The new era., 1909-11-11
COLORADO NEWS

The City Council OF Boulder has ap
propriated $500 toward expenses oi
the Boulder Semi Centennial celebra
ton, November cath and 25th.
A condemnation suit was started OIL
the 2Sth ult. by the Denver. Laramie
& Northwestern railroad against fif
teen property owners along the right
of way between Greeley and Evans.
The Windsor National Guard com
pany has organized under the super
vision of state officers. DR.. ]. II
Shane is captain. Emmett Fuller, frs!
lieutenant. About thirty men have
been mustered in and there will be
forty-eight on the roll call
Pinned under the wreckage of an en-
gine when 1t turned over, John II. Du
ane. an engineer on the Midland Ter
minal railroad, was so badly scalded
by escaping steam on the 10Th ult
that he died six hours later at the
Sisters hospital. The accident oc
Cured at Cameron, five miles from
Cripple Creek.
In order to stop, II possible, the
alarming increase in desertions. Judge
Ben B. Lindsey and the county com
missioners of Denver will try the plan
of sending acquisitions after men who
desert their families, bringing them
back to Colorado and giving them
full Jail sentences.
According to figures compiled yes
terday by Secretary of State James s.
Pearce, the receipts of his office for
last month. s22,14S.70, were nearly
double what they were for the same
month a year ago. The payment Of
flat taxes by several corporations ac-
counts for part Of the increase.
From forty acres of new land east
of the new town of Zeta, in Weld
county, T. ]. Latch has taken 5000
sacks of potatoes, 1000 sacks OF
which contain potatoes each weigh
ing not less than two pounds. The
crop is considered remarkable for
quality and size and sixty sacks will
be sent to the irrigation congress in
Chicago next month.
Secretary McCreery of the Greeley
Commercial club received telegram
asking if Greeley could supply 300
bushels of culled potatoes to be used
in it's distillery department. 1t is be-
lieved they are to be used in the man.
ufacture of denatured alcohol. Farm
ers will fill the order at 25 cents per
100, f. o. b. Greeley.
The convention to consider Colorado
immigration and tourist rates, called
by Governor Shafroth, will meet in
Denver November 18th. The conven-
ton will take up the matter Of secur-
ing $25 round trip rate from Chicago
to Denver and Colorado common
points during the tourist season and a
colonist one-fare rate that will be low
enough to attract more homeseekers
to the state.
The Denver & Rio Grande railroad
has abolished its general detective
agency in Denver. which has been op-
Grated for years under the direction
of Cyrus w. Shores. The work hence
forth will be carried on under the su-
pervision of the several division su-
perintendents, with Assistant General
Manager w. S. Martin overseeing the
work. The entire force of detectives
is to be retained
The Burlington railway has COM
pleted negotiations with the city of
Denver whereby that line agrees to
build the subway under it's double
track across the county road north.
east of Riverside cemetery. The city
and Adams county will grade up to
either side of the track, expending
$1,000, on condition that the road dig
the subway and put in superstruc-
ture for a 50-foot dirt roadway.
AT a recent meeting in Montrose
Cannon Layton of Denver and B. A.
Lockwood, Jr., of Des Moines, Ia, who
road, said they had most favorable as
surance as to financing the road, and
that prospects of it's early building
were bright. Mr.. Layton said al, that
is needed for the actual construction
Is the disposal Of a certain amount
of capital stock to the people OF Mont
rose county.
The New York Tribune will soon re-
ceive a memento OF Greeley's early
days. in an adobe, sun-baked brick
taken from the old Greeley Tribune
office, built in 1870. now being torn
down. In this building was published
for thirty-three years the newspaper
of which N. C. Meeker. former agri-
cultural editor Of the New York Trib-
une, was editor. Horace Greeley also
contributed to the Greeley paper. The
New York Tribune first proposed the
founding of the colony
An experiment to test the value OF
Colorado grown feeds, for which the
General Assembly made an appropri-
alton of $4,000, was set on foot at
Colorado Agricultural College a few
days since when the committee on