The Colorado statesman., 1910-09-03
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The Fort Collins band won first
prize at the Elks convention.
Greeley public schools open with
larger enrolment than ever before.
Greeley working men observe Labor
Day, Sep. 4th, by attending church in
body.
The Episcopalians of Greeley are
about to begin the construction OF
$4,000 stone church.
Sheep sickness is battling veterina-
rians in Middle park and the sheep
are dying by hundreds.
Sheriff Nisbet of Denver has been
reelected president of the Colorado
Sheriffs Association.
Union printers picnic, with program
of music and speeches, at the Home in
Colorado Springs, Sunday, Sept. 4th.
The Holly Sugar Company will offer
special premiums for the best exhibits
of sugar beets at the Pueblo State
Fair.
Reports Of seventy-five and eighty
five bushels of wheat to the acre con-
tinue to come in from northern Colo
RADIO.
The threshing that has been done in
Lake View neighborhood shows the
grain to be fine and the yield above
the average.
d The Woman's Club of Denver have
appointed a special committee to
search out the blind with the object OF
instructing them.
At Pueblo the Republicans have set
Saturday, Sept. IT, for the county con-
vention. Primaries previous Thursday.
Made up of 435 delegates.
The Colorado Rifle Team comes
home from the annual shoot at Camp
Perry, Ohio, with thirty gold, bronze
and silver medals and 5000 in cash
prizes.
In Colorado ten postmasters have
signified their desire to conduct pos
tai savings banks and seventeen banks
have applied to be designated as de-
positories.
While her nine small children stared
in horror, Mrs. Lillian Jameson OF
Denver, wife of ]. B. Jameson, Tues
day night drank carbolic acid and died
within a few minutes.
Directors of the Greeley-Poudre IT.
rigation district are negotiating with
B. d. Sanborn for the purchase OF pre-
ferred water rights out of Boyd lake,
which the latter owns.
The propriety of Col. Roosevelts
criticism of some United States SUI
preme Court decisions before the Colo
RADIO Legislature, while in Denver, Is
creating considerable discussion east
The State Board of Health has Sc
cured the services of an expert on
dairy sanitation from the government
bureau with the purpose of placing
Denver and Colorado dairies in tho
highest sanitary condition.
ELM" is the pretty name of the new
station established on the Denver, Lar
annie & Northwestern railroad, eight
miles west of Greeley, and heavy ship
ments of grain are being made from
there to Denver and Greeley.
Fossils of a species of prehistoric
deep-sea dwellers, known to science
as the pearly nautilus, estimated by
p ,f. Beardsley of the State Normal
School to be from 100000 to 5,OO0,-
600 years old, have been found by
workmen near Greeley.
Contractor Underwood Of Fort Col
Inns is to get 100000 for building a
big reservoir near Las Vegas, New
Mexico. The reservoir will take water
from the Gallinas river and valley,
which promises to be one of the most
fertile in the world, is to be devel-
oped.
The mining committee of the Cham
Der of Commerce is sending out cir
cular to every company in the state
containing questions regarding the
conditions under which each company
is operating or was forced to suspend
operations The resulting information
is expected to bring about improve
ment in mining.
Peaches, the largest weighing 15A
ounces, being 3B inches in diameter
and 11A inches in circumference, and
taking but ten to make yard, have
set this years pace for big Elberta
peaches. They were brought in by j.
II. Litleton of First Fruit Ridge,
Grand Junction district. Mr.. Litleton
is going to put his peaches in cold
storage for the Mesa County Fair and
hopes for prizes on them.
For the first time probably since
the ancient cliff dwellers of the Mesa
Verde, southwest of Mancos, carved
their homes from the sides of the
mountain, human hands will erect
timbers and construct masonry IN the
ruins. The walls and the rooms are
failing outward and an effort will be
made to preserve them by the gov
ernment. Prof. Edgar Hewitt and
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