The Colorado statesman., 1909-11-20
COLORADO ITEMS


Pueblo has been completed and fur
nished. The house was built to re-
place the one burned and cost about
$4,000
The assessed valuation of El Paso
county is $22,265,240, according to an
official statement issued by Assessor
Schneider. This is s235,000 more than
last year.
The Southwestern Coal Company
has completed a switch to the Colo
fado G. Southern road and opened its
mine near Aguilar, with fifty miners.
The force will be increased.
The Rev. William Couden. son OF
the chaplain of the United States Sen
ate, has accepted call to the pasto-
rate of the First Universalist church
at Colorado Springs.
A. NJ. Plumb thinks that the Gree
ley district is adapted to breeding
blooded sheep. Over 500 Shropshire
ewes and bucks have been sold at $l5
head this year by Mr.. Plumb whose
breeding farm is three miles east OF
Greeley. The lambs sold were born
last spring and were purchased for
the large sheep ranches in Montana
Wyoming and New Mexico.
Sister Superior Kunigunda, who has
been connected with st. Francis hos
pital at Colorado Springs since its
erection, twenty-five years ago, and IN
charge of the institution for nine
years, has been transferred to Denver
to become sister superior at st. An
thongs hospital. She will be sue
ceeded at Colorado Springs by Sister
Superior Emerentia, who has been IN
the hospital fifteen years.
State Game and Fish Commissioner
Thomas Holland has received
unique souvenir that he is utilizing as
a penholder on his desk. 1t is the
skull of large gray wolf that was
killed sixteen miles north of De Beque
few days ago by George Newton
The specimen is one of the largest
ever killed in the state and the ami
nal had a record of having destroyed
large number of cattle and sheep.
The proposal to consolidate three
outlying school districts in Mesa
county was carried by a good major
ity and immediate action will be
| taken to bond the consolidated dis
trict and raise $4,000 for a new
school building. The site has been
selected Mesa county, according to
statistics recently compiled, has
larger percentage of children of
school age attending school than any
other part of the state.
Thirteen gambling machines of va
rious makes and kinds were demol-
ished a few days since by the sheriff
of Boulder county. These machines
were collected by Sheriff Capp in
raid on various poolrooms and saloons,
the proprietors of which appeared IN
District Court and made plea of non
contendere, which was accepted by the
| court and Deputy District Attorney
O'Connor on condition that the costs
be paid and the machines destroyed
Lack of funds to continue the con-
strucetion of the new state highway
between Canon City and Colorado
| Springs may delay the work, according
to letter received by the Ell Paso
county commissioners from Warden
lyman of the penitentiary, who was
permitted several score of convicts to
do the work. The legislative appropri-
alton is tied up in the fifth class OF
the state funds. Possibly the Good
Roads Association may help to raise
| the needed money.
Another record in apple raising is
reported from the vicinity OF Denver.
David Peabody, with ranch in Lake
wood, two miles from the Denver city
limits, raised and marketed 1000
boxes from thirteen acres, and if he
had cared to assert the product care
| fully, believes that he could have av-
eraged 81 per box for the entire crop.
AS it was he got rs cents per box at
wholesale, making the value of the
crop in the neighborhood of $4,000.
The Portland Cement Company has
u force of twenty-five men and ten
teams at work four miles west of Coal
dale in the western part of Fremont
county, grading a narrow gauge rail'
road from Valley station to the corn
panys gypsum mine, a distance nf
21h miles. The work is in charge ~
City Engineer A. B. McFall OF tlor'
ence. The cost of the road Will De
$4,000, the heavy cost being due u
a railroa1 bridge that must be con-
structed.
The annual report of the Denver
Jewish hospital made most credita-
BILE showing at the annual meeting OF
the National Jewish Hospital Associa-
ton held in New York 1t was shown
that while ten years ago the death
rate was 7.S per cent, it has now been
reduced to 3-S per cent. Since the