The Colorado statesman., 1908-05-16
COLORADO ITEMS


week in October
Holly will vote on the question of
constructing municipal water works
at d special election June End.
The Fort Morgan Boosters band
has been engaged to play at the ma
tional Democratic convention in Den
yer.
Mrs. George S. Mott has been ap-
pointed superintendent of schools in
San Miguel county, vice Charles S.
Watson, deceased.
In the County Court at Denver,
Judge Hudson has decided that the
Speer ticket is entitled to the use of
the name Democratic"
The Routt County Pioneer Associa-
lion will meet at Glenwood Springs
June 18th TO goth. Entertainment will
be prepared for nearly 1000 visitors.
Mrs. Helen A. Daley, widow of the
late John l.. Daley, one of the pio-
neer newspaper men of the state, died
at her home in Denver on the 11th inst.
Steve Adams, charged with the MUIR
der of Arthur l.. Collins at Telluride,
has been granted change of venue
from San Miguel county to Mesa coun-
ty.
OF the $500 acres of sugar beets
planted for ;he factory at Fort Morgan
only few acres each will have to be
replanted by about half a dozen peo-
pie.
While dissecting a chicken at Lead
vile Mrs. R. j. Mcdonald discovered
gold nugget weighing about an eighth
of an ounce. The chicken came from
Kiowa county.
Rodney Olney, son OF Henry C. Oh
ney, who was formerly a prominent
newspaper man in western Colorado,
was drowned in Lake Pend d'Oreille,
Idaho, on the 9th inst.
The new Christian church at Salida.
built at a cost of SIC, 900, was dedicated
on the lost inst, the sum of $4,000 be-
ing raised at the three services to
clear it of Indebtedness.
The financial committee of the Flor
ence City Council has just made re-
port which shows that the municipal
debt has been reduced forty-five per
cent. in the last five years.
A committee appointed by the city
council of Central City has raised
money and arranged for Saturday
Il
and other amateur sports.
The Morrison State Bank has been
sold to W. A. Clark of Boston and c..
H. Hinman of Denver. 1t is planned
by the new owners to increase the cap
ital stock from $4,000 to $4,000.
The ruins Of an aboriginal burial
ground have been found ten miles
east of Holly. The mounds are said to
be covered with rocks forming the out
lines of horses, deer, men and women.
The Denver Homeopathic College
and Hospital Association has granted
degrees to the following: G. E. Os-
born, W. c. Lucas, l. M. Bierman, e.
B. Price S. T. Egeness and A. D. Allen.
George W. Pettibone, companion of
Meyer and Haywood and indicted with
them for completely in the murder OF
Gov. Frank Steunenberg of Idaho, has
returned to his home in Denver. He IL
in very poor health.
j. E. Perrine, the Great Northern ex-
press messenger who was the victim OF
holdup on a train near Seattle few
days ago, was formerly resident OF
Pueblo and depot agent for an express
company.
The $1,000,000 tunnel through Ration
mountain, work on which was started
by the Langtry Construction Company
April /, 1907, is practically completed
and will be ready to be turned over to
the Santa Fe about May 25th.
The Coal Creek Water and Land
Company has decided to remodel its
entire system and excavate for another
large reservoir. The pressure has not
been sufficient for fire purposes, this
being the reason the big fire, which
swept the town last June, could not
be checked The company will also
supply Williamsburg with water
The Leadville Sportsman's Associa-
tion, composed of local fishing enthus-
lasts, has sent a communication to
State Game and Fish Commissioner
Farr of Denver, asking him to prevent
the pollution of the Eagle river by the
dumping of waste and refuse into the
waters by mining properties. 1t is
pointed out that the prevention of this
practice will not in any way affect
the operation of the mines.
The Longmont Engineering Com
pany places the responsibility for its
insolvency upon the foreign farm hands
who objected to using the practical
and time saving invention of the COM
pany in handling sugar beets. The for
eigners feared that the labor-saving
device meant lessening of work and
wages for them rather than an enlarge
ment of productio.
The State Epworth League Conven-
tion will be held at Montrose June
18th to 22nd inclusive. The people of
Montrose have arranged to entertain
all who apply before June 10th on the
Harvard plan-free lodging and break
fast. Every pastor is delegate; each
Senior league is entitled to two, each
Junior league or intermediate league,
to one delegate. A rate of one fare
for the round trip has been secured
from points on the Colorado & South
ern Midland Cripple Creek lines