The Colorado statesman., 1907-07-20
COLORADO NEWS ITEMS

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usual good record this year.
The "Jungles" in Fort Collins are to
be given a general scrubbing.
| DR.. Forrest L. Estile recently died at
| Colorado Springs of brain fever.
Work will begin on the proposed
Royal Gorge electric line very soon.
| Denver has again figured it out that
she has 100000 children, old and
young.
Troop D 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
l. 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 1st.
The flood in Clear Creek canon
caused $4,000 damage and suspended
traffic over q week.
A Negro colony is proposed for Col
of Colorado Springs.
Another retired capitalist-John
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 a 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 a fractured skull, died.
He was seventy years of age.
Denver papers are saying much
| about a "Shirt Sleeve Club" in that
| city. Denver needn't feel so puffed up
| over tive farmers have belonged to
that club for years, b'gosh.
| The editors of the state are con-
|templating 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 $3,-
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 28th, and expert agri-
.fete, PxN, 4. tha IL
College will address the institute on
subjects of interest to formers. Ex-
tensive advertising is being done and
a large attendance is expected.
Turman F. Kennedy, who conducts
one Of the White Mountain summer
resorts. and who is visiting at Boulder
icontemplates locating somewhere in
this state. He says the Eastern sum-
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 1t looked as If the green louise
would destroy all of the wheat, but
'the cold, wet spell in the latter part of
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
hri ua in, hy Tnhn m
Abbott, an original Union colonist, now
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
arsien in the night, secured clothing
and fled. 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 are
two reasons for putting down the well;
one, that 1t is possible to strike a flow
of artesian water to be used for do
nestle purposes, and also to uncover
a 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 a 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
Of tho haoI no .iracr