The Lamar register., 1909-04-07
COLORADO ITEMS

In July. The organization mas just
been holding a session in Birming-
ham. Ala.
The annual meeting of the State
Board of Agriculture will take place In
Fort Collins April 14th. A successor
to Pres. b. o. Aylesworth. resigned,
will be chosen, and matters relating
to the future policy of the institution
determined.
Miss Dorothy Palmer, second daugh-
ter of the late General w. J. Palmer.
will soon leave for England. 1t is I'M
derstood, where she will make an ex-
tended visit with friends. She returned
home with the general last fall, few
months before his death.
Samples of gray sandstone from the
Steamboat. Springs quarries were taken
to Denver recently to be sent to Wash
ington, the purpose being to have the
stone tested by. the supervising archi-
tect in order to see If the material is
suitable to go into the new federal
building.
The suit for water rights on Pixies
Peak between the city of Victor and
Colorado Springs will be tried at Pu-
eblo June 1st This case has been in
che courts over five years and has at
tracted much attention in the district
securing its water supply from the
Pixies Peak shed.
A new town to be known as Model
City" has been plated on the prop
erty of the Model Land and Irrigation
Company, twenty-five miles southeast
of Trinidad. 1t will be on the main
line of the Santa FEE and is the site OF
reservoirs now under construction,
which will irrigate 10000 acres.
The Fort Morgan correspondent of
The Denver Republican. under date of
March 31st. says: Denver parties have
leased the fishing rights on Jackson
Lake and today made their first large
catch. landing 1900 pounds in one
haul. mostly carp, bass and suckers.
They are being shipped to Denver.
Naval men now in Denver have per-
fected an organization to be known as
the Ernest w. weichart section of the
Navy league 1t was named in men,
DRY of Weichart, who. while an officer
of the navy, received fatal injuries in
an explosion on the battleship Missouri
in 1904. A. b. Frenzel is chairman.
On April End Henry T. West. eighty
three years old, president of the So
ciety of Union Colony Pioneers, began
his fortieth consecutive year of resi-
dence in Greeley. 1t was thirty-nine
years ago on that day that Mr.. West.
in company with n. C. Meeker and
General Cameron. selected the site of
Greeley.
The measurements of the deep drain
age tunnel made April 2nd show that
the following distances have been COW
cred since March 1st: From the por-
tai heading. $40 feet: north from the
intermediate shaft, 347 feet; south
from the shaft. 300 feet. Up to the
present time, 5,5S7 feet of driving has
been done from the portal and 1.s6s
from the intermediate shaft, making a
total of 1885 feet of work done along
the tunnel line.
Assistant District Attorney Purcell
at Colorado Springs is of the opinion
that under the law although thief
steal several hundred dollars worth Of
gold concentrates, he is guilty of petit
larceny only. II he takes away less
than $50 worth at a time. In this be-
lief he dismissed a charge of grand lar
ceny against l.. II. Harmon, accused of
stealing over $500 worth of ore from
the Portland mine. to file four separate
charges of petit larceny.
Within a few days work will prob
ably begin on the proposed improve
ments at Crystal park. above Manitou,
which will cost about 100000 and in
clude a large casino, automobile road
to Manitou. numerous summer cot
tages and hotel. The park was re-
Gently owned by John Hay. late secre-
tary of state. who wrote his Life of
Lincoln" while summering there. The
cabin in which he wrote the book will
be saved as a relic.
The Potter-Turkey Creek Reservoir
Company. in which r. X Potter, the
Tellers and other large land owners
are interested. has let a contract for
the construction of a reservoir on Tur-
key creek twenty miles northwest of
Pueblo, at n cost of 100000 to Olson
Bros. of Denver. The reservoir will
provide water for irrigating 1900 to
10000 acres of land in Pueblo county,
chiefly the Teller tract. Surveyors are
cutting this tract into small farms.
The Democratic club of Denver has
taken a five years lease on the large
and stately mansion of the late Sena-
tor n. p. Hill on Fourteenth street in
Denver. and has already moved into it,
Much of the furniture of the olden
days remains in the house, including
the thousand-dollar cut glass chande-
lier in the reception parlor. The fine
old library of 5000 well selected vol
umes remains intact, and every living
room has been fitted with a private
bath. SO that the ''unterrified" need
not include the great unwashed'
Isaac Newton Whitehead, the Oldest
man in Mesa county. and one of the
valleys best known citizens. died April
End on his ranch near the Indian
school. He came to the Grand valley
twenty years ago from Indiana. and
was one of the most prominent Repub-
licans in the county. Beginning with
1886 he had presided over every coun-
ty convention. He was ninety years
old.