The Julesburg grit-advocate., 1908-12-04
COLORADO ITEMS

January lst.
Arrangements are being made for the
dedication Of the new city hall ct
Trinidad January 21st.
Tho Florence Iron Works Company
has Incorporated With q capital stcc,-
OF $4,000 to build . large iron foun-
dry at Florence.
Ole million dollars will be expended
during the coming year by the Den
yer Gas & Electric Company. for ex-
tensions Of lighting and power and
fuel plants.
The turnstile in the Colorado Mu-
scum Of Natural History at the City
Park in Denver, registered 2.430 names
Sunday. The crowd was a record
breaking one.
To improve Its stock at the Marine
hospital at Stanton. New Mexico, the
government has just purchased two
full blood Jersey bulls from C. Z. Par
felt Of Golden.
1t .s q misdemeanor under the laws
Of Colorado to entice children away
from school during study hours and
is punishable by heavy fine. or i'm
prisonment In the county jail.
The La Sale State Bank has been
Incorporated with a capital Of $4,000.
The incorporators are: X. w. DeVin-
ney. president: b. b. Carpenter. cash
ier. and d. s. Ellis, vice president.
In his sworn statement of campaign
expenses James T. Low. elected justice
of the peace at Leadville on the Demo-
cratic ticket, aff!rms that he did not
contribute one cent directly or inii-
rectly to secure his election.
The Greeley public library board
has accepted the new library building
from the contractors and begun put
ting In books and furniture. The II.
Brary cost $4,000. which was
raised by popular subscription.
The trustees of the town of Yuma
have granted to Smith & Theobold
twenty-year franchise for an electric
lighting plant which will be run In
connection with the new Touring mill
and to be in operation by April next.
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.
The modern tubular mill and also
the shafthouse at the 10 Dandy mine
on Raven hill at Cripple Creek were
totally destroyed by fire on the morn
ing Of the 2sth ult. The loss will ap-
proximate $4,000. with $4,000 insur-
ance. There were no men underground
at the time ~ the miners on the night
shift had come to the surface just
before the fire broke out.
At q meeting Of the board o1
the board Of review of the
Trans Mississippi freight bureau.
held I'M Chicago, . reduction Of
12h cents per hundred pounds was au-
thorized on window glass in carloads.
from Missouri river and Kansas glass
producing points to Denver and other
Colorado common precincts. The min
imum weight is placed at 10000
pounds.
The executive committee Of the West
ern Passenger Association has notified
railroads running to Colorado that the
association recommends that the tour
list rates and the merchants excursion
rates for 1909 be on the same basis as
during 1908. The round trip summer
tourist rate from Chicago to Denver
last year was $50; st. Louis, $25; Mis-
souri, river points. $3.50 st. Paul and
Minneapolis, S27.4o.
r. Suzuki, secretary Of the Colorado
Japanese Association, of Denver, is
the organizer and one of the directors
of a farming company which will de-
vote it's efforts to developing farm
lands for Japanese colonists in Colo
RADIO. The company has Just been in
corporated with a capital stock of
$4,000 and will engage in the general
farming business. The offices of the
! company are to be located at Fort
Lupton.
Bids for the construction of the new
Guggenheim law school building at
the State University Grounds at Boul-
der are now being called for and will
be received up to December 14th. The
contract will be awarded as soon there.
after az possible and will provide for
the completion Of the building by Sep.
tember 1, 1909. The building will cost
about $4,000. 1t will be three stories
high, the first story of Fort Collins
stone and the second and third of
Golden gray brick.
Governor Buchtel has made the fol
lowing appointments on the Colorado
State Commission on the Conservation
Of national resources: Hon. Frank c
Goudy, Denver, chairman; president oI
the State Agricultural College, For
Collins; dean of the Colorado School o
Forestry of Colorado College; Colorado
Springs; Col. Kenneth l.. Fahnestock
Dr. John Grass, Senator John ]. Har
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