The Julesburg grit-advocate., 1909-01-15
COLORADO NEWS

usueu at 1OOuTlCu, twenty uHeb SeoS
Of Fort Morgan.
Postmaster ID. E. Gray OF Greeley
has been re-appointed on the recon.
mendation OF Congressman BOnynge.
Game Warden Williams recently be
gan feeding $50 antelope held in .
pasture nine miles southwest of Fort
Morgan.
The work Of paving Main street in
Trinidad has been completed. Over
half a mile of asphalt was laid At .
cost Of $4,000.
The red light" district of Colorado
City was practically wiped out by
fire that occurred on the 9th inst. The
loss is estimated at from $4,000 to
100000.
The regents of the State University
have provided for the establishment OF
a summer laboratory In the mountains
near Boulder. to be conducted by the
department of biology.
On January 10th there will be an
auction sale of fourteen colts at the
government horse breeding station in
connection with the Agricultural col
lege at Fort Collins
There will be thirty pieces in the
newly organized brass band of the
State University at Boulder. The uni
form of the members will be gray.
adorned with gold braid.
District Judge Sheafor made perma-
nent his injunction restraining the city
Of Colorado Springs from building its
proposed public comfort station on Ne
vada avenue between Pixies Peak ave-
nue. and Kiowa street.
THE Colorado Irrigationists Asso-
citation" IL the name recommended for
an organization projected in Colorado,
which its promoters expect to launch
at a meeting to be held in Denver Jan
uary 10th. Mr.. F. c. Goudy is one Of
the leaders in the movement
As a result Of the complaints of the
insurance companies, the Denver Fire
and Police Board has ordered all cloth
signs removed from the business dis
trict. In the future a permit will be
required for any variety of signboard
erected within the city limits.
. DR.. Lowell H. Smith, prominent
Boulder county physician. died at his
home in Longmont on the 5th inst. at
the age Of seventy-six years. He for
merly served two terms as county
treasurer and was well known in po-
litical and Grand Army circles.
A series of union evangelistic meet
ings in charge Of six local pastors has
begun in Loveland. The plan Is to
carry on the campaign for five consec-
utfve weeks, holding services each
night during the week In one Of the
churches and in all on Sunday.
The Mesa County Fair Association
on the 9Th inst. elected ]. r. Went
worth Of Grand Junction, president;
b. F. Hughes. vice president, and Leon
J. Chapman, secretary. The date Of
the fair will not be fixed until after
the date of the Interstate Fair at Den
yer has been decided upon.
Following is the report that went
out from Trinidad on the 6tht inst:
Tonight SASS was sent by John Cara
bino, secretary of the committee col
lecting funds for the earthquake suf-
ferers. Nine hundred dollars was
sent last night and $50 the preceding
night. All was collected in this city
and it is expected over $1,000 will be
raised
OF the 10000 taxpayers in Weld
county. Bruce G. Eaton is said to pay
the most taxes, being assessed for
nearly $1,000 taxes on his lands in
Weld county alone, valued copserva-
lively at nearly 100000. comprising
$4,000 acres. The greater part of this
land is that which was taken up thirty
years ago by Eaton's father. Ex-Gov-
ernor B. H. Eaton.
Arthur Francis, of Cripple Creek,
secretary OF the ns-Mississippi Con-
gress. has gone to Washington for a
conference with Thomas F. Walsh and
other officers and directors of the con-
gress, on matters connected with the
coming convention in Denver. While
there he will present to President
Roosevelt copy de luxe of the pro-
ceedings of the last Trans Mississippi
Congress.
E. E. Mclaughlin, superintendent of
the Colorado Anti-Saloon League, has
accepted an offer of the New York
league TO assume charge of all political
and legislative work in the Empire
state. Mr.. Mclaughlin will not leave
until April to take up the duties Of his
new office. At the request of the
Colorado board. he will remain in Den.
yer until that time and conduct the
leagues work at the present session
of the Legislature.
Denver is to have near.skyscraper,
the Puget Sound Realty Association
having recorded lease for five lots
at the corner of Stout and Seven
teenth streets, opposite the Equitable
building, on which it is proposed to
erect u twelve-story fire-proof struc.
ture. The lease is for ninety-nine
years at rental of $4,000 to $50, ,OOO
yearly and is granted by tho Tptorno