The Colorado statesman., 1910-06-04
COLORADO
STATE NEWS

Ddnu.
Rico musicians have organized
band.
La Veta will place fountain In Its
city park.
Craig will raise saloon licenses from
$500 to $3.50.
Telephone lines are being put un'
der ground at Greeley.
Del Norte has hook and ladder
company. Just organized.
Methodists at Simla are preparing
to organize congregation.
Eagle county papers report lots OF
grouse over there this year.
A second bank has been organized
at Haxtun, with $4,000 capital.
Pioneer Day at Craig has been post
poned from June 10th to 23rd.
balanced Rock, in the Garden OF the
Gods, will be electrically lighted.
The ladies' of the Eastern Star have
organized a chapter at Palisade.
Ten thousand dollars Will be spent
at Greeley for new beet dumps.
A scarcity OF labor is reported from
all the railroad camps OF the state.
DeBeque people voted unanimously
to add seventy acres to their town.
Only five deaths we're reported in
Fort Collins during the month OF May.
Ambrose Broughton, pioneer Oh
Park county. died last week at the age
of 83.
Seventh Day Adventists are planning
to erect a house of worship at Monte
Vista.
The Normal Institute of District No.
1 will be held at Julesburg June 6th
to 18th.
J.P. Fountain of Hillrose lost $500
Percheron team by lightning the otn-
er day.
The Phillips County Sunday School
convention will be held at Holyoke'
June Sth.
The Limon Herald says this years
crop in Lincoln county will be rec
ord breaker.
The Pitkin fish hatchery has set
ting" of 100000 rainbow trout eggs in
the troughs.
Hartsel is looking forward to big
tourist season. A new bath house Will
be provided.
The Sterling Democrat says the pop
ulation of that good burg Is sure TO
be over 1000.
Fifty-five thousand young trout were
deposited in the Thompson in Larimer
county last week.
The Crested Butte town council
has ordered several blocks of cement
sidewalks laid.
Keota Methodists have organized
congregation, secured a pastor, and
will build a church.
La Veta will spend $4,000 in enlarg-
ing and improving its water system
and the contract has been let.
The pension bureau has recommend
ed a special pension of $50 mouth
to George w. Custer of Yuma.
The Milliken Mail reports that work
was commenced on six new buildings
there last week.
Merle d. Vincent of Paonia. Insur-
gent Republican, it is said will be
candidate for governor.
Longmont will send a representa-
tive to the interscholastic track
meet in Chicago June IL.
The Enterprise says Eagles building
record for this year promises to ex-
ceed that of any previous year.
Company M, N. G. c., of Golden, Is
making an effort to have the company
admitted as an engineering corps.
The Conejos County Sunday
School association will hold its an
nual convention at Bowen, June ..
Work has begun on the big reser-
yoir of the Southwestern Colorado
Power Company's power plant at Pit
| kin.
Clinton Paden of Dillon was neither
absent nor tardy during the whole
school year just closed. He was given
q prize.
Bids have been opened for the new
Carnegie library at Manitou, and the
contract will be let soon, at around
$1,000.
The Rico Item says the streams in
Dolores county can now be rated as
among the best in the state for trout
fishing.
An organized campaign against the
festive grasshopper will be inaugu-
rated by ranchers in the vicinity OF
Plattevillle.
The Walsenburg Emergency Hospit-
al Association has filed incorporation
papers with the secretary of state.
The capitalization is s25,000.
Litigation having been settled, the
Gordon Tiger mine at Twin Lakes Will
resume operations. 1t has produc-
ton record of half million.
l.. ]. Neff of Berthoud bought forty
hogs for s51S; fed them s162 worth OF
boiled potatoes, and sold them in Den
yer for S1,182. No arithmetic needed
rnlnruinQ Gun nlarrel