The Colorado statesman., 1907-05-11
COLORADO NEWS ITEMS

BeltinS tuelr spring crops IN DelWeen
showers.
pointer dog was sold at Leadville
recently for $100. Here's a pointer
for dog fanciers.
The biggest hog shipped out of Bur.
lington this year weighed $40 pounds.
1t was of the four-footed species.
Fort Collins has graduated from the
village grade and will now comb her
front hair with a $4,000 steam
grader.
A. F. Ross of Montrose and H. L.
Daniels of River Portal. Colorado, have
been appointed engineers in the recla-
nation service.
F., N. B. Scott has been elected pres
ident of the North Poudre Irrigation
Company to fill vacanccy caused by
resignation of Watson Zeigler.
A Denver man undertook to butt in
on neighbor woman last Sunday, and
she shot him in the neck with re-
volver. No more rubbering for him.
The base ball season opened in Den
yer last Saturday in a snowstorm.
Those who couldn't see the base ball
amused themselves throwing snow
balls.
A complaint has been made against
E. E. Bedueath, at North Longmont,
charging him with killing fine horse
by forcibly administering the water
cure.
Gold has been discovered in the vi
cinity of Semper-"out on the plains"
Another evidence that all you've got to
do in Colorado is dig, and wealth is
yours.
A. Patek and Frank Webster, two
Denver newspaper men, are touring the
intermountain region with a moving
picture machine and a Panama lee
ture.
The interior of the Lowell school.
Colorado Springs, is being decorated
with copies of famous paintings. Busts
of famous men have also been pur.
chased.
1t is officially announced that in all
probability homeseekers' rates, hither-
to given only to Denver, Pueblo and
Colorado Springs. will hereafter be
given to Greeley.
The low temperature of the past two
weeks has frozen the leaves
on the trees and there is strong
likelihood that the sugar beets will
have to be replanted in the vicinity of
Holly
Colorado's unusual spring weather"
kpt the "Smile and Push" Club very
busy during the waning days of April
and the front end of May, explaining
to visitors that it never happened this
way before"
Sterling is too busy getting in her
spring crops and driving her cows to
pasture to be bothered with a spring
term of court, and the few cases on the
docket may be sent to Denver where
the mills ever grind.
Boulder children between the ages
of sixteen and twenty-one may now
play pool and billiards upon written
permission of their papas and NAM
mas, according to revised ordinance.
And this is Better Boulder!"
John GRAPHICAL, one of the first set
tiers in this part of the country, died
at Pueblo, aged seventy. He had been
a resident of Rye, in this county, for
forty years, and was known among the
ranch and stockmen all over the south
ern part of the state.
Reports from the beet fields in the
vicinity of Fort Collins are encourag-
ing. The factory fieldmen, after inves-
tigation, believe the damage to the
crop so far has been light, and that,
unless the weather continues wet and
cold, little replanting will have to be
done. They believe that If the weather
turns warm there will be no damage
to the crop.
At meeting of local No. Sc, West
ern Federation Of Miners, at Central
Nify xuoc rnopfr,,n.,cIxr doofdod to
ask an increase of so cents for machine
men in the mines. The present scale
Is SO. The increase is not asked to be-
come effective until the first of June.
AS the demand is reasonable there is
no doubt that it will be granted by the
operators.
On charges of assault with intent to
kill, Eugene Alarid was brought in
from Riley canon and is in Jail at
Trinidad to wait the result of the in
juries of Jose Munez, whom Alarid, is
alleged to have assaulted. The two
men became involved in quarrel and
Munez received several stabs and
said to be critical. Both are miners.
The new se5,0Oo opera house which
is being erected at Trinidad and
scheduled to be completed by Novem-
ber 1st, has been leased for term of
five years to S. N. Nye of Colorado
Springs and Bobby" Fountain, an
actor and theatrical man. The opera
house will be one of the finest in the
state and is being constructed along
the lines of the Broadway theater in
Denver.
Miss Jane Adams of Hull house, Chi
cago, who will give the commencement
oration at the University Of Colorado
commencement exercises, Wednesday,
June 5th, in the Chautauqua audito-
rum at Boulder, will speak on Chang
Ing Ideals in Education" A new fea-
iure of the commencement exercises
this year will be the Sigma ST exer-
rises which will be held in the Iactura