The Colorado statesman. [volume] (Denver, Colo.) 1895-1961, 1909-03-13
COLORADO NEWS

Mr.. and Mrs. Richard Ellison OF
"eslcliffe have just started on a four
year tour of the world
Thirty-two hens belonging to Mrs,
Brady at Greeley laid 800 eggs last
month. The eggs sold at so cents a
dozen, which is a handsome profit.
The Florence City Council has COM
pleted its budget for the fiscal year,
The appropriations totaling 1850,
which is about $4,000 less than last
year
herd of thirty-five tame antelope
is curiosity on the John Painter
ranch at Roggen in Weld county. The
early SHOWS last fall drove the animals
into the ranch for food and they have
been cared for all winter with the cat
tie on the ranch.
The annua! interstate debate be-
tween the Universities of Colorado and
Kansas will take place at Lawrence.
Kansas, on March 25th Arrangements
are already under way for the Colo
rado-Texas debate which will occur
sometime in May.
The Gill-Decker Improvement Com
pany has been organized, capitalized
at 100000, to plat the townsite of Gill,
eight miles northeast of Greeley on the
new extension of the Union Pacific.
The town promises to become an i'm
portant shipping point
Among the younger branches of
study and personal training that are
being developed in the University of
Colorado is the Department of Oratory
and Dramatic Expression. This de-
partment has charge of the very sue
cessful Dramatic Club.
AT Fort Morgan on the 9th inst Pro
fessor Bennett of the Agricultural Col
lege lectured to about seventy-five
farmers on the growing of potatoes, it
being the desire of the farmers in the
vicinity to take up this industry This
year several hundred acres will be
planted.
Writing to the Mining Journal, Lon
don, England, Thomas Tonge. the noted
Denver newspaper correspondent,
says: From a personal knowledge of
Leadville since 1888, and of present
conditions there, the writer believes all
indications are that the child is not yet
born who will live to see Leadville
played out as profitable mining dis
trict."
load dumping apparatus that is in
big demand among sugar factories is
the cause of suit for $4,000 damages
instituted by Timothy Carroll of Cali
fornia against Merritt l. futile. one OF
the wealthiest sugar beet growers in
FIT. Morgan. Carroll claims to be the in
ventor of the apparatus and alleges
that futile has been using it in his
factory without permission.
Fearing that their bill will be tabled
during the rush of the closing days of
the Legislature, the Fremont County
Roads Association. which is asking an
appropriation of $50 900 from the state
for a macadamized driveway between
Fremont county points and Colorado
Springs, has decided to send ore of us
members to Denver to lobby in the in
terests of the bill. The object of This
driveway is to draw tourists from Colo
RADIO Springs.
Mrs. Grace Clark, known better as
Miss Grace Gale, formerly of Greeley,
later of Los Angeles. Cal, is dead at
Bombay, India. Mrs. Clark left Cali
fornia a few months ago for a trip
around the world with friends. She
was born in Greeley and was the
daughter of Mrs. Jennie Gale. her
father, o. p. Gale, being one of the
pioneers of Greeley, and dying many
years ago.
Local option is expected to cut quite
Il figure in the coming Pueblo city cleo
ton. Petitions have been filed with
the clerk by the anti-saloOn people ask
ing for local option elections in the
First. Second Fifth, Seventh and
Eighth wards Petitions are now being
circulated in the Fourth and petitions
have also been filed asking for cleo
tons in two precincts in both the
Fifth and Eighth wards.
w. II. Kincaid general superinten-
dent of the state fish hatcheries under
Governor Buchtel has applied to the
United States government for a lease
of the Grand Mesa lake on Grand Mesa.
Mr.. Kfncaid announces that if he can
secure a lease on the property for at
least ten years he will stock the lake
with a number of varieties of trout
and permit people to fish there during
the open season. During the rest of
the time he will use the lakes for
spawning fish.
The Union Pacific Railroad Com
pany on the 9th inst. established a
record for one-day shipment of sheep
from the northern Colorado field, when
it hauled III cars of this class of
freight from the stations of Fort Col
Inns, Greeley, Eaton and Timnath.
Over 80, 100 sheep were represented in