The Colorado statesman., 1907-03-02
COLORADO NEWS ITEMS


guests were present. The responses to
the toasts were eloquent and witty.
The Society of the Order of the
Philippines, which has been in exist
ence at Colorado Springs since 1900,
was reorganized few days since by
the election of officers and the adop.
tion of the regular national secret
ritual.
The Boulder City Council has de-
oided to submit to the taxpayers the
proposition of issuing $4,000 in bonds
for a new city hall. The city owns 100
feet on Pearl street and 1t is intended
to build on this ground IL the bonds
are voted.
The locomotive of Colorado Mid.
land passenger train ON the night of the
18th inst. struck and killed a large
buck deer near Woodland Park The
train was stopped and the carcass of
the deer carried to Colorado Springs in
the baggage car.
e. B. Mitchell, chief train dispatcher
for the Rio Grande at Pueblo left Feb
Iuary 22i for Seattle, where he takes
a similar position with the Northern
Pacific. Before he left his associates,
from trainmen down to coral boys,
presented him with $3.50 Elk charm
The State University Glee and Man
dolin clubs will begin their fifteenth
annual tour of the state March 9Th and
will give concerts in Longmont, Den
yer, Colorado Springs. Victor, Cripple
Creek, Pueblo Trinidad, Canon City,
Salida, Leadville, Aspen, Glenwood
Springs and possibly Golden.
The Primero mine in Las Animas
county, in which twenty-four men lost
their lives by an explosion on January
23rd, has resumed operations with
full force. Since the explosion the
coke production at Segundo was ma
terially reduced but the 800 ovens
there are now running again.
In the absence of United States Dis,
trict Attorney Earl Cranston of Den
yer. who left Monday for Japan, Robert
j. Pitkin, his law partner, has been ap-
ointed special assistant in the oflce.
Mr.. Cranston has been granted
ninety days leave of absence by Presi-
dent Roosevelt. He will visit his
father, Bishop Cranston, who is sta
toned in Japan.
A party of Is Hollanders, represent
ing 40 families, the vanguard Of hun
dreds who will colonize Fountain val.
ley, south of Colorado Springs, arrived
February 22d, preparatory to founding
homes in the valley. The scheme is
backed by the Fountain Valley Land
&c Irrigation Company, an interest of
the Castlewood Dam Company of
Denver.
At the annual meeting Of the stock
holders of the Montrose National bank
it was announced that M. d. Thatcher,
Pueblo and Denver banker, and M. d.
Low. cashier of the First National bank
OF Florence have purchased CONTROL.
ing interest in the bank and would
establish it among the chain of banks
throughout the state controlled by the
Thatcher brothers - 81. +
Forty box cars containing about
10000 sacks of potatoes left Greeley
for Texas and the Southwest Febru-
ary 22d and 23d About 5000 carloads
of potatoes are still in the Greeley dis
trict and farmers are selling freely
to dealers at 10 cents per hundred.
Fairly California potatoes will not en-.
ter into competition with the Greeley
crop until May, and by that time prac.-
tically all OF the crop will be dis
posed of.
-'he dates for the next livestock
show in Denver have been set. and 1t
has been decided to make 1t national
show, throwing the competition open
to the world, with special classified.
ton and premiums for the territory
covered by the last show, the short
grass country. The executive commit
tee of the Western Stock Show Asso-
ciation yesterday set the dates for the
next show for the week OF January
20th-25th, 1908.
It is reported that Gen. w. ]. Palmer
will shortly purchase an electric auto
mobile. fitted with a large swinging
choir to minimize jolting. General
Palmer has steadily improved in
strength since his recent horseback &C
ciient. He formerly felt great an
tipathy toward automobiles,and there
now exists an order forbidding them
to enter any OF the canons or TO use
the boulevards controlled by him. w.
A. Otis, in an automobile, first rem
dered aid to General Palmer when he
lay unconscious on the road to Glen
Eyrie, as a result of his accident some
months ago.
The Greeley sugar factory has fin
ished slicing the last of Its 1906 crop
of beets This factory has broken the
worlds record for any factory OF TOO
tons capacity, in having sliced tho
greatest tonnage in any one sugar cam
paign. 1t made 100000 tons OF beets
into $4,000 tons of sugar. The aver
age yield of beets an acre in this dis
trlct was fourteen tons. The sugar
campaign began September 18th and
lasted 1863 days. The average length
of a sugar campaign is 120 days, and
next year this factory will not run
longer than that time. Six thousand
acres of beets will be grown for the
Greeley factory next year. The Gree
ley, Eaton and Windsor factories have
sliced 29S,O0O tons of beets this sea-
son, and have distributed to the grow.
ers and employees $2,000,0OO.
Charles N. Cox of Denver, repre-