The Colorado statesman., 1909-06-19
COLORADO ITEMS


has received a check for $4,000 as
Mesa county's share of the Forest Re-
serve Fund.
Regular train service to Ward over
the Denver, Boulder G. Western has
been established, after blockade of
over five months by snow.
The June term of the District
Court at La Junta opened on the 14th
inst, with Judge Essex on the bench
and over 100 cases on the docket.
The State Normal School and the
Greeley Commercial Club will arrange
daily excursions from Denver to Gree
ley during the five days of the N. E. A.
convention at Denver.
Fred Lombard of Colorado Springs
has been named by Governor Shafroth
for the post of water commissioner of
the tenth irrigation district, one of
the most important districts within Ell
Paso county.
The county commissioners of Las
Animas county have appropriated
$4,000 for completing the state high
w.t. north and south through the
county by the employment of convict
labor. This makes over $4,000 given
by citizens and taxpayers for the road.
Fort Collins and vicinity were shut
off from all electric power from 10
o'clock Wednesday night until o'clock
Thursday night, as the result of dam
age to the Northern Colorado Power
Company system by storm. No street
cars ran during that time.
Three thousand acres of valuable
coal land will be opened between Agui-
lar and Hastings by the Columbian
Coal Mining Company, recently formed
by Colorado and Kansas City capital
lists. G. V. Stewart of Kansas City is
at the head of the new company, and
is said to represent several million
aires.
At recent meeting of the Boulder
county commissioners $500 was appro-
priated to the commercial organiza-
tions of the county, $3.50 going to Boul-
der, 5000 to Longmont, 500 each to
Louisville and Lafayette, and $50 to
Lyons. One-half of this amount is pay
able now and the other half in Novem-
| ber
A Water Consumers Protective AS
sociation has been formed in Denver
for the purpose of gathering and dis
seminating all information that may
be of value to the community regard
ing the water question of whether or
not the city shall purchase the Den
yer Water Company's plant or grant
the company a new twenty-year fran
| chise
AS required by statute, Governor
Shafroth has appointed a committee
| to examine the books of the state
| treasurer and the state land board.
The appointees are Benjamin d. Spen-
GER, Andrew P. Smithers and Horace
| w. Havens. The work must not eX-
ceed the period of thirty days, and the
appointees receive SIS per day for the
time they work.
Application has been made before
the State Land Board for a tract of
land containing 40 acres upon which
to establish a national home under the
auspices of the Actors association.
The last session of the Legislature
passed an act allowing the land board
to donate land for charitable purposes,
and advantage will be taken of this to
get some land if possible for old actors.
Two hundred teachers from all over
the state registered at the twenty-sec-
ond annual session of the Third Dis
trict Normal Institute which started
its eleven-day meeting at the Manual
Training High school in Denver on the
14th inst. The attendance of teachers
was considered very large for the
opening session and it is expected to
reach at least 500 in the next few days
1.-The Denver convention promises
to exceed in numbers any convention
of recent years and to equal in excel
lence the great Cleveland convention
of 1905" is q statement recently is
sued by DR.. Lorenzo d. Harvey, presi-
dent, and Professor Irwin Shepard,
secretary, of the National Educational
Association, which holds it's forty
seventh annual convention in Denver
July 5th-9th.
A violent hailstorm, which is said to
be the worst in the city's history.
struck Trinidad ON the 18th inst and
caused severe damage to trees and or
chards and caused the streams to swell
and wash out a great number of cul-
verts and small bridges. The storm
was more or less local, as it did not
reach any of the surrounding camps
and confined itself to a district of
about five miles in all directions.
At the office of the Stratton estate
in Colorado Springs, it is reported that
Mrs. Lillian Stratton Cobb Shelton,
daughter of Mrs. Virginia Cobb, sister
of the late w. S. Stratton, has started
movement to interest six or seven
other heirs to join in a suit against
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