The Colorado statesman., 1905-10-28
COLORADO NEWS ITEMS

The grand lodge of Odd Fellows will
meet at Florence next year.
The Greeley Starch and Potato Com
pany has been incorporated to manu-
facture starch from potatoes.
A sea gull, measuring more than
four feet from tip to tip of its wings,
was recently shot near Florence.
The new sugar factory at Holly has
begun operations and it is expected to
handle over $4,000 tons of beets this
season.
A remarkably large number of peo-
pie attended the harvest festival at
Ault. Governor Mcdonald was among
the visitors.
A postofice will b5 established at the
west portal of the GunniSon tunnel, to
be called Lujane, with R. e. McCollum
as postmaster
The widow of the late Willard Teller,
brother of Senator H. NJ. Teller. will
inherit his entire fortune, estimated at
$124,000, there being no children.
Simon Guggenheim has given $1,000
to the West Side Neighborhood house
in Denver. 1t will be made the nucleus
for fund to erect new building.
| What troubles the Greeley starch
| factories is that there are no small
potatoes this year; or at least the
farmers can't spare the time to handle
| them.
Fred L. Paddleford has resigned as
a member of the board of control of the
State Industrial School for Girls. In
doing so he did not make his reasons
| public.
Abe Williamson, aged fifty-five years,
farmer living near Housed school
house, about six miles east of Boulder,
committed suicide few days since by
taking strychnine.
A civil service examination will be
held in Denver, November 22d, for
saddler in the quartermaster's depart
ment at large. The salary in the posi-
ton is $545 year.
! A Settlers Forest Reserve conven-
| ton, under the auspices of the Roaring
Fork and Eagle River Stockgrowers'
Association has been called to meet at
Glenwood Springs, December 1st
Ninety-three acres of ground located
east of Santa Fe avenue and north to
the Riverview cemetery road in Pueblo
have been purchased by the Rio
Grande as a site for new shops.
W. A Gibbs, chauffeur for c. A.
Baldwin, was held up and robbed in the
suburbs of Colorado Springs on the
night of October 22d. The holdups got
$3.50 in cash, watch, ring and pin.
The first annual cowboy tournament
was held in Salida October 21st. Cat
tlemen were present from Chaffee, Sa-
guache, Park and Fremont counties.
In the parade Saturday there were
fully 100 visiting cattlemen.
In the District Court at Denver,
Judge Carpenter has decided that
Ralph e. Esteb's contract to look up
unassessed property in the city and
county of Denver is binding upon the
present authorities of the county.
Thomas C. Clayton believes he has a
good prospect for placer mining on
some land the state owns near Castle
Rock. The State Land Board has
leased him 100 acres on the terms of a
ten per cent. royalty on the gross out.
put.
Fifty dollars reward is offered by
| State Game and Fish Commissioner j.
| w. Woodward for information leading
to the conviction of the person or per-
sons who killed two fine elk on Sleepy
Cat mountain in Rio Blanco county re-
| Gently.
The business men of Manitou, with a
nucleus of $4,000 each from Gen. w. j.
Palmer and DR.. w. A. Bell, have deter
mined TO construct the $4,000 bath
house projected several months ago,
and work probably will be begun this
winter.
EX-Mayor H. c.. Watson of Greeley,
accompanied by his wife, has started
for trip around the world A crowd
of friends met at his house the even
ing before his departure and presented
him with a valuable pair of field
| glasses.
| w. S. Alexander, the former Colo.
rado newspaper man who was fatally
injured by fall from his horse in the
Goldfield district, Nevada, died Octo,
ber 22d, without having regained con
seriousness. He was buried at Beatty,
Nevada.
Judge Moses Hallett, of the Federal
Court, has refused to modify an in.
| junction recently issued restraining
the Ute Coal & Coke Company, of
Durango, from trespassing on govern.
ment land from which the company has
been mining coal.
Colorado captured twenty-nine gold
eighteen silver and eleven bronze med
ais in the mining exhibit, and received
103 honorable mentions at the Lewis
and Clark Exposition at Portland. In
Guiding its agricultural exhibit, the
| state received total of 410 awards at
the Exposition, which seems very good
for an expenditure of $4,000.
Oscar Telling, district secretary of
the United States Civil Service Com
mission, announces that on November
23d an examination will be held in Den
yer for physicians in the Indian SER
vice. There are five vacancies to be
filled. The salary is $1,000 year with
excellent opportunity for promotion