The state herald., 1910-02-11
STATE NEWS ITEMS

The Colorado Fuel and Iron Com
pany has officially given out the nun
Der of deaths in the Primero coal min,
explosion at seventy-five.
The annual summer teachers insti
tute of the district comprising E
Paso, Teller, Elbert and Douglas coun
ties will be held at Colorado Spring.
during the last two weeks in July.
The wife of President Taft mas sen
handkerchief to the South Side I'm
provement Society of Colorado City t
be sold at a bazar to be given by tn,
ladies' of the society.
The Missouri Pacific, January 31st
took over the Pueblo & State Line
railroad for $500 and other consider
ntions." This line runs from Pueblo
to the Kansas state line.
An experiment farm conducted un
der the auspices of the State Agricul
tural College for growing alfalfa as
well rs potatoes, will be established In
the Greeley district next season.
Gov. John f. Shafroth has appoint
ed John Il. Field and A. L. Bent to
represent the state of Colorado at the
national convention on weights and
measures which is to be held in Wash.
lngton, ID. c., February 25th and Goth
The work of tearing down buildings
on the site for the new Denver post.
office building. between Curtis and
Champa and Eighteenth and Nine
teenth streets, will be commenced next
month.
Denver people are planning to es-
tablish during the coming summer an
attractive summer resort to be called
Larkland, on the Denver & Rio
Grande, forty-three miles south of
Denver.
Department Commander John w.
Wingate of the Grand Army of the Re-
public has issued formal order to
all posts in the Department of Colo
RADIO and Wyoming. requesting the
members to observe Lincoln's and
Washington's birthdays in prope:
form.
Richard r. Burke has relinquished
lng cars operated along the Moffat
Road to Clark Gregg. former superin-
tendent of dining car service on the
Denver & Rio Grande. and later stew
ard of the Colorado Traffic Club in
Denver.
The county commissioners OF Prov.
ers county have granted permit for
the organization of the Holly a. Grana-
da Irrigation district, for the reclama-
tion OF $4,000 acres south OF the two
towns. The water supply will be
taken from Rule creek, west of La
mar, and be stored in large reser-
voir.
The Holly Sugar Company has made
public its contracts for growers of
beets next season. offering the best
terms yet made by II. For beets with
IL TO II 9-l0 per cent. sugar content
they will pay S. per ton; Is per cent,
s5.25: 1G per cent, $3.50: II per cent,
;5.75, and for each per cent. over II, Is
cents.
Sdiating the example set by the
Allied Printing Trades Of Denver, the
Knights of Columbus, which now has
25o,0oo members. is seriously consld-
ering q proposition TO build large
wing 10 st. Anthony's hospital in Den
yer. similar TO the one definitely
planned by the printing trades. for the
special purpose OF accommodating
knights afflicted with tuberculosis.
Senator Charles ]. Hughes has in
iroduced a bill for an appropriation of
$1,000 for the worlds congress of the
deaf, TO be held in Colorado Springs
this summer. The bill was referred to
the committee on Industrial exposl.
tions and as Senator Hughes is giving
his personal attention TO the bill he
feels that the appropriation will be
granted.
Al the suggestion OF Mrs. Catherine
NJ. Cook. state superintendent OF pub.
lie instruction. the State Land Board
Is considering a scheme to donate
from two TO five acres OF land for
playground purposes TO each public
school in Colorado which is occupying
public land at tho present time. The
plan In to donate the land to the
schools on condition that each school
board which accepts gift of tho sort
does no with the understanding that IL
must fupply the equipment noecasary
TO furninh the playground In the prop.
of manner,
In order TO ascertain II the cost OF
living has Increased In Greeley In the
last year materially over that OF pre-.
vious years. n merchant In busncaa n,
Greeley for twenty-five years has gone
carefully over his books. compiling the
cost OF groceries and dairy products In
the years 1890, 1900 and 1910. The re,
sui, showa that all dairy and farm pro,
duets, buttor. bacon. eggs. cheese. etc
have Increased from ten TO fifty per
cent In cost since 1890. but the cost
OF the bulk OF all other groceries. with
the exception OF lard. has not In
creased and In many cAnea IN much