The Colorado statesman., 1910-04-09
COLORADO
STATE NEWS

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A commercial club has been organ
ized at Keota.
Manitou has had no fire loss during
the past year.
Denver building permits for March
totaled $1.121 300
| just east of Manitou.
The Burlington roundhouse at Hol-
yoke burned Thursday.
jeremiah ]. Cogan has been appoint
ed postmaster at Penrose.
The Hassell iron works at Idaho
| Springs burned Thursday.
A company of the N. G. c. will be
organized at Longmont
e. L. Moody. pioneer, died at Cen
trail City. aged seventy-nine.
A cooperative coal mining company
is being organized at Erie.
Fruit districts report but slight
damage from the recent storm.
The question of a waterworks sys-
tenn is being agitated at Eagle.
Canon City will hold an apple bios
som celebration" at the proper time.
Sixty-five new residences are in
course of erection at Montrose.
Harry Walters killed himself at La
mar by shooting, Wednesday.
Moving pictures of Colonel Roose-
welt in Africa will be shown in Den
YER
Denver "drys" claim to have secured
16,S00 signers to their petition in
week.
The new Portland mill at Victor has
been started up. 1t will treat low
grade.
The cornerstone of the pioneers
monument in Denver was laid We'd
nesday.
Bristol is "going into" cantaloupes,
and 200 acres will be planted this
year.
Ore assaying $2,4OO per ton is re-
ported from the new Bald Mountain
district.
Steamboat Springs frontier festivi-
ties have been dated for July 4th, 5th
and 9Th.
Charles Bailey, colored, formerly of
Denver, was found dead in his cabin
near Kiowa.
The Silverton Northern railroad.
which has been blocked by snow, is
open again.
B. c. Catron, Jr., was elected mayor
of Georgetown, Monday on the Boost
err ticket.
The Maximilian mine at Sunshine
has developed 14-inch streak of
tungsten ore.
The new Catholic church at Fort
Lupton was dedicated Sunday by
Bishop Matz.
Joe Picararo, an italian, fell off his
his neck. He died.
G. B. McDermott, superintendent of
the c. F. & l. at Tercio, died Monday
night, aged "a.
The Farmers Union is establishing
a chain of commercial houses and
banks in western Colorado.
Ranchmen in the Grand Valley say
the late cool spell did not injure the
Iruit prospects.
The Swedish Evangelical Luther
ans dedicated their new church at
Ault Sunday.
Denver and eastern capitalists will
build a sugar factory at Monte Vista
to cost s1,O00,OO0.
The Florence Fair and Baseball AS
sociation has been organized and will
open it's grounds July 4th.
Alfred Patek of Denver has been ap-
pointed secretary of the new immigra-
tion board at a salary of $4,000 per
year.
Driving was resumed at the New
house tunnel, Idaho Springs, Monday
morning, after a three-months' suspen-
sion.
A hundred men have been put to
work on the Schaefer dam and reser-
voir of the Beaver Land and Irriga-
ton Company.
The Lucania Tunnel and Mines Com
pany at Idaho Springs will at once let
a contract for driving an additional
900 feet.
The State Board of Health declares
that rabies exists in Colorado and has
ordered muzzles put on all dogs in the
state.
Joseph Erie of Denver has tested
the new aeroplane which he recently
built, and Is satisfied it will be sue
cessfu1.
William T. Shaw. 30, and Joseph J.
Smith, 23, soldier prisoners at Fort
Logan, escaped from the guard house
Tuesday morning.
Mrs. Anna Welch, a member Of the
Union colony, died at Greeley, aged
81, Tuesday; also, the same day, John
Prendergast, aged Sc.
Weld county schools have formed
an oratorical association. Final con
tests will be held between April 18th