The new era., 1909-06-24
STATE NEWS ITEMS

Inc plOneeTS Oh Lue CACne II IOu-
dre valley will celebrate the Fourth OF
July with picnic at Lipdenmeier lake.
President Fisher Of the Colorado
Springs Chamber of Commerce has
appointed committee to raise funds
for the erection Of public monument
to the late Gen. w. j. Palmer.
Fifty homeseekers are travelling
daily via the Moffat road to Routt
county where 100000 acres of govern
ment land are now open to entry. They
come from the East and are from all
parts Of the United States.
The commercial value to Trinidad of
the new state highway was illustrated
when the Santa Fe reduced freight
rates between Trinidad and La Junta
from % cents to Is cents per hundred
weight. Teamsters had been making
contracts for hauling freight between
the two points at Is cents per hun
dred.
Boulder Elks have rendered the use
OF their building as headquarters for
the officers Of the grand lodge at the
state conclave of Knights Templar,
which will be held at Boulder the last
week in September. The home will
also be used as headquarters for the
State Realty Association, which meets
in July.
Contracts have been let to Fort Nor
gan home contractors for two two
room ward school buildings, each to
cost $500. This addition to the
school capacity will help accommodate
Fort Morgan's growing school popula-
ton, and two frame structures are to
be built outside the city limits, to meet
the requirements Of the rural district.
The old Presbyterian church at
Evans, used for eighteen years as a
saloon, until saloons were abolished
two years ago, is about to be restored
to its former dignity. Liquor signs and
parts of the bar remain in the build
ing. These are to be torn down, pull
pit built and the walls repaired by the
Presbyterian mission board
Seventeen governors of western
states and territories have promised to
be in attendance at the Trans-Missis-
sippi Commercial Congress at Denver,
August 10th to 21st. and four others
hope to come. Only one, Governor Gill
lett of California, has announced that
it will be impossible for him to attend.
Many cabinet officers, senators and
congressman are coming.
1t is now stated that a building to
cost $125,0OO will be built in Denver
by the Denver Chamber of Commerce
and the Colorado Traffic Club, the
idea Of erecting a building to house
jointly the five commercial organiza-
tions of the city, including besides the
two named, the Manufactures, asso-
citation, the State Commercial associa-
ton, and the Real Estate exchange,
having been abandoned.
The State Supreme Court has
handed down decision denying the
application of Henry E. Woklcke for
writ of supersedeas, which went up
from the District Court at Boulder,
which held that the election held in
Nederland April sth, when the town
voted to become anti-saloon territory,
was legal. The writ was applied for
in behalf of saloon which will now
be closed.
John H. Kinney, the first mayor of
Black Hawk, in 1s64-5, was recently
rendered a reception and banquet by
the Black Hawk City Council and a
number of old-timers, several Of whom
rode up from Denver to attend. The
honored guest was presented with
handsome gold-headed ebony cane, on
which was the inscription: Presented
to our first mayor, John H. Kinney,
Black Hawk, Colo"
County Judge Lille Of Ell Paso coun-
ty has appointed w. S. jackson, presi-
dent of the Ell Paso National bank, ap-
praiser of the Palmer estate to fix the
state Inheritance tax due, which is sup
posed to approximate 100000. The
last Legislature provided for state ap-
praisers, but Attorney General Barnett
has ruled that the law was not in force
when General Palmer died, and his es-
tate comes under the provisions of the
old law.
A call for Denver college graduates
who wish to take up philanthropy as
life work was received about month
ago by Miss Izetta George of the Den
yer Charity Organization Society from
DR.. Thomas ]. Riley, director of the St.
Louis School of Philanthropy endowed
by the late Russell Sage. and was pub
lished extensively. Although scholar
ships ranging from 5000 to $500 were
offered to Denver young people who
wished to take up the work, not a sin
gle response was received.
A Pine Grove Jefferson county, dis.
patch of the 7th inst, says: Heavy
rains that approached a cloudburst oc-
Cured this afternoon here and at Buff
falo park. as we'll as other points up
the Platte canon. Near Pine Grove one
or two wagon road bridges are reported
out and at Stone Snllr about loo foot