The Glenwood post., 1907-02-09
COLORADO NEWS ITEMS

A force of oil well drilIers from the
Florence district will drill number
Df wells near Longmont.
Inc recently organized Colorado
city Stove and Furnace Company has
purchased an entire city block in that
TOWN. near the Rio Grande depot, for
! site.
The vacancy in the commandership
Oh the Agricultural college cadets. due
10 the resignation of Capt Thomas NJ
ANDERSON, Jr., has been filled by the
btate board calling Capt. H. D. Hum
phrey of Fort Collins to that position.
Bob McMannis, alias Black Bob,
from Oklahoma territory, was arrested
at Pueblo Friday, on a charge of horse
| stealing by Officers Bell and Billedoux
He Is suspected by the officers of hav-
ing killed a brother of Sheriff Farr
| OF Huerfano county.
Hon l.. Ogilvy, known to many Col
oradoans as Lord Ogilvy, has traded
his lOO-acre farm in Weld county to
| Senator w. w. Booth of Denver for the
senator's residence at 3424 West Twen-
| ty-thlrd avenue, in Denver, and will re-
| move with his family to Denver
Business in the Pueblo postoffice for
January shows an increase of ten per
| cent. over that of the corresponding
month last year. January, 1906, showed
| a heavy increase over the previous
year, so that the advance during the
! last two years shows eighteen and one
half per cent.
The January business of the Pueblo
| Land Office was the largest in its his
tory, there being recorded 1876 home
stead entries, twenty-five original des!
ert claims, sixty cash sales. fourteen
final desert land entries and fifty-three
final homestead claims. This covers
51,95O acres of land.
Superintendent w. II. Tate of tn
| Union Depot Company at Pueblo has
completed his report for January,
which shows that the sale of tickets a.
the Pueblo office was fifteen per cent
higher than last year and that the
number Of pieces of baggage handled
| was 2,OIl more than during the same
month last year.
Judge Kerr of the Probate Court OF
Ell PasO county has approved the peti
| tion of the executors of the Stratton
estate to pay the remaining legateeg
under the will. There are ten benefi.
Charles whose bequests aggregate
$435,O0O. approximately $4,000 inner.
itance tax and interest thereon will be
withheld from the amount.
In the special election held at Aspen
to decide whether the taxpayers wish
to extend the franchise of the Castle
Greek Water Company for twenty-five
years, with reduction of twenty.
seven per cent. in the present water
rates, only lS4 votes We're cast. OF
these 12G were for granting the new
franchise and 5S were against
George p. Avery of Fort Collins has
been elected by certificate holders of
the Monte Cristo Rubber Plantation
Company to so to Mexico to inspect
the company's proposition there, eX'
penses paid. The directors in the big
company, which owns an orchard OF
5000 acres of rubber trees, are Gree
ley, Denver and Montana men.
The largest shipment of cement
made from the Portland Cement
! Works left Florence a few days ago
and the cement will be distributed over
| Colorado to the west and northwest
| lt consisted of twenty-eight cars, 5000
barrels, or total of 100000 pounds
Most of it will be used in railroad coz
struction and government work.
Rev. Samuel Moore of Greeley has
sold his ranch of 5,370 acres with wa
ter, near Livermore, to J. c. Kulver OF
Fort Collins, taking in exchange the
Kulver cattle ranch of $500 acres
nearby and $4,000 in cash. Mr.. Moon
intends to engage in cattle raising and
will place 1000 head of yearling steers
on the ranch to fatten for market.
The Willow Creek Reservoir Com
| pany has let the contract for the build
| ing of its new reservoir, thirty-tive
miles northeast of Greeley and four
miles southwest of Grover, to cost $685.
900. The reservoirs have a combined
capacity of 175,OO0 cubic feet, will draw
water from Willow creek and bring
Eugene Engley, attorney general of
the state during the Waite administra
lion, was taken to the Sisters hospi
tal at Cripple Creek on the 4th inst
in precarious condition. He had been
mining on an extensive scale on the
| Corialanus and Ocean Wave, on Bat
| tie mountain, where he contracted a Sc
we're cold and was threatened with
| pneumonia.
The Union Pacific is putting in a
new steel railroad bridge across the
| Platte river south of Evans. The exca
yations for the first two piers, bridge
will be over 300 feet long and cost
about 100000. 1t will have double
tracks and be as high as the roadbed
at the La Sale station quarter of a
mile away. 1t will take 200 men six
months to complete the work.
The vacancy In the animal hus
bandry department of the State Agri
cultural College caused by the transfer
of Professor Cottrell to institute work
was filled to-day by the acceptance OF
the position by Prof. George E. Morton
| of the TTniyersity Of Wyoming prOfeS