The Monte Vista journal., 1908-05-23
COLORADO news

IN a fourth Of July celebration.
Mrs. George 8. Mott has been ap-
pointed superintendent Of schools in
San Miguel county. vice Charles 8.
Watson, deceased.
Roger Williams has been appointed
postmaster Of Williamsburg, Fremont
county. to succeed F. w. Morgan. de-
ceased.
F. D. Flutz. teacher in the Central
high school at Pueblo, has been ap-
pointed principal Of the Canon City
high school.
Nearly 1000 persons attended the
dance given by the Pixies Peak Press
club at Siratton Park pavilion. Colo
RADIO Springs. Monday night.
Steve Adams. charged with the MUIR
has been granted change of venue
from IN Miguel county to Mesa cOun-
ty.
OF the $500 acres Of sugar beets
planted for The factory at Fort Morgan
only few ceres each will have to be
replanted BY about half dozen peO-
pie.
The residents OF Box Elder valley
In Weld county have voted to form an
Irrigation district to provide water for
10000 acres of land lying above the
Latham ditch.
Paddy Mullaney, former president OF
he Free Coinage union. w. +. NJ. was
aiken In custody At Florrissant and
AIKEN TO Jail ut Cripple Creek to be
examined as to his sanity
The damage by fire that destroyed
the four large-ice houses OF the Den
YER & Rio Grande railroad at Palmer
Lake on the 18th inst. IL estimated at
upwards OF $4,000.
The financial committee Of the Flor.
ance City Council has just made re-
port which shows that the municipal
iebt has been reduced forty-dve per
.ent. in the last Ave years.
The Steamboat Springs Milling Com
pany has started up its mill again after
five years shutdown. The flour ID
made from wheat raised principally In
the valley aLout Hayden and Craig.
The ruins Of an aboriginal burial
ground have been found ten miles
east Of Holly. The mounds are said to
be covered With rocks forming the out.
lines OF horses. deer. men and women.
Nearly all the foreigners OF Euro
pean origin who come to the Greeley
district and other agricultural sections
II northern Colorado are anxious to be-
.Ome American citizens AZ sOon rs pos
,ible.
Tony Capanetti. convicted at Trini.
lad OF attempting to blow up Superin.
tnr ~ hn Eradnrink
mine At SegundO. has been sentenced
70 term Ut ten to twelve years In the
penitentiary.
The school census OF Greeley. just
completed. shows 7,175 children Of
school age. q gain Of 1903 over last year
The compilers estimate that pOpula
lion Of the city ut S.S1S. not including
he 500 Normal School students.
The summer season on the MofRat
road was inaugurated Friday the Is III
Inst. with the hrst Of the seasons
ourist trains. The regular excursion
season opens June Is. when the West
side Denver Tramway employees take
their outing.
The foods In Texas. which Washed
away the early potato crop, gave an
unusual market for l25 cars OF Greeley
potatoes At 800 4 cwt. There are said
10 be less than twenty cars left In the
district. The farmers OF Lucerne held
their potatoes and proated greatly.
Emmett Poe Coughlin. Of Denver. has
paused nn examination for . cadetship
In the revenue cutter service. Standing
second on an application list Of $50.
Only twcnty-0ns OF this number
passed. He will 90 from WashinGtou
to Baltimore and join the revenue cut.
ter cadets on their cruise to Europe
on the schoolship Itaska. The course
u Baltimore lasts three years.
sieGed the county jail ut Pueblo on the
night OF the 18th inst. bent on lynch.
lnx James Lynn. the negro who killed
Sarah James and wounded her mother
the week previous. They only desisted
when II was proved to them that the
murderer was not In the jail, but at
Colorado Springs.
Fire on the 18th inst. destroyed thu
tipuss. shaker house. powder house
engine room and boilers OF the Stan
dard mine, two miles east Of l.afay
cite. with An estimated loss OF 90, 900
reported to b fully covered BY In
surance.
The band and First battalloa, TWEEN
ty.ftrst infantry. Ia command Of Ma
jor Almon u. Parmenter. returned
to Fort Logan. near Denver. from Z
six-dAy practice march Thursday
They were camped near Castle Roct
from Sunday until Wednesday. Gen
eral Thomas and the field officers o
bic staff aud Coloael williams ant
the other field officers Of the TWEEN
ty.first infantry arrived ct the CANT