The Colorado statesman., 1907-09-28
COLORADO NEWS ITEMS

district in August reached $4,000 tons.
Denver is having its seni-annual
spasm over the municipal ownership
problem.
Colorado is having an epidemic of
grand jury" Just now, and it seems
to be Catching"
Six thousand five hundred dollars
was paid recently for ten-acre tract
of land near Fort Collins.
The gymnasium at the Golden School
of Mines will be the best equipped OF
any in the West when completed.
A South Park cattleman recently
sold his cattle at $40 head. The sale
will net him between $50 900 and $780,
900.
There is more ore being shipped
to the smelter in Durango than ever
before in the history of San Juan dis
trict.
Olathe has Incorporated as town
and the citizens say it will have double
the population within the next two
years.
A sugar beet weighing ten and one
half pounds carried OFF the prize for
the biggest specimen raised in Weld
county.
"A. .. GlnuGll OF SOlil0S DTohS
the threshing record for oats, when
the outfit threshed 1910 bushels upon
the farm of ]. c. Bowman.
Wages for ordinary unskilled labor
in Boulder county run from 81 so to $3
day There is not an idle man in
the county.
The sugar factory in Fort Collins
will begin grinding this week. There
xi1I I,0 ,lN., ,,f Ax
for grinding.
In the first week of the melon sea
son Las Animas shipped seventeen
cars of cantaloupes. The prices were
above the average.
A new record was made in Washing
ton county lands this week. A small
tract of sixteen acres adjoining Ak
rom, unimproved, sold for $40 an acre.
Montrose is counting on having
beet sugar factory in time to use the
first crop of beets raised after water
from the Gunnison tunnel is turned
into the valley.
Colorado Springs has a new feature
for the grand jury to work on. 1t is
called "embracery." It's getting so
fellow has to be mighty careful who
he embraces now days.
Hon. Frederick ]. Fulton, M. P,
member of the Canadian Irrigation
Commission, has recently been investi-
eating the irrigation works about
Greeley with view of bettering the
conditions in Canada.
II. M. Fish died at Trinidad Sept.
23d. Mr.. Fish came from Vermont
twenty-six years ago, and had con-
Quoted a planning mill and engaged in
contract work since. He was 20 years
of age, and leaves a widow, daughter
and son.
Three new instructors have been ap-
pointed and begun work in the col
lege of engineering at the State uni
virsity They are Mr.. c. C. Williams
and Mr. A. P. Poorman, both gradu
ates of the University of Illinois, who
will teach in civil engineering, and Mr.
II, G. Venneman, B. s.. University of
Colorado, in mechanical engineering
Open range in Washington county
will soon be thing of the past. Many
of the largest ranchers are closing out
their stock on account of the number
of homesteader locating. The An
drews brothers horse ranch. one of
the oldest in this section, has been
sold and the stock will be closed out
Oct 9th. Mr.. Andrews will go to Cal
ifornia.
County Judge Junius Henderson OF
Boulder decided that the State Univer
sity is not liable to pay an income tax
to the state on the bequest made to it
by the late Andrew ]. Macky, which
would have amounted to about $4,000.
Judge Henderson states that he gave
the decision with a great deal of hes
itation. and his ruling will be carried
to the Supreme Court.
Small grains are threshing out bet
ter in Washington county than eX
pected, spring wheat ranging from ten
bushels an acre up into the twenties.
and barley ranging around thirty bush
els on an average. Potatoes are
god crop. Digging is in progress. Corn
is maturing nicely. Many have to de-
lay their threshing on account of the
scarcity of threshing machines.
Mrs. Chris Hanchon. white woman.
the wife of a Mexican, was taken to
the Weld county hospital probably ia
tally injured from the kicks and
bruises which. according to her own
story, she received from her husband.
She had been cared for by the neigh
bors since then, when her condition
became so serious tnat IL was tnouSnt
best tC take her to the hospital.
w. j. Milsap. who shot and killed
Rob Steele, gambler at Clayton. N.
NJ, about ten days ago, over an alleged
poker debt, was discharged by the JUS
tice of the peace at Clayton and the
grand jury has failed to indict him.
Milsap claims the killing was done in
self defense. Milsap recently moved
to Clayton from Lamar. Colorado,
where his brothers and other relatives
reside.
Ephriam Pitcher, well known far