The Colorado statesman., 1908-02-29
COLORADO NEWS

The contract for furnishing the Den
yer auditorium will call for providing
ten thousand chairs.
Bicycle thieves have been getting In
their worll at the rate of three or four
wheels a day at Pueblo.
The walls of the new Odd Fellows
hall at Coal Creek have been com
pleted and the building will be finished
in March.
A s;;A-day campaign is being organ
ized in Boulder to raise funds for fur
nishing the new Y. nj. G. A. building,
now nearly completed.
BY an order issued by the school
board the fraternity and the sorority
which have existed in the Leadville
high school have been disbanded.
William Hildebrand, who built the
cog railway up Pixies Peak, and who
was one of the foremost civil engineers
in the country, died in New York City
February 21st.
/ The Lamar National bank of Lamar
has been authorized to begin business
with 10000 capital. M. Strain is pres
ident, B. T. McClave, vice president,
and l.. F. Adams, cashier.
The annual meeting of the Grand
Valley Cantaloupe Association was
held at Grand Junction February 21st.
B. C. Oyder was elected president and
A. ]. Chesley secretary-treasurer.
One of the biggest livestock deals
ever made in this county has Just been
closed by T. Witcher. of Cotopaxi, all
his cattle, between 1000 and 5000 head
being sold to Samuel Pepper and asso-
ciates of Denver.
The application of j. n. Akey, James
NJ Allen, l.. c. Schmidt, r. S. Dickey
and ]. A. Challgren to organize the
Farmers National Bank of Windsor,
with $4,000 capital has been approved
by the comptroller of the currency.
Senator Guggenheim is making an
effort to have the salaries of laborers
at the Leadville fish hatchery raised
in the sundry civil appropriation bill
from 5000 tc $720 per annum and the
cook at the hatchery from $3.50 to $72O.
The counties of Fremont and Teller
VII. Jointly build bridge over Four
Mile creek connecting the road from
Florence to Cripple Creek. Last win
ter the food waters swept out this
bridge and several miles of road, which
has been rebuilt.
/ tive Association has extended the
Beaver Land & Irrigation Company
vote of thanks because the company
has announced it will take measures
| to protect the trout in Beaver creek,
Fremont county.
The Florence & Cripple Creek rail
road is using every available freight
car on its line between Florence and
Cripple Creek, it's business having in
creased to such an extent in the last
thirty days that the present rolling
stock is inadequate.
More than thirty Japanese laborers
were shipped into Florence on the 18th
inst. to work on the Rio Grande rail-
road. Every section man on the di-
vision was laid off, but all foremen
were retained. The Japanese will
work between Salida and Pueblo.
The United States Portland Cement
Company has most of the building
erected 1T its new plant, seven miles
east of here, and has commenced in
stalling machinery. Already 100000
has been spent on the project and work
at the mill will be started about
April 1.
A conference of the Baptist minis
ters of the state will be held at Colo
RADIO Springs April goth to May list.
| The principal business will be discus
sion as to the best methods of carry
ing on evangelstic work. The chief
speaker will be DR.. James A. Francis
of New York.
The town of Coal Creek, Fremont
county, which burned down last July,
has been rapidly rebuilt, many frame
houses from Florence having been
moved there, but now the business men
on main street are beginning the erec-
tion of more substantial buildings of
stone, brick and cement.
BY way of preparation for the influx
of settlers expected to result from the
building of the Moffat road, Hayden
is having an artesian well drilled to
provide the town with a good water
system. If the anticipated flow is of
sufficient volume other wells will be
drilled to furnish irrigation supply.
Henry Hurley, a noted robber who
made a number of rich hauls in Den
yer few years ago and later was SEN
fenced to the Missouri penitentiary for
a robbery at Independence, escaping
from the jail at Kansas City, was ar
rested in Pueblo few days since and
has been extradited by Governor
Buchtel.
The cornerstone of the new Carnegie
library building in Loveland was laid
on Washington's birthday under the
auspices of the grand lodge of Masons.
An address was made by Grand Ora
tor Meldrum Edwards of Denver, and
President B. o. Aylesworth of the
State Agricultural college delivered
the address of the day.
J. B. Dawson proposes to start herd
of mountain sheep to grazing on his
ranch near Hayden before summer
He has made his ranch famous hy do