The Elk Mountain pilot., 1909-11-04
STATE NEWS ITEMS

Boulder Odd Fellows will make an
effort to secure the location at Boulder
of the proposed Odd Fellows home.
The twenty-sixth annual session OF
the Boulder County Teachers Associ.
alton will convene at Boulder Novem-
ber 9Th.
The Rev. Thomas E. Bliss, one OF
the pinoneer Congregational ministers
of Colorado, died in Denver few
days since at the age of So years.
Ten thousand trout fry have been
sent from the Denver hatchery to be
placed in South Boulder creek. An
other consignment went to Frazer
river. in Grant county.
Vice-President Green OF the Denver.
Laramie & Northwestern Railroad
Company. has placed orders for rails
for the terminal road into Greeley.
which he says will be built within
sixty days.
The case of Mrs. Allen F. Read. al
legged to have attempted to extort
money from Mrs. Genevieve Chandler
Phipps by the use OF dynamite. is
scheduled on the criminal docket at
Denver for the 18th of November.
The new St Joseph Catholic church
a. Salida was formally dedicated Sun
day. Right Rev. Bishop Matz of Den
yer was in charge of the ceremony.
Rev. David O'Dwyer of Leadville de-
lvered the dedication sermon. The
cost of the building is about $4,000.
The new tubercular sanitarium es-
to1 Ifgh lnet I,,na hy nr
Mott of Freeport, ILL.,. at the mouth
OF Boulder canyon, in Boulder. Is
crowded, necessitating additional
room to take care of the patients at
tracted to Colorado by the healing air
and climate.
The Windsor National Guard com.
pany has organized under the super
vision of state officers. DIR. ]. II.
Shane is captain. Emmett Fuller. first
lieutenant. and DIR. N. ]. Miller. second
lieutenant. About thirty men have
been mustered in and there will be
forty-eight on the roll call.
The incorporation election at Limon
Monday passed off quietly. not more
than twenty-five per cent OF the total
registration voting. The vote was
forty-two for incorporation and five
against 1t. One year ago last June
ninety-eight votes were polled and the
majority against Incorporation was
two.
The county OF FL Paso has con-
structed sixty-eight bridges during
the summer. ranging from fourteen to
14o feet in length. Much progress has
t. tv,sx nd
pairing county roads, In addition to
the work being done In cooperation
with the state in the new highway
between Colorado Springs and Canon
City.
From forty acres Of new land east
OF the new town OF Zeta. In Weld
county. T. ]. Latch has taken 5000
sacks of potatoes. 1000 sacks OF
which contain potatoes each weigh
ing not less than two pounds. The
crop is considered remarkable Tor
quality and size and sixty sacks will
be sent to the irrigation congress In
Chicago next month.
The Bar ]. II. Cattle & Land Com
pany has filed with the county clerk
Of Pueblo county map Of the Boone
creek reservoir and supply ditch from
Haynes creek. which will be supple
mental to the Chico irrigation system.
The reservoir and ditch will cost
3236.OOO. The dam will be sixty-five
feet in height and will hold 242,225. $50
cubic feet Of water.
The convention to consider Colorado
immigration and tourist rates. called
by Governor Shafroth, will meet In
Denver November 18th. The conven-
ton will take up the matter OF secur-
ing a $25 round trip rate from Chicago
to Denver and Colorado common
points during the tourist season and
colonist one-fare rate that will be low
enough to attract more homeseekers
TO the state.
A great scarcity OF laborers is re-
ported from the irrigation construc-
ton camps in northern Colorado. Con-
slant demands are being made upon
the Denver employment agencies but
the calls for men cannot be met. This
scarcity is due to some extent to the
wholesale desertion Of the laborers to
help gather the fruit crops. This is
much more profitable work while 1t
lasts, and many Of the men employed
upon the irrigation projects have
sought employment as apple pickers.
Denver.-The very Rev. Dean H.
Martyr Hart has invited Booker T.
Washington and the negro bishop OF
the A. NJ. E. church, South. who will
accompany the educator to Denver. to
lunch with him Tuesday noon in the