The Glenwood post., 1907-02-16
COLORADO NEHS ITEMS

colorado Springs Masons have ap-
pointed a committee to secure site
ana specifications for Masonic build
ing TO be constructed soon.
Expert oil well drillers from Flor
ence will drill "A number of wells nea:
Mcntrose for company in which FIRE
mont county men are interested
The comptroller of the currency has
approved the conversion of the Bank
OF Buena Vista into the First National
bank OF Buena Vista, with $25, 900 CAPT
tai
An Elks' temple is to be erected al
Grand Junction to cost $4,000 or up
wards. 1t will be 50X125 feet in sia
and three stories high. Work will be
gin on it soon.
A large number of Colorado Shrir
ers are preparing to go to the conven
ton OF the order at Los Angeles in
May. They are promised an eXtraoI-
binary amount of entertainment.
Tie following Colorado postmasters
have been appointed: Englewood,
Arapahoc county, Jesse G. Baird, vice
o. ). Baird, dead; Waverley, Larimer
county, Walter II. Hainey, vice H. C..
Cradle, resigned.
The Alamosa National Bank of Ala
mosa has been authorized to begin
business with capital of $4,000. c.
Wallrich is president, Fred Croenins
ana wesley Staley, vice presidents.
and w. II. Mallett, cashier.
Mrs. Mary Neff of Denver committed
suicide at Victor on the Sth inst. by
shooting herself through the head. She
was respondent because of the death
of her daughter, Mrs. Forrest Babcocl.
that morning from blood poisoning.
The Mesa County Fruit Industrial
Association met at Grand Junction on
the 9Th inst. and voted to increase its
capital stock from $4,000 to $4,000
The grounds will be improved in prep
aration for greater fair next fall.
General Traffic Manager Wakely of
the Burlington has ordered through
trains Nos. 13 and IA to stop at the
new station of Keene because of the
heavy travel through that section of
Weld county. keene will soon have a
postoftice.
Benjamin and Earl Tucker of Colo
rado Springs and Austin Tucker of
Denver, sons of J. T. Tucker, the res
taurant man of Colorado Springs and
Denver, are preparing an expedition to
the far North to hunt for the rare ami
mails tSlt inhabit the Arctic circle.
The Pueblo Business Mems Associa.
ton has prepared a catchy postcar |
made in the form of folder, and this
will be sent throughout the United
States and Europe. 1t contains much
N pfnrrno hn Hp in1
industrial and agricultural resources
of Pueblo.
The City Council of Black Hawk has
extended the franchise of the Gilpin
County Light, Heat and Power Com
pany for ten years. This is the com
parry which was reported to have sold
out to the Colorado Central Power
Company for over 100000, local stock
holders denying the report.
The proposed erection of several
new dumps by the HollySwink factory
for handling the crop of 1907 is ey.
pected to give considerable impetug
to the beet growing industry in the
Pueblo district. Based on contracts al
ready closed, the district will furnish
about 1000 acres for growing beets
this year.
A Farmers institute will be held at
Greeley Friday and Saturday, Febru
ary 22d and 23d. Professors Carlyle.
Paddock, Bennett, Olin and CottreD
will be in charge. The subjects that
will be the use of water for irrigation.
selection of seed grains and alfalfa
stock feed and breeding and diseases
OF potatoes.
L. B. Morrison, superintendent OF
tee Clipper mine, on London mountain,
near Alma, was caught and killed in a
snowslide on Thursday, the 7th inst.
Morrison was on his way down frori
the mine with samples of ore from
new strike when the slide started. He
struggled hard, but was covered by the
Glide and suffocated.
Conductor J. Brown of the Florence
& Cripple Creek railroad reports run
ming into and scattering band of nine
mountain sheep which We're quietly
browning along the track at a point
below Adelaide. In making their ea-
cape big ram became entangled by the
horns in the guy wires of the telephone
poles. The sheep, a fine specimen.
was released unhurt by the train crew.
me VI NolllllS NIdlIlb'l Vi Noli-
merce has agreed upon an energetic
campaign for the benefit of Fort Col
Inns and the Cache La Poudre valley,
FOur teams of solicitors, each having
six members, captained by an officer
appointed by the chamber have been
designated to canvass the city and sur
rounding country for the purpose OF
raising fund of $1,000 to be used in
advertising.
1t is announced that work is to be
continued at the Minnequa works, Pu-
eblo, on the construction of the new
merchant mill. This mill will be a
quarter of a mile long and $50 feet
wide, being the largest building under
one roof, with one or two exceptions,
in the United States. The manufac-
ture of all kinds of structural steel
for buildings and viaducts will be enc
Of the chief industries carried on in
the new plant.
Tc the State Normal School museum