The Colorado statesman., 1910-01-15
COLORADO NEWS

and Industrial Exposition will be held
in the Auditorium from March 80 to
April ~. There will be 100 food ex-
hibits and fifty industrial exhibits.
Sublime and Myrtle lodges of the
knights of Pythlas at Colorado Springs
have been consolidated into Colorado
Springs Lodge No. "a. 1t is planned
to erect Pythian temple at a cost
of about $4,000.
The Pueblo City Council settled the
saloon license matter by granting SO
of the 104 applications for saloon and
wholesale licenses and refused IL
censes to three saloons long charged
with violations of the law.
During the last three years there
have been 300 cases filed in the Dis
trict Court in Weld county, of which
1900 were civil and 1.400 criminal.
Up to two years ago 100 cases filed a
year was the average, but since July /
last the court docket shows a record
of 106 new cases.
At recent meeting of representa-
tives of all Presbyterian churches in
Denver, a campaign to raise 100000
for Westminster University was or
ganized. The money is to be made by
the sale of 1000 lots belonging to the
institution and situated in the vicinity
of the school. The price of each lot
will be $100.
Canning factory crops promise to
be important in Weld county this
year. With new cannery at La
Sale, enlargement of the Platteville
and Fort Lupton plants and the Gree
ley cannery running at full capacity,
crops from $500 acres, bringing an in
come of 100000, will be made into
canned goods.
Parson Uzzell, of the Denver Taber-
nacle, who has done such a remark
able work for the poor in Denver,
started on the 18th inst. upon a tour
around the world. The parson will
travel for six months. The trip is the
gift of his congregation as reward
for his twenty-three years services.
In addition he was presented with
purse containing 500.
new system of feeding lambs will
be inaugurated on the Zeigler ranch in
Larimer county. Watson Zeigler, in
an address to the short course stu
dents at the Agricultural college
stated that the present method OF
separate feeding of hay and grain
would soon give way to the new meth
cd of grinding the alfalfa and grain
together and feeding the mixture.
Attorney General John T. Barnett
has handed down an opinion in which
he holds that all corporations that
have made increases in their capital
stock over the original incorporation
papers filed with the secretary of
state must take out amendments to
their articles and raise the amount of
their interpretations, thus increasing
the incorporation fee and the flat tax.
What is termed by the instructors
of the Colorado Agricultural college as
the most successful short course ever
I'D by any school in the United States
was brought to a close at Fort Collins
on the Sth inst, when a public demon
strations of "Tuberculosis'' was given.
A COW, affected with the disease, was
dissected, showing the effect of the
malady upon every organ.
The Longmont Sugar Factory fin
ished its work for the season on the
Sth inst. 1t is expected that large
force will be kept busy overhauling
old machinery and installing new for
the next campaign. The average daily
run this year has been about the esti-
mated capacity, being between 1,20O
and 1900 tons of beets every twenty
four hours for the campaign of 102
days.
At the meeting of the Cripple Creek
Mine Owners Association it was fig
ured that S25O,O00 worth of ore has
been stolen during the past year by
"high-graders." 1t was claimed that
not less than thirty high-grade
fences" existed in the district. A
sharp campaign is to be waged
against them. Four convictions were
secured during the year and the men
are serving terms in the penitentiary.
The highest price ever paid for a
quarter section of land in the Greeley
district is said to be that paid a few
days since for the Sol Hopkins farm,
one and one half miles of Lucerne.
when w. H. Henderson purchased it
for $4,000. The land has been culti-
waited for twenty years and gives net
annual income of $4,000. Two years
ago Henderson paid $4,000 for the
Pier ranch, the highest price ever paid
for eighty acres in the Greeley dis
trict.
On orders received from the treas
ury department, people occupying the
buildings on the new postoffice site at
Denver will be notified by Surveyor
of Customs Vivian to vacate by March
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