The Colorado statesman., 1908-02-15
COLORADO NEWS ITEMS

Shooting at coyotes from moving
trains is one of the pastimes OF passen-
gers and trainmen on the Moffat road.
Over 100000 pounds of flour were
shipped from Lamar on the 7th inst.
direct to Liverpool, England, by the
Lamar Milling & Elevator Company.
Fort Collins is preparing to entertain
the annual department of the Grand
Army of the Republic, department OF
Colorado and Wyoming, next May.
The Colorado Fruit Commercial AS
sociation and the Grand Valley Fruit
and Produce Association have formed
a consolidation under the former name.
In order to secure a charter for a
lodge of Elks, members of that order
have just completed census of Fort
Morgan. They find the population to
be 3,205.
The Bureau of Child and Animal Pro-
lection will try its hand at running the
dog pound in Denver, money for the
purpose being appropriated by the City
Council.
In order to establish a headquarters
for the western states the Salvation
Army has appropriated $150,000 for the
purchase or erection of a building in
Denver.
The Associated Charities of Colorado
Springs have found several hundred
men out of employment and are en-
deavoring to influence the City Council
to create public work for them.
j. C. Emerson, who had served as
| day marshal of Rifle ever since the
town was incorporated, died on the
10th inst. of diabetes. He was thirty
| eight years of age and leaves a fam
lily.
Work on. the new Carnegie library
building at Denver, which was stopped
by the failure of the contractor, will
soon be resumed by his bondsmen, who
promise 10 finish the structure in good
time.
The State Normal School has added
one of the rarest and most expensive
collections of humming birds in the
world to it's museum. 1t numbers 400
different species, gathered in South
America especially for the school.
While sinking hole for the founda-
ton of the proposed Pueblo court
house workmen uncovered a metal disc
showing that by the United States Ge-
illogical Survey in 1872 the elevation
of Pueblo was placed at 1850 feet.
The First State Bank of Num-, Colo
RADIO, has incorporated with a capital
of $4,000, with B. F. Clark of Fort Col
Inns, president, Boyd Wolfe of Num-,
vice president, and John H. Leinr and
Amos Entwistle of Num-, directors.
The Salvation army contemplates
the erection of church at Greeley
which will make the seventh in the
city. 1t will cost $4,000, have three
stories, and a part will be used as
rooming house and for storerooms.
President Aylesworth of the State
Agricultural College will speak at the
University of Colorado February 22d,
on THE College Man in Politics." his
address being the principal feature of
the Washngton's Birthday exercises
at the university.
The Seventh Day Adventists of Colo
RADIO ana neighboring states have ar
ranged to hold their annual convention
in Pueblo next September. The con-
vention will continue for ten days and
more than a thousand delegates are ex-
pected to attend.
Judge Garrigues of Greeley will con-
duct the first hearing on the question
of the disposition of the state inheri-
tance fund. Judge Garrigues has given
notice that he will hear the State Uni
versity demand against the inheritance
fund on April 2, 1908. A new set of in
heritance tax forms have been pre-
pared for attorneys.
1t is announced that the Pueblo
Foundry Machine Company, better
known as Lannon's foundry, will add
to its present plant cast steel manu-
factory at a cost of $4,000. The new
plant will employ 100 men and will be
the only one Of its kind west of st.
Louis. Besides turning out cast steel,
a number of specialties will be manu-
factured.
Bob" Womack, "the father Of Grip
pie Creek" who made the first impor-
tant discovery of gold in the district
in the Gold King mine in Poverty
Gulch, is Eow lying at his sisters home
in Colorado Springs helpless victim
of paralysis. An effort is being made
by the newspapers, backed by promi-
nent citizens, to raise a fund for the
purpose of caring for him during the
rest of his life.
H. R. Smith, who carries the mail
from Loveland to Drake, recently met
with serious runaway accident. A bolt
worked loose, allowing a singletree to
strike the heels of one of the horses.
This caused them to run and Smith
was thrown out. He was picked up by
passing teamsters and taken home.
His left thigh was dislocated and the
right shoulder severely bruised, but no
bones were broken.
The Pueblo postoffice officials have
received information that the only
rural route in the United States which
doubles back on itself is to be estab
lished out of Pueblo, running east
along the Arkansas river. The govern
ment has heretofore not established
routes unless the carriers go one way
and return another. The large number
of people to be accommodated on the
twelve-mile route caused the change in