The Colorado statesman., 1908-03-14
COLORADO NEWS

PiShty VI SjSuSTS-
An extensively signed petition has
been filed with the city clerk of George
town to submit the proposition to the
qualified voters at the spring election,
Shall the town become anti-saloon ter
ritory?"
The Fort Collins Chautauqua Asso-
citation has named July 18th and 26th
as the dates for next summers assem-
bly,. Among the attractions will be
lectures by DIR. Frank w. Gunsaulus
of Chicago and DR.. Newell Dwight
Hills of New York.
A University of Colorado Alumni
Association has been organized in
Trinidad, with Rose Affolter, B. A., as
president, and Elizabeth Babcock as
vice president. This makes the tenth
alumni association organized in Colo
rado for the state university.
The contract for the construction of
the new Masonic temple at Colorado
Springs, TO cost $4,000, has been let
to j. w. Atkinson a Colorado Springs
contractor. Work will be started at
once. The building will be two stories
high and CT buff pressed brick.
A fife and drum corps to induce boys
to become members of Sunday schools
has been organized by the leaders in
the East Side Mission church at Gree
ley The minister of the church will
| drill the boys and the music will be
used at church entertainments.
A gang of convicts is ut work at
Canon City building a scenic driveway
to Tempe canon in Grape creek, five
miles from the city. AS soon as this
drive is completed a second will be
built to tho southern rim of the Royal
gorge, 2,G50 feet above the river.
A band of mountain sheep leaping
among the cliffs within the city limits
of Ouray has recently attracted much
attention. This is the first time in years
they have been seen so near the town,
and by old residents their appearance
is said TO denote an early spring.
The City Council of Longmont have
| passed an ordinance prohibiting the
! growing of willows within $50 feet OF
any drain. This has been found nee
| essary, as the roots of the willow tree
| will break into any tile, travelling as
/ far as 100 feet, to get to the water.
A number of counterfeit dollars
/ have made their appearance in Pueblo
during the last few days and officers
have been notified. Most of this money
| has been in the hands of boys and
/ children in Bessemer. The coins,
which are almost new, are poor imita-
! tions.
Governor Buchtel has appointed
Laura A. Beecroft of the Minnequa hos
/ pital at Pueblo as a member of the
State Board of Nurse Examiners, for a
term of five years. Miss Beecroft has
made a most notable record during her
service as the head of the staff of the
Minnequa hospital.
A telephone system has been in
stalled at Virgins, in Morgan county.
and through the surrounding country
by an independent company and ar
rangements have been made for con
nection with the lines of the Colorado
! company, thus giving the advantage Of
long distance service.
Thirty-six thousand trout were re-
Gently taken into the mountains west
of Boulder and planted in the streams.
| OF these, $1,000 were put in Middle
Boulder creek near the falls, 10000 in
the same stream near Eldora and
$4,000 in North Boulder creek near the
Blue Bird mine.
While Verne Turner was riding
horseback at Trinidad, accompanied
by his brother, Luther, on a bicycle,
the wheel ran against the horse, which
kicked Luther in the face, probably
fatally injuring him and then ran
away, throwing Verne against a fence
and breaking his leg.
Work has been resumed on the
Frisco and Piedmont mines of the
Rocky Mountain Fuel Company, giving
work to about zoo men. These mines
We're closed about the first of the year.
The resumption is due to the demand
for coal, and because of the resump-
tfon of work at a number of smelters.
A new postoffice has been estab-
lished at Vallery, a small town on the
Burlington, nine miles west of Fort
Morgan. A general merchandise store
and lumber yard were recently
opened there and the new town prom
ises to become quite trading point.
1t is located at the western edge of the
Bijou irrigation district.
Word has reached Denver that the
! freight steamship service of the Nal
1ory line has been resumed between
New York and Denver, by way of Gal
weston Goods shipped from New
York to Galveston and brought to Den
yer over the International Great
Northern and the Colorado & South
ern will reach Denver in twelve days.
The City council OF Buena Vista has
granted q twenty-year franchise for a
street light, heat and power plant to
the Buena Vista Smelling & Refining
Company. A condition of the fran
chise is that the company shall ex-
pend about $4,000 in Strengthening it's
power dam on the Arkansas river
Work will begin Immediately and
solid masonry dam be constructed.
The new Ladies' Civic improvement
Society ut Florence, has selected two
sites for parks and will begin break
ing ground. Senator James A. Nc
Candless, wealthy land owner, has
donated the use of all his vacant land
| q Elnrnncn for. nd