The state herald., 1908-03-27
COLORADO NEWS

A company is being organized TO
build $4,000 hospital at Fort Nor
gan.
Fraternties and sororities Will here
after be barred by the South Side
school board Of Pueblo.
Out of forty.fve applicants to take
the Weld county teachers spring ex-
animation, only five were men.
Some Of the young men of Greeley
are organizing a golf club and will lay
out links on the Country club grounds.
The automobile show at Denver will
be held April 9th. 7th and Sth In tho
Mammoth skating rink on Clarkson
street.
The contract for the construction OF
the public building at Colorado Springs
has been awarder to j. II. Wiesse OF
Omaha, at s1s0,9i4.
New postoflices have been estab-
lished in Colorado as follows: Hart
man, Prowers county, James F.
Moore, postmaster; Plains, Prowers
county, Jesse N. Sheets, postmaster
The following Colorado rural routes
have been ordered established June
LIST: Austin, Delta county route l,
Weld county, route 2, population 800,
families 67.
A contract for n sewer system for
Sterling was let on the 18th inst. to
C. G. Shelley OF Denver for $4,000. Y
is TO be completed in six months and
will be nine and half miles long, GOV.
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 s25,000 damages for de-
famation of character, the jury re-
turned verdict for $1,000. Kobey
filed motion for new trial.
Buena Vista is to have new theater
to cost $4,000. II will be constructed
OF concrete by Edward Kruger, now
with the Pyle theater; will be half
block long, facing on Railroad street,
and will be completed August LIST.
The new city hall at Greeley. costing
s33, 900, is just finished. 1t has two
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 deliy-
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 erecting
an opera house at cost off $4,000.
spiral fire escape was tested at
the new Central high school In Pu-
eblo. A large number OF children from
other school were present and tho
building was emptied so quickly that
there would be no danger Of any ono
being hurt in case OF fire.
Denver capitalists are starting fisS
hatcheries In Craig park, Jefferson
county. They will have three lakes AMI
build fine driveway to the park on
ridge OF mountains between Brookside
and Grousemont. Their first deposit
OF brook trout fry. 10000. has been
made.
The four high schools OF Routt
county have recently completed an in
teresting spelling contest Each
school was given a list OF fifty words
by the county superintendent, and the
result was: Craig, 81 lI'l5 per cent;
Hayden, SO 7.l0; Yampa. s3is. Steam
boat Springs. SO 81.
aI,
robbed Sylvester Howell November
2Sth. and was convicted in the District
Court at Fort Collins. has been SEN
fenced to iiye 10 seven years In the
penitentiary. The robbery was shown
TO have been coolly planned and n
brutal one. Howell is built like pugil'
list
The Model Land and Irrigation Com
pany has filed Mt Trinidad map OF
its reservoir TO be constructed four
miles north OF Hoehne, Las Animas
county. The reservoir will cost $780,
900, and cover two square miles OF
territory. II will irrlgatc 2O.is0 acres
OF land. In the project are Interested
thirty OF the leading business men OF
Trinidad.
While plowing his garden mt Fort
collins George w. Dilts found nn old
fashioned two.holc brass bullet mould
which had lain In the ground nobody
knows how long. one OF the holes
contained lead bullet. II is probably
relic OF old Indian times, or may have
been dropped by an early day hunter,
II In almost half century since
moulds were used for casting bullets,
At n meeting OF the Loveland Cham.
Der OF Commerce the date OF the annual
Lovelnnd corn roast was changed from
September TO August 18th. and the
dates OF the annual races and live stock
show were changed from September
1th, Sth and 9th TO August 10Th. Goth
and 2lst. These changes were mad.
40 ms not TO conflict with tho dates OF
the Interstate fair TO bc held IN Doh'
yer.
Caught In tho act OF robblng a Colo
rndo n Southern refrigerator car OF u
sack OF meat. presumably for his fam