The Colorado statesman. [volume] (Denver, Colo.) 1895-1961, 1909-03-20
COLORADO ITEMS

CorteZ and Dolores will be made pres
idential after April LIST, with salary of
$1.10O each.
City deliverS service has been or
dered established June 18th at Colo.
RADIO City, with three carriers. one sub
stitute and twenty-five letter boxes.
The Grand Junction Electric line pro-
poses to lease the grounds of the
County Fair Association for use as an
amusement park next summer extend
ing its road to the grounds.
Fort Collins is to have CLEANUP day
April I'd. The Womans club has in
augurated movement 10 have all
streets and alleys thoroughly cleaned
on that day.
Fearing repetition of the flood of
1894 ON account of the heavy snowfall
during the winter. the directors of the
Pueblo Business Mems Association is
taking steps toward Strengthening the
leVees of the Arkansas river and other
wise protecting the city from the flood.
sawmill is to be set up on the old
Eaton farm south of Windsor which
was occupied by the late Governor
Eaton in the sixties, for the purpose
of converting some $4,000 feet of cot
tonwood logs into lumber. This kind
of lumber is now being used by the
Great Western Sugar Company in the
construction of its beet dumps.
An chronological department has
been added to the Colorado Museum of
Natural History at City park, in Den
yer. Five thousand specimens of bugs
will soon be placed on exhibition Pro
fessor Ernest ]. Osler, one of the best
known entomolo2ists and collectors in
the country, has been appointed cura-
tor of the department
The farmers Educational and Co
operative Union. at its meeting in
Pueblo. by unanimous vote of dele
gates. representing 10000 Colorado
| farmers. gave its approval to the ac-
, ton of the Arkansas District Valley
! Union in its demand for a flat rate of
| s. per ton for all beets grown this
| year
United States District Attorney
| Ward has started suit for the gov
eminent to recover SIS ,S9S.6 so from the
estate of Samuel A. Gutshall as an in
demnity for 3.926440 feet of timber al
| legged TO have been cut from govern
ment reserves in the MOntrose land OF
| flee district between the year 1902 and
| 1908.
| Resident Trustee McCaffery and
| Superintendent Deacon of the Union
/ Printers Home at Colorado Springs,
have received a telegram from the sec
| 8 h. I hnt.
izing them to commence construction
of the proposed addition to the home,
which will be of stone, two stories, and
cost 100000
After six years service as water
commissioner of District No. 2, as an
| assistant under State Engineer T. w.
JaycoX, c. Nj. Jump has accepted po-
1 sition with the United States reclama-
! ton service as general canal superin-
| tendent of the Pathfinder dam pro-
! ject on the Shoshone river in north
ern Wyoming.
John NJ Walker of Keota, sixty-five
! years old. veteran of the Civil War,
computing that it would require two
days to reach Greeley by rail, started
across the country on foot and made
the forty-five miles in thirteen hours.
Last Fourth of July Walker walked to
Greeley over a different route, doing
| fifty-five miles in eighteen hours.
The motive power for the Gold Run
cyanide mill at Wall Street, in Boulder
county, has recently been changed
from steam to electric power, the cur
rent being supplied by the Eastern
Colorado Power Company, which in
turn is supplied by the Northern Com
pany, while the power plant is being
constructed in Boulder canon.
Mrs. Marie Moynahan, wife of former
State Senator James Moynahan of AL
ma, died suddenly on the 18th inst.
Mrs. Moynahan was married shortly
after the close of the Civil War and
came by wagon across the plains to
Colorado with her husband in the early
days. Besides her husband she is sur
vived by two daughters and two sons.
President f. w. Wilcox of the Ar
gentine Central railroad operating
from Silver Plume to Mt. McClelland,
over Gray's Peak. has returned from an
extended trip east and announces that
the line will open May 1st, having re-
manned closed since December list. The
custom of closing for the winter will
be done away with this year and here
after and the Argentine Central will
be year-around line of railroad
The Psychic Science Company has
been Incorporated at Denver to erect
a $4,000 building, which is to be
equipped with a gymnasium, religious
hall, class rooms. consultation rooms,
library and other apartments. The pur-
pose of the company is TO teach the
various branches of psychic science
and to aid and treat those interested