The Colorado statesman., 1908-07-25
COLORADO NEWS

There was a very neavy rain and
hail storm at Colorado Springs on the
afternoon of July 18th.
Steps are being taken to form a
Farmers union at Fort Morgan. This
organization is backing an independ-
ent sugar factory for North Fort Nor
| gan.
City free delivery will be established
at Salida October 18th, with three
regular carriers and one substitute,
and twenty-four letter boxes are to be
| installed.
The cornerstone of the new Jewish
| temple at Pueblo was laid on Sunday
the 18th inst. The honor of laying the
stone was sold at auction and went to
M. Edelstein.
County Surveyor Youngquist of Nor
gan county has just completed map
of the county, giving all the irrigation
districts, as well as those which are
contemplated.
The following new postmasters have
been appointed: Stratton, Kit Carson
county, Joseph A. Smith, vice w. R.
Smith, resigned; Sugar City, Otero
county, Thomas w. Butler, vice w. F.
Tarpox, resigned.
Street signs and house numbers are
being placed at Fort Morgan and
large force is at work on cement cross
ings. In few days the council hopes
to be able to meet the requirements
for free city delivery of mail.
Nathaniel Lyons post, Grand
Army of the Republic, and the Wom-
ans Relief corps of Boulder, will hold
their annual picnic at Glacier lake.
August 4. The customary invitation
| to Confederate veterans has been eX-
tended, and many of them will par
ticipate.
Professor Ellsworth Bethel, bota-
mist of the State Historical society, re-
turned to Denver recently from Mid
die park with a large assortment of
| Colorado wild flowers. He has them
! labeled and on exhibition at the state
house for the tourists who are visitors
there daily.
The state school fund, amounting to
S149,689 for the past six months, has
been apportioned pro rata to the sew
eral counties of the state. The total
number of school children In the state
is 2O7, ,573, against 200,411 six months
ago. Nearly 1000 of the increase is
shown in the city of Denver.
The will of Henry Schneider, a pio-
neer brewer of southern Colorado, was
probated at Trinidad July 22nd. The
value of his property is fixed at $175,-
900, of which S1,700 has already been
paid to the state in the form of an
inheritance tax. The remainder of the
property is left equally to his three
children.
The state game and fish commits
sioner's office has recently stocked
streams and lakes in Middle park with
10000 trout and will distribute about
100000 more young trout before the
end of the year in the Grand river at
Hot Sulphur Springs and in the Fra
zier river and Grand lake.
Pumpkin Pie Day will be celebrated
in Longmont this year on August 18th.
The ladies of Longmont will make 12,-
900 pies. and with the pies will be
10000 sandwiches and seventy-five
barrels of coffee. With the festival
proper will be an industrial parade
in which the farming interests will be
represented. In the evening there will
be fireworks and a masked carnival.
Approximately $4,000 will be collect
ed by the state treasurer as the in
heritance tax levied on the estate of
the late Susan E. Crowell, of Colorado
Springs. Most of the estate was be-
queathed to Irving Howbert and he
will be called upon to pay the tax. The
estate amounted to something over
100000. The state collects at the
rate of six per cent
David H. Moffat sailed from Europe
July 21st on his return trip after a
brief visit to his daughter Mrs. j. A
McClurg, and his granddaughter, Miss
Marjorie, in Paris. The date of his
sailing also CHANGED to mark his sixty
ninth birthday, and his relatives and
friends in Colorado kept the telegraph
and cable companies busy conveying to
Mr.. Moffat their messages of congrat-
ulation.
A black coyote, the first of the kind
known, is attracting much attention
on the ranch of A. l.. Camp, Jr., near
Greeley. 1t is now three months old
has the run of the place and is quite
tame. 1t was found in litter OF
young coyotes, but the others were
of the ordinary color. The black coy
ote differs from the others in no way
except in color. 1t has been named
Mascot"
Under the direction of Boulevard Elk.
| pert George II. heSSler, mayor SpeeI
is arranging for experiments to be
made on Denver streets for a solution
of the dust problem through the use
of residium oil, on the plan success
fully carried out in Kansas City and
other large places. The Inland Oil
Company of Boulder has consented to
give gratis sufficient oil to afford tests
on five blocks.
Good progress is being made in the
big dam of the Eastern Colorado Pow
er Company at Barker Meadows, a mile
below Nederland, in Boulder county
Two 70-ton steam shovels are employed
excavating for the dam foundations and