The Idaho Springs siftings-news., 1909-01-23
COLORADO NEWS

sembly this year
La Junta has an Anti-Japanese So
ciety which aims to keep Japanese
laborers from coming and induce
those already present to go away.
The Anti Saloon League at La Junta
has filed petition asking that vote
be taken at the next election on the
question of making the city dry terri
tory
| In addition to new downtown club
/ house the Denver Motor club has Sc
cured a country club house about seven
miles south of the city for the coming
year
The Cassell Womans Christian TEN.
perance Union has opened a free read
ing room at 1851 Stout street in Den
yer and it is proposed to establish sew
eral others.
1t is anticipated in railroad circles
that one of the results of the acquisi-
tion of the Colorado & Southern by
the Burlington will be the purchase of
the Pullman shops in Denver by the
allied roads. 1t has been understood
that the shops are for sale.
The county commissioners of FL
Paso county have contracted for cases
to hold the permanent exhibit of the
Ell Paso County Horticultural Society
and the exhibit of the county which
was shown at the Worlds Fair in St
Louis. They will be placed in the ro-
tunda of the court house
J. F. Burris. veteran of the Civil
War, died at Golden on the 18th inst
at the age of eighty He served as
second lieutenant in the One Hundred
and Forty Ohio volunteers He
had lived the life of recluse at
Golden for twenty years. 1t is thought
he left wife in Clarksburg, Ohio.
On the night of the 18th inst. a pas
senser train on the Burlington ran
into d bunch of antelope two miles
from Virgins in Morgan county and
killed five. This makes about twelve
killed from this same band within two
weeks. There are about $50 in the
band, which ranges in the fields nine
miles west of Fort Morgan.
The Eastern Colorado Power Com
pany continues to increase the foI ce
employed on the great project on Mid
die Boulder creek and is pushing that
section of the work where concrete
will be employed in construction. in
order that the placing of the material
may commence as soon as freezing
weather is over in the spring.
The Colorado Springs and Cripple
Creek District Railway Company, op-
Grating The Cripnla I inc
has placed an order with the c. F. & |
Company for seventy-five-pound steel
rails sufficient to relay twenty-five
miles of track between Colorado
Springs and Cripple Creek The i'm.
provements will cost about $4,000.
The Great Western Sugar Company
computes that $4,000 tons of beets
were made into sugar at Greeley, TO-
600 tons at Eaton and $4,000 tons at
Windsor, or total of 20SO0O tons in
this district This made about 30, 800
tons of sugar or 51,600,00O pounds.
About half the sugar has been shipped
to the market and the other half
stored
The Colorado Telephone Company
will connect with the proposed Grover
line, eighteen miles east of Greeley
in the Crow Creek district The
Grover and Sligo private company. in
corporated for $4,000. will run lines
about thirty-five miles to the west and
connect with the Colorado Telephone
Company. A long distance exchange
will be established and all Weld
county will be covered by telephone.
In the United States Court at Den
YER. because he thought the defendant
mentally irresponsible, Judge Lewis
only imposed a fine of $25 and costs
against William Oates, wealthy Ar
vada farmer, convicted of sending OBJ.
scene letters through the mail to a
lady school teacher Although the case
was particularly obnoxious one,
Judge Lewis said that Oates apparent
mental effectiveness did not warrant
his being imprisoned.
Over 100000 acres OF government
land available for homestead entry in
Routt county are shown on plats of
the eastern end of the county being
published by the Moffat road. 1t is
the purpose of the railroad company
to reproduce this map in sections SO
that the homesteader can see it all at
a glance. The maps show subdivisions
down to forty-acre tracts and it is
planned to give them wide distribu-
ton.
The trustees of the Myron Stratton
home have filed petition in the Dis
trict Court at Colorado Springs ask
ing that they be allowed to qualify
for their duties Immediately and
setting forth that the estate is now in
shape to be delivered to them. Judge
Moses Hallett of Denver, who, under
the terms of the will, was named as
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