The Colorado statesman., 1905-01-28
COLORADO NEWS IIEns

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Fort Collins.
Enough money has been subscribed to
insure the erection of canning fac
tory at Palisade.
A new Grand Army post has been
organized at Wheatland, near Denver.
1t will be No. 112.
The Boulder Valley Oil Company
has paid off all its indebtedDess and
declared it's first dividend.
The Rio Grand round house at Gun
nison was burned on the morning of
January 18th. Loss, $4,000.
The Colorado Springs Carnegie Ii
| brary board has already received $45,-
900 of the 100000 donated by Mr.. Car
negie, and the building is nearing
completion.
The clearing house reports for the
past two weeks show the business of
Denver to be about the same as that
of Omaha, in each case over SS,O0O,-
coo for the week.
The members of the Womans
League of the State University at
Boulder are raising fund to be loaned
to young ladies who are working their
way through college.
The NJ. E. Church South and the
Cumberland Presbyterian church at
Colorado Springs have exchanged
church buildings, the former paying
a bonus of 1000.
There are about 200 Japanese en-
ployed at the Pueblo steel works. They
all board at hotel fitted up for them
near the shops and live and dress well,
being cleanly in their habits.
The ore house at Stratton's Inde-
pendence at Victor was destroyed by
fire on the morning of January 21st.
The structure and its equipments cost
between 100000 and $4,000.
The county commissioners Of Mesa
county have appointed Judge Walter
S. Sullivan, whose term expired Janu-
ary 1st, to fill the vacancy caused by
the death of Judge w. c. Sloan, who
was elected last fall.
Professor Hayden of Fort Collins, to-
gether with a number of eastern men,
has secured ground surrounding
Doughty's mineral springs, near Hotch-
kiss, ard will Immediately proceed to
build $4,000 sanitarium.
OF the S1OS7, 300 spent last year by
the United Mine Workers for the relief
OK strikes, $437,575 went into the Colo
rado district. Colorado shows an in
crease of 40 paid-up membership, an
increase from 537 to 947.
The body of a Mexican found in
Four-Mile creek west of Florence,
could not be identified. The man was
apparently upwards of fifty years of
age. A union labor card on his body
was water-soaked and illegible.
The application of F. NJ. Weiland S.
w. Taylor r. l.. King, j. o. Nelson and
j. d. Mcdonald to organize the First
National Bank of Fowler, with S25, 900
capital, has been approved by the
comptroller of the currency.
At a recent meeting the Denver
Chamber of Commerce took action to
greatly increase its membership, 5000
being the figure named. Young and
active men are being pushed to the
front in that and the Real Estate Elk
change.
c. NJ. Williams, a prominent mining
man and capitalist of Colorado
Springs, died on the 18th inst. of hear.
failure. He was one of the pioneers
of Durango and for nearly eighteen
years president of the First National
Bank of Durango.
By the aid of United States customs
inspectors crusade will be com
menced in Denver against society
that is known to be engaged in bring
ing young women to the city for i'm
moral purposes. Many have been
brought from France.
Representatives of Frank P Blair
Post of the Grand Army of the Repub-
lie at st. Louis have already been in
Denver to engage headquarters for the
post for the national encampment the
first week in September. They expect
an immense crowd and came early to
avid the rush.
Maxwell Price, a well known miner
of Independence, has completed a
model of flying machine by which
he claims to have solved the problem
of sustaining the machine in air with
out the aid of gas. The model is ar
ranged with reverse action fans OF
high gear
There has been no dearth of news
for the Denver papers this year. Be
tween Nan Patterson, Mrs. Chadwic..,
the Russo-Jap war, Colorado ballot
box suffers and the high jinks at the
itate house while the Legislature is in
session, they are reaping a full har-
vest.-Saratoga (Wyo.) Sun.
The Denver business mems excur-
sion to Ell Paso, Texas, and New Mex
leo points was gone five days, return
ing Saturday, January 2ist. The party
was everywhere the recipient of un-
bounded hospitality, and their visit
promises to greatly increase trade and
intercourse between Colorado and New
Mexico.
United States immigration Inspect
ors A-ams and Miller at Pueblo have
arrested Henry Noll and two women,
Josephine and Sarah Berteaux, all
French subjects, for violation of the
imm. grafton laws. 1t is charged that