The Colorado statesman., 1909-01-02
STATE NEWS ITEMS


Springs is reported to be improving in
health.
There was 2.56O marriages in Den.
yer during the past year and 5SS di,
vorces.
Merry Christmas" in Denver re
suited in forty-six cases on the Police
Court docket the next day
At the starch factory in Greeley. B.
d. Fisher fell head first into a big
vat of ice-cold potato juice and mar
rowly escaped drowning.
The State Board of Health will con-
duct its semi-annual examination for
emba'mers at the State house in Den.
yer Friday, January Sth, at 100 p. m.
The football team of the Longmont
hieA school defeated the Englewood
high school team of Chicago at Den
yer on Christmas Day by a score OF
13 to 0
A syndicate of eastern capitalists
has taken 17,500,000 of the new issue
of Denver & Rio Grande railway bonds.
The proceeds were used to retire $15,-
100000 short time notes.
In his county poor report to the sec
retary of state Clerk Konkel of Baca
county fills out the blank as follows:
We have no paupers. How many
counties can say as much?"
A. A. Peralta of the Greeley sugar
factory, has just prepared and pre-
sented to the Commercial club of Gree
ley eighteen glass jars whose contents
show the different processes in sugar
inc frNy cit
sugar.
Judge Ben B. Lindsey of Denver is
the one person from Colorado whom
President Roosevelt has invited to at
tend the conference concerning the
care of the dependent children which
he has called to meet at the White
house on January 25th.
Local telephone wires have reached
Lay, in Routt county, and Lay can now
communicate with Denver within an
hour, having telephone connection with
Yampa, where the Western Union
Telegraph Company has it's Routt
county terminus.
AT the December meeting of the ex-
ecutive committee of the Modern
Woodmen of America, 1t was decided
to admit free of charge to the recently
established sanitarium in Colorado
Springs all members afflicted with tu-
berculosis whose cases are durable.
The Rogers Canning Company of
Rogers, Ark, has offered to establish
a canning factory at Fort Morgan. If
the farmers will plant 1000 acres of
vegetables suitable for canning, the
city to donate a site of two or three
acres and give a bonus of $4,000.
Arrangements have been about COM
pleted by Secretary Watrous of the
Boulder Commercial Association, with
Springfield, H., parties to bring col
ony from that section to settle on
small farms and fruit tracts near Boul-
der and along the Interurban and I'm
ion Pacific lines.
A. grand celebration for the one hun
dredth anniversary of the birthday of
Abraham Lincoln next February is be-
ing planned in Denver, to be held at
the auditorium. All patriotic and mill
tary societies in the city will take part,
led by the Grand Army of the Repub-
lie.
The theater at Manhattan Beach in
Denver was entirely destroyed by fire
on the night of December 26th 1t was
the property of the Southern Invest
ment Company, who, it is stated will
build a new theater in it's place. The
old building cost $4,000 and was par
TALLY insured.
The town of Kersey held its first
fnin 4
with only one ticket in the field,
named by the Boosters" club. Fred
James was elected mayor and Len
Flint, w. F. Spaulding, W. R. Morti-
mer, j. H. Howe, B. p. Brooks and C.
S. Gardner, trustees.
reparations have been completed
for the biggest short course in domes-
tic science at the Agricultural College,
Fort Collins, ever held in the history
of the institution. The course will be-
gin Jan. 11th and run until Jan. 18th.
Applications have come in from all
over the state for enrolment.
AT a mass meeting at Pierce under
the auspices of the Commercial Club
the proposition of the officers of the
Burlington Interurban Railway Com
pany to build into Pierce on condition
that $4,000 worth of stock be sub
scribed for and terminal sites provided
was accepted.
Arrangements are being made to use
the new Nationa. amphitheatre at the
Denver stock yards for the first time
on January 9th, when Denver school
children will give song concert. More
Al -.
take art in the exercises. The new
amphitheatre is now practically COM
plete, and is the largest of its kind in
the country. 1t will seat 5000.