The Colorado statesman., 1909-08-14
COLORADO ITEMS


City.
The total net assessed valuation of
Pueblo county for 1909 is s26,740.,
9S9.0l. The valuation for 1908 was
$26,S23, ,639.
One thousand laboring men expect
to leave Colorado Springs in special
train September 9th to attend the La
bor day celebration at Pueblo.
The annual conference of the Meth
odist church of Colorado will be held
at Pueblo the first week In Septem-
ber.
Three cups will be given by the
Denver Chamber of Commerce to
Colorado dry farmers exhibiting at the
Dry Farming Congress at Billings,
Mont, in October.
On Friday night, August goth, the
city of Denver will give an elaborate
display of fireworks at the City Park
in honor of the delegates to the Trans
mississippi Congress.
The interior of the Denver Audtto-
rum is to be elaborately decorated at
large expense. 1t is planned to have
the work completed and the new
$4,000 drop curtain hung before Presi-
dent Tafts visit in September.
On receiving news of the death Of
Robert NJ. Womack, Mayor Van Til
borg of Cripple Creek issued a procla-
nation calling for all flags in the city
to be placed at half mast in honor of
the memory of the Father of Cripple
Creek"
The work of cutting down the grade
at Dead Mans hill, just south of
Palmer Lake, has been completed,
thus reducing to minimum the dan
ger to automobilists. The cost was
borne jointly by the county commits
sioners of Ell Paso county, the Colo
rado Springs Automobile Club and the
trustees of Palmer Lake
The directors of the Conejos Co.
Operative Mills Manufacturing Com
pany met at Conejos few days since
and voted to build a mill in Antonito
to replace the old mill which burned
at Conejos June &c. The company has
it's water plant at Conejos and will
operate the new mill by electricity, as
it has the contract to furnish Antonito
with electricity.
At Lafayette on the 10th inst, after
heated discussion over a resolution
introduced by Delegate L. d. Hosman
of the Denver Typographical Union,
lasting several hours, the State Fed
GRAFTON of Labor convention refused
to go on record as indorsing the So
cialistic party or the organization of
new political party, by vote of
so to IL.
The action of the directors of the
Nile irrigation district. comprising
some $4,000 acres in the vicinity of
| Virgins, in the western end of Nor
gan county, in making contract with
the Colorado Irrigation & Construction
Company of Denver for the construc-
ton of bitches and series of twelve
reservoirs, has been ratified by the
resident land owners by vote of 9
to 1.
Clinton S. Oliver, secretary of the
Colorado Horticultural Society, has re-
ceived telegram from the National
Apple Shippers Association, announc-
ing that the convention of the associa-
tion, recently held in Buffalo, voted to
donate silver cup as prize for one
of the exhibits at the Colorado Ma
tional Apple exhibition, to be held in
Denver the second week in January.
1t is thought that a skeleton found
in the mountains in California recent
ly is that of William Sellwood, son
of Mrs. B. NJ. Wilson of Greeley, who
has not been heard from for four
years. A letter written by Mrs. Will
son, dated August IS, 1908, was found
near the bones and was the only clew
which the officers have to work on.
Four years ago Sellwood was at Salt
Lake.
The sale of 11,3524l acres of dry
land in Weld county from the estate
of an Illinois man to w. l.. Cornett
of Denver is reported. The considera-
ton was $4,000, and the land is fif-
teen miles east of Greeley. 1t is un-
derstood that steps have been taken
preliminary to irrigating this land,
and it is expected to be the home of a
large colony of Illinois people in the
next five years.
At an election on the 10th inst. in
the proposed irrigation district of Lin
coin county to take in about 10000
acres south of Limon and to be
known as the Big Sandy Irrigation
district, it was decided to bond the
district for $25O,0OO to carry out the
project. AS soon as the bonds are
disposed of, work will commence, and
it is thought it will be completed in
time to water next seasons crops.
Seven persons were seriously hurt
and large number of others sus-
tanned bruises in the wreck of the
Missouri Pacific passenger train No. 2.
one mile east of Avondale, Pueblo
county, on the Sth. inst. The smoking