The Colorado statesman., 1910-05-21
COLORADO
STATE NEWS

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The Evans town council has stopped |
Sunday baseball there.
Ground has been broken for Anto-
nito's new flour mill.
The Canon City high school gradu-
ated twenty-eight this year.
The Order OF Moose will build its
own lodge hall at Salida.
School at Eagle has been closed on
account of scarlet fever.
The gun club at Genoa is preparing
for a tournament on the 2Sth.
Romeo's new hotel will cost over
$4,000. The contract has been let.
Clifton has petitioned the postoffice
department for a rural mail route.
Scott league and Oren Gray OF
Yampa bagged four bears in two days
last week.
The Greeley Public Fairgrounds AS
sociation has been Incorporated, not
for profit.
Costilla county commissioners will
build bridge across the Culebra, near
San Acacio.
The Logan County Sunday School
convention will be held in Sterling,
May 25th.
Lamar sportsmen have organized a
trap club and have held their first reg
ular shoot.
Lake Crosho, eight miles from Yam
pa, is to be improved with a fine no
tel, launches, etc.
The town of Limon has passed an
ordinance taxing real estate dealers
5000 a year.
The mail service from Craig to
Baggs, Wyo., will be changed back to
three times week.
A Montrose firm is preparing to set
out an apple orchard at Olathe which
will comprise 1,600 acres.
Miss A. S. Jones of Sheridan Lake
has invested in a gasoline plow and
put it to work on her land.
One hundred acres of ground at
Steamboat Springs is being set with
100000 strawberry plants.
The President has appointed Rob
ert C. Hall postmaster at Del Norte
and Judge c. Bailey at Wootton.
The Park County Cattle Growers
association will hold its annual meet
ing at Fairplay on the 2Sth.
A boosters club has been formed at
Derby to acquaint the world at large
of the advantages of that section.
Yampa people will build good road
to Trapper's lake, one of the most
famous resorts in the state.
In addition to other important build
ing operations at Saguache, modern
hotel to cost $4,000 will be erected.
Mrs. Helen Sill of Gunnison was
elected department president of the
W.R.C C. at Grand Junction last week
The sailing plant of the Kuner Pick
lie Company at Brighton was burned
down Thursday night with loss OF
$4,000.
A Vernon correspondent says the
wheat is looking fine and prospects
are good for another banner crop this
year.
F. ]. Hulaniski has sold the Ouray
Plaindealer to Walter Walker, former
ly city editor of the Grand Junction
Sentinel.
The second district convention of
Christian churches of western Colora-
do will be held at Delta May 81, June
and 2.
The Trinchera colony tract, near
Blanca, is to be organized into an ir-
rigation district and 100000 in bonds
issued to improve it.
The proposition to issue bonds for
county high school in Rio Blanco
county was emphatically endorsed in
every district but one.
The new Denver & Gulf road is to
build depot at Lamar which will al
SO temporarily house the general Of
fices of the company.
The new town OF Mesiat, east o.
Antonito, is preparing to welcome the
first train on the San Luis Southern
Railroad early in June.
The D. G. r. G. is reported to have
leased its Calumet line from Browns
Canon for twenty-one years to David
Heaton, who will call it the Box Canon
railroad.
The Senate claims committee has re-
ported favorably Senator Guggen'
helms bill to pay Carl Kruger of the
Denver mint $500 on account of in
juries received while in the perform
ance of duties.
The stockholders of the Fort Lyon
| Canal Company met in Las Animas
Tuesday night and voted $675,000 in
bonds, of which s250,0OO will be used
to pay old Indebtedness and the re
mainder of removing membranes
and completing the reservoir
A baby was born to Mrs. Ella NJ.
Delaney of Glenwood Springs in a
Pullman car just as the train was
pulling into Fruita Friday night. Mrs.
| Delaney was returning home to Glen.