The Colorado statesman., 1909-05-29
COLORADO NEWS


barrel full of roasting ears from
Florida were placed on the Denver
market May 25th and sold at rs cents
a dozen.
Max Gerry of Weld county has sold
his lambs at SS.15 per hundred and
from each clipped wool worth $1.25,
making an average of about $3.50 a
head.
In the District Court at Trinidad j.
M. Justus, on trial for the murder of
Ed Butler, saloon man, March 18th,
was acquitted by the jury after one
hours deliberation.
School District No. 3, of which the
city of Fort Morgan is a part, shows
by the new school census report a
school population between the ages of
six and twenty-one years of 1,427.
The Florence branch of the Colo
rado Sportsmen's Club has received a
ten years lease from the Pueblo
Traction Company granting the exclu-
sive fishing privileges on Beaver
creek.
Greeley is about TO install a fire
alarm system. and ar automobile fire
truck. Three paid firemen will prob
ably be added to the volunteer depart
ment, and the automobile truck will
have a chemical engine. The losses
by fire in Greeley were only S1,1OO
last year.
H. w. Dean, for six years past con-
nected with the adjutant generals Of
flee in Denver and holding the rank of
sergeant major, has just wired General
c. A. Kelley that he has received an ap-
pointment as third lieutenant in the
Philippine constabulary. He is at pres
ent at Hoquiam, Wash, and will leave
soon for the islands.
Over $4,000 will be distributed in
prizes at the Weld County Fair, Sep
tember 1st to 3rd. The horsemen who
conduct annual circuit races are work
ing with the fair officials. The best
of the exhibits will be carried to the
State and Interstate Fair and to fairs
in the East to advertise Greeley
products.
The Denver Motor Club will give a
treat to the orphans of Denver Satur-
day, June 5th Four hundred autos are
to visit the various orphans homes of
the city and collect the little ones for
the purpose of giving them an outing
such as they never had before. Pea
nuts and popcorn in great quantities
have been contracted for.
The State Esperanto Council elected
the following officers at it's annual
meeting at Colorado Springs James
Underhill, president, Idaho Springs;
julius Eckhert, vice president, Denver;
K. M. Smith, treasurer, Colorado
Springs; w. G. Adams, secretary. Col
orado Springs; Prof. F. IA. Loud, cor
responding secretary, Colorado
Springs.
Many valuable dogs have been pois-
oned in Colorado Springs recently. The
humane society has been notified and
employees at the library and other pub
lie places requested to issue a gen
eral warning to dog owners to safe
guard their animals. The police say
in every case death was caused by
strychnine. The authorities will Wig
orously search and prosecute the pois.
oners.
1t is stated that Dr. B. O. Ayles-
worth, president of the Agricultural
college, but whose services will end
at the close of the college year, will
leave Fort Collins. He has had sew
eral lucrative offers, the principal
ones being from San Francisco, Chi
cago and New York City, but has not
accepted any. He will go east soon
after the school closes and has de-
ai hot hn 70 -.
on one of the coasts.
Irrigation nearly perfected is to
prove the redemption of the immense
cattle feeding portions of Routt coun-
ty and its neighbor across the Wyom-
ing state line, Carbon county. By
proper drainage and conservation of
the flood waters and SHOWS of those
two rich counties, the lives of thou
sands of cattle will be saved in the fu-
ture, according to cattlemen who re-
Gently returned from a visit to Carbon
and Routt counties.
Secretary of the Interior Ballinger
explained to Messrs. De Long and Aup-
perle of the Grand Valley Water U.s.
ers' Association, who called on him in
Washington, that the stoppage of work
on the Grand valley high line reclama-
tion project was due to two causes
doubts of the authority of the depart
ment to make the contract with the
association and shortage of funds. The
attorney general will be called on for
an opinion as to the former question.
In connection with the construction
of the new Canon City water works
system through the Royal Gorge, three
cable suspension bridges have just
been completed across the Arkansas