The new era. (Walden, Colo.) 1906-19??, 1907-07-25
COLORADO NEWS ITEMS

Denver has again figured it out that
she has 100000 children, old and
young.
Troop Of Colorado cavalry Of Boul-
der has been taking an outing at
Golden.
The local lodge OF Modern Woodman
at Greeley are preparing to hold at
street fair.
A Denver dairyman has confessed
to using starch in making cream thick
and yellow.
Everybody is thinking about the big
time to be had in Denver on Colorado
day, August LIST.
The flood in Clear Creek canon
caused $4,000 damage and suspended
traffic over week.
A Negro colony is proposed for Col
orado somewhere in the neighborhood
Of Colorado Springs. n
Another retired capitalist-JoiR
Wolf-has moved his family from Den
yer to beautiful Boulder.
Ault is out after the Union Pacific
Railroad Company, asking that more
crossings be placed in that town.
Georgetown was without daily news
papers and beer for over week, ow-
ing to the cloudburst, but the town
moved right along.
The body of new born babe was
found few days ago In an irrigation
ditch near the Rustler school house,
in The vicinity of Pueblo.
Dan Murphy, found beside the rail-
road track at Greeley few days ago
suffering with fractured skull, died.
He was seventy years OF age.
|! Denver papers are saying much
about Shirt Sleeve Club" in that
city. Denver needn't feel so pulled up
over tive farmers have belonged to
that club for years, bgosh.
H The editors of the state are con-
Itemplating a royal time July 22d-24th,
the dates set for their annual mid
summer outing. A trip to Steamboat
Springs. over the Moffat road. is plan
ned.
The large dairy farm plant OF Ben
Bacovi, of Silverton. was burned one
day recently. The loss was over 49,
900 and was only partially insured. The
Municipal electric light plant and a
large sawmill adjoining narrowly es-
capped being burned.
! A Farmers Institute will be held at
Florence July 2Sth, and expert agri-
,c.lturists from the State Agricultural
College will address the institute on
subjects of interest to formers Ex-
.tensive advertising is being done and
q large attendance is expected.
thurman F. Kennedy, who conducts.
one of the White Mountain sumna&
resorts, and who is visiting at Boulder
'contemplates locating somewhere in
HI tota 10 10 10 or
mer resorts are becoming too much
the gathering places for people suffer
ing with tuberculosis.
| The farmers on Gunbarrel hill. which
lis above all irrigating bitches, say
some of the wheat there will run as
high as fifty bushels to the acre. For
a time it looked as if the green louise
would destroy all of the wheat but
the cold, wet spell In the latter part of
the spring killed off these pests. Some
fields were utterly ruined by them, but
not many.
The last Of the old landmarks in
Greeley is to be torn down to make
way for a two-story brick building to
be built by d. R. Macarthur for hard
ware store. The old one-story frame
building which stands on the south
side of Main street among a row OF
brick blocks, was built in 1871 by John
Abbott, an original Union colonist now
a resident of Fort Collins.
! Believing that Jose Martinez, the
Mexican stabbed at Windsor a few
nights ago, was near death, county
hospital attendants were much sur
prised to find his bed empty and the
man gone few morning ago. He had
arisen in the night, secured clothing
and fed. His companion in the fight
Is In the hospital and will recover. No
effort will be made to find the man.
The citizens of Keene, in eastern
Weld county, are digging the first ar
tesian well in that region. There ar&,
two reasons for putting down the wei
one. that it is possible to strike fioN
OF artesian water to be used for do
nestle purposes. and also to uncover
coal vein which is said to underly
the town. 1t is understood that the
Burlington railroad is interested in the
project and If coal is found, even of
cheap grade, will mine it for its own
use.
Like white elephant on their hands
is barrel Of bottled beer in the pos
session Of the town officers at Ault.
They arrested Jud Cathy alleged owner
Of the goods, charging that he was vio- =
'lating the ordinances by selling liquor
and holding the beer as evidence
Cathy escaped from jail and the pos
'essors of the beer are now WONDERING 4
just how far their power Of conti
ltion goes. All the town officers af
strict temperance men, will not a
the beer in their homes and have
GUS objections to storing it in the t
hall.
Cold Storage Plant.