The Colorado statesman., 1910-02-26
COLORADO ITEMS

third week in April.
A combination of former large cattle
ranches on the Platte river. near Har-
din, win form the Woodsdale irrigation
district to be organized soon.
Judge Hubert l.. Shattuck, in the
District Court at Denver, has appoint
ed John ID. Allen receiver for the Colo
rado Investment Loan Company.
Parolman Henry Schwartz. said to
be the richest of Denver policemen,
was tried before the fire and police
board for drunkenness and was dis
charged from the force.
Professor f. p. Taylor has been ap-
pointed horticultural inspector for
Mesa county, to succeed former Rep
resentative A. B. Boyd, author OF the
Boyd horticultural bill, resigned.
James f. Burns expects to advertise
for bids for his 100000 theater at
Colorado Springs within the next thir-
by days. Contracts for the building
will be let about April 1st, according
to present plans.
For using profane language in the
Springs man was sentenced to six
months in the county jail. However,
the sentence was suspended during
good behavior.
Vice President A. d. Parker of the
Colorado & Southern railroad has de-
MED rumor that the company would
electrify it's line between Denver and
Morrison, which 1t began to broad
gauge last fall.
The Denver Park Commission con-
templates the construction OF coast
ing and skeeing course, to be ready for
use next winter. There is no better
fun than sliding down hill, when there
is enough snow.
The bodies of F. II. Fields and
Speaker Moasly, negroes, We're re-
covered from the Primero mines few
days ago. The bodies of sixty-eight
Of the seventy-six miners killed jan
nary 31st have been recovered.
AT a meeting of the Rifle Chamber
of Commerce, Fred Munro, Joe Luxen
and w. H. Haley, cashier OF the First
National Bank, were appointed a COM
mittee to prepare for the building Of
a large auditorium on the site recently
purchased by the city for park.
Secretary Boggess of the Colorado
Chautauqua at Boulder says that al
ready a record number of inquiries
have been received regarding the sum-
mer session, which commences July 4.
The institution now ranks fourth in
The United States.
meeting of the stockholders of
the Colorado Kansas Railroad Compa-
ny will be held in Pueblo March 22d,
to authorize the issuance of bonds to
build the road into Fremont county.
The company is considering plans for
a line to the top of the Royal Gorge.
In the recent death of William Phil
lips of Severance, in Weld county,
Colorado lost pioneer. Phillips was
seventy-six and was foreman on the
Union Pacific when it was built from
Omaha to Salt Lake. He drove stage
between Denver and Golden in 1874.
He leaves four sons, two in Denver,
one at Severance and one in Missouri,
and a daughter.
Union Pacific officials have an
nounced the location of four new
townsites on the branch to Fort Col
Inns, which leaves one of the two
main lines running into La Sale at
Dent. One is in section 10, township
5. range 81, between Officer and Ra-
gan. The others are in Larimer coun-
ty, one Just east of Boyd's Lake and
one in the Harmony district
IL IT,. f.Nt.. .Nfe Af
to northern Colorado this summer, it
is apparent that an acreage exceeding
that of previous years by 100000 Will
be planted this season within the
Greeley district. While much of the
new land to come under irrigation for
the first time will be planted to grain
and potatoes, the older farmers of the
district will seed more than one-half
of their acreage to alfalfa.
|. Idelson, the Denver Jewish rabbi,
has bought $40 acres in the vicinity
of Ault for $4,000. from Thomas Bal
lentine, ex-city editor of a Peoria, ILL.,,
newspaper, now landowner and horse
man in Colorado. Rabbi Idelson. 1t is
said, will plant his farm to grain, po-
tatoes and beets, and employ Jewish
farmers 1t is understood that II sue
cessful he will buy adjoining land and
devote his tracts to practical philan-
thropy.
One hundred thousand acres of des'
ert land in Routt and Rio Blanco
counties, recently restored to the pub
lie domain, are to be irrigated by the
Northwestern Irrigation Company,
which has filed articles of incorpora-
lion in the office of the secretary OF
state. The incorporators are w. j.
Fine, II. B. Boughner and d. S. Ham
ilton. Engineers have staked the line
of the canal for ninety miles from the
north fork of the White river, by tun-
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