The Colorado statesman., 1909-12-11
COLORADO NEWS


The Colorado State Realty Dealers
Association will hold its quarterly con-
vention at Colorado Springs, January
10Th and goth.
A contract for the construction of
the new Odd Fellows temple in Colo
RADIO Springs has been let for the sum
of $4,000.
Denver's fire loss for the eleven
months closing December l was $34i,-
900, according to the reports OF the
fire wardens
Harry Mulnix of Denver, expert ac-
countant, is to audit the books OF
Prowers county, some of which have
not been audited since the formation
of the county twenty years ago.
After trial before Judge Robert e.
Lewis in the Federal Court at Denver,
John II. Fluckey of Rifle was found
not guilty of sending obscene matter
through the mails. The jury found
speedy verdict of acquittal.
Asserting that certain of their rates
for hauling coal are unjust, unreason-
able and exorbitant," the recently in
orado has filed suits in the office of
the State Railroad commission against
the Colorado G. Southern, the Atchi-
son, Topeka G. Santa F'e and the Den
yer & Rio Grande railroads.
One of the features of the forthcom-,
ing Colorado National Apple show to
be held at the Auditorium in Denver,
Jan. 1915, will be the sixth annual
convention of the Western Fruit Job
bers' Association, which will be held
in Denver, Jan. 5, and Z. The asso-
citation has 225 members, and practi-
cally all are expected to be in attend
ance.
State Engineer Comstock has called
for bids for construction of the Den
ver-Golden boulevard, to be opened
December 18th. Approximately $685.
600 will be spent in building first
class macadam boulevard between
Denver and Golden. The last Legis-
lature appropriated $4,000 and citizens
of jefferson county have raised over
$4,000.
At a recent meeting of the Colorado
Manufacturers Association in Denver
the following officers were elected;
President, Thomas E. Williams, vice
president of the Lindquist Cracker
Company; first vice-president, A. F.
Austin of the Austin Candy Company;
second vice-president, ]. Yetter; treas
n-er, A. F. Austin; secretary, S. M.
Vaughn.
State Auditor Roady Kenehan's con-
tention that the salary appropriation
for the long term covers the entire
twelve months of the fiscal year, and
that all salaries drawn during the term
between November 30th and April list
must be deducted from the appropria-
ton passed subsequent to the latter
date, is upheld by Attorney General
John T. Barnett.
The election at La Junta of two di.
rectors for the Otero Irrigation dis
trict, on the south side of the Arkan-
sas river, was hotly contested and re-
suited in victory for Frank Taylor in
the first district and N. w. Mcintyre
in the third. The directors in the sec
ond district hold over. The directors
will now go ahead with the bond issue.
improve the canal and build an addi-
tional reservoir.
BY far the largest and most expen-
sive reservoir ever planned for north
ern Colorado is that proposed by John
T. Warren of Greeley, and others, to
make which a great dam will be
thrown across the Platte river at the
Narrows, about six miles below We'll
don, and 100000 acres in Morgan,
Logan and Washington counties will
be provided with irrigation at cost
of s11, 100000.
After three years of work, in which
several miners have taken their lives
in their hands, a shot fired at o'clock
p. m. on the Sth inst, in the breast of
the Burleigh tunnel, made an opening
which is draining the famous Seven
Thirty shaft on the Dives-Pelican and
seven-Thirty mining property in up-
cer Clear Creek, and virgin property
on the Seven-Thirty 300 feet deep and
more than a mile long above the tun-
mel can now be worked.
Within the next three months the
people of Denver and visitors will see
real airship in operation, If the plans
of Joseph H. McDuffee, the automo-
bilist and aeroplanist, materialize into
a reality. BY January 10th full size
5O-horsepower Fisher flying machine
will be in Denver and shortly after
that Overland Park will be the scene
of the first airship exhibition in the
West. The machines are manufactured
in Indianapolis and are of the aero
plane type.
Colorado's fairest maidens will be
seen congregated for several days
when the states national apple expo
sition opens at the auditorium on
January 8. There will be twenty
five of these young women candidates
for the honor of queen of the apple
show" the voting contest for which