The La Jara chronicle., 1905-02-17
COLORADO NEWS ITEMS

The American De Forest Wireless
Telegraph Company has begun the in
stallation of its plant at Denver.
A large organization has been
formed at Montrose to build up Mont.
rose county and advertise its re-
sources.
The Grand Aerie of the Fraternal
Order of Eagles will be held in Den
YER next August and is expected to at
tract nearly $4,000 visitors.
The Moffat road proposes to estab.
lish a daily milk train service early
next spring between Denver and the
big ranches in Middle Park.
The Colorado Fuel and Iron Com
pany is contemplating installing cleo
tricity instead of steam power for Ae
operation OF its coal mines in Ere
mont county.
Captain Winfield Scott Grove, for
merly with the First Colorado and well
known in this state. has recently been
appointed senior inspector at Leyte,
Philippine islands.
An eastern company is said to be in
vestigating deposits of salt said to ex-
ist east and north OF Pueblo with a
view to buiidi-ss refinery If results
appear 10 JUSTIFY IL.
The comptroller of the currency has
authorized the Union National Bank of
Greeley to begin business with $780,
900 capital B. d. Harper is president
and E. ]. Decker cashier.
The United States Senate has con-
frmed the nominations of F. NJ.
Downer as superintendent, Wilbur
Hodgson assayer and J. w. Nilsson
melter and refiner of the Denver mint.
Thirteen members of the Gallaudet
College Alumni Association balqueted
at the Albany hotel in Denver on the
10th inst. Some very eloquent
speeches are said to have been handed
out.
The Denver Chamber of Commerce
has reduced its Initiation fee from $25
to SO and removed all limitations as
to membership. An effort will be
made to increase the membership to
5000.
Postmaster o. W. Richardson of
Longmont died on the 9th inst. at the
age of ~ years He had been post
master for six years. During the civil
war he served in the Twelfth Illinois
cavalry.
The new Fremont county hospital at
thu poor farm near Canon City has
been completed at cost of $40, 900. 1t
will accommodate sixty patients and
there are six padded cells for insane
patients.
At the recent first annual meeting
of the Phillips County Farmers lnsti-
tute at Holyoke dry weather farming
was discussed and it was planned to
make experiments of farming by wind
mill irrigation.
Captain John Brodie Brooks. vet
eran of the Civil War. died at Aspen
February 7th at the age of seventy
seven years. Captain Brooks came
to Colorado in 1850 and was builder Of
the first smelter at Ashcroft.
The Amo Oil, Gas and Development
Company, comprised Of Ell Paso
county capitalists, has struck oil at
depth of 40 feet. seventeen miles east
of Colorado Springs. The extent of the
flow has not been determined.
At Denver. on the 5th inst, William
H. Tallman, civil engineer, while
standing in bath tub full Of water,
reached up to turn on the electric light
and received a shock of electricity that
caused almost instant death.
Fifty carloads, or 12,500 head. of
lambs, the greatest shipment of the
season, left Greeley February 9th for
market. The lambs were from Greeley
and Lucerne. Eaton and Fort Collins.
and were destined for the Chicago
market.
Miss Katherine Craig, state snperin-
tendent of schools. and her assistants,
have Just completed the compilation of
book for the use of the public
schools Of the state in arranging
Lincoln and Washington birthday Lele-
brations.
The Littleton postoffce was burglar
lied on the night of February 9Th and
an unsuccessful attempt made to blow
open the safe, but the robbers were
frightened away after borirg hole in
the side of the safe and filling it up
with black powder.
Trinidad is to have its two principal
streets paved. Main street will be
paved from Walnut street west to Ami
mas street and Commercial street from
First street to the river. Two layers
of vitrified brick, with cement foun-
dation. will be used.
The State Land Board at its meeting
February Sth sold 1G0 acres of land in
Prowers county to Sylvester Needham
at an average price of S5 per acre. The
Warren Live Stock Company leased
10000 acres of state land in Weld
county at cents per acre for ten
years.
Fort Collins will expend over 100000
this year in the construction of new
sewers. Three new sewer districts
have been created and contracts for
the completion of sewers in two of
them have been let by the city council.
The contract for the third will be let
March list.
C. E. Collard, while shoveling snow
in front of the transformer house of
the Tom Boy mine at Telluride on the
4th inst, struck his shovel against
live wire and was instantly killed by
the shock. In the Smuggler mine on
the same day Ralph Teers had his left
leg broken by falling rock.
The annual report Of the manager of
the Fort Collins Beet Growers Asso-
citation shows that in spite Of the
floods last spring the association is
$40 900 better off than 1t was last year.
It is composed of Fort Collins business
men under contract to plant 1000 acres
of beets per annum for three years.