The Colorado statesman., 1908-11-14
COLORADO NEWS

taken lease on the Grand opera
house at Pueblo and will take charge
December LIST.
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 Holbrooll valley
in Otero county have decided to buy
the Holbrook ditch, form an irrigation
district, issue bonds and build a large
reservoir in the mountains.
Frank OLaughlin, aged forty-five,
who died at Trinidad few days since,
left papers which showed that he was
the son of Lord Timothy OLaughlin,
a wealthy man in Ireland
The Great Western Sugar Company
has its feed yards at the factory full
of cattle and has begun feeding pulp.
About 5000 head will be fed this year
Most of these belong to the sugar COM
pany.
Monday the grading on the Moflat
railroad reached Steamboat Springs.
Five sidetracks "Y'' and depot site
are all ready for the tracks The
work of laying rails into Steamboat
will begin Within two weeks.
Gypsy" Smith, the noted English
evangelist, will conduct a revival in
Denver March End to Sth, according to
cablegram received by DIR. C. F. Reis-
ner. DR.. Reisner will try to secure
the auditorium for the services.
One of the items in the campaign
expense account filed by E. H. Haynes,
newly-elected county judge of Kit Car
son county, reads: ITO John Copple,
village blacksmith of Stratton, for cam
paign poetry and songs, S."
The society of Union Colony Pion-
banquet and celebrate the thirty
eighth anniversary of the settlement
of Greeley. The society numbers about
$50 members who meet every year at
Greeley.
Albert Smith, the Cripple Creek po-
liceman who was shot and killed by
George Goode, a saloon man, was
given notable funeral by the city
officers, police force and the order OF
himself through the head after the
act, has since died of the wound.
Hon. Harry Casaday, of Boulder
county, senator-elect, is preparing II
bill to introduce in the next Legisla-
ture providing for a state ore sam
pling works, and an assayer who, un-
der state supervision, will determine
the value of all ore shipped from the
principal mining camps of the state.
The completion of the transmission
line of the Central Colorado Power
Company to Nederland and the extern
sion of the line from Salina to Sugar
Loaf, has made available to a large
section of the mining districts of the
county cheap electric power for the
| operation of mines and mills, of which
many companies are taking advantage.
Cyril Hagerman, son of j. j. Hager-
man, the famous tunnel and railroad
| builder, arrived in Grand Junction a
| few days since. He owns the largest
apple orchard in the United States
| west of the Mississippi river, located
in the Pecos valley of New Mexico. 1t
is suspected that his visit is in connec
/ ton with the purchase of a tract in
| the Grand valley.
A reward of $100 has been offered
by the Denver Motor Club for the ar
rest and conviction of the person or
persons who stole the automobile be-
| longing to George Tritch from the
street in front of his residence, 975
Pearl street, on November 4th. The
machine is a fCul-cylinder Stevens
Duryea, factory number 1858, with red
running gear Brewster green body
and khaki top.
Pixies Peak is settling at the rate
of about two inches a year, according
to j. 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
a hole in the ground.
contract for 1000 tons of steel
rails has just been let by Vice Presi-
dent and General Manager A. E. Welby
of the Denver, Laramie & Northwest
ern railway These rails are of the
heaviest standard quality and come
from the Colorado Fuel & Iron Com
pany at Pueblo, to be delivered as rap
idly as possible. This second consign-
ment will make eighty carloads of
rails and will lay the track well up to
Hilsboro, the present end of the com
pleted grade, forty miles from Denver.
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 a deadly