The Colorado statesman., 1908-11-21
COLORADO ITEMS

to purchase automobiles for the police
and fire departments.
The Northern Colorado Poultry AS
.sociation will hold its annual show De-
cember 14th to 10th at Boulder
The Woodmen of the World will in
vest a considerable amount in the mu-
nicipal bonds of Boulder, La Junta,
Greeley and Fort Collins.
There are thirty-one prisoners in
the Weld county jail at Greeley, the
most in the history of the institution;
and three of the number are women.
The United Oil Company at Flor
ence has just struck fine producer,
the oil standing 2,221 feet in the well
and giving promise of big output.
The Burlington Interurban Railroad
Company officially announces that
within the next month it will begin
grading for its road from Hudson to
Greeley
BY vote of 1923 to 500, every pre-
cinct in Mesa county outside of Grand
Junction affirmatively answered the
question. Shall this district become
anti-saloon territory?"
Reports from the mountains west OF
Boulder indicate that already this year
more snow has fallen on the upper
ranges than during the entire winter
season of last year.
Plans for a handsome hotel in the
central part of Pueblo's business dis
trict are under consideration by A. b.
Hulit, general contractor for the
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and his associates.
Plans have been perfected at Den
yer for the revival services to be held
at the auditorium during the first two
weeks in March and to be conducted
by the famous evangelist, Gypsy"
Smith of London, England.
At a meeting of all attorneys in the
county, the Morgan County Bar Asso-
citation was organized, with l.. c. Ste
phenson, president; C. C. Rickle, vice
president; Irving Van Bradt, secre-
tary, and F. E. Pendell. treasurer.
Superintendent Casey of the Boul-
der schools has issued an order to
teachers not to assign home work for
the children in grades five and six TO
exceed thirty minutes, and in grades
seven and eight not to exceed sixty
minutes.
The total tax levy on property own
ers of Grand Junction the coming year
will amount to 67.S mills. The mu-
nicipal and school taxes are each %
mills, county tax 17.S mills, slight de-
crease over last year, while the city
tax shows a small increase.
The Montrose Commercial Associa-
ton is taking steps towards inducing
the land owners of the Uncompahgre
valley to sign the new contracts with
the government for the completion OF
the Gunnison tunnel at an additional
cost of about $40 an acre from the orig
inal estimates by the government.
December 5th is the date set for the
meeting at Grand Junction of the
Grand. Valley Water Users Associa-
ton to vote on ratifying the contract
made with the government for the CON
struction of the Highline canal. All
members of the association will he al
lowed to vote according to the land
they hold.
In the United States Court at Den
yer Thomas A. Mostyn of Ouray was
found guilty of illegally fencing pub
lie land and fined $50 by Judge Lewis.
John Schwend, indicted jointly with
Mostyn last May, was discharged. The
two men are wealthy cattle dealers
and have large herds in the Pleasant
valley country in western Colorado.
At chapel exercises at the Colorado
college in Colorado Springs $1,070 was
raised in fifteen minutes among the
faculty and students with which to
send Harry e. Ewing, formerly a stu
dent at the institution and secretary
of the college Y. NJ. C. A, to the for
! eign missionary field. He will go to
Japan and Korea and will probably re
main there permanently at the expense
of Colorado college students.
At meeting of the Interdenomina-
tional Missionary Society of Pueblo, at
which nineteen Protestant churches
were represented, it was decided to be-
gin active work among the foreign ele
ment in the hopes of Americanizing
them as fast as possible 1t was ar.
ranged to open a day nursery and a
night school for boys and girls. Moth
ers' clubs will be organized and every
effort will be made to get the foreign
ers interested in local subjects.
N. B. Hames and other prominent
citizens of Colorado Springs and Colo
rado City are organizing Good Roads
club, to be composed of prominent bus
mess men of Colorado Springs, Colo
rado City and Manitou, for the purpose
of influencing appropriations to build
state road from the eastern bound