The state herald., 1908-04-24


Joseph ]. Smith, resigned; Cameron,
Teller county, Helen Rhodes, vice b.
Chadomy, resigned,
According to Albert Ross, architect
for the Denver public library, Turkey
Creek sandstone quarried thirty miles
west of Pueblo, is the best he has ever
found, being superior to the product
that is imported to New York at high
expense.
The dates for eight farmers insti-
tutes in the Pueblo district have been
fixed by the State Agricultural College.
The first will be held at Rye. July 18th,
and the last one of the eight July 2lst.
Plans are being made TO give farmers
picnics at each of the points where
the professors will deliver lectures.
Tonight says a Greeley dispatch of
the 18th inst. TO a Denver paper. los
carloads of sheep left the Northern
Colorado district for market There
are nearly $4,000 head OF these seven
carloads are from the Greeley district,
and the remainder from points south
and west Wednesday and Saturday
other sheep trains will follow from
this locality, making over 300 carloads
or $4,000 head to leave this district
for market. With these cars $50 men
will go to look after the sheep.
State Auditor George d. Statler has
announced that the $4,000 appropriated
by the last Legislature TO buy silver
service for the cruiser Colorado is now
on hand for immediate use. Former
| Governor Jesse f. Mcdonald is chair
man of the committee which is TO pur-
chase the service The money has new
] lnh l,,
turned over to GoernOr Mcdonald as
soon as he requests it,
| Herbert Delaney, who was convicted
OF an assault to commit murder and
sentenced in the Huerfano county Dis.
! trict Court to three to five years in the
/ penitentiary, dating from October Z,
1905. was given a conditional pardon
in celebration of ATbor day and Good
| Friday. Under the terms of his dis
charge, Delaney must leave the state
ut once, go directly to the home of his
! parents in West Virginia and remain
/ there until the completion of his full
maximum sentence, otherwise the par
4 don is revoked. If. at any time before
| the expiration OF the term for which
he was imprisoned, he should return
/ TO Colorado, he will be liable to arrest
! una Imprisonment.
Reports made at a recent meeting of
| the Colorado Prison Association show
/ that durin. the year 1904. eighty appli-
/ cants for relief were taken care of In
I 1905, LOG were cared for and during the
| first quarter of 1908 the association
has received applications from lis. The
association secured employment for
/ eighty of the lis applicants, there be-
ing many of the others who did not
need 10 apply for work. Since the first
of the present year the association has
l furnished 577 meals. 25l lodgings and
| foTty-three lots of clothing and bedding.
] Transportation has been procured for
twenty applicants, money has been
loaned to nine. two have been provided
with tools. medical attention has been
rendered three others and two families
have been supplied with coal.
At meeting in Denver details we're
/ completed for the formation OF a new
Colorado organization to be known as
the Merchants association. The Colo.
RADIO Manufacturers association is be.
hind the new organization. which
Is formed TO make war on
the mail order houses which
are constantly invading the ru-
raj districts TO the detriment of small
merchants Every merchant In Colo.
RADIO will bs eligible for membership
and the aim OF the association viii
be to cut out the catalogue houses OF
the East from Colorado. A committee
was appointed TO arrange for perma,
nent organization. consisting OF c. ID.
Grifiith. \. u. Lewis. l.. II. Bridaham.
X ilardesty. Fritz Thies OF Denver and
{. J. Iiaines of Pueblo.
Because the Colorado Humane So.
/ cieiy failed TO use up all its Hpproprin.
tion from the Fifteenth general As.
Bembly before the Sixteenth assembly
made an appropriation. State Auditor
George D. StAtler refused 10 pay the
unused balance OF sl.75O and the Hu.
name Society secured n writ OF man.
[ damus before Judge Bliss of the Dis.
I trict Court at Denver requiring him TO
I transfer the money. The Fifteenth As.
I sembly appropriated $4,000 for the Hu.
I name Society tor the years 1908 1906.
I the last year ending In December. 1906.
/ In his petition for u writ OF mandamus
| Secretary Whitehead alleged that he
{ has vouchers for the balane, unspent
/ when IN. Sixteenth Assembly made It's
I appropriation ~ flNsNHW lnl iPNi'"n ann
/ that this balance was all contracted for
/ before tho Sixteenth Assemhly's ap,
I preparation became available,
Contracts have been lot by the An,
l tero a Lost Park Company for tho
building OF the Antero reservoir and
/ dam In South park u. A. camneld
/ Of Greeley. and S, II. Shields OF Fort
Morgan. viii do the work at cost
of something over $4,000. Operations
will b. started within ten days and tho
contractors are under bonds to nnish
the Job by November LIST. Tho raaer.
Voir md dam will be among the largest
in the state, The former viii have u
capacity Of 10000 acres, II viii cover
5000 acres In South park seven miles
wet, Of Hnrtr.ll and shout 100 miles
southwest of Denver Tho dam will
b. fofty'sir feet high. sixteen feet
wide on top and about mile long.