The Colorado statesman., 1910-07-16
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/ ing bonds.
A Christian church is being organ
lied at Montrose.
Colonel Roosevelt will be asked to
visit Rocky Ford Melon Day.
Iowa residents of Palisade are ar
ranging for an Iowa day August Sd.
Glenwood Springs wants the state
Republican convention. So does Grand
Junction.
Las Animas county has expended
$4,000 for new iron and steel bridges
this spring.
Irrigation enterprises around Rifle
contemplate the watering of $4,000
acres of land.
Col Roosevelt has telegraphed to
Denver that he will be there August
18th, arriving at 80 a. m.
The contract has been let for the
new Catholic church at Sterling. 1t
calls for a $4,000 structure.
Mr.. Scarpello of Niwot thinks his
sixty-five acres of wheat will yield
thirty-five bushels per acre.
The new school building at Windsor
has been completed at cost of $40,-
600 1t is modern in every detail.
Pablo Valdez of Trinidad is dead
from blood poisoning, as the result of
having cut corn from one of his toes.
Fort Morgan citizens voted to grant
Paul Challiss of Greeley franchise
for a gas plant, and he will start upon
his $4,000 system at once.
]. NJ. Palmer of Rocky Ford, who
raises alfalfa for the seed, will real
ize about s1S5 per acre from his 1910
crop. Last year it was s16S per acre.
Palisade has started off well with
its early peaches. During the week
ending July 9th there were sent out
1896 crates-about six and half car
loads.
Benino Fernandez was instantly
killed at the Minnequa plant at Pu-
eblo by being run down by a large
crane. He evidently stepped in front
of it without seeing it.
Mrs. S. Yarberry, wife of a well
known ranchmal of Avondale, was
struck by lightning, receiving injuries
that may prove fatal, being badly
burned about the back and both legs
Stephen F. Wilson, a Denver & Rio
Grande freight brakeman, was instant
ly killed at Florence by coming in con-
tact with an overhead bridge as he
was standing upon a box car. His
body was hurled fifty feet.
Jackson Cary of De Beque was held
up, slugged, robbed of s2S and thrown
into the river. Cary, who is old, man
aged to crawl up the bank and make
his way to assistance, and two sus-
poets were arrested for the deed.
A new entrance from the north to
City Park, Denver, quarter of a mile
in length and 130 feet wide is pro-
vided for in a measure passed by the
board of supervisors. 1t will be part
or the extensive boulevard system OF
the city.
When Archie Bishop, aged II, cut
an artery in his foot while in the river
near Greeley the other day, his little
brother, aged 13, hoisted him up on
his fack and carried him home, where
medical assistance was called and his
life probably saved.
The Colorado Supreme Court has
taken original jurisdiction in the mat
ter of the consolidation of the City
and County of Denver, and granted
uuo warranto writ made returnable
August 1st, in the suit to oust the
county commissioners.
Conditions in the national forests in
Colorado are to be examined and the
mooted question regarding the amount
of agricultural land lying in the ma
tional forests in this state are to be
thoroughly inquired into by Henry S.
Graves, head of the national forestrE
service, the latter part of this month.
A skeleton found between Hardin
and Masters by Burlington engineers
recently has been identified, it is be-
lieved, as that of Mrs c. A. White OF
Missouri, who was drowned in the Box
Elder in June, 1850. After the find had
been made known Greeley parties be-
gan an investigation which resulted
Ill pretty well establishing its identity.
r. II. Valentine, well-to-do farmer
living northwest of Greeley, disap-
peared four weeks ago and has not
been heard from. He stepped out of
the house saying he would be back in
a few minutes. He recently inherited
| $4,000, it is said. HIS domestic Ire
was happy, and his strange action can
not be accounted for.
Timothy O'Connor, United States
surveyor general for Colorado; Arthur
D. Kidder, United States supervising
surveyor for Colorado and Utah, and
Frank Johnson, holding the same posi-
ton for Wyoming and Montana, have
been in conference at the Denver Of
flee for several days making plans for
surveying and re-surveying public
lands in the Western states under the
| Innc Laid down by recent enactment