The Julesburg grit-advocate., 1908-06-19
STATE NEWS ITEMS

NTeeleE Is one OF tne tOWnS tnat art
preparing for big Fourth OF July cele
brations
The Colorado Chautauqua at Boul
der will be opened July 4th with an at
tractive program.
The great electric fountain at the
City park in Denver is now in oper
alton every night.
The Colorado Springs High school
has just graduated sixty-six pupils, OF
whom forty-four are girls and twenty.
two boys.
The Camp Bird mine. near Ouray, re.
ported net profit of $llS,70O for the
month of April. Who wouldn't call
that "bird?'
The American Bankers Association
will hold its convention at Denver Sep
tember 27th and an attendance OF
5000 is expected.
Bourke Cochran, the celebrated New
York politician and orator, has en-
gagged rooms at the Albany hotel in
Denver during the Democratic conven-
tion.
A number of Greeley men have
started for Matamoras, Mexico, where
they have secured option on 14.0OO
acres of land which they intend to de-
velop by irrigation projects.
J. McGahen will build the McGahen
reservoir, 80 miles east of Ault. 1t will
be filled from South Pawnee and
Crhbb creeks and have a capacity OF
30000,00O cubic feet of water.
The Fort Morgan chamber Of com
merce wants the city to purchase
sixty-five acre tract one mile out for a
park. 1t has natural reservoir site and
with lake will make fine resort.
John Blaizen, a Russian, was cleo
trocuted at the western entrance OF
the Gunnison tunnel on the llth inst.
He was pushing motor car into the
tunnel when the accident happened.
The forest service announces the fol
lowing appointments on national for
ests in Colorado: John Story, guard
White River, Joseph w. Palmer, guard,
Pixies Peak; c. +. Burroughs, guard,
San Juan.
Up to the 18th inst, thirtytwo of the
fifty-three states and territories to be
represented at the Democratic national
convention had secured reservations in
the Denver hotels, and as fast as the
state conventions are held applications
are pouring in.
The Ell Paso county baseball team.
composed of county officials, has is
sued a challenge to the court house
Tigers of Pueblo for a match game
of ball to be played in the near future
for charity. The Tigers will accept
the challenge.
A petition to organize an irrigation
district south of Virgins has been
granted by the county commissioners
of Morgan county. 1t embraces about
10000 acres of land known as the Up
Ler Bijou. The company will begin
active work soon.
Ivy Baldwin, the world wide famous
aeronaut, got caught by the storm
while walking wire over the deep
canon at Eldorado Springs Sunday
and had to stop and hang onto a guy
wire for considerable time, meantime
being drenched bp the storm.
Judge Gamble is too i'll to preside
over the postponed session of the May
term of District Court at Greeley and
Judge Hubert Shattuck of Denver will
hold court and probably be assisted by
Judge Burke of the Thirteenth dis
trict
Operating officials of the Union Pa
cfic railway will hold their third an
nual meeting at the Brown Palace ho-
, tel in Denver June 22nd. At the eve
ing session Charles Hansel of New
York City will lecture on the subject
of "Signaling and Interlocking."
The Denver, Laramie e. Northwest
ern road is negotiating for quarter
section twenty miles southeast of Fort
Collins on which to locate new town
called HillsbOro. f. HefelbOwer paid
$500 for the land six years ago and
now asks $25,000.
Patrick Walsh, an inmate of the in
sane asylum, escaped Tuesday morn
ing at 1880 o'clock and created con
siderable excitement as he ran
through the business section of Pueblo
attempting to evade his pursuers. One
Of the men in pursuit stopped him by
hitting him on the head with a stone,
after which he was returned to the
asylum.
DR.. Florian Cajori has resigned as
dean Of the engineering school of Colo.
rado college at Colorado Springs. his
resignation to take effect Immediately.
He will assist in the opening of the
engineering school next September and
will continue his work as head profes-
sOr of mathematics. 1t is his plan to
give his entire extra time to the writ
ing of text book on mathematics.
The present faculty Of the Colorado
School of Mines at Golden has been
reelected for another year, although
it is probable that after the opening of
the fall term there will be several ad-
dtions to meet the demands of the new
post graduate courses. At the regular
meeting of the trustees resolutions
were passed thanking Hon. Thomas F.
Walsh for his donation of 81 900 to the
students loan fund.
Mr.. and Mrs. Henry T. West. both
81 years Old. Union Colony pioneers
who have resided at Greeley Continu
uously for thirty-cight years. celc
brated the sixty-third anniversary OF
their marriage on the 10th inst They
had expected to spend the day quietly