The Colorado statesman., 1909-06-05
STATE NEWS ITEMS

pose OF building a new high school was
authorized in an election at Grand
Junction. Less than 100 votes were
cast.
Supervisor A. ]. Spengel has intro
duced an ordinance in the Denver City
Council to tax all kinds of vehicles for
the creation of fund to be used in
street improvements.
Work will soon be commenced on
the Pioneers monument at the corner
of Broadway and Colfax avenue in
Denver, where the old fire house now
stands on the three-cornered plot.
Justice Ben Spencer of Pine Grove
pleaded guilty to fishing out of season
before Justice Snyder at Golden and
was fined $25 and costs. He paid the
costs and the fine was remitted.
Owing to a change in date, the an
nual conference of the Methodist
church of Colorado will be held in Pu-
eblo on September 1st this year, in
stead of September Sth, as first an
nounced.
The eighteenth anniversary of the
Cripple Creek District Pioneers AS
sociation, falling on Sunday, July 4th,
memorial services will be held on that
day and the graves of the pioneers will
be fittingly decorated.
banquet to Mrs. w II. Taft, wife
of the President, is being planned by
prominent women of Denver and the
state, while she is here with President
Taft during the Trans Mississippi Com
mercial congress in August
1t cost j. H. Clark $100 to treat
friend TO drink of whisky at Mont
rose. Extracting flask from his pis-
tol pocket, he presented it to the
friend on a street corner, was imme-
diately arrested and fined 500.
Former Senator Teller will deliver
the commencement Grafton to the SEN
ior classes of the State University at
Boulder June 9th. His theme will be
"The Duties of Citizenship in Repre-
sentative Government
The trustees of Westminster Univer-
sity at Denver have elected the follow
ing officers; J. d. Hustled. president;
r. F. Coyle, vice president; H. B. Hen
derson, secretary; Thomas Keely,
treasurer; John C. Murray, attorney.
Frank Johnson, printer at
Greeley looked on the face of
his brother, ]. M. Johnston, who
committed suicide at Windsor,
for the first time in twenty-five
years, the morning after his death. The
dead man was of a rowing disposition.
His mother is eighty years old and
lives in Denver.
The United States civil service COM
mission announces an examination on
June goth at its rooms in the Federal
building, Denver, to secure eligibles
from which to make certification to
fill vacancies in the position of timber
cruiser under the chief of the field di-
visions of the general land office at
81 a day.
Somewhere in the neighborhood Of
370,000,000 in gold coin, the greater
portion of which has been brought
from San Francisco, is now stored in
the vaults of the Denver mint. The
last shipment of about S6,000000 ar
rived on the LIST inst. in a special ex-
press car belonging to the Wells-Far-
go company, which was loaded down
with armed guards.
c. H. Dunn is the only Civil War
veteran in Greeley whose mother is
now living. She is Mrs. Mary A. Dunn,
eighty-seven years old resides with
him, and can recall events of the Civil
War as though they happened but yes
terday. Mrs. Dunns father saw SER
vice in the war of 1872, and her grand
father in the Revolutionary War. The
son was in the Sixth Ohio cavalry.
Governor Shafroth, by the advice of
the attorney general, has refused to
pay the reward of $500 offered for the
arrest and conviction of the murderer
of William Collier, which was claimed
by Sheriff Clapp of Boulder county,
who arrested Lem Mayhem for the
crime. Mayhem, after confessing,
committed suicide in jail. The county
commissioners refuse to pay like re-
ward.
The largest acreage of seed pota-
toes ever planted on one farm in Weld
county, Colorado, is on the ranch of
James e. Graham and his son-in-law,
w. Howard, seven miles east of Lu-
cerne. The seed came from Stove
Prairie, near Fort Collins and from
Maine, and the cost of seed alone
was $4,000. With an average yield
OF 100 sacks an acre at the usual sell
ing price of 81 a sack for seed pota-
toes, the growers will obtain $4,000
for their crop.
The officers of the Colorado Inter
State Fair and Exposition at Denver
have made announcement of the pre-
MUM list which is to be issued the
10Th of this month. Over $4,000 in
prizes are offered in every department
and adequate facilities have been made
for taking care of all exhibits. The