The Springfield herald., 1909-06-25
STATE NEWS ITEMS

the Denver, Boulder q western mas
been established, after blockade OF
over five months by snow
The State Normal Schoo! and the
Greeley Commercial Club viii arrange
daily excursions from Denver to Gree
ley during the five days of the y. o. y.
convention at Denver.
A contract has been awarded by the
Colorado Fuel & Iron Company for
construction of twenty new concrete
houses at Coal Creel, and work will
be started at once. They will cost
10000
Fred Lombard of Colorado Springs
has been named by Governor Shafroth
for the post of water commissioner OF
the tenth irrigation district, one OF
the most important districts within III
Paso county.
The Hawkeye Club of Denver will
hold an outdoor meeting sometime ear
ly in July at Denver. w. w. Grigss,
1912 California street. Denver, is chair
man and wishes to hear from all Iowa
people now in this state.
The Fremont and Ell Paso county
surveyors are laying out the new
boulevard between Colorado Springs
and Canon City. AS soon as the sur
vey is finished work on the road Will
be started by the convicts.
James T. Egan of Denver plans to
reclaim 1900 acres of desert land in
the extreme eastern part of Weld
county by the building of two small
reservoirs. Each will have capacity
of 100000 cubic feet.
A deal involving 5000 acres of valu-
able land in Broadmoor, a suburb of
Colorado Springs, is being negotiated,
| 1t is said, for the purpose of locating
thereon the Myron Stratton Home for
the Poor, provided for in the will OF
the late Winfield Scott Stratton.
The county commissioners of Las
Animas county have appropriated
$4,000 for completing the state high
way north and south through the
county by the employment of convict
labor. This makes over $4,000 given
by citizens and taxpayers for the road.
A recent report says that Lawn
Lake, in Black Canon, only fifteen
miles from the village of Estes Park,
is frozen to a depth of four feet and
snowbanks are deep around it. This
condition at this season of the year
has not been known before in the his
tory of the park.
At recent meeting of the Boulder
county commissioners $500 was appro-
priated to the commercial organiza-
tions of the county, $3.50 going to Boul-
der. 5000 to Longmont, 800 each to
Louisville and Lafayette, and $50 to
Lyons. One-half of this amount is pay
able now and the other half in Novem-
ber.
Professor o. B. Whipple, for many
years in charge of the State Agricul-
tural experiment station of the West
ern slope, has resigned. He has ac-
cepted a similar position with the Mon
tana Agricultural College at Bozeman,
Mont. He will be succeeded at Grand
Junction July 1st by George p Wei
don.
A beautiful oil painting of Gen. U. S.
Grant, made from life while he was
President, and a portrait of eX-Gov
Routt of Colorado were recently pre-
sented to the State Historical depart
ment in the Capitol building in Den
yer on behalf of the Routt family.
Both of the pictures are artistically
framed.
From all states in the Union stu
dents are arriving to attend the State
Normal summer school at Greeley, and
indications are that the attendance
will reach 600. Fifty teachers will
come from the schools of st. Joseph
Mo-, and as many from the Indian Ter
ritory. A delegation has already ar
rived from Memphis, Tenn, and Louis
lana will send twenty-five students.
A Water Consumers Protective AS
sociation has been formed in Denver
for the purpose of gathering and dis
seminating all information that may
be of value to the community regard
ing the water question of whether or
not the city shall purchase the Den
yer Water Company's plant or grant
the company a new twenty-year fran
chse.
"The Denver convention promises
to exceed in numbers any convention
of recent years and to equal in excel
lence the great Cleveland convention
of 190S,' is a statement recently is
sued by DR.. Lorenzo d. Harvey, presi-
dent, and Professor Irwin Shepard.
secretary, of the National Educational
Association, which holds its forty
seventh annual convention in Denver
July 5th-9th.
| A violent hailstorm, which is said to
be the worst in the city's history,
struck Trinidad on the 18th inst. and
caused severe damage to trees and or
chards and caused the streams TO swell
and wash out great number of cul-
verts and small bridges. The storm
was more or less local, as it did not
reach any of the surrounding camps
and confined itself to a district of
about five miles in all directions.
E. j. Carver. an original Union col
onist. an associate of N. C. Meeker,
founder of Greeley, in the Greeley
| Tribune. and a resident of Greeley
over thirty-five years, died on the 18th
inct IN PiyarGida Calf Ep, thirty