The Monte Vista journal., 1908-12-19
STATE NEWS ITEMS

The Colorado Kennel club will hold
q bench show in Denver next Spring.
A movement has been started to or
ganize a new mining stock exchange In
Denver.
The Crystal Theatre Company. cap.
italized At $4,000. has been incorpor-
ated 10 conduct a vaudeville theater
At Greeley.
Antonito has voted for q gravity
water system to be owned and oper-
ated by the town. drawing its water
from large springs.
On January 2sth Leadville will cele-
brate Its thirtieth anniversary by a
home coming" Of Leadville pioneers.
There will be high old times'-about
two miles high.
A congress Of Colorado Sunday
school associations will be held at
Pueblo Dec. z7th-29th. This will be the
first time the congress has been held
outside Of Denver.
The thirty-eighth annual session Of
the Colorado State Teachers Associa.
ton will be held in the East Side high
school At Denver, Dec. 2Sth, goth, 30th
and 31st.
Manager A. B. Hulit Of the Kansas
Colorado Power and Transmission
Company. expects the road to be COM
pleted from Pueblo to the top Of the
Royal Gorge by May LIST next.
On the night of the sth inst fire
destroyed the shaft house and build.
ings Of the Mesa Mining & Milling
Company At Unaweep. entailing loss
Of $4,000. There was NO insurance
Another per cent. dividend has
been declared by Richard H. Malone.
receiver Of the defunct Fidelity Saw.
ings Association Of Denver. This divi.
dend means the disbursing Of $4,000,
anu makes q total Of 40 per cent. paid
to depositors.
Stephen N. Bennett, pioneer
nearly eishty.three years old. and
brother'in-law of ex-Lieut. Gov.
Brush, died At Greeley on the 10th
inst. Of disease incident to old age. Mr..
Bennett came to Greeley over thirty
years ago.
John E. Codding. late president Of
the State Bank Of Rocky Ford. con.
victed Of receiving deposits after the
bank was insolvent and sentenced to
eight TO ten years in the penttentiary
At Canon City. was received into that
institution ON the 18th inst.
Railway mail service to Walden,
Colo. from Laramie. Wyo, will soon BE-
turned over to Laramie. Hahn's Peak
4 Pacific railway. going by train to
within thirty.five miles Of Walden and
then by star route. At present seventy
miles 10 covered by stage.
The scientific students and members
Of the University Scientific Society
Of til. State University are cooperat.
Ing with the office Of state dairy com.
missioner for the purpose OF purifying
the milk and milk products which
are produced In Boulder COUNT.
There 10 still talk at Fort Collins Of
Secretary OF Agriculture James Wilson
becoming president OF Colorado Agri
cultural college. While 1t has not been
definitely decided who will succeed DR..
b. 0. Aylesworth. and probably will not
for SEVERAL weeks. there are rumors
that ar. Wilson will be chosen.
The new town Of Kuner, nine miles
east Of Greeley. has notified C. g. Nor.
ey. president OF the Great Western
Sugar Company. that II will donate
eighty acres for building and furnish
water II he will establish q sugar fac.
tory there. Kuner town has q large
cultivated area tributary to II.
Conrad Markus. who came TO Colo.
RADIO from Russia six years ago to work
In the beet fields. has Just purchased
IN S0.acre farm mile west Of Greeley,
for $4,000 from A. 2. Solomon of Den.
yer. who has held the land twenty
years. Solomon purchased $40 acres
for $3.50 an acre and values his re-
naming tract At $3.50 an acre.
The Denver Reservoir Irrigation
Company has Just let Q contract for the
completion Of the Stanley Lake dam,
one OF the chief works Of tie project,
five Mi;es north Of the city limits Of
Dsnvs'. kenefIck Z Quisisy. Of Kaa.
sas CITY. have undertaken the work
for Sl:t. 900. To date On dana, canals
and tunnels for the system. the irriga.
ton mpany has let contracts calling
for an expsn ilturs oe about 81, go 900.
Al Cripple Creek TuesAay william
Campicn. . brother Of Andy J. Can.
psoa. commission man OF Denver. cat