The Colorado statesman., 1910-05-07
COLORADO
STATE NEWS

One case OF smallpox at huuSoh'
Gilcrest has organized a commercial
club.
Delta had a $4,000 fire Monday
morning.
A state bank has been organized al
Crawford.
Ranch hands are reported scarce
around Parker.
1t is reported that La Jara Will have
another newspaper.
The First National Bank OF Eaton
will double It's capital.
Winter wheat around Wiley is said
to be looking extremely fine.
Work on Fort Lupton's new water
works was commenced Tuesday.
The Farmers State Bank Of Center
has been changed to national bank.
The Garfield county grand jury re-
turned nearly a hundred indictments.
The town of Collbran is taking steps
to acquire and improve a public park
Capt" William Thurston, cente-
marian (colored) of Cripple Creek, is
dead.
A postoffice has been re-established
at Holtwold with Mrs. J. l.. Rector in
charge.
Irrigation projects under way in
Routt county will reclaim 721,OO0
acres.
Development will Immediately start
on a large tract OF coal land near
Axial
Fifteen thousand trees and shrubs
were received at Fountain one day
last week.
The Monte Vista city fathers have
ordered 10000 linear feet of sidewalks
laid this year.
The first number of the Sentinel,
Sligo's first newspaper has made its
appearance.
The upper Plateau valley will be
beautified by $4,000 trees this season,
all fruit-bearing.
All machinists in the Missouri Pa
cific shops at Pueblo obeyed the order
to strike Monday.
John NJ. Wood of Colorado Springs
was killed by runaway near Fowler
Monday afternoon.
Canon City papers report that that
section will have the biggest fruit
crop in its history.
A party OF surveyors working south
from Brush refuse to divulge the OBJ
ject of their labors.
Material has arrived for the connec-
ton of Pagosa Springs by telephone
with the outside world.
c. w. Balm and seven children have
come down with the smallpox on
Quartz creek, near Pitkin.
A 'Dandelion Killers Club" has
been organized at Fort Collins with
large charter membership.
w. H. Cotton of Thornburg killed
eleven wolves in ten days, and w. B.
Blythe secured five on Piceance creek.
The thirteenth annual convention of
the Otero County Sunday School Asso-
citation will begin at Manzanola May
9th.
Breckenridge, Como, Jefferson, Ga
organize a baseball league OF their
own.
Greeley will have a public play
ground for the kids, and ground for
that purpose has been leased for five
years.
Chicago is the name OF a new town
started out on the plains. Most OF the
settlers there are from the Illinois me-
tropolis.
Manzanola's new park will be opened
to the public on the occasion of the
Fourth of July celebration at that
place.
The four-year-old son OF Mrs. Bud
Lee of Chrome was severely burned by
tumbling backward into a tub of boil
ing water.
The Manitou telephone exchange
will be consolidated with the Colorado
Springs exchange, and operated from
the latter city.
Thirty-three business houses in
Louisville have signed an agreement
to close Wednesday afternoons during
May, June, July and August.
The sailors at the Fort Lyon Naval
Hospital have organized baseball
team and have cleaned up several
mines in the Arkansas valley.
Andrew Carnegie has sent a check
of 81 1000 to aid the fund for an eques
trian statue of Gen. w. ]. Palmer, to
be erected at Colorado Springs.
Mrs. Julia Ann Joslyn, a member OF
very old and interesting family OF
American colonists, died at Walsen-
burg last week at the age OF eighty.
Dogs stampeded herd OF 700 cattle
in a pasture near Galatea, and in their
mad rush the cattle tore down mile
of fence and were scattered over a
large territory.
Mrs. Burtis, near Akron. experienced
a peculiar accident the other day. AS