The new era. (Walden, Colo.) 1906-19??, 1908-12-03
COLORADO NEWS

The Woodmen of the World will in
vest considerable amount in the mu-
nicipal bonds OF Boulder, La Junta.
Greeley and Fort Collins.
There are thirty-one prisoners In
the Weld county Jail at Greeley, the
most in the history of the institution;
and three of the number are women.
The United Oil Company at Flor
ence has just struck fine producer,
the oil standing 2,221 feet in the well
and giving promise of a big output
The Burlington Interurban Railroad
Company officially announces that
within the next month it will begin
grading for its road from Hudson to
Greeley.
BY a vote OF 1923 to 500, every pre-
cinct in Mesa county outside of Grand
Junction affirmatively answered tho
question, Shall this district become
anti-saloon territory"
Reports from the mountains west OF
Boulder indicate that already this year
more snow has fallen on the upper
ranges than during the entire winter
season of last year.
The farmers of the Holbrook valley
in Otero county have decided to buy
the Holbrook ditch, form an irrigation
district, issue bonds and build q large
reservoir In the mountains.
Superintendent Casey of the Boul.
der' schools has issued an order to
teachers not to assign home work for
the children in grades five and six to
exceed thirty minutes, and in grades
seven and eight not to exceed sixty
minutes.
A syndicate Of Rochester, New
York, people, have purchased a tract
of land at the base of Flagstaff noun
tain, west of Boulder, and it is eX-
pected that from thirty-five to forty
| families will come from Rochester to
settle there next spring.
Gen. John c. Black, former commits
sioner of pensions and former COM
mander-in-chief of the Grand Army OF
the Republic, now member of the
civil service commission, has been In
Denver inspecting the Colorado divis-
ion of the service.
Andrew Mcdonald superintendent of
the Madonna mine at Monarch was Sc
verely beaten on the the 18th inst. by
John Gilroy and Harry Barnes, en-
| ployes at the mine. The assault was
committed with revolvers used as
clubs. Both men were arrested.
Henry Montoya, an Indian, sen.
fenced from Prowers county, Nov. 81,
1905, for statutory offense, to term
Of from five to eight years, will go free
nine months after Nov. 9th of this
year, his sentence having been COM
muted by the board of pardcns.
The first carlosi shipment of Colo
RADIO white marble to leave the state
started from the quarries near Mar
| BILE City last week for Cleveland, Ohio,
where it will be used in decorating the
! interior of the new court house now
under construction in that city.
In hand to hand conflict with Jack
Madden, a miner, Mrs. Ida Hart, en-
ployed in the Metropolitan hotel at
Trinidad. was shot twice in the right
hand Saturday morning. Madden made
his escape. Mrs. Hart says that Mad
den demanded her money and when
refused tried to kill her with a revol-
yer.
Substantiating the claim OF F. w.
Nitary of the state pure food commits
sion. that the unrestricted sale OF CO.
caine and other drugs in the cities of
Colorado is responS lie for much Of the
misery and crime, is the record of
the State Humane Society, which
shows many instances of children be-
ing neglected because parents are ad-
dicted to the drug.
Plans have been formulated by the
railroad committee of the Greeley Com
mercial Club to raise $25O,OOO in the
Greeley district to help finance the
J Greeley Interurban railway by buying
/ stock. The cost of the road will be
$4,000 mile, but this includes a
power house at Fort Lupton, a $4,000
station at Greeley. other stations, roll
ing stock and equipment.
Pixies Peak is settling at the rate
OF about two inches a year, according
to ]. G. Heistand. proprietor of the
Iron Springs Pavilion in Manitou. Mr..
Heistand points out that the gradual
but certain settlement of the founda-
ton OF his iron springs, necessitating
repairs every year. is proof of this,
since the springs are on the same
| formation as the Peak. 1t will be some
time, however. before Pixies Peak is
hole in the ground.
After being out five hours the Jury
in the case Of w. P. Weatherford at
Greeley found him guilty on the sec
ond count only, assault with deadly
weapon and with intent to do great
bodily injury. Weatherford was
tenant on the farm of James Pyles of