The Julesburg grit-advocate., 1908-12-11
STATE NEWS ITEMS

five new postoffices have been estab-
lished in Weld county.
A Chautauqua association has been
organized at Fort Morgan and a guar
antee fund Of $500 will be raised.
Christmas dividends are to be paid
by Cripple Creek mining companies to
the total amount OF more than $l25,OO
The formal transfer OF the Grove
reservoir site on Pixies Peak has been
made to the city of Colorado Springs.
Denver building permits for the
month of November amounted TO $5iS.-
200. This IL a gain Of $202.345 over
November. 1907.
The new Carnegie library building
at Loveland was formally dedicated on
the night Of the 3rd inst The building.
ground and furniture cost $4,000.
William Llewellyn pleaded guilty to
son In the County Court today and was
fined 500 and costs by Judge Cooper.
The Citizens Building and Loan
Company. capitalized at $4,000 in
1880 shares at 5000 each. has been
organized at Greeley and a large num-
ber OF shares sold.
The plat OF the townsite OF. Sligo In
northwestern Weld county. which was
surveyed twenty years ago. has just
been filed at Greeley by the Lincoln
Land Company.
Miss Agnes McNair. formerly a
teacher in the Eaton high school and
graduate of Denver University, has
been appointed to a position IN the for
estry service at Portland, Ore.
The Pawnee Buttes reservoir. twen-
ty-eight miles east of Grover, in Weld
county, and fourteen miles east OF
keota, is to be enlarged from 100000
600 cubic feet to 664 100000 cubic feet,
to water 5000 acres to be taken up un-
der the Carey act.
Denver union BARRIERS will hereafter
work only ten hours per day, instead
Of eleven as at present. The employ
ing BARRIERS of the city have decided on
making q rule to this effect, acceding
to a demand made by the BARRIERS un-
ion some time ago.
On the night of the I'd inst fifty cat
tie belonging to A. G. Dawson, ranch
man living five miles east of Hayden,
were drowned while crossing the ice
under the state bridge. Twenty car
casses were pulled out Of the stream,
but the others were lost.
Bruce Eaton has donated block
on the west side of Eaton to the school
board of Eaton and the district has
agreed to raise the money to erect
q new high school building which
will cost $25.50O. The present high
school building will be given over to
the grades.
Denver pool room proprietors met
and decided that bets on whether Taft
or Bryan would win in Colorado out
side of Denver should be settled on a
basis Of 60 per cent. for Taft and 40
per cent. for Bryan as three Taft elec-
tors and two Bryan electors came to
Denver ahead.
At the recent election in Colorado
over 10000 more votes were cast than
four years before, and figuring that 1t
requires full years residence in the
state to entitle any person to vote, 4:
is believed the general increase In pop
ulation may be taken to be nearly 100,-
900 in four years. All settlers who
came to the state In the latter part of
1907 and later were not entitled to
vote.
At q mass meeting of Fort Collins
citizens, a proposition Of the Denver,
Laramie & Northwestern railroad.
asking Fort Collins to subscribe $780,
600 worth Of stock, was rejected. be-
cause Of the inability of the city to
raise the sum asked. An effort will
be made to come to an agreement on
some other basis. The company Of
fered forfeit of 100000 in bankable
securities, in case the stock was sub
scribed, to have the road built to Fort
Collins by July l, 1909.
Prof. e. c. Lindemann Of Boulder is
said to be preparing bill to be intro
duced by senator-elect Cassiday In the
next Legislature which will provide for
a state assayer and chemist, who will
test all ores offered and analyEe fruit
products for adulterations, charging
therefor a nominal fee. Professor Lin.
demann says the office will be self
supporting and at the same etime pro.
vide the miners with the means, at a
trifling cost, of ascertaining the value
Of ore from source which cannot be
suspected of prejudice.
The reclamation fund account aris
ing from the sales of public lands in
Colorado for the fiscal year ended June
80, 1908, has been adjusted by the gen
eral land office. The receipts from
The sales Of public lands, from which
is deducted the five per cent. Of agri
cultural lands of $19,397.54 were $50,
6S0.O9, leaving q surplus of such mon
eys Of 1851 1,2s2.b5. The receipts from
fees and commissions were $1S2.
870.4O. from which is deducted
| $42,533.O4 paid to registers and re