The Julesburg grit-advocate., 1907-12-20
COLORADO NEWS ITEMS

TIE State Teachers Association
meets at Denver December "ist %
January Sd.
The magnificent new building OF the
Young Mems Christian association at
Denver was formally opened on The
10th inst, and is now in full opera
tion.
Never in the history of Denver have
the State Humane society and tie
Colorado Prison association been
swamped with appeals for aid as at
the present time.
a special public school will be op-
ened for sixty or more Russian chill
dren in Greeley in order that they may
have better opportunities for individ-
ual instruction.
The board of pardons at its recent
meeting in Denver refused an appIi-
cation for pardon in the case of sam
Enrich, sentenced from Denver Aug
ust ., 1904, for the murder OF William
Malone.
The Southern Colorado Mercantile
company will build a wholesale ware
house at Trinidad early next year
which will be 150X20O feet and five
stories high. Railroad tracks will run
through the building.
People in the vicinity of Num-, In
Weld county, haye petitioned the
county commissioners for eighty-three
miles of county road. Eighty-iive miles
of road has been granted in the vicin-
ity during the last year.
a strip of territory on the western
side of the Pixies Peak forest reserve,
known as districts and Z, with an
approximate area of 900 acres, has
been put into the Leadyille reserve.
I he tract is situated west OF the South
pari-
Mrs Marion Muir Richardson Of
Morrison, the well known poet and
short story writer, recently won a
suit to quiet title in considerable
tract Of land which the projected in
provements at Morrison will make
very valuable.
On the 18th inst. the work Of SUI
vcyinG for the Henrylyn irrigation
project in southeastern Weld county
was begun and will occupy month.
Preliminary lines have already oc"n
run defining the boundaries of the
ditch, which embraces 10000 acres.
A carload of Greeley potatoes was
started few days ago for New York
TO be used for supplying the tables on
the big ocean liners and is the iv,e
runner Of others to be used Tor The
same purpose and for supplying pri-
vatc yachts, among them that of Tie
VandCrbilts.
The Western Slope Bar association
will meet at Delta, December 2Gth.
The counties comprising the district
ale Gunnison, Hinsdale. San :Hguel
Ouiay, Montrose, Mesa and Delta. The
business meeting will be follow ed by a
banquet in the evening" The attend
ance is estimated at 100.
[ On Monday the Great Western
Sugar company paid out SitO,O00 at
the Greeley, Eaton and Windsor sugar
factories. This covers the November
delivery of beets and salaries of fac
tory employees for the month. Farmer S
are delivering their siloed b2cts
rapidly and each factory is working at
full capacity.
! Lakeside, near Berkeley lake, is the
latest Denver summer resort to vie
wltb Elitch'S Gardens and Manhattan
Beach. 1t is just across the line in
jefferson county and will have all the
latest accessories, including a theater
casion and. presumably, plenty of beer
on tap. The resort will be known as
Lakeside Park.
The assessment this year shows
that Bruce G. Eaton pays the largest
tax of any individual in Weld county
He paid on his own property ana tlc
estate of the late eX-Gov. b. H. Eaton
which he shared with his mother. Ills
tax is $7,312.G3, assessed on vailla
ton of $26G,000, about one-third Of tie
actual value. TLis is practically al
real estate, covering 14.i00 acres.
At meeting OF the board Of ral.
dons in Denver on the 18th inst. The
case of Leonard lmboden and James
y. Hill was postponed until Feb. T
when an open meeting will be held tC
consider the applications for the par
con of the two. II. j. Hershey pud /.
5. Smith appeared in favor of Imbod n
and Hill, while Harry Kelly was there
to protest against the granting Of tho
pardon.
The Denver Real Estate exchange is
on record against the sale of Christ
mas trees. having resolved: THAI
we very much deprccate this lnnua'
forestry murder and call upon ON
citizens and merchants generally tc
abstain from the use of these evcl
greens at Christmas time, as far as
practicable, and to lend their inluanc,
IL discourasing the destruction OF
evergreen forests in the manner
named"
Building Inspector Willison of Den,
yer, has received a beautiful model of
the corner dOmes to be placed on the
new auditorium. 1t was made in St
Louis and is of sheet metal, tinted
silver. The domes will be four in
number, one at each corner, twenty,
four feet high and thirty-four feet
across. They will support thirty-foot
ilag poles to carry a twenty-four-foot
flag. The dome in the center of the
building is to be thrty-two feet high
After considering very large ue
tiion for the release of w. G. Conneil
sentenced from Lamar by Judge Hun
ter, April 25, 1906, to term of flom