The Springfield herald., 1908-12-11
COLORADO NEWS


antee fund of $1,000 will be raised.
Christmas dividends are to be paid
by Cripple Creek mining companies to
.he total amount of more than $125. 900.
Denver building permits for the
month of November amounted to $54S.-
200. This is a gain of S202,345 over
November. 1907.
The new Carnegie library building
at Loveland was formally dedicated on
the night of the 3rd inst. The building,
ground and furniture cost $4,000.
William Llewellyn pleaded guilty to
killing deer at Canon City out of sea-
son in the County Court today and was
fined 500 and costs by Judge Cooper.
The Citizens Building and Loan
Company. capitalized at $4,000 In
1880 shares at 5000 each. has been
organized at Greeley and a large num-
ber of shares sold.
The plat of the townsite of Sligo in
northwestern Weld county, which was
surveyed twenty years ago, has just
been filed at Greeley by the Lincoln
Land Company.
Miss Agnes McNair, formerly a
teacher in the Eaton high school and
graduate of Denver University, has
been appointed to position in the for
estry service at Portland. Ore.
1t IS a misdemeanor under the laws
of Colorado to entice children away
from school during study hours and
is punishable by a heavy fine, or i'm
prisonment in the county jail.
The Colorado Hotel Clerks Associa-
fion has voted to incorporate. Close
affiliatlon will be made with the Ne
braska-Iowa Hotel Clerks Associa-
tion for the exchange of bulletins and
warnings abou. dead beats.
The Pawnee Buttes reservoir. twen-
ty-eight miles east of Grover. in Weld
county, and fourteen miles east of
Keota, Is to be enlarged from 100000
900 cubic feet to 664 900. 900 cubic feet,
to water 5000 acres to be taken up un-
der the Carey act.
Denver union BARRIERS will hereafter
work only ten hours per day, instead
OF eleven as at present. The employ
ing BARRIERS of the city have decided on
making rule to this effect acceding
to demand made by the BARRIERS un.
ion some time ago.
On the night OF the I'd inst fifty cat
tie belonging to A. G. Dawson, ranch
man living five miles east of Hayden,
were drowned while crossing the ice
under the state bridge. Twenty car
casses were pulled out of the stream,
but the others were lost.
S. M. Wiswell OF Roggen, Weld coun-
ty. pleaded guilty to unlawful enclos,
ure of public lands before Judge Lewis
of the United States District Court at
Denver He was fined SIS and costs
and allowed to go. after hearing Sc
we're lecture from the judge.
Bruce Eaton has donated a block
on the west side of Eaton to the school
board of Eaton and the district has
agreed to raise the money to erect
new high school building which
will cost $25.50O The present high
school building will be given over to
the grades.
Denver pool room proprietors met
and decided that bets on whether Taft
or Bryan would win in Colorado out
side of Denver should be settled on a
basis of so per cent. for Taft and 40
per cent for Bryan as three Taft cleo
tors and two Bryan electors came to
Denver ahead.
At the recent election in Colorado
over 10000 more votes were cast than
four years before and figuring that 1t
requires a full years residence in the
state to 'entitle any person to vote, 1t
is believed the general increase In pop.
ulation may be taken to be nearly 100,,
900 in four years. All settlers who
came to the state in the latter part OF
1907 and later were not entitled to
vote.
At a mass meeting of Fort Collins
citizens, a proposition of the Denver
Laramie & Northwestern railroad
asking Fort Collins to subscribe 5000.
. 900 worth of stock, was rejected, be
cause of the inability of the city to
raise the sum asked. An effort will
be made to come to an agreement on
some other basis. The company of
fered q forfeit of 100000 in bankable
securities. in case the stock was sub
scribed, to have the road built to Fort
Collins by July /, 1909.
Endorsement of the High Line ditch
project for bringing water from the
western slope to irrigate land imme.
diately adjoining Denver. has been
given by the clearing house banks OF
Denver. The Clearing House Associa-
tion in letter to the mayor and city
council says: I'VE understand that the
county commissioners are ready to fur.
nish $4,000 II the city renews Its prom.
Use of 10000. The authorization OF
such expenditures by the city and coun-
ty should meet with the approval of
substantial business men and business
concerns of our city, who watch with
interest this project to reclaim arid
lands and make beautiful suburbs for
Denver.
The Southern Colorado Power Com
pany will spend nearly 100000 en-.
largins its plant at Trinidad. and ex-
tending wires to many camps of Las
Animas and Huerfano counties and to
Colfax county, New Mexico, where it
has contracts for supplying light and
mower 10 a number of coal mines