The Colorado statesman., 1907-12-14
COLORADO NEWS ITEMS

the heaviest ever levied.
The First Bank of Montezuma Val
ley has been Incorporated, the capital
stock being placed at $4,000 The
bank will be located at Monte2uma.
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 women of Eaton raised funds to
erect a library on ground donated by
Governor Eaton, and since then have
secured the money to purchase books
and pay the running expenses.
There are now thirty-two dwellings
under construction at Fort Morgan
varying in cost from 81 600 to $4,000
with few under the $4,000 mark. A
number of public buildings are also
going up.
j. ]. Dean, a farmer living twelve
miles southeast of Greeley, was killed
on the End inst. by being thrown from
a load of coal, one wheel passing over
his body. He lived only two hours
after the accident
People in the vicinity of Num-, in.
Weld county, have petitioned the
county commissioners for eighty-three
miles of county road. Eighty-five miles
of road has been granted in the vicin-
ity during the last year.
At recent meeting of the city coun-
Gil of Aguilar a twenty-year franchise
was granted to Hawkins & Barnett Of
Trinidad to furnish electric light and
power. They also expect to furnish
light and power to several coal mines.
A strip of territory on the western
side of the Pixies Peak forest reserve,
known as districts 6 and T. with an
approximate area of 100000 acres, has
been put into the Leadville reserve.
The tract is situated west of the South
park.
The school board of district No. l,
Pueblo, has closed negotiations by
which they obtained an option from
NJ. d. Thatcher on a block in north
Pueblo, which will be used as a site
for a new high school building, to cost
100000.
Mrs. Marion Muir Richardson of
Morrison, the well known poet and
short story writer, recently won a
suit to quiet title in a considerable
tract of land which the projected in
provements at Morrison will make
very valuable.
Richard H. Malone, receiver of the
defunct Fidelity Savings association
of Denver, has declared five per cent.
dividend, amounting to 1000. This
brings the dividends, so far, up
to twenty-five per cent. and he expects
to pay fifteen per cent. more.
The promoters of the Douthitt Inter
urban railway, to run from Pueblo
Il Arly have
application to the county commissioners
of Pueblo county for right of way
along the county road from the city
limits to Blend, a settlement at the
zinc smelter.
Land sales aggregating $4,000 in
price and $500 acres in area were
made on the 4th inst. by the state land
board in Routt, Weld, Bent and Wash
ington counties. The majority of the
land purchased was in Routt county,
and the purchasers reside there in al
most every instance.
Emboldened by hunger, band of
coyotes on the prairie east of Colorado
Springs, in full view of travellers on
the main road between Colorado
Springs and Calhan, have been max
ing raids on the ranches, killing and
devouring calves, sheep and hogs. AS
a result, a general coyote hunt is to
be organized.
The cornerstone of the new Swedish
National Consumption Sanatorium al
Englewood, was laid on Sunday, the
Sth inst, the principal address being
delivered by Governor Buchtel. The
cost of the building to be Immediately
erected will be $1,000, and it will in
clude eleven rooms, exclusive of the
engine and storage rooms.
e. B. Preston, secretary and Stem
ographer to Judge Lewis of the United
States Circuit Court at Denver, has re-
signed his position and will locate in
Colorado Springs. He will be sue
ceeded by George B. Lawton, who was
secretary TO the late Judge Joseph w.
Ady at the time he was a law partner
of Judge Lewis. at Colorado Springs.
Administrator Hilton has turned
over to the county treasurer of Weld
county property valued at S3,76S, be
ing the remainder of the e:tite ieft
by John Boyle, the Chalk Bluffs ranch
man who was murdered April 13, 1905,
by unknown parties. All efforts to find
his relatives failed. He left an estate
valued at about $4,000, but debts and
expenses consumed more than $4,000.
B. G. d. Bishopp, state dairy COM
missioner, is completing his plans to
organize a Colorado Dairy Associa-
ton. With the cooperation of the
leading dairymen OF the state he ex'
poets, during the week of the Denver
live stock show in January, to get to-
gether the largest convention of dairy
men and creameryrlen ever assembled
in the state. 1t is his hope that u per
manent association can be organized
at that time.
Building inspector Willison of Den
ver 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