The Colorado statesman., 1910-04-30
Arova will have a hotel.

The Pioneers Association will hold
a celebration at Craig. Junt 10th.
A commercial club has been organ
lied in the growing town of Blanca,
Mosby is a new postoffice eleven
miles southeast of Calhan. J. +. Lyons
is postmaster.
A modern creamery is to be estab-
lished at Rush, and the machinery for
it is arriving.
The Longmont w. c. T. U. has
erected a public drinking fountain
eight feet high.
The Midland oil house at Cardiff
was burned Monday night with S15,-
600 worth of oil.
Twenty mountain sheep crossed the
road just in front of the stage near AL
pine the other day.
The old woodbury. ranch near Foun-
tain was sold to Chicago man the
other day for s47,500.
Ouray county stockmen are arrang-
ing for meeting at Ridgway to or
ganize a protective association.
The Paonia council will advertise
lOr DlQS lot COHCIele ISSelNOIl VI
100000 gallons capacity.
1t is proposed to water a tract of
10000 acres near Arlington by means
of gasoline pumping plants.
Jacob Carr, aged fifty-three, was
found dead in his room on Larimer
street, Denver, Sunday night.
The graduating class of the Colorado
Agricultural College at Fort Collins
will number about fifty this year.
Arthur p Church started the fund
for Denver's permanent symphony or
chestra with check for $1,000.
The Lafayette News-Free Press re-
ports the coal strike in that district
quiet, with no disturbance OF any
kind
The Ladies' Improvement Club of
Pagosa Springs has provided passen-
ger swings for the tots in the city
park.
All preliminary arrangements have
been made by public spirited men for
public playground for the children of
Greeley.
Broomfield farmers are endeavoring
to secure contracts for ! 800 acres OF
alfalfa to insure the building of an al
falfa mill there.
The Las Animas High school, in
stead of the usual class play, will
render the opera, BELLS of Corne-
ville,' May 18th.
A Berthoud farmer marketed an au-
toload of eggs the other day. He prob
ttn n wi ha
ceeds of a previous load.
The Sedgwick County Fair Associa-
tion is to be put on a permanent basis.
and this years exhibit will be held
at Julesburg Sept. 30-Oct. l.
Mr.. and Mrs. A. G. Wallihan Of Lay.
big game photographers of national
reputation, celebrated their silver we'd
ding anniversary last week.
Ridgway schools recently held a
very successful exhibit of the work Of
pupils, with numerous prizes to in
spire the youthful genius.
Montrose fruit growers have sent
out statement that the fruit crop
in that section will be % to 40 per
cent. larger than in any previous year.
The law and order league at Las
AnlludS mas llleu Win the ulSLlCL dI-
torney about hundred informations
in re gambling and liquor selling.
Cheyenne county will vote on the
subject of high school district, and
the proposition carries bonds in the
amount of $4,000 for building.
Thomas Barrett, pioner and border
Indian fighter, died at New Castle last
week at the age of IA. He had car
ried two Indian arrowheads in his
breast for many years, which had
struck him in battles with the red
skins.
That the Colorado Agricultural Col
lege has one of the finest collections
of bugs in the United States is the
! statement made by Prof Hubert Os-
born, zoologist of the State University
of Ohio, who visited Fort Collins this
week.
A report from Montrose says that
it is reported on what is said to be
good authority that the Denver G. Rio
Grande railroad will build the Mont
rose and Paradox Valley line. 1t is
| said that the bonds of the road have
been guaranteed by the Denver & Rio
| Grande and that the engineers now en-
gagged on the preliminary surveys for
the road are Rio Grande men.
A mineral strike of more than usual
importance is reported from near
Cotopaxi. The vein is claimed to be
ninety feet wide and runs $3.50 per ton
in cobalt of nickel. and $50 per ton in
gold, silver and copper.