The Glenwood post., 1907-03-16
COLORADO NEWS ITEMS

it "''Ii'h VI oplIuSo
nominated municipal ticket which
was endorsed by both political parties.
Apricot trees are in bloom at Pali-
SADIE. Three rose bushes at Florence
have about 200 full-blown roses on
them.
Denver bricklayers have been
granted raise in wages of so cents
day, bringing t. average daily pay
up to Sc.
The Logan County Advocate and
the Republican at Sterling have been
consolidated and will be conducted by
ID. C. Smith, former publisher of the
Republican.
The Western Baseball League will
be made up during the coming season
of Denver, Colorado Springs, Pueblo,
Topeka, St Joseph. Des Moines, Lin
coin and Sioux City. The opening
games will be played April 18th.
Natives of Ohio now living in Colo
RADIO had a banquet at Denver the
other night and afterwards organized
"A permanent society with Governor
Buchtel as president. Ex-Governor
Herrick was present
Mrs. w. S. Wylie, wife of the pastor
of the Reformed Presbyterian church
at Evans, was seriously and perhaps
fatally injured in a runaway in Gree
ley on the 2nd, by her buggy being up
set One of her lower limbs was
broken anI she also sustained several
internal injuries.
For selling liquor on the line of the
! Moffat road. now under construction
near TopOnas, in ROutt county, Mrs.
Hagermln has been arrested and
heagily ined, a large stock of beer
which snc had in the cellar of her
cabin, ccnfiscated, and her cabin de-
stroyed hv dynamite.
The Argentine Central railroad has
practically been closed down for the
balance Of the winter. The heavy
snowsldes have resulted in its being
found almost impossible to keep the
tracks Gear, while the cost of run
ming the trains has Deen unusually
| heavy.
William Wambaugh, wealthy
farmer who recently went from Colo
RADIO to Chicago, was roped in by
Sophie Finlen while en- route. They
We're married at Chicago in spite of
| the opposition of the police, and now
the woman has disappeared with $4,000
! of Wambaugh's money.
| At an election of officers for the en-
| SuluS year, IElN DN u'ItSd''S " 'iiS
| Western Bowling Congress at Denver
on the 11th. Alderman Andy T. Stahl
was unanimously elected president.
| The other officers elected are: Nj. J.
| Sheehan OF Butte, first vice president;
| l.. C. Keating of Portland. second vice
| president; n. b. Allen of Seattle, third
| vice president; w. S. Zehring of Salt
Lake. secretary and treasurer
Kansas City syndicate, headed by
| r. J. Martin, has purchased tract of
| 10000 acres in the San Luis valley
from Gen. William J. Palmer for $500
| 600. The company will erect $1,000
| 600 beet sugar factory at Fort Garland.
| The land acquired will be cultivated
! for beets, and it is proposed to operate
factory with a capacity of 1000 tons
| of beets daily. A colonization scheme
and big irrigation project are contem-
plated in the plans Of the company
! Joseph A. Miner, familiarly known
to railroad men throughout the West
as Governor Joe" Miner, died on the
11th at Denver, from an attack of neu-
! ralgia of the heart, after an illness
lasting six weeks. Governor" Miner
was for twenty-six years city passen-
| ger agent OF the Burlington route,
coming to Denver in 1881, the year be-
|
as the representative of the road. He
had been here many years before that,
| however.
The Canon City high school cadets
will go on weeks outing during the
vacation from March 25th to April list
Forty members of the high school will
| participate in the tramp. They will
go into camp for three days on Eight
| Mile park, near the top of the Royal
| gorge. The second camp will be To-
Gated in Webster park near Parkdale
and the return trip will be made by
the way of Grape creek. The boys
will follow army life and discipline
during the encampment.
r. X. Schuyler of Colorado Springs
has filed map for mesa canal and
series of storage reservoirs to irrigate
a large tract of sem-arid land
on the north side of the Arkan-
sas river in Fremont and Pu-
eblo counties, and will have a carrying
capacity of $50 cubic feet of water per
second A chain of eighteen reservoirs
| are contemplated with an aggregate
capacity of 10000. 900, 900 cubic feet of
water. The estimated cost of the canal
is 100000, with $2,000,OOO for the
| eighteen reservoirs.
| Municipal ownership of public util-
titles, in effect, if not in reality, will be
put in operation at Morrison by John
Brisben Walker, who is gradually
building up an extensive and attrac-
tive resort. Walker has large landed
interests not only in Denver, but in
the vicinity of Morrison. To protect
them Mr.. Walker has purchased the
water and electric lighting plants Of
the town. He has announced that he
will operate these utilities with the
idea of making them merely self-sup-
porting, and will turn over to Morrison
the profits from both concerns. These
will be transferred to the town either
in cash or invested for its benefit in
improvements and extensions of the
water AMI light systems.
The railroads of Colorado paid into
the state treasury as taxes last year
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