The state herald., 1908-10-30
STATE NEWS ITEMS

Greeley voted to hold its next annual
session at Pueblo.
The Rev. NJ. b. Williams of Chicago,
noted evangelist, is to head four
weeks series of revival meetings in
Denver.
Miss Adele Fowle, Denver stenog-
rapher, was sixth in the international
and third in the amateur typewriting
contest held recently in New York.
The sample ballots for Weld county
for the general ,section have been
prepared in the English, Swedish, Rus
sian. Spanish and Italian languages
On the 2lst inst, Tor the first time
in the history of Pueblo, there was not
a case Of contagion registered with the
board of health, nor was there a case
in quarantine.
The community Of Mennonites, four
miles west of La Junta dedicated their
new sanitarium Sunday. There were
about 500 people at the services, which
lasted through the entire day.
According to reports reaching d. +.
Farr, state game and fish commission
er, the flight of ducks this year is the
greatest ever known. Wild geese are
also said TO be uncommonly numerous.
Denver hunters, some five hundred of
them, are going out to the lakes in the
vicinity every day and bringing in i'm
'mense numbers of ducks.
Ground was broken at Greeley Mon
fnV a Catholic nhnrpb l,ttfl.1iRfF n
cost sSO,0O0. II will be one of the
finest in northern Colorado and will
be of gray brick and stone. The tow
er will be las feet high. The church
was established four years ago as a reg
.ular parish under Father Casey, and
has 800 members.
An Aero club has been organized
in Denver by people who want to keep
pace with the latest developments in
the art of flying. One of its most
prominent members is Walter NJ. Cage,
who has recently attracted consider
able attention throughout the country
by his invention OF a submarine and
his present work upon flyin. ma.
chine.
In notices sent around TO nearly ey-
cry business man in Denver, Secret
Service Agent Goddard warns all
against two men who are reported to
be examining cash drawers under pre-,
tense OF belonging 10 the secret ser
vice. The men have been caught. IL
is said. in the act OF removing money
NnN.Tul ffTung huf huaH.. flsR.a .ssf.
capped.
c. $. Morcy. president OF the Great
Western Sugar Company. is reported
as saying that sugar In Colorado beets
this year is two per cent. below the
average. The best crop In Colorado
averages from fourteen 10 fifteen per
cent. sugar. but the percentage this
year will be from twelve to fourteen.
which means a loss OF two per cent. to
the farmers.
Without exception tho bids sub.
mited to the county commissioners of
Pueblo county FOR the erection of the
new court house exceeded the esti.
mates Of both architects and the board.
Five bids were presented. the lowest
being that ~ Frank Taylor OF Pueblo.
siiS,30S. Taylor contracts 10 use Tur
key Greek stone and to complete the
structure within two years.
Charles n. Mcclure, engineer at the
Denver mint. stood highest In the cN.
animation giycn by the United States
civil service commission TO applicants
for the position of Inspector nf me
ohanlcal and electrical engineering m
the supervising architects office In
Washington. He has been ordered 10
report at Washington TO assume the
position,
Sixty young women nf Colorado -,
"eulci one OF the most complicated aud
best managed drills ever attempted by
womra ON the stage of the auditorium
IN Denver Saturday night. when the
drii team of the Denver Young
womonS Christian Temperance Union
formed the letters v W, c. r. 4. Whila
5000 spectators broke forth Ia apa
plauso that sounded and rcHoundod
through the vast hall filled with dele
Eatos OF the nation to the W. {, T. 4,
The Moiiat road will put ON a pas,
HrnRrr car dining service after Noyrms
bcr iat This will continue fof the win,
ter months only In the spring the
regular dining station service at rnl,
land and Arrow Will be resumed. The
meals In the passenger car dining ser
vice are prepared IN kitchen car aud
then served IN tho regular passenger
caTs ON tables fastened between the
seats These tables Hrr removed aEaln
when The meal "a over,
Deeds filed transferring tho rungs
ton properties known as the Boulder
County mines from e = Lake ut il1ul.
dor and T. y ilarHsdall a pitahurF
millionaire oil operator 10 the Primes
Mining COMPANY. tho consideration be-
inB 100000 Tho property n one ~
tho largest producers ~ tungsten orr