The new era. (Walden, Colo.) 1906-19??, 1907-10-03
COLORADO NEWS ITEMS

hc MeoSd SouHts lall utiu at VII ohN
Junction, was rousing success.
The ore tonnage for the Leadville
district in August reached $4,000 tons.
Denver is having its selni-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 $50 head. The sale
will net him between $GU 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
flall pDllnuS lne p'iHU iSi
the biggest specimen raised in Weld
county.
A. S. Pindeli of Fort Collins broke
the threshing record for oats, when
the outtt threshed 1910 bushels upon
the farm of ]. c. Bowman.
Wages for ordinary unskilled labor
in Boulder county run from ~ 5O TO %
a day There is not an idle man III
the county.
The sugar factory in Fort Collins
will begin grinding this week. There
will be about $50 tons or beets ready
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 a
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 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, NJ. p.
member of the Canadian Irrigation
Commission, has recently been investi-
eating the irrigation works about
Greeley with view of belterins the
conditions in Canada.
Nil ii. TN,.;V Io1
23d. Mr.. Fish came from Vermont
twenty-six years ago, and mad con
Quoted a planning mill and engaged in
contract work since. He was 20 years
Of age, and leaves widow, daughter
and son.
Three new instructors have been APP
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 sradu'
ates of the University of Illinois, VINO
will teach in civil engineering. and Mr..
III G. Venneman, b. s., University OF
Colorado, in mechanical engineering
Open range in Washington county
will soon he 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
iforpia.
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 II
by the late Andrew j. Macky, which
would have amounted to about $15,Ooo
Judge Henderson states that he gave
the decision with 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'
end 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 that it was thought
best tc take her to the hospital.
w. ]. Milsap. who shot and killed
Rob Steele, gambler at Clayton. N
M, 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