The Colorado statesman., 1910-03-19
COLORADO
STATE NEWS


were over 100000.
The fourth woman's club was or
ganized at Lake City last week.
Trinidad is raising $4,000 to finance
a local ball team for the season.
La Veta will vote on a $4,000 bond
issue to improve it's waterworks.
The new Holyoke electric light
plant is nearly ready for operation.
Daniel Wells, an old resident of Sa-
Ida. died Friday, aged eighty-one.
A petition for a new water company
franchise was filed in Denver Tues
day.
A Gentlemans Riding and Driving
Club has been incorporated at Lead
vile.
The new s275.OOO postoffice at Col
orado Springs has been opened for
business.
The Greeley band mas voted to join
the First Regiment, N. G. c., as the
regimental band.
One car of hogs sold in Denver Mon
day at s1O.571a, a new top price for
that market.
Company has been incorporated with
$4,000 capital.
About $4,000 head of fat lambs left
the Greeley station Tuesday for the
Chicago market.
The First National Bank of Gill.
with s25,OOO capital, was authorized in
Washington Tuesday.
The state convention of the Farm
ers' Union is being held at Glenwood
Springs this week.
Word from Khartoum, Tuesday, was
that Colonel Roosevelt would probably
visit Denver in August.
John S. Irby, Mayor Speer's secre-
tary, has been elected president of the
Denver Press Club.
A resolution passed the Pueblo City
Council looking toward the building
of new City hall.
Professor Dietrich, for fourteen
years superintendent of the Colorado
Springs schools, has resigned.
A movement is afoot in Denver to
have moving picture shows, arcades
and window cards censored
The Chaffee County Sunday School
convention will be held at Salida
March 31st and April 1st.
Judge George w. Allen was elected
chairman of the Denver city Republi-
can committee Tuesday night.
A Union Pacific conductor was
fined $40 and costs at Eaton for block
ing a crossing longer than supposed to
be necessary.
George Cook, aged 33, a laborer
working for the Denver Pressed Brick
company, was instantly killed Monday
when q twenty y-five-foot clay bank fell
on him.
By the vote of stockholders, at their
adjourned meeting at Colorado
Springs, Tuesday, A. L. Burris and as
sociates retain control of the Ell Paso
company.
A fee of $4,075 was paid into the Of
flee of the secretary of state Monday
by Wells, Fargo & Company, which in
creased it's capitalization from sS,000,-
900 to $24.OO0,000.
At Marshall, Monday, r. E. Walker,
farmer, had part of thumb bitten
off by Tony Girardo, a teamster, who
had been beating his team with a
shovel, when Walker interfered.
The National Jewish Hospital for
Consumptives at Denver is benefit
ciary in the sum of $4,000 by the pro-
visions of the will of Ascher Silber-
stein, wealthy Jew of Dallas, Texas,
who died recently.
Representative Martin has intro
duced in Congress bills providing for
the purchase of a site for a public
building at La Junta at cost not eX-
ceeding 81 and for the erection of
federal building at cost not exceed
ing $4,000.
The Colorado Smelter Company, one
of the three companies that will erect
smelters in the vicinity of Ouray this
spring, was incorporated Monday with
capital of $1,O0O.OOO. The incorpor-
ators are Eastern men.
More than four tons of fish for the
Denver market was taken from Neff
lake reservoir, northwest of Greeley in
two hauls The carp were the only
ones taken from the seine, the bass
berch and suckers being replaced in
the reservoir. One of the carp weighed
forty-one pounds.
Mrs. Elizabeth McCourt, eighty-five
years old, died at her home in Chicago
last Sunday. She was former resi-
dent of Denver and the mother of Pc
ter McCourt, Mrs. H. A. w. Tabor,
Philip and William McCourt of Den
yer, Mark E. McCourt and Mrs. Nc
Cabe of Chicago.
Announcement is made that the Col
orado Alumni Association of Columbia