The Colorado statesman., 1909-06-26
COLO RADIO NEWS

Twelve days after the big fire that
destroyed the electric light plant, the
city of Trinidad was again lighted by
electricity
Manzanola is arranging for, big
Fourth of July celebration and ex
poets great influx of people from all
neighboring sections.
twenty-five hundred Congregational
Sunday school children of Denver en-
joyed an outing to Tolland, on the Mof-
fat road, on Tuesday, June 22nd.
Mr. Allen of Colorado City is ar
ranging to establish an auto service
between Steamboat Springs ard Craig,
fifty miles. Two large touring cars
will be kept in service.
C. B. Nix sold his farm of 100 acres
near Eaton few days since to Chris
Nelson for $21, 900. Nix bought it last
fall for S16,500. He retains two-thirds
of this years crop and estimates his
profit at $500.
Work has begun on the new bath
pool of the Steamboat Springs Town
site Company 1t will be fed by nat
ural hot springs, is to be 100 by $50
feet and will be similar to the large
pool at Glenwood Springs.
! a stock company has been organ
lied at Akron with a capital of $1,500
TO buy a forty-acre tract near town for
a baseball park, racing course and fair
grounds, also for old settlers re-
unions.
The new S125,000 building of the
Denver Chamber of Commerce will be
erected on Champa street between
Seventeenth and Eighteenth streets,
according to the decision of the board
of directors.
| His foot catching while he was at
| tempting to jump from a freight train
on which he with two other boys had
been stealing a ride, William Scott,
eleven-year-old-son of A. d. Scott, who
| lives on a farm near Brighton and
stantly killed.
Cove & Walsh, Denver architects,
have completed plans for the power
house and two additions to the Hale
Scientific building at the University
of Colorado at Boulder, and the con-
tract for the construction of the two
/ buildings has been let to Stocker &
| Fraser of Denver for $65,000.
The following Colorado patents have
| teen granted: j. Eckert, Denver, hot
air forming and feeding device for
heating apparatus; V. V. Fits, Denver,
ore feeder; A. Huyser, Colorado
Springs, campers bake pan or oven;
d. R. Long, Weldona, hay stacker E.
f. Talliaferro, Colorado Springs, type
bar.
Walter C. Cox, the Denver pound
master and dogcatcher, has patented a
new device for catching dogs. The
contrivance is pair of semi-circular
spring arms fastened on the end of a
pole. The spring arms may be closed
around the neck of the hapless dog
without getting near enough to the
animal to be harmed.
These Colorado banks have been au-
thorized to begin business: The Platte
Vile National of Plattevilie. with $685.
900 capital; ]. NJ. Kutchen, president;
w. d. Inger, vice president; w. A.
JSuttpin, cashier; the Farmers Ma
tional of Sterling, with $4,000 capital;
G. Sherwin, president; j. p. Dillon
w. Propst and w. j. Patterson, vice
presidents; d. A. Bartholomew, cash
ier.
The second annual Colorado Inter
State Fair and Exposition will be held
at Overland Park, Denver, September
18th to 18th. The officers of this as
sociation are: John w. Springer
president; Charles E. Stubbs, vice pres
ident; G. c. Fuller, secretary, and Har-
ry Petrie, general superintendent. The
offices of the association are in the
Tabor Opera House block, Denver.
Frederic Zanetti, Austrian, was held
by Justice Updegaff for trial in the
District Court at Telluride in the sun
of $1,500, following a preliminary eX
animation on charge of holding uI
the Nellie mine bunk house a short
time since, when $4,000 of amalgan
was stolen. A reward of 5000 has
been awarded by Lessee Kent for the
arrest and conviction of Arturo Ri
cardo.
BY the report of Appraisers S. c.
Warner, the Colorado estate of Eben
Smith, the former pioneer mining
man, is fixed at 100000. from which
the state will receive an inheritance
tax of $4,000. The principal property
interest in Colorado was one of $780,
900 in the Little Jonny mine at Lead
Vile Smith died in Los Angeles two
years ago, just when he was building
railroad. The state of California re
ceived $4,000 from Smiths holdings
there.
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