The Colorado statesman. [volume] (Denver, Colo.) 1895-1961, 1909-04-24
COLORADO ITEMS


has organized baseball team at Brush
and will play series of games with
other teams of eastern Colorado.
pie company in Denver has in
stalled an expensive motor-driven de-
livery wagon, dispensing with the serv-
ices of six horses.
M. Craffey has begun the erection in
Denver of the largest broom factory
west of the Missouri river, represent
ing an investment of 100000.
Leadville bakers held a conference
and decided to raise the price of bread
from four loaves for a quarter TO three
Ioaves for a quarter, owing to the in
creased price of flour.
George K. Hart, a Rio Grande engi-
neer, has brought suit at Pueblo for
$4,000 damages against the road Tor
injuries he alleges he received in Au-
gust. 1907. on the Celtic branch.
At a special election April goth Hugo
voted for incorporation by a majority
OF 81. Hugo will be the first and only
Incorporated town in Lincoln county
since its organization, twenty years
ago.
A memorial has been received from
the Democrats and citizens of La
Plata county by Governor Shafroth,
deploring and regretting the failure of
the last Legislative Assembly to pass
the Democratic platform measures and
petitioning him to call an extra ses-
sion.
State Printing Commissioner George
Hosmer announces that the bill for
printing during the last legislative ses-
sion amounted to s29,133.27. 1t cost
1882 to print the report of the Bar
ela-Beshoar contest. The largest item
in the bill was $500, for 1000 ready
reference files.
Practically every member of the
Colorado City Council, including the
mayor, is veritable giant Mayor T.
d. Armstrong is more than six feet
tall, Alderman Green1ce stands six
feet one inch in his stocking feet, AL
derman Sheetz is another siX-footer,
and Alderman Thrasher weighs 235
pounds.
Twenty-Five thousand dollars will be
offered for prizes by the Chamber of
Commerce of Denver and other COM
mercial bodies for the Colorado Ma
tional Apple Exhibition to be held in
the Auditorium from December 9th to
18th, according to Secretary Clinton
L. Oliver of the Colorado State Horti-
cultural Society.
An order sent out by the Grand
Army of the Republic has set aside
May 9th as White Carnation day. On
that Sunday each member of the or
ganization will wear the flower in
memory of the mothers who bore their
part in the great Civil War. Moth
ers' memorial services will be held in
many churches of the state.
The University of Denver has com
pleted arrangements for two important
football games next fall; namely with
the University of Nebraska, which will
be played in Denver Saturday, Novem-
Der 20, instead of Saturday, November
10 as was previously announced, and
with Colorado College on Thanks-giv-
ing day, the same as last season.
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 interior department has with
drawn from entry as homestead or des-
ert claims all land in township / to 10
north, in ranges GA to 50 west, some
thing like forty-eight townships, TAX
ing in a considerable part of Weld
county. The land is withdrawn on ac-
count of alleged coal and oil discov-
cries. The restrictions may be re-
moved or made permanent, according
to the results of the government in
vestigation now under way.
The State Land Board at its meet
ing April 21st declined to donate 300
acres of state land to the Toltec Canal
Company, which had been appropri-
ated by the company's predecessor,
the old Taos Valley Irrigation Com
pany. The board informed Mr. Clark,
attorney for the company, that his
company would probably lave to pay
at least $40 an acre for the land, and
in addition guarantee water to settlers
on state land at a fixed low charge.
A delegation of Durango business
men recently called upon General Man
ager Schlacks of the Denver & Rio
Grande and discussed the passenger
and freight situation. They asked
that the company give Durango bet
ter service, saying that during the
summer the narrow-gauge road is I'M