The Colorado statesman., 1910-06-18

TUESDAY.
Hugo has a new fire engine and
volunteer fire company will be organ
lied to run it.
fine flow of water has been struck
in the test artesian well being sunk in
Grand Junction.
C. A. Woodmansee is the new sec
retary of the Loveland Chamber OF
Commerce.
Former residents of Illinois living at
and near Fort Collins will hold pic
mic August 25th.
Clifton will market $50 acres of can
taloupes this year. The prospect Is
good for a fine crop.
The 1,500 beet th:nners in the Gree
ley district have just about finished
their Job for this year.
Horse, motorcycle and foot races
will be items of the program for the
celebration at Stonington.
The first electric locomotive for the
Grand Valley interurban railroad has
arrived at Grand Junction.
A. ]. Denton has the contract for
carrying the mail between Meeker and
Buford, beginning July 1st.
Roy Brown of Merino discovered a
coyote den the other day continuing
five pups, which he captured.
Denver has a delegate at st. Paul
trying to get the 1911 convention of
the National Real Estate Exchanges.
Columbine lake, Grand county, will
be improved by a Denver club for
Headquarters for sportsmen while
hunting in that vicinity.
Among the features slated for Straw
berry Day at Glenwood Springs will be
a firemen's tournament, for which flve
teams have already entered.
The contract has been let for new
bridge across the South Platte be-
tween Merino and Atwood. The struc-
ture will be 1000 feet long.
The tenth annual meeting of the
Northwestern Association of Congre-
gational Churches and Ministers will
be held at Craig June Goth to 22d.
The Colorado Telephone Company
has bought controlling interest in
the Independent local company at
Wray, and will assume management.
Frank M. Brown and his five-year-
old son have brought suit against the
Denver City Tramway Company for
$4,000 for the little boys loss of leg
when a street car struck him last Feb
ruory.
Platteville will attempt to put an
end to the crazy gait of Denver-Gree-
ley autoists through town and has
equipped its motor patrolman with
motorcycle SO he can give chase If nee
essary.
The Colorado Springs & Cripple
Aerial Tramway Company has been in
corporated with a capitalization OF
S50O,000. Springs capitalists of un-
doubted means and ability are inter
ested.
The Num- Booster Club has been or
ganized, and among the first benefits
to be sought will be rural mail route
to accommodate the rapidly increasing
farm population. At the same meet
ing it was decided to celebrate the
Fourth at Num-.
The Meeker Herald urges the organ
ization of body "to force not only the
Denver papers but the entire nation to
know that Rio Blanco county is
county separate and apart from all
others, and a haven of opportunity"
State chemists having examined the
river water at Grand Junction for ty-
phoid germs and found none. their at
tention was directed to the investiga-
tion of distilled water sold in bottles
and there the trouble was discovered
Its further sale was prohibited.
Dr. Lamb, state veterinarian, went
to Grand Junction to investigate the
cause of the poisoning of 200 head OF
cattle belonging to Austin Corcoran,
and found that the trouble was due to
the catNe having eaten wild larkspur
Eleven of the herd died.
The big Baptist meeting of this year
will be held at Cascade canon from
July 22d to August 1st. More than
thousand delegates are expected to at
tend.
Fort Collins papers say that it is
now only a question of short time
until work will be begun on the scenic
highway from Fort Collins to Estes
Park.
Salida knights of Pythias held big
Jubilee and banquet at their meeting
last week in celebration of the burning
of the mortgage which has encum-
bered their building for several years