The Colorado statesman., 1909-01-30
STATE NEWS ITEMS

Boulder county reports winter
wheat in perfect condition
Bids for the Denver pioneers mon
ument will be opened February list.
Fort Collins business men will bore
for oil five miles south of that city.
Fort Collins will ask for the next
| years Y. M C. A. state convention.
The dead body of A. Johnson was
found in ditch near Firestone We'd
nesday.
F. w. Schroeder, druggist at Wind
sor, was fined 5000 and costs for sell
liquor without license. And he paid
it, too.
On Wednesday Congressman Bon
ynge recommended to the President
the appointment of Marshall Moore
as postmaster at Fort Collins.
The Latimer Chemical Company with
a capital stock of s5OOOO will erect
factory at Grand Junction for the man
ufacture of an acid spray
The State University Young Wom-
ems Christian Association is making
plans to erect a handsome association
house on or near the university cam
pus at Boulder
| The Colorado Springs G Interurban
Railroad Company will build 100000
extension to the Union Printers Home
and new Protestant hospital in the
same vicinity.
The Eastern Colorado Power Com
! pany is continuing to add from 10 to
80 men daily to its forces engaged in
building its big conduit on Middle
| Boulder creek.
e. L. Rittenhouse, formerly commits
| sioner of insurance of Colorado has
/ been formally announced as the new
| president of the Provident Savings Life
/ Assurance Society of New York.
| The Fort Morgan Chamber of Com
merce will try to secure the location
in that city by the Legislature of the
| proposed new home for the feeble
minded.
A half grown coyote. which had
crept into the hencoop. was killed with
brick by II. II. Wister of Colorado
City Monday morning as the animal
was chewing a squ:wking chicken.
A recent test OF the propeilers to be
used in flying machine invented by
j. NJ. Cage at Denver, though inter
rupted by an accident, is claimed to
have shown that the propellers will
furnish abundance of power to lift and
propel the machine.
The Modern Woodmen national sani-
tarium in Colorado Springs may EN-
brace the largest tent colony in the
world, as result of action by big
camps of that order in this country in
subscribing money for maintenance OF
tents at the colony. Several Chicago
Modern Woodmen camps recently gave
/ $3.50 each for that purpose.
At a meeting in Pueblo the Elks
Reunion Association of Colorado Sc
lected as the date for the annual
gathering next October 18th. 18th and
14th, in Pueblo The committee
changed a custom which has hither-
to been followed in having the state
| gatherings before the national conven-
| tions of the lodge and the one this
year will be in the fall some time
after the meeting at Los Angeles.
AT Pueblo Sunday Clarence j. Stet-
son, aged fifty-seven years, a promi-
nent Democrat and president of the
Arkansas Valley club, was found dead
in bed at 6 o'clock in the morning by
his little son, with whom he was sleep
ing. Mr.. Stetson was employed for
years as chief engineer of the Pueblo
water works, having come to Pueblo
in 1874. He was formerly chairman of
the Democratic county central com
mittee and was active in politics.
Rear Admiral Robley d. Evans, re-
tired, known all over the country as
Fighting Bob" will give a lecture at
Colorado Springs probably March 10th,
under the auspices of an Eastern Ly-
ceum bureau, on From Hampton
Roads to San Francisco in Command
of the Atlantic Fleet" Mrs. Nina Il.
Zevely of Colorado Springs is sister
of Admiral Evans. The Admiral is
scheduled to lecture in the Denver Au-
ditorium March Sth.
1t was learned that w. w. Bryan is
the real name of the man who died at
Colorado Springs recently from a hem
orrhage of the brain as a result of a
fall. He was born near Denver forty
seven years ago and participated in
many Indian fights. His mother,
brother and sister, were killed in an
Indian raid, and Bryan. then two years
old, was taken by settlers to Denver,
where he grew to early manhood. He
lived nearly all his life in this state.
No relatives have been found
c. & N. w. Waiting for Spring.