The Julesburg grit-advocate., 1908-04-17
COLORADO news

the same month last year
The secretary OF the interior has ap
proved a Colorado school indemnity
school land selection list for 2.::59
acres of land in the Sterling district
One of the most important features
of the religious and ethical confer
ence which is to be held at Colorado
College May llth-l4th. is the Organ
lied Charity's Day for which Il spe
cial program has been carefully pre-
pared.
The assessed valuation OF Fremont
county property Is $GG5l ,734. The
schedule shows that eighteen resi-.
dents have property valued at $3G5. .G35
and that seventy-five people pay taxes
on @3.834.050. while 1925 others are
assessed on only S2,Sl7.Gs4.
1t is stated that the great army OF
sheep which passed through Grand
junction few months ago under
guard OF sixty armed men. en- route
for the ranges Of Utah, will return to
the spring grazing ground in Mont
rose county with the same protection.
After two months search. Herman
Pheiffer, formerly a Denver fireman.
VINO fell heir to sixth part of n
large estate in Germany some three
months ago. has been located in San
Francisco, where he is employed as !.
bookkeeper with the telephone com
pany.
One OF the largest shipments OF live
stock ever made from Colorado left
Pueblo on the llth inst. for Kansas
City. There were fifty-onc ears of cat
nd Z oh,
near Fowler, ManZanola Rocky Ford
and Swink. There were twenty-six
ears of steers and twenty-five cars of
ued at SS1 900.
The first steel ties to be used in lay
ing any extensive section OF street
railway in Denver are now being put
down along Arapahoe street, from
Thirteenth to Twenty-third. by the
Tramway Company in completing the
Denver 4 lnterurban electric line
from Denver to Boulder for the Colo.
rado Il Southern railway. The ties
are shaped like rails. but are not so
heavy. They will last much longer
than wood.
Mrs. Mary f. Price. one Of the Old,
est pioneers of Jefferson county. died
at the home of her son,in,law. VIII
liam &. Carroll, at Ralston Crossing
on the 18th inst, aged riShty-tive
years. Mrs Price was born in ONO
and came to Colorado in 1859. She
leaves three children Mrs. Alfred
Hurst. Mrs. Carroll aud Mrs T. J.
Doyler Prior to her death there were
ave generations of her family living
on Ralston creek.
w. ID. kaeSSner. who has been eml.
ployed for the last year by the Colo
rado Springs Electric Company at its
power plant, left Colorado Springs on
the llth inst. for San Francisco where
he will join the American feet on it's
trip around the world He will be as
signed 10 Admiral Evans flagship. the
Connecticut. as assistant To the chief
engineer. He has already served foul
years in the navy and has been in
every European harbor.
The annual encampment of the
Department OF Colorado and Wyonr
ing, Grand Army of the Republic. ut
Fort Collins, May GOTH 2lst and 22nd.
will be enlivened by the Attendance
of the members of Custer Post No.
of Laramie. Wyoming. in Il body
They will come in wagons. carriages
and automobiles and will be accom-
panied by many of the ladies' OF the
Woman's Relief Corps. AT Fort Col
lins they will camp in the field.
Arrangements have been completed
for the tour of Inspection of the senior
School of Mines class, the finishing
touch to the four years course at the
state mining school. In charge of a
number of professors, the class of 1908,
numbering fiftytwo men, will leave
Golden Tuesday, April 2lst. The itin.
erary includes all the principal smel.
ter cities of Colorado. Utah and Mon
tana. with stop OF five days at Butte.
They will return May 18th, one week
before commencement.
The business men of Walden have
organized chamber of commerce to
take up the matter of advancing the
agricultural interests of western I.ari-
mer county and twenty acres have
been donated for a model farm. 1t is
purpOsed to put in charge of this a
practical and experienced farmer, one
who is acquainted with the climatic
conditions and soil of the section. 1t
is. planned to raise specimen grain,
grasses, forage crops ana small
fruits best adapted to the altitude OF
North Park.
With the opening of the new Hotel
Boulderado. which has just been COM
pleted, the city of Boulder believes it
will be entitled to prominent mention
among Colorado's summer resorts. The
new hostelry contains 100 rooms and
is located in the heart of the city, just
opposite the postofiice and Elks club.
The hotel proper cost $15O,O00 and
$4,000 is to be put into furniture by
Denver hotel men who are expected
to open it, The hotel was constructed
by the Business Mems League OF
Boulder and has 200 stockholders,
numbering many very prominent citi-
Zens of Boulder. 1t will probably be
operated on both American and Eli.
ropean plan and has many balconies.
as well MS three corner roof gardens
It will be ready for occupancy by
July lst.
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