The Colorado statesman., 1910-08-27
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boxes of apples.
Newsboys in Grand Junction have
organized a union.
Gilcrest farmers expect to get s6
ton for their beets.
II is proposed to install sewer
system at Palisade.
Milliken's Incorporation election VIII
be held September Sth.
Two deaths have occurred at Colo
RADIO City from diphtheria.
Milliken will hold an incorporation
election September 10th.
Colorado Springs may install ere
matory for disposing OF refuse.
Charles Woodbury. OF La Sale had
his chin bitten off by vicious bron-
cho.
The new Fruita canning factory has
started its first run on tomatoes and
beans.
Two Aspen men who attempted to
start a balky horse were fined $40 for
cruelty to animals.
The amount apportioned to the fund
of the Colorado state militia bv the
government is s15,392.
Thomas H. Moore, a resident of the
Montrose country for about twenty-five
years, died at the age of rs.
The Methodist boys won the cham
pionship cup in the Grand Junction
Sunday School Baseball League.
A petition is being circulated at
Hayden for the submission of the wet
and dry proposition again this fall.
About 1000 men are at work on the
railroad between Pueblo and Walsen-
burg, where the line is being double
tracked.
Colorado produces one-fourth of the
beet sugar of the United States. Last
year the state turned out 2S0,000,0O0
pounds.
Elaborate plans are making for the
opening of the Roosevelt tunnel at
Cripple Creek. though the Colonel will
not be present.
C. ]. Kavalec of Brainard, Nebraska,
was crushed by an elevator at the Ala
mo hotel, Denver, so seriously that he
died at the hospital.
Vollmar is the name of a new town
to be established on the Denver, Lar
annie & Northwestern twenty-nine
miles north of Denver.
The contract for moving 100000 Gu
bic yards of dirt on the main canal of
the Pueblo & Rocky Ford Irrigation
Company has been let.
The Union Printers home at Colo
rado Springs was awarded first honors
for landscape gardening at the Ell
Paso Horticultural show.
At meeting of Greeley farmers Sat
urday night it was practically settled
| that a factory for the making of po-
tato starch would be built, to cost $685.
600.
Antelope are said to be so numerous
and tame in the Grover country that
they won't give the road for an auto
mobile, but run ahead Of the machine
for miles.
Miss Irene Howbert, a resident OF
| the Pixies Peak region since 1860 and
a member of one of Colorado's most
prominent families, died at Colorado
Springs at the age of go.
The Denver & Rio Grande has or
ganized a force of 100 men to work
day and night shifts icing refrigerator
cars at Grand Junction, Minturn, Glen
wood Springs, Pando and Cardiff.
Railroads operating on the western
slope have given assurances that the
shortage of refrigerator cars which
caused such annoyance and loss to
| fruit growers last year will not be re-
peated this year. but that plenty OF
cars have been arranged for to han
die the immense movement of fruit
speedily.
A big irrigation project which Will
mean much to the northwestern par.
of the state seems in fair way to
come to a successful elimination. 1t
| is proposed to take the water from
| the Williams Fork few miles above
the Egry ranch, carry 1t across the
| divide onto the Bear river slope and
irrigate about 10000 acres of land
south of Hayden and Craig. The plan
| is believed to be feasible and will no
doubt be carried through.
The Colorado Editorial Association
held it's midsummer meeting at Buena
Vista Friday and Saturday and were
| given a look-in at the new kuenzel
| smelter where ores were being re-
duced to a matter which will be refined
In department not yet completed.
The editors were also entertained at
banquet rendered by Warden and Mrs
Felix O'Neill of the State Reforma-
| tory, where urgent needs of the insti-
tuition were pointed out, and the news
paper men will work to create more
generous sentiment among their state
| legislators in the way of appropria-
| tons, that this institution may do ef-
| ficiently and speedily the work laid