday offer on Excursion Day by Colorado and Southern. Tickets available from Denver Colorado Springs and Pueblo to all state points at very low round trip rates with service on Tuesdays.
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