The Colorado statesman. [volume] (Denver, Colo.) 1895-1961, 1908-12-05
COLORADO ITEMS


organized at Fort Morgan and guar
antee fund of $500 w.ll be raised.
Denver building permits for the
month of November amounted to $685.
200. This is gain of $202,345 over
November 1907.
The Citizens Building and Loan
Company, capitalized at $4,000 in
1850 shares at 5000 each, has been
organized at Greeley and large num-
Der 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.
1t IS 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. Rock Island is said to be ar
ranging to place gasoline motor cars in
service between Colorado Springs and
Pueblo. 1t is reported that several cars
have been ordered to be put in service
early in the spring.
The Colorado Hotel Clerks Associa
ton has voted to incorporate. Close
affiliatlon will be made with the Ne
braska-Iowa Hotel Clerks Associa-
ton for the exchange of bulletins and
warnings about dead beats.
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. NJ 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 $25 and costs
and allowed to go, after hearing Sc
we're lecture from the judge.
The S250,O0 suit of E. l.. Schaffer
against the Portland Gold Mining Com
pany, involving the apex right in the
F. & C. C. claims, was settled out of
Court at Colorado Springs for cash
consideration, the amount of which is
withheld. The Portland company ac-
quires the entire claim.
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 S25 500 The present high
school building will be given over to
the grades.
The Southern Colorado Power Com
pany will spend nearly 100000 en-
larging it's 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
power TO a number of coal mines.
By being made a department of the
United States department of agricul-
ture, the Colorado state pure food COM
mission has been officially given the
power to act in interstate matters,
which increases the scope of the COM
mission and enables it to prosecute
manufacturers and dealers in food
stuffs located in other states. Wilbur F.
Cannon is given the title of "chief of
food and drug inspection laboratory of
the United States Department of Agri-
culture
At mass meeting of Fort Collins
citizens, a proposition of the Denver,
Laramie & Northwestern railroad,
asking Fort Collins to subscribe $780,
! 900 worth of stock, was rejected. be-
I cause of the inability of the city to
raise tie sum asked. An effort will
be made to come to an agreement on
some other basis, The company of
fered forfeit of 100000 in bankable
| gpruriI1pg IN no CT
scribed, to have the road built to Fort
! Collins by July 1, 1909.
Governor Buchtel has made the fol-
lowing appointments on the Colorado
State Commission on the Conservation
of national resources: Hon. Frank C.
Cloudy, Denver, chairman; president of
| the State Agricultural College, Fort
| Collins; dean of the Colorado School of
Forestry of Colorado College; Colorado
Springs; Col. Kenneth l.. Fahnestock,
DR.. John Grass, Senator John j. Har-
ris, William J. Hartman. Senator Ben
jamin j. Jefferson, Judge Alfred f.
King, Murdo Mckenzie, Senator Dex-
ter d. Sapp, w. G. NJ. Stone. Senator
Bulkeley Wells and w. NJ. Wiley.
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 Gle caring House Associa-
ton in letter to the mayor and city
council says; 1--WE understand that the
county commissioners are ready to fur
nish $4,000 if the city renews its prom
Use of 100000. The authorization of