The Colorado statesman., 1908-12-19
COLORADO ITEMS

AItonito has voted for a gravity
water system to be owned and oper-
ated by the town, drawing its water
from large springs.
A short distance west of Fort Nor
gan a Union Pacific train ran into
herd of about 125 antelope, few days
since, killing two of them.
, Invitations have been issued by the
University of Colorado for confer
ence of principals and superintendent
of high schools of the state at Boulder
Jan. 1st and End.
The taxpayers of Denver on January
18th will vote on the question of is
suing about S1,000,000 of school bonds
for the erection of new school build
ings, repairs and additions.
On January 2Sth Leadville will cele-
brate it's thirtieth anniversary by a
home coming" of Leadville pioneers.
There will be high old times''-about
tive miles high.
A congress of Colorado Sunday
school associations will be held at
Pueblo Dec. z7th-29th. This will be the
first time the congress has been held
outside of Denver.
The thirty-eighth annual session of
the Colorado State Teachers Associa-
tion will be held in the East Side high
school at Denver, Dec. 2Sth, 29th, Both
and 31st.
Manager A. B. Hulit of the Kansas
Colorado Power and Transmission
| Company, expects the road to be COM
| pleted from Pueblo to the top of the
Royal Gorge by May 1st next.
On the night of the Sth inst. fire
destroyed the shaft house and build
ings of the Mesa Mining & Milling
Company at Unaweep, entailing loss
of $4,000. There was no insurance.
The lew sewer system at Fort Nor
gan has been completed at a cost Of
about 100000. Work has been going
on for four months and sixteen miles
of pipe have been laid. This covers
the entire town and all additions.
Another per cent dividend has
been declared by Richard H. Malone.
receiver of the defunct Fidelity Saw
ings Association of Denver. This divi-
dend means the disbursing of $41,O00.
anu makes a total of 40 per cent. paid
to depositors.
Colorado College is planning a sum-
mer school of surveying to be con-
Quoted in Manitou park every June, as
part Of the work of mining and civil
engineering 1t will cost $2,500, Of
which $1,000 has already been donated
by a Denver man.
Stephen N. Bennett. a pioneer
nn,.l,, Afr D1l nd
brother-in-law of eX-Lieut. Gov.
Brush, died at Greeley on the 10th
inst. of disease incident to old age. Mr..
Bennett came to Greeley over thirty
years ago.
John E. Godding, late president of
the State Bank of Rocky Ford, con-
victed of receiving deposits after the
bank was insolvent and sentenced to
eight to ten years in the penitentiary
at Canon City, was received into that
| institution on the 18th inst.
The scientific students and members
of the University Scientific Society
of the State University are cooperat-
! ing with the office of state dairy COM
missioner for the purpose of purifying
the milk and milk products which
are produced in Boulder county.
The new town of Kuner, nine miles
east of Greeley, has notified c. S. Nor
| ey, president of the Great Western
Sugar Company, that it will donate
eighty acres for building and furnish
water if he will establish a sugar fac
tory there. Kuner town has large
! cultivated area tributary to it.
1t is reported that 100000 struc-
| ture to be most attractive in archi-
| lecture and combination of a termi-
nal depot for the new electric railway
and a first-class hotel, is to be built
on Union avenue in Pueblo, and that
Sam F. Dutton of the Albany hotel of
Denver has practically consented TO
take its management.
Denver.-A Grand Junction dispatch
says: A steam railroad from Grand
junction to the Plateau valley, dis
tance OF forty miles, will be construct
ed, provided the people of that section
will raise bonus of 5000. This was
the announcement made by George
Smith, a Western slope promoter,
who has just returned from New York.
The Denver Reservoir Irrigation
Company has just let contract for the
completion of the Stanley Lake dam,
one of the chief works of the project,
five mics north of the city limits of
Denve". Kenefick & Quigley, of Kan
sas CITY, have undertaken the work
for $4,000. To date on dams, canals
and tunnels for the system, the irriga-
tion Jmpany has let contracts calling
for an eXpen1it of about 81, 100000.
Conrad Markus, who came to Colo
RADIO from Russia six years ago to work
In the heat fialds has inst I,nI.cha n sod