The Colorado statesman., 1909-10-30
COLORADO NEWS

DSNANCi Odu wan al
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.
Der 6th.
The Rev. Thomas E. Bliss. one of
the pinoneer Congregational ministers
of Colorado, died in Denver a few
days since at the age of s5 years.
The campaign to raise 100000 for
tian Association building at Pueblo re-
suited in securing subscriptions to the
amount of 11,462.25.
Vice-President Green of the Denver,
Laramie C 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
at 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-
livered the dedication sermon. The
cost of the building is about $4,000.
Much interest is manifested by peo-
pie of the mountain camps in the
semi-centennial celebration at Boulder
November 24-25. Each camp VIII be
represented by a maid of honor and
these, with the pioneers of SO. Will be
the guests of the city during the cele-
bration.
The new tubercular sanitarium es-
tablished last June by DR.. George H.
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.
1t is reported at Greeley that work
men are leaving the ditch camps in
the Beebe Draw country because OF
fear of rattlesnakes, which are un-
usually numerous and vicious this fall.
Ranchmen are organizing parties to
hunt snakes. Theodore Walbridge and
William Bedlin killed thirty in one
day with shotguns.
The county of Ell Paso has con-
structed sixty-eight bridges during
the summer, ranging from fourteen to
14O feet in length. Much progress mas
also been made in making and re-
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 o,ooO
sacks of potatoes, 1000 sacks OF
which contain potatoes each weigh
ing not less than two pounds. Inc
crop is considered remarkable Tor
quality and size and sixty sacks VIII
be sent to the irrigation congress IN
Chicago next month.
The Bar ]. H. 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
S236, 900. The dam will be siXty-hve
feet in height and will hold 242,225,350
cubic feet of water.
Gov. John F Shafroth left Denver
on the 22nd inst. to join President
Taft and his party at st. Louis, the
starting point of the trip down the
Mississippi river to New Orleans, IN
which about thirty-one governors
are to take part. The trip will last
about six days and the governor Is
expected back the latter part of this
week. During his absence Lieut.. Gov.
s. r. Fitzgarrald will occupy the
chief executives chair.
A great scarcity of laborers is re-
ported from the irrigation construc-
ton camps in northern Colorado. Con-
stant 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.
On November Attn $4,000 acres of
government land in the San Luis Val
ley will be disposed of to settlers un-
der the direction of the State Land
Board. The land will be allotted by