The Julesburg grit-advocate., 1908-03-27
COLORADO news

A thriving commercial club has been
organized At Golden
A company is being organized 70
build . $4,000 hospital at Fort Nor.
gan.
Fraternities and sororities will here.
after bs barred by the South Side
school board Of Pueblo.
Out Of forty-nve applicants to take
the Weld county teachers spring ex.
animation. only dve were men.
Some Of the young men Of Greeley
are organizing q golf club and will Law
out links on the Country club grounds.
| The automobile show At Denver will
b held April 9Th. 7th and 9Th In IN.
Mammoth skating rink on Clarkson
street.
The contract for the construction O,
the public building at Colorado Springs
has been awarder to ]. H. Wiesse o.
Omaha. At 31S0,944.
New postofices have been estab.
lished in Colorado as follows: Hart
man. Prowers county, James +.
Moore. postmaster; Plains, Prowers
county. Jesse N Sheets, postmaster
The following Colorado rural routes
have been ordered established JuLe
1st: Austin, Delta county. rouA
population 800. families 100; La S3FIe
Weld county. route 2. population 200.
families 81.
| A contract for q sewer system for
Sterling was let on the 18th inst. 10
C. G. Shelley Of Denver for $4,000. 1t
10 to be completed in six months and
will be nine and half miles long. COW
ering the entire town.
The Rio Grande has laid about two
miles of its double track between
Adobe and Canon City Another month
will finish the work. The object is to
relieve the congestion OF traffic ana
avoid holding trains.
In the suit Of ]. A. Eddy against Ben
jamin Kobey in the District Court at
Aspen for $e5.0O0 damages for de-
famation Of character, the jury re
turned verdict for $1,000. kobey
filed a motion for a new trial.
! Buena Vista is to have new theates
to cost $4,000. 1t will be constructed
of concrete by Edward Kruger, now
with the Pyle theater; will be half a
block long, facing on Railroad street
]
The new city hall at Greeley. costing
$685. 900. is just finished. 1t has two
stories with a basement in which is
| located the jail. The other, floors Will
be occupied by officials. In the rear
+ are quarters for the fire department.
On the night of March 18th at Colo
RADIO Springs, Charles Rosenthal. an
election Judge at the Republican pri-
maries, dropped dead Of heart disease
in Republican headquarters after dely-
ering the returns from his precinct,
Sterling is going in for amusements.
One skating rink is in process OF con
struction and another planned. An
electric theatorium has been opened
and Glacomini brothers are erscting
an opera house at cost off 80.
A spiral fire escape was tested at
the new Central high school in Pm
eblo. A large number of children from
! other school were present and the
building was emptied SO quickly that
there would be no danger of any one
being hurt in case Of fire.
Denver capitalists are starting fish
hatcheries in Craig park, jefferson
county. They will have three lakes amt
build fine driveway to the park on
ridge Of mountains between BrooksGe
and Grousemont. Their first depos.t
Of brook trout fry, 10000. has been
made.
The four high schools OF Ront
county have recently completed an in
teresting spelling contest. Each
by the county superintendent. and the
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Hayden. SO 40: Yampa, S31a; Steam
boat Springs. So 81.
Joseph Murphy, who slugged and
robbed Sylvester Howell November
2Sth, and was convicted in the District
Court at Fort Collins. has been s"n'
fenced to five to seven years in jHe
penitentiary. The robbery was shown
to have been coolly planned and Al
brutal one. Howell is built like pu-i.'
ist
The Model Land and Irrigation Com,
pany has filed at Trinidad map oil
Its reservoir to be constructed four
miles north Of Hoehne, Las Anima5l
county. The reservoir will cost s3Qn,J
900, and cover two square miles Of
territory. 1t will irrigate 20.4SO aSres
Of land. In the project are into Deted
thirty Of the leading business men OF
Trinidad. l.
While plowing his garden atvf2r-
Collins George w. Dilts found an oId1
fashioned two-hole brass bullet mould
which had lain in the ground nobody
knows how long. One Of the holes
contained a lead bullet. 1t is probaoly
relic OF old Indian times. or may have
been dropped by an early day hunt"i1
1t Is almost half century sinc1
moulds were used for casting bulleist
At meeting Of the Loveland Chani
Der OF Commerce the date of the annual
Loveland corn roast was changed FROM
September to August 18th, and th1
dates Of the annual races and live stoc
show were changed from Septemb"1
7th. Sth and 9th to August 10th. ~.
and 21st. These changes were madi
so as not to conflict with the dates
/ the Interstate fair to be held in DEN
yer.