The new era. (Walden, Colo.) 1906-19??, 1909-01-21
COLORADO ITEMS

Years eve.
The cornerstone of the new $4,000
city hall at Trinidad was laid on New
Years day.
The Juvenile band of Longmont will
play at the meeting of the National
Education Association in Denver next
summer.
The annual business session of the
Colorado State Editorial Association
will be held at the Albany hotel in
Denver Wednesday. January 18th.
The State Land Board has granted
the Fort Lyons Canal Company right
of way through state lands and the
privilege Of using 1880 acres for reser
voir sites.
The cowboys of southeastern Colo
RADIO held their annual banquet and
dance at La Junta on the night
of December 30th. The town was full
of cattlemen.
Secretary Watrous of the Boulder
Commercial Association is in commun-
ication with several large pottery man
ufactures in the east and the coming
year gives promise of the establish
ment of one or more pottery works in
or near the city.
A series of union evangelistic meet
ings in charge of six local pastors has
begun in Loveland. The plan is to
carry on the campaign for five consec-
utive weeks, holding services each
night during the week in one of the
churches and in all on Sunday.
The town of Sligo, located forty
miles east of Greeley. although less
than two months old. has organized the
Sligo Booster club, with twenty-one
members. and woman. Mrs. Hoskins,
is treasurer. The club intends to Or
ganize telephone company.
While a party of MeXicans were
playing cards in the basement of the
Gordon saloon at Walsenburg the fur
mace blew up, tore out the floor, blew
out the front of the building and Sc
verely burned several of the party, but
all escaped dangerous injuries.
A mountain lion weighing $50
pounds and measuring eight feet from
nose to tip of tail. was killed by w. II.
Pigg at the Stirrup ranch, in the north
ern part of Fremont county recently.
1t had recently killed a deer in Mr..
Pigs game preserve and was hunted
down.
The trustees of the State Normal
school at Greeley will ask the Legisla-
ture to increase the state tax for the
school from one-fifth to one-fourth of a
mill: $125,0O0 for practice school.
5000 for an auditorium and 100000
for manual training building. There
are 800 students registered.
Dell C. Maxwell. aged twenty-siX,
a Denver 4 Rio Grande brakeman, was
instantly killed on the I'd inst. near
the Minnequa steel works when a
freight train broke in two and he was
thrown under the wheels. Maxwell
is a member of the b. of r. +. in
Decatur, H., where his parents reside.
The Eastern Colorado Power Com
pany has added a hundred men to the
force with which ii is constructing
pipe line from Nederland to the Kos
Ter reservoir. The power house will
be located about four miles from Boul-
der and construction of the building
Greeley has an organization of Span
ish-American War veterans numbering
thirty members. nearly all of whom
saw service in the Philippines. The
new officers are: Robert l.. Dye. COM
mander: George Robinson. senior vice
commander; Frank S. Reed. junior
vice commander: James Kendel of
Eaton, surgeon; Harry Summerville of
Eaton, commander of the day and II.
L. Mattox, officer of the guard.
The postoffice authorities have
stopped the mails of the Colorado
Sales Company at Grand Junction. the
postmaster general having issued a
fraud order against the company,
which it is alleged advertised extern
sively to send twenty-five useful house
hold articles for % cents. Several
women are alleged to have put up the
quarter, but never received anything
in return.
A rumor is in circulation that the
Burlington railway, which recently
bought the Colorado & Southern, soon
will commence the work of recon
structing the old Denver e New Or
leans line from Denver to Pueblo, and
that 1t will be used exclusively in
handling freight. The line has been
abandoned for years between Overton
and Colorado Springs. but is used for
light traffic between Colorado Springs
and Denver
At the annual meeting of the South
ern Colorado Power Company, held at
Denver on the 4th inst, contracts were
ratified for supply of power for the
mines AMI works of the Colorado Fuel
& Iron Company and the Victor Fuel
Company, both operating in the Las
Animas and Huerfano county coal
fields. The following officers were