The Dolores star., 1908-12-04
COLORADO ITEMS

Trinidad January 21st.
Tho Florence Iron Works Company
has incorporated with a capital stock
of $4,000 to build a large iron foun-
dry at Florence.
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
fuel 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 Its stock at the Marine
hospital at Stanton, New Mexico, the
government has just purchased two
full blood Jersey bulls from c. Z. Par
fett Of Golden.
1t IS a 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 La Sale State Bank has been
Incorporated with capital of $4,000.
The incorporators are: r. w. DeVin-
ney, president; B. B. Carpenter, cash
Ter, and d. s. Ellis, vice president.
x In his sworn statement of campaign
expenses James 7. Low. elected justice
cratic ticket, aff!rms that he did not
contribute one cent directly or indi-
rectly to secure his election.
The Greeley public library board
has accepted the new library building
from the contractors and begun put
ting in books and furniture. The IL
brary cost $4,000, which was
raised by popular subscription.
The trustees OF the town of Yuma
have granted to Smith G Theobold u
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. Wiswen 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 a Sc
we're lecture from the judge.
The modern tubular mill and also
the shafthouse n. the 10 Dandy mine
on Raven hill at Cripple Creek were
totally destroyed by fire on the morn
ing OF the 2Sth ult. The loss will ap-
proximate 100000. with $4,000 insur-
ance. There were no men underground
at the time as the miners on the night
shift had come to the surface just
before the fire broke out.
At a meeting of the board of
the board Of review of the
Trans Mississippi freight bureau.
held in Chicago. a reduction of
12h cents per hundred pounds was au-
thorized on window glass In carloads.
from Missouri river and Kansas glass
producing points to Denver and other
Colorado common precincts. The min
imum weight is placed at 10000
pounds.
The executive committee of the West
ern Passenger Association has notified
railroads running to Colorado that the
association recommends that the tour.
ist rates and the merchants excursion
rates for 1909 be on the same basis as
during 1908. The round trip summer
tourist rate from Chicago to Denver
last year was $40: st. Louis. $25; Mis-
souri, river points. $3.50 st. Paul and
Minneapolis, $27.40.
r. Suzuki. secretary Of the Colorado
japanese Association, of Denver, is
the organiser and one of the directors
of farming company which will de-
vote its efforts to developing farm
lands for Japanese colonists in Colo
RADIO. 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 buiiding;, 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 az soon there
after az possible and will provide for
the completion of the building by Sep
tember /, 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.
Governor Buchtel has made the fol-
lowing appointments on the Colorado
State Commission on the Conservation
of national resources: Hon. Frank c..
Goudy, 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,
DIR. John Grass, Senator John ]. Har-
ris, William J. Hartman, Senator Ben
jamin ]. Jefferson. Judge Alfred f.
King, Murdo Mckenzie, Senator Dex-
ter ID Sam w G M Stone Senator.