The Colorado statesman., 1909-11-13
COLORADO NEWS

d. T.. WOOu mas Deen appointed as
sistant secretary of the Colorado Pris-
on Association. He was formerly gen
eral secretary of the organization for
New Mexico.
Chief Buckskin Charley and mem
bers of his band of Southern Ute In
dians have been secured for the semi
centennial celebration at Boulder,
November Gath and 25th.
The Riverside ranch, of 400 acres,
SIX miles north of Brush, owned by
George Swain. has been sold to Oil
yer Holton of Bradyville, Iowa. The
ranch is valued at $4,000.
Governor Shafroth has appointed
Mrs. Sarah Platt Decker of Denver
delegate to the National Civic con-
gress which is to be held in Carnegie
hall, New York City, December 10th.
A new spring, giving a large flow
of water. was recently opened ten
feet east of the Mansions hotel in
Manitou. The spring was tapped at
dept of 225 feet, and the water will be
piped into the hotel.
The County Commissioners of Pueb.
10 county estimate that $4,000 dam
age was done roads and bridges by the
storms of last summer. 1t is serious
because it is nearly double the
amount usually spent annually on
roads and bridges. The county this
year has $4,000 for this purpose.
Another increase has been made in
the price of milk at Cripple Creek
and now the consumers get only eight
quarts for dollar in the place of ten.
Hereafter no cream will be sold in
the city by dairymen, as a recent ordi-
nance forbids the sale of SKINNED
milk and dairymen say they will not
skim milk for cream and throw the
milk away.
F. A. Maxwell, mining engineer, has
been notified by the state engineer
that he was the successful bidder for
construction of the road around
Green lake, six miles above George
town, and work has begun. When
completed the road will be six miles
long and Naylor lake, one of the beau
ty spots of Colorado, and full Of fish,
can be reached by wagon.
Mrs. Izetta George, for twenty-one
years secretary of the Denver Charity
Organizations Society, who recently
resigned on account of i'll health, has
received an extremely flattering let
ter from the officers of the society,
which says: I'VE cannot say all the
kind things we would say lest you
should blush and those who do not
know you should say that we exag-
gerate.'
Mrs. Ella Palmer, mother of the
wife of former Judge Charles ID. Hayt,
the only woman, with one exception,
who went to the front with the Con-
federate army, died on the 7th inst. at
| the Boulder sanitarium at Boulder,
where she had been patient for five
| months With another woman, be-
] fieved to have died several years ago,
Mrs. Palmer organized the hospital
corps of the Army of the Tennessee.
Wednesday, the 11th inst, was pay
day in the Cripple Creek district and
it is estimated that over $350,000 was
paid to men employed in the mines,
mills and sampling plants. The books
of the Cripple Creek Mine Owners q
Operators Association show between
3,2OO and $500 members at work, and
with the average daily wage scale, IN
Guiding that paid machine drill men
and shift bosses, S3.40 per day, the es-
innate of the amount distributed, Is
conservative.
The reconstruction of the Cliff
House in Manitou sees the passing
of the old original house, which was
erected in 1874, and came into posses
sion of the late E. E. Nichols two
years later, being under the manage
ment of his son, E. e. Nichols, for the
last thirty-three years. The Cliff will
be. when completed, the largest resort
hotel in the state, having in all 2OO
rooms and sc private baths. 1t
will have a frontage of 410 feet and
will be four stories high.
The State Veterinary Examining
Board will hold another examination
the last of January. the date to be an
nounced later, for graduates and non
graduates who were not able to take
the last one. 1t is suggested by the
board that all those who wish to con-
tinue in the practice of veterinary
medicine and surgery after this exam
ination make application to the secre-
tary of the Board of Examiners FOR
blanks, ETC., as there will not be held
another examination for long time,
and as the law for the non-graduates
goes into effect rigidly on Jan. 24th,
it will pay those who are interested to
make application as soon as possible.
The following named delegates have
been appointed by Governor Shafrotn
to attend the National Civic Fedora
ton conference on uniform legislation
in the states: William H. Smiley,
Denver; Mrs. Mary C. c. Bradford,
Denver: John T. Barnett, attorney