La Junta tribune., 1909-01-23
UP AND DOWN the VALLEY.

pOrated. Will hold It's first municipal
election Tuesday, January 26th for
the purpose OF eiecting a mayor aad
six trustees.
Out of 7gi words spelled at the
Garden City Commercial Col ege RS.
Gently, but ei sht were misspelled.
which Is going some for an insfisu-
ton In which s. ellins Is mere in
cident.
Progress at the Gunnison tunnel
during December was $40 feet.
All but few of this was made on
the west end. This leaves a dis
tance of 3.iI9 feet yet to go be-
fore the headings meet.
Many OF the beets left in the
ground al the time the sugar factory
shut down are being sold for feed as
fast as they cal be pulled letween
cold snaps. The price paid.we under
stand is 500 per ton.-Ordway
Era.
The Rocky Ford Gazette has sus-
pended publication and gone out OF
business. The sugar beet metropolis
is the only town in the Valley that
had the nerve to keep three news
papers going-wth the usual re-
suit.
Another big plum Is in the pud-
ding for Las Animas, and IL Is an
appropriation by Uncle Sam OF $1,000.
TO build boulevard out TO the Unitet
States Naval Hospital. This driveway
calls for width OF sixty feet md
will be constructed by government
road builders.
In Bent coua,y the republicans
have controlled affairs for 10 these
many years. but for fhe next four
years the Democrats will conduct the
business. The two out going commits
sioners are Thad Hucy and John
Marlman. the former having served
eleven years and the latter seven
years.
Speaker Lube.s treated Hon. w.
H. McCaskill vey well In house COM
mittee appointments. Mr.. McCaskill
Is chairman OF the committee on agri.
culture and irrigation. and Is also a
member OF five other committee
public buildings. elections and ap.
pointments. corporations. railroads,
and fees and sa.aries.-Manzanol
| Sun.
| Garden City, Kan. wi | get one uf
the noted schso.s of eastern Iowa.
The Great So -thwestern Business
College was formerly a, keokuk, la
months at Meade, Kan. but made ar.
rangements to open up January 18th.
and permanently locate at Garden
City, and has ia en- out a three years
lease
BY recent unanimous vote the
council of Sugar City authorized the
preliminary WORK TO be commenced o.
the proposed new water supply from
Horse Greek, three and one-ha,f miles
north of town. survey and filing
will be made at once, and IL the nee
essary quantity of water is develop
! ed. work on the project will begin
as soon as the frost is out Of the
ground.
The search for the bodies OF DIR.
Scarlet and Mr.. McNealey. who were
drowned in the Ne No Shee reservoir
two weeks ago, has been suspended
for the present on account OF the
thick Ice. 1t is the intention to run
several feet of the water out Of the
reservoir as soon as the weather
moderates. II was impossible for this
divers to work where there is 80
much ice.--Wiley Journal.
\ AT a mass meeting OF the citizens
of Sugar City held last week a reso
luton was passed to the effect that
II the people OF that burg lend theiI
assistance TO the county division pro
ject, they must derive some direci
benefit as an inducement" IL was
further resolved that I'VE, the citi
zens OF Sugar City, pledge our sup
port and assistance toward bringing
about the division of said county. on
one condition only. and that is that
the citizens of ordway. by resolution
duly passed, will consent and urge
that the legis ative till which shall
create said new county. shall name
Sugar City. Colo, as the temporary
county seat"