The Colorado statesman., 1909-05-01
COLORADO NEWS

At an election in Fort Morgan April
oath, $4,000 in bonds were voted for
new school buildings, one in town and
two in the country.
JUG James Garrigues at Greeley
has approved the petition for issuance
of 100000 in bonds by the Henry
Ign Irrigation district.
Denver is to try new preparation
to lay the dust and furnish a surface
to the macadamized roadways. 1t is
composed of asphalt, petroleum. soar
and water.
Governor Shafroth has appointed
George Lovett of La lara, water com
missioner for District No. 81, and John
=. Charles of Crestone, water commits
sioner for District No. %.
Vernon McKelvey, ranchman, has
begun the construction of a small
reservoir to cost $1,000 on his ranch
near Lucerne The water will be used
to irrigate 600 acres of land.
Former Adjutant General Buckley
Wells has been given recognition of
his services to the state by being
placed on the retired list, with the
rank of brigadier general.
The Greeley-Poudre Irrigating Com,
pany has given all desert and home
stead entrymen in it's district until
May 18th to sign formal contracts en-
titling them to come into the district.
At Colorado Springs April 10Th, the
bill of the late Gen. William j. Palmer
was admitted to probate on petition OF
the three daughters. The estate is
valued at upward of $5,0O0,O00, SO that
the three state appraisers provided for
by the law recently enacted by the
Legislature will shortly appraise the
property to fix the state inheritance
tax. This will approximate S340,000.
Two appointments have been made
and five retirements ordered in high
places in the Colorado National Guard.
Adjutant General John Chase, with
the approval of Governor Shafroth,
named Charles B. Carlisle, son of
James Carlisle, former state treasurer,
to be inspector general, and DIR. T. E.
Carmody to be surgeon general. The
appointments take effect at once.
Never in the history of northern
Colorado was there as much snow in
the foothills as now. Irrigationists
who have been investigating the depth
say streams will run bank-full by carly
summer, and fill every reservoir in the
entire region. In Estes Park and at
the headwaters of the Poudre snow is
banked five to ten feet deep in the
foothills and farther back it is twenty
to thirty feet deep.
The produce dealers of Weld county
have perfected an organization for the
purpose of sorting and grading all po-
tGtoes which leave the district, in or
der that the standard of shipments
nay be raised. About forty dealers
ere working together and the Farm6rS'
clubs are cooperating. They will ap-
point inspectors to look over each car
load of potatoes before it goes out, at
the expense of the dealers.
Arrangements have been completed
for a full distance amateur Marathon
race of twenty-six miles, 1856 yards,
over a quarter mile track at Union
park in Denver the second Saturday
in May. The race is under sanction
of the Amateur Athletic union and
will draw representatives of the Chi
cogo, Kansas City and ST. Louis Ath-
letic clubs, as well as runners from all
parts of the western country.
Governor Shafroth has signed S. B.
217, by Senator Irby, making it obliga-
tory for railway corporations which
have named their general headquar-
tiers in their articles of Incorporation,
if filed in Colorado, to keep them here
afterward. The bill is intended to pre-
vent the removal of the general offices
of the Colorado & Southern Railroad
Company from Denver by the Bur
lington, since it's absorption by that
road. 1t is applicable as well to other
roads coming under the provisions of
the act
Governor Shafroth has signed the
Drake-Jones bill allowing the forma-
ton of drainage districts upon the
same plan as irrigation districts He
has also signed the bill to create a
Board of Examining Architects, the
bill making the Colorado School for
the Deaf and Blind an educational in
stitution, the bill creating board of
Veterinary Examiners, the bill making
the surgeon of the penitentiary an Of
ficer appointed by the governor, and
the bill to facilitate the funding of
floating Indebtedness of municipali-
ties.
News has been received in Denver
from New York of continued illness in
the family of Bishop and Mrs. Henry
w. Warren. Upon their return from
Porto Rico, Miss Louise Tiff became
seriously i'll. She was taken 10 tbe