The Springfield herald., 1909-04-30
COLORADO NEWS


the 18th inst. at the age of 90 years.
The state fair directors at recent
meeting in Pueblo elected Robert Hig-
gins president and S. F. Reno secre-
tary.
Company H, Colorado National guard
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.
NJ. Craffey has begun the erection in
Denver of the largest broom factory
west Of the Missouri river. represent
ing an investment of 100000.
R. X. Ingledow. employed in the Clio.
rietta shaft of the Vindicator No.
mine at Victor, was caught in a cavein
on April 23rd and sustained very Sc
rious injuries.
Vernon McKelvey, a ranchman, has
begun the construction OF small
reservoir to cost $1,000 on his ranch
near Lucerne. The water will be used
to irrigate 600 acres of land.
George X. Hart, a Rio Grande ensi.
neer, has brought suit at Pueblo for
$4,000 damages against the road :or
injuries he alleges he received in Au.
gust, 1907, on the Celtic branch.
Former Adjutant General Bulkeley
Wells has been given recognition OF
his services to the state by being
placed on the retired list, with the
rapl of 5iar uopornl
At special election April Goth Hugo
voted for incorporation by majority
of 81. Hugo will be the first and only
incorporated town in Lincoln county
since its organization, twenty years
ago.
Fighting Bob" Evans. retired admi-
raj and one of the most popular of the
nations retired fighters, will reach
Denver on May 10th to deliver an adj
dress in the Auditorium on From
Hampton Roads to San Francisco in
Command of the Atlantic Fleet"
Unless their demands are met ia
vorably the Brewery Workers of Den
yer will walk out on May 1st. They
expect the Bottlers, Wagon Drivers
and other brewery employees to accom-
pany them, thus making a complete
tie-up in that line OF business.
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.
A walkout on May LIST of the Denver
Amalgamated Carpenters, who are af-
filiated with the Building Trades Coun-
Gil, IS threatened This probably will
tie up all building in Denver, for it is
expected that all crafts of the Trades
Council will refuse to work with Broth.
erhood carpenters.
State Printing Commissioner George
Hosmer announces that the bill for
printing during the last legislative ses-
sion amounted to s29.133.27. 1t cost
,632 to print the report of the Bar
ela-Beshoar contest. The largest item
in the bill was $500, for 1000 ready
reference files.
Twenty-nve 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.
The executors of the Stratton es-
tate have turned over to the trustees
for the Myron Stratton home about
s6,000,000 worth of securities, all OF
the estate except $500,000, which is re-
tained in view of the litigation still
pending. The action thus taken in
court means that the Myron Stratton
home will soon be built. A site for the
home is now being selected.
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 DR.. T. E.
Carmody to be surgeon general. The
appointments take effect at once.
Never in the history OF northern
1OIOTduO was lHcIe dS SuoN III
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 State Land Board at its meet
ing April 21st declined to donate 800
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 have to pay
at least $40 an acre for the land. and
in addition guarantee water to settlers
on state land at & fixed low charge.
Beginning this spring the Humane
society is to carry on active work in
the education of children regarding the
treatment of dumb animals, and w. R.
Callicotte OF Glenwood Springs has
been appointed an agent of the society
especially for the purpose. Mr.. CALI