The Colorado statesman., 1909-01-16
COLORADO NEWS

"A new postoIIlce has been eStab-
lished at Goodrich, twenty miles west
of Fort Morgan.
The red light" district of Colorado
City was practically wiped out by
fire that occurred on the 9th inst. The
loss is estimated at from $4,000 to
$4,000.
The Cassell Woman's Christian Tenn
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.
The regents of the State University
have provided for the establishment of
summer laboratory in the mountains
near Boulder, to be conducted by the
department of biology.
There will be thirty pieces in the
newly organized brass band of the
State University at Boulder. The uni
form of the members will be gray,
adorned with gold braid.
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-ninth Ohio volunteers He
had lived the life of a recluse at
Golden for twenty years. 1t is thought
he left a wife in Clarksburg, Ohio.
On the night of the 18th inst pas
senger train on the Burlington ran
into d bunch of antelope two miles
from Virgins in Morgan county and
killed five. This makes about twelve
Il
weeks. There are about $50 in the
band, which ranges in the fields nine
miles west of Fort Morgan.
OF the 10000 taxpayers in Weld
county, Bruce G. Eaton is said to pay
the most taxes, being assessed for
nearly $1,000 taxes on his lands in
Weld county alone, valued conserva-
lively at nearly 100000, comprising
$4,000 acres The greater part of this
land is that which was taken up thirty
years ago by Eaton's father, EX-Gov-
ernor B. H. Eaton.
Miss Lila Rogers, nurse from New
York, has arrived at Pueblo and taken
up a new work in the South Side
schools. Miss Rogers, who originated
after the health of the 5000 school
children in district 20. She makes
regular rounds of the different schools,
examining every child for infectious
and contagious diseases.
An extensive military parade is be-
ing planned at Denver for the Centen-
nial celebration of Lincoln's birthday
nr, EnI i,,,r
will be held in the Auditorium, at
which Mayor Speer will preside, the
principal speakers being Gov. John f.
Shafroth, Joseph F. Tuttle, Jr., Harper
Orahood and Sarah Platt-DeclIer.
Stores will be closed from 80 to 400
p. m.
The $4,000 project of Dr. F. p. Lon
ergan of Evans, Courtney Washing
ton of Greeley and Hanley A. Calvert
of Denver to reclaim 10000 acres of
desert land lying forty miles east of
Greeley, in the neighborhood of Keota,
has taken definite form. All reports,
surveys, etc, were approved by the
government and company has been
Incorporated under the name of the
Pawnee Irrigation Land Company to
carry out the enterprise.
A petition has been largely signed
addressed to the railroad corpora
tions operating in the Cripple Creek
district, asking a reduction in freight
rates to valley points on low grade ore.
1t is shown by the petition that the
tonnage from the distrist has been ma
terially increased by the maintenance
of low treatment rates by the reduction
companies, and the railroads are asked
to make a rate of so cents a ton on
ores running SIS a ton or under and rs
cents ton on ores graded from SIS to
SIS per ton.
Samuel Patterson Gutshall, who died
in Denver on the 18th inst, was one
of the pioneers of Denver. Gutshall
came to Colorado in 1866, driving an
OK team from Leavenworth, Kan, and
has been since actively identified with
the business life of the state. He had
lumber yards in Colorado Springs,
Leadville, Grand Junction, Delta and
Pueblo, and had lived in Denver for
a number of years. Mr.. Patterson was
a member of the Byron l.. Carr post
of the G. A. R. of Denver and was a
thirty-second degree Mason, Shriner
and a Knight Templar
The electoral vote of Colorado was
cast at Denver on the 11th inst. for
William j. Bryan and John w. Kern,
as Democratic candidates for President
and vice president of the United
States The formality was observed in
the secretary of states office, those
participating being the electors and
Chief Justice R. W. Steele, who ad-
ministered to them their oaths of Of