The Monte Vista journal., 1908-03-21
COLORADO NEWS

0UU, mas been completed ana turned
over to the directors of the hospital
association.
Work of cementing the Riverside
reservoir dam near Greeley has been
resumed by $50 men and teams and
will be completed this spring.
Russia, Holland. Austria, Sweden,
Scotland, Denmark and Canada all con-
tributed to the citizenship OF l.arimer
county in naturalization cases re.
Gently before the District Court.
Representative Bonynge has ap.
pointed Orlando Ward as cadet in the
West Point military academy with
Young Baker Miller first and George
Carruthers second alternates. All re-
side in Denver.
Andrew Carnegie has offered to do
nate 1915 toward pipe organ for the
new United Presbyterian church at
Fort Morgan, now nearing completion,
II the congregation will give a like
amount, which it has agreed to do.
DR.. Archibald l.. Camp, one of the
members of the Union colony and an
early settler at Greeley, who has been
for many years prominenl Weld
county farmer, died ut his home east
of Greeley on the lith inst at the age
OF eiShty-five years.
Owing to the scarcity of moisture
throughout the winter, great deal of
the fall wheat in the vicinity Of Fort
Morgan will be plowed up and spring
wheat sown in its place. An unusual
amount Of wheat was planted in the
Bijou district last fall.
J. F. Sanford, attorney for the Mod
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$4,000 to the executors of the Am
bier estate and secured a deed to the
l.OOO-acre tract five miles north of
Colorado Springs, which is to be used
as the site for the NJ. w. A. national
home and sanitarium.
The town authorities OF Coal Creek
in Fremont county have decided to
make the principal streets of the camp
wider than they were before the fire
last June. The town has been resur-
veyed and the streets will be at least
fifteen feet wider than formerly. A
better class of business blocks is also
being erected.
Rev. Orrin w. Auman. pastor Of the
First Methodist church at Pueblo an.
nounced Sunday that the church has
opened an employment agency, in
charge OF capable man. whose bust
ness it will be to find work for such as
desire 1t. II is understood that other
churches will undertake similar work
press club has been organized at
Pueblo with w. J. Orange as temporary
chairman. The club expects to open
rooms and to take charge of a room
at the Pueblo hospital which the di-
rectors have set aside for the use Of
newspaper men. 1t was decided that
only news writers and editors could
be eligible to the active membership
list.
At meeting Of the Loveland Cham.
ber OF Commerce the date Of the annual
Loveland corn roast was changed from
September to August 18th. and the
dates OF the annual races and live stock
show were changed from September
7th. Sth and 9th to August 18th, Goth
and 2lst. These changes were mad,
so rs not to conflict with the dates OF
the Interstate fair TO be held In Den.
yer.
About nifty pioneers from Denver and
all along South Platte canon took part
In surprise banquet given on the 18th
inst to Mrs. Given, the old.time cater.
ess. the occasion being her sixty.
fourth birthday. Mrs. Given came to
Denver from Leadville In 1879 and has
been In the restaurant business ever
since. Recently she has been manag.
Ing the kiowa Lodge. at Baileys, In
South Platte canon.
1t Is asserted at Walden that the
Laramie. Hahn's Peak a Pacific will
put surveyors In the field again In n
lew days II the weather permits. The
finances OF the company are said to be
ample and material is being delivered
AZ rapidly as II Is needed. Construc.
ton will be pushed this summer and
the company expects 10 carry out Its
plans for the year as announced when
work ceased last autumn.
For tho recovery OF Colorado lands.
valued at 100000. the United States
government has filed suit In tho Fed.
eral Court against the New Mexico
Lumber Company and thirty co.dcfend.
ants. II In alleged that the lands,
which are under the Jurisdiction Of the
Durango district. were secured by
fraudulent entries on the part Of the
co'defcndants, who later transferred
them to the lumber company.
Tho railroads OF Colorado have
agreed that on each Tuesday. commcnc.
ing June LIST. to and including October
18Th. u rate Of one fare for tho round
trip will be made from Denver to Colo
RADIO Springs. Manitou. Pueblo and any
ether point within the state Of Colo.
rado. This is the same as tho rate
.xcd last summer. On July sth and
9th the same onc.farc rate to Denver
for tho Democratic convention from
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