The new era. (Walden, Colo.) 1906-19??, 1909-03-18
COLORADO ITEMS

city central committee has set March
18th as the date of the city convention.
The primaries will be held on Satur-
day. March 18th.
The City Council of Canon City has
elected George r. Tanner as mayor to
fill the unexpired term of Mayor A. Fl.
Seeley, resigned, the latter having re-
moved to Denver.
The Fort Collins Pioneer Association
will purchase the first permanent
building erected in Fort Collins. 1t is
an old log cabin which at one time
served as hotel.
The women members of the chorus
of 1000, which will sing at the Gypsy
Smith revival meetings at the Audi
forum in Denver will wear white shirt
waists and the men white waistcoats.
Attorney T. j. Leftwich, who shot
William Austin last summer on Col
orado & Southern train, will be put on
trial again March END at Fort Collins
His last trial resulted in hung jury
A herd of thirty-five tame antelope
is curiosity on the John Painter
ranch at Rogger in Weld county. The
early SHOWS last fall drove the animals
into the ranch for food and they have
been cared for all winter with the cat
tie on the ranch.
The annual interstate debate be-
tween the Universities of Colorado and
Kansas will take place at Lawrence,
Kansas, on March 25th Arrangements
are already under way for the Colo
rado-Texas debate which will occur
sometime in May.
The Gill-Decker Improvement Com
pany has been organized. capitalized
Mt $4,000, to plat the townsite of Gill.
eight miles northeast of Greeley on the
new extension of the Union Pacific.
The town promises to become an i'm
portant shipping point.
Among the younger branches of
study and personal training that are
being developed in the University OF
Colorado is the Department of Oratory
and Dramatic Expression. This de-
partment has charge OF the very sue
cessful Dramatic Club.
Eighty million passengers were car
ried on the cars of the Denver City
Tramway Company during the fiscal
year ending February IL, 1909. This
IS an increase of 100000 over the
previous year, indicating the rapid
growth of the city.
Writing to the Mining Journal, Lon
don, England, Thomas Tonge, the noted
Denver newspaper correspondent,
says: From personal knowledge of
Leadville since 1888, and of present
conditions there, the writer believes all
indications are that the child is not yet
born who will live to see Leadville
played out as profitable mining dis
trict."
The Reverend and Mrs. R. ].
Van Valkenburg celebrated their six
ty-sixth wedding anniversary at their
home in Greeley on the LIST inst
The Reverend Mr.. Van Valken
burg enjoys the distinction of being
the Oldest Odd Fellow in Colorado
and for thirty-one years has OBLIGATED
as chaplain at every session of the
grand lodge. The couple were mar
ried in New York in 1S43.
A load dumping apparatus that is In
big demand among sugar factories is
the cause OF suit for $4,000 damages
instituted by Timothy Carroll of Cali
fornia against Merritt l. futile, one Of
the wealthiest sugar beet growers in
FIT. Morgan. Carroll claims to be the in
ventor of the apparatus and alleges
that futile has been using it in his
factory without permission.
Fearing that their bill will be- tabled
during the rush of the closing days Of
the legislature, the Fremont Count,
Roads Association, which is asking ar
appropriation of 5000 from the state
for macadamized driveway between
Fremont county points and Colorado
Springs, has decided to send one of iis
members to Denver to lobby In the in
terests OF the bill. The object Of this
driveway is to draw tourists from Colo
RADIO Springs.
Local option is expected to cut quite
figure in the coming Pueblo city cleo
tion Petitions have been filed will
the clerk by the anti-saloon people ask
ing for local option elections in the
First, Second Fifth. Seventh ant
Eighth wards. Petitions are now being
circulated in the Fourth and petitions
have also been filed asking for cleo
tions in two precincts In both the
Fifth and Eighth wards.
w. H. Kincaid, general superinten
dent of the state fish hatcheries under
Governor Buchtel, has applied to the
United States government for a LEAST
of the Grand Mesa lake on Grand Mesa
Mr.. Kincaid announces that if he car
secure a lease on the property for al
least ten years he will stock the lake
With a number of varieties of trout
Ind permit people to fish there durine
the open season. During the rest Of
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