The Colorado statesman., 1908-11-28
COLORADO NEWS

The United Brethren churches OF
Colorado have taken action changing
all the Young Peoples Christian Union
Societies to Christian Endeavor So
cieties.
One million dollars will be expended
during the coming year by the Den
Yer Gas & Electric Company, for ex.
tensions of lighting and power and
SIel plants.
The turnstile in the Colorado Mu-
scum of Natural History at the City
Park in Denver, registered 2,43O names
Sunday. The crowd was a record
breaking one.
To improve it's stock at the Marine
hospital at Stanton, New Mexico, the
government has just purchased two
full blood Jersey bulls from c. K. Par
fett of Golden.
The formal opening of the new Boul-
dorado Hotel at Boulder has been set
for Christmas Day. The hotel will cost
about 100000 and is designed to be
first-class in every respect.
The Greeley public library board
has accepted the new library building
from the contractors and begun put
ting in books and furniture. The Ii
brary cost $4,000, which was
raised by popular subscription.
The Empire Construction Company
of Greeley, with L. L. Stimson as en-
gineer, has begun building the North
Sterling reservoir. The reservoir is to
be completed in eighteen months and
will be the largest in Colorado.
In IL campaign lasting ten days the
Fort Collins Young Mems Christian
Association secured 500 new members.
Then members of the canvassing
teams who had secured five or more
members were given fine turkey
dinner.
Inheritance tax to the amount of $10,-
992 will be paid the state from the es-
tate of the late Alice Hill, widow of
Senator N. P. Hill of Denver. The es-
tate amounted to 1892, ,S49.66. 1t is now
being settled up and the state has de-
termined the amount of the tax.
The new plate glass insurance COM
pany organized by Boulder business
men starts out with practically ninety
per cent. of the plate glass insurance
of the city. The company is organ
lied on the mutual plan and the bust
ness is confined to Boulder alone
The tax levy of Colorado City has
been fixed at Ia mills by the Council.
On the assessed valuation of S7S5, 900
this will give a revenue of $10,990.
The city receives about $4,000 in
liquor licenses and $1,000 from other
sources, making total of about $780,
600 per year.
At chapel exercises at the Colorado
college in Colorado Springs $1,O70 was
raised in fifteen minutes among the
faculty and students, with which to
send Harry e. Ewing, formerly a stu
dent at the institution and secretary
of the college Y. M. C. A, to the for
eign missionary field. He will go to
Japan and Korea and will probably re-
main there permanently at the expense
of Colorado college students.
Conductor T. ]. Behegan was robbed
of S6 in change on the Forty-fourth
avenue tramway line in Denver on the
night of November 21st by two young
men who struck him on the head with
H.,
knocking him senseless. He rallied
and with the motorman gave chase to
the robbers, but they escaped. The
Tramway company has offered a re-
ward of 500 to any employe who cap,
lures holdup.
R. Suzuki, secretary of the Colorado
Japanese Association, of Denver, is
the organizer and one of the directors
of farming company which will de
vote its efforts to developing farm
lands for Japanese colonists in Colo
rado. The company has just been in
corporated with a capital stock of
$4,000 and will engage in the general
farming business. The offices of the
company are to be located at Fort
Lupton.
Bids for the construction of the new
Guggenheim law school building at
the State University Grounds at Boul
der are now being called for and will
be received up to December 14th. The
contract will be awarded as soon there
after as possible and will provide for
the completion of the building by Sep
tember l. 1909. The building will cost
about $4,000. 1t will be three stories
high, the first story of Fort Collins
stone and the second and third of
Golden gray brick.
Enough cash will be available from
the bond subscription of the Denver
Temple of Commerce building to start
work on the foundation on JANUARY
LIST. the idea being to finish the ten
story structure by January, 1910 The
building will cost 100000 adjon the
Ideal building on Champa, with front
age of 100 feet, and a depth of 1875
feet. The Chamber of Commerce,
Traffic Club, Real Estate Exchange,
Manufa facturnrs, Ascnnin tinr, GoIana.l.