The Colorado statesman., 1910-05-14
COLORADO
STATE NEWS


The Norwood country will be con-
nected with Telluride by telephone.
Abner S. Boggs, pioneer and be-
loved citizen of Wray. died at the age
of 72.
The Lincoln county Sunday school
institute will be held at Limon May
10th.
The school election In Wray re-
suited in tie and another has been
called.
About $4,000 fruit trees were mar
keted by one firm alone in Montrose
this year.
The government oil survey of the
western slope is to be started within
few weeks.
Limon has had a meeting to hear
arguments for the establishment of
waterworks there.
The American Surgical Association
will meet in Denver in 1911, advices
from the East say.
Mrs. Elizabeth Stauffer, a resident
of Colorado since 1880, died at Wind
sor at the age of 81.
Senator Guggenheim Monday intro
duced a bill granting the town of
Fruita $40 acres for park.
Uneva lake, 10000 feet up, near
Frisco, will be restocked with trout
by the company controlling it.
The spring wheat acreage in Lar
inner county this year will show 100
per cent increase over last.
Frank Deputy is appointed post
master at lockwood, La Plata county,
Colo, vice B. E. Swire. resigned.
The mayor and council of Albuquer-
que, N. NJ, inspected the new water
system at Las Animas, Tuesday.
The Hugo volunteer fire department
has a new chemical engine to occupy
its spare moments in practice.
The old own of Montezuma, in Sum-
nit county. is blinking at the new
electric lights recently installed there.
The question of issuing $4,000
bonds for county high school in
Cheyenne county. was defeated.
Traffic on the aerial tramway from
Silver Plume to the summit of Sun
rise peak will be opened about June
18th.
Arthur Dillon, living near Montrose,
caught coyote on his ranch the other
day which was decorated with sheep
bell.
Sixty thousand trout were planted
in Deckers lake and the streams be-
tween Crested Butte and Jacks Cabin
last week.
The Fort Collins Courier Publishing
Company it at work on an elaborate
history of Larimer county, soon to be
published.
The vallery Town Company has ar
ranged to plant shade trees sixty feet
apart on both sides of every street
in the town.
The Larimer county commissioners
have made a trip to ascertain whether
a road up Poudre canyon would be
feasible or not. A decision has not
yet been reached.
The hoboes arriving at Hugo are
put to work on the streets. A couple
of them didn't like that arrangement
and dug out of the bastile and de-
camped.
Alfred H. Law, publisher of the
Walden New Era, who was shot by
]. N. Davis last week, is reported to
be showing every sign of ultimate re.
covery.
Johnstown has been decided upon
by eastern interests for the installa-
ton of a condensed milk factory. 1t
will distribute about $4,000 per year
to dairymen.
Eugene F. Ballard, a building con-
tractor of Denver, died Tuesday night
as the result of injuries received by
being struck by an automobile driven
by w. H. Althouse.
Bent county commercial interests
and the county commissioners have
voted to raise $4,000 for an exhibit at
the National Irrigation Congress to
be held at Pueblo this fall.
Miss Margaret Gripp, living near
Grand valley, nearly lost her life the
other day by taking mercury pills
which she thought contained quinine.
Two physicians were summoned and
her life was saved.
Ranches in the vicinity of Fort Col
Inns are being equipped with electric
pumps so that water may be had
whether Boreas is working or not
The Northern Colorado Power Com
pany furnishes the juice by special
transmission line.
Senator Guggenheim Tuesday Of
fered an amendment to the sundry
civil appropriations bill to provide an
appropriation of $4,000 for building
bulustrade and making other in
terror betterments in the Colorado
Springs public building.
The Colorado Springs Park Commits
sion has issued letter to the public,
urging the citizens to vote for the is
suing of bonds for the purchase OF
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