The Colorado statesman., 1907-02-23
COLORADO NEWS ITEMS

| Citizens of Montrose have signed an
agreement with the Redpath Lyceum
Bureau for a Cnautauqua course to be
had in July.
A seventy-five-tnousand dollar addi-
ton will be commenced within two
weeks at the Glockner sanitarium at
Colorado Springs.
| New paving, new sheds and a new
hotel are among the improvements
which will be put in at the Denver un-
ion stock yards this year.
| The contract has been let for the
| new San Juan county courthouse at
S>lVerton. When completed the struc-
ture will cost about 100000
Expert oil well drillers from Flor
ence will drill number of wells near
Montrose for company in which Ere
mont county men are interested.
The United States senate has passed
senator Patterson's bill granting the
city or Durango authority to purchase
iands Tor water supply purposes.
Burglars blew open the safe of Car
Ieton & Son, grocers, at Pueblo on the
night OF the 18th inst. and secured $225
IN cash and negotiable paper and Sc
| curities.
John Gonas of Colorado Springs on
the 18th inst, shot near Fountain
monster gray eagle weighing twelve
pounds and measuring seven and one
nalf feet from tip to tip.
| The granite blocks are arriving and
work has been comemnced on the erec-
tion of the Colorado soldiers monu-
ment in front of the capitol building in
Denver.
AT a joint meeting of the directors
OF all the banks of Boulder the sugar
factory proposition was heartily in
dorsed and the people were urged to
subscribe to the stock.
! While striking at wounded rabbit
with the but of his shotgun James
Elmer Bethel of Pueblo, aged eighteen
gears, was killed by the accidental
| discharge of the weapon.
DR.. John G. Keith, for the past eight
cen years one of the leading physicians
of Leadville, died at st. Louis on the
16th inst. of paralysis. DR.. Keith was
ond degree Mason.
The First Congregational Church So
ciety of Denver, formerly Myron
| Reeds church, after, selling its old
building on Glenarm street, is about
to erect a new church at the corner of
PTenth avenue and Clarkson street.
DR.. A. Mckay of Colorado Springs,
will start East shortly to advertise
Colorado and Colorado Springs. The
railroads and local public organiza-
tions together with the hotels and
rooming houses, are financing the pro-
1ect.
The locomotive of Colorado Mid
land passenger train on the night of the
| 18th inst. struck and killed a large
buck deer near Woodland Park. The
train was stopped and the carcass of
the deer carried to Colorado Springs in
the baggage car.
More than $4,000 has already been
| subscribed in Colorado Springs toward
the construction of a Deaconess hos.
pital, which is TO cost 100000. The
institution will be run by the Dea-
coness' board Of the Womans' Home
| Missionary Society.
So warm has the weather been at
Boulder that the buds on the trees
have swollen and leaves on the cot
| tonwood trees are about ready to come
| out. Dandelions are in bloom and
| trees are bleeding where they have
| been cut or bruised.
A dispatch from Bailey in the Platte
| cailon February 18th says: The river
is nearly free from ice, robins are
singing, green grass is showing and
fasteners are applying for summer
cottages. But eight inches of snow fell
here this winter.
! The Longmont Library and Lecture
Association has just closed its third
year with fiattering results. The asso-
citation con ducts lecture course and
| maintains a public library, using the
proceeds of the lectures to purchase
books. The City Council has just
| added $500 to the book fund.
Weld county's coroner for eighteen
ruccessive years, with the exception
of one term, and undertaken at Gree
| ley for twenty years, Capt. Thomas
Macy, has just celebrated his seventy
second birthday, and on that day his
records show that he had arranged for
600 funerals in Greeley and vicinity.
Fruit buds in the Canon City dis
trict have not been injured by frost
during the winter. Never have the or
chards been in better condition than
at present and indications are favor
able for big fruit crop this year. The
only danger now menacing the fruit
crop is a continuance Of the warm
weather, which might cause the buds
to develop too rapidly, resulting in
their being killed by frost in March or
| April.
The Wellington Association has pur-
chased what is known as the Park res
ervoir. a tract covering 160 acres south
of the Arapahoe Peak watershed and
at the foot of the range in Boulder
county. 1t will construct dam there
sixty-five feet high and about $50 feet
long on the top, which will enable the
storage of 12O, 100000 gallons of water
| This water will be used for power pur-
nosoc In the mountains and for irrigat-