The Colorado statesman., 1909-10-09
STATE NEWS ITEMS

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F. o. b.
Phillip Griffith, an independent op'
orator, recently completed the deepest
hole ever drilled in the Florence oil
field. drilling 4,015 feet, but no oil was
struck.
Earl B. Weiser, drug clerk, recent
ly killed 250-pound cinnamon bear
while hunting deer near Turkey creek,
twenty-five miles southwest of, Colo
rado Springs.
The biggest crop of onions grown in
the Greeley district was harvested on
the Hoover ranch by Clarence Neill
and John Warren. Six acres yielded
1.500 sacks, worth $1,000.
The Portland Mining Company has
declared another quarterly dividend
of cents per share, payable October
18th. 1t totals 100000, and will bring
the amount paid in dividends to $S,-
347,0S0.
Driving their own terms, forty
women members of the Windsor I'm
provement Society, on the 5th inst I,
went to a grove south of Windsor and
celebrated the tenth anniversary of
the organization.
William Taylor. aged 1OS years. and
veteran of the Blackhawk Indian
war, Mexican war and civil war, re-
Gently applied for a situation as
watchman in the Capitol building at
Denver. The board of managers had
no vacant position at their disposal.
Officials of the Denver & Rio
Grande are said to be watching close
ly experiments being conducted by
other railroads in the use of gasoline
and electric cars for suburban serv-
ice, with view to installing one of
the two varieties ON the DenverLit-
Teton line.
At a meeting of the committee
which has in charge the Western
Slope Development Congress to be
held in Grand Junction November 11th
and 18th, it was decided to unite with
the Western Slope Stockmen's Asso-
citation, which meets about the same
time, and hold the meetings jointly.
An examination for teamster and
hostler in the government service will
be held in Denver October 2S by the
Board Of Labor Employment, room
13-A Federal building. Applicants will
be physically examined and rated ac-
cording to their ability to perform
heavy manual labor They must be
between the ages of 20 and CO.
. Sylvester Wilmoth, sheriff of Gar
field county, died at his home in Glen
wood Springs on the 9th inst, from
cancer OF the stomach. He was born
near Elkins, w. Va, fifty-eight years
ago. He came to Colorado in 1885 and
located in Breckenridge. Five years
later he located on ranch near New
Castle, where he made his home since.
That a lessee of a mining claim is
relieved from fulfilling the terms of
the lease when to do so would be un-
remunerative, was the ruling laid
down by Judge Allen in the District
Court at Denver, when he found for
the defendant in the suit brought by
Jacob and Henrietta Schloss against
the Western Mining Company of Lead
vile.
Approximately $4,000 acres of land
were sold by the State Land Board on
the 9Th inst. The sales were made
principally in small tracts, of which
about $500 acres were in Costilla
county. The lowest price obtained
was SO an acre, while two quarter-sec-
tions in Routt county brought $45 an
acre. Other lands sold were in Pueblo,
Rio Grande, Otero and Logan coun-
ties.
,nfa artfn teytn rn.
vival in the history of the Southwest
was recently closed at Durango by
Evangelist Oscar Lowry, assisted by
Soloist George Moody and Mrs. Moody,
who labored among the women and
young girls. The meetings lasted four
weeks and the large tabernacle, erect
ell especially for the purpose was
filled. The list of converts numbered
345, including men and women from
all walks of life, the great majority
being grown people.
Over $4,000 worth of crops have
been harvested from the Oasis ranch,
west of Grover, owned jointly by
Henry Thompson and Philip Brauck.
1t contains 1900 acres under cultiva-
ton and 10000 sacks of potatoes have
been harvested from ITS acres. From
500 acres $4,000 bushels of grain was
taken and 500 tons of alfalfa was cut
from the ranch. There will be 500
head of sheep and several hundred
cattle fattened for market this winter
on the " and grain grown on the
place.
BY reversing the decision of the
County Court in the case of l.. E.
Mergen versus the City and County of
Denver, the State Supreme Court de-
clared invalid the city ordinance re.
quiring butcher shops, meat markets