The new era., 1909-06-17
COLORADO NEWS

county, has been appointed water
commissioner for District No. 1 by
Governor Shafroth
A $4,000 bond issue for the pur-
pose of building 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.
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.
A banquet to Mrs. w. H. 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.
Former Senator Teller will deliver
the commencement Grafton to the sem
ior classes OF the State University at
Boulder June 9th. His theme will be
THE Duties of Citizenship in Repre-
sentative Government"
William Jennings Bryan will be in
Denver June 25th, and will deliver a
lecture on THE Price of Soul" The
lecture will be under the auspices of
st. Pauls Institutional M. E. church,
for the benefit of its building fund.
Mayor Speer has turned the big con-
vention hall over to the church for the
occasion.
The United States civil service COM
mission announces an examination on
June goth at it's 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.
The enumeration of school district
No. 3, comprising the city of Boulder,
shows gain of forty over the preced-
ing year, there being a total of 2,S51
of school age within the district. Boul-
der expends annually for her schools
approximately $4,000, at an average
cost per pupil of s25.44. Nine school
buildings are required and about sixty
teachers are employed.
Somewhere in the neighborhood of
$37O,O00,O00 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 $6O00,OO0 ar
rived on the 1st 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 50 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
! 18th 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
date of the fair is September 18th to
18th and the officers are: President,
John w. Springer; general superinten-
dent. H. Petrie; secretary, G.. C.
Fuller.
One of the most interesting Illus
trated lectures ever delivered in Den
yer will be given under the auspices
of the Denver chapter of the Colorado
Society, Sons of the American Revolu-
ton, on the night of June 7th at the
Central Christian church by Mr.. H. r.
Jackson. an officer of the U. S. Bat