The Colorado statesman., 1910-06-25
COLORADO
STATE NEWS

town lighted by electricity.
Rocky Ford Elks expect to take
steps soon toward providing lodge
home.
The town of Hayden has granted an
electric light franchise, to run twenty
five years.
A fine flow of water has been struck
in the test artesian well being sunk In
Grand Junction.
Trinidad Eplscopalians will endeav-
or to raise $4,000 to huild new
church edifice.
The Telluride Iron Foundry was
damaged to the extent of $4,000 by
ire Friday noon.
Caonn City has been selected as the
meeting place of the State Epworth
League next year.
The town of Collbran is trying to
figure out plan for the acquisition
of a waterworks plant.
The Denver Fire and Police Board
has issued orders that no fireworks
are to be sold prior to July I'd.
Lemuel T. Talmage, veteran OF the
Civil War, was found dead at George
town, where he had lived forty-two
years.
Six cowboys from Nebraska are on
their way to North Park to roundup a
large number of wild horses which
range in that section.
The American Association of Trans
portation and Car Accounting officers,
$50 strong, are meeting this week at
Colorado Springs.
Henry T. Rogers, Denver man,
was elected chairman of the Yale
alumni advisory board at New Haven,
Conn, Monday night.
Telluride Elks presented Past Ex-
halted Ruler F. e. Curry with life
membership card, of solid gold and
Weighing nearly four ounces.
Mike Bupka was asphyxiated in the
steel works at Puebla Tuesday by in
haling gas from a supply pipe. He had
had employment only a few hours.
The Alma Bulletin reports that 1.-The
Hilltop mine shipped eighty cars OF
high-grade zinc and lead ore last
month, and will do better this month" :"
The big Baptist meeting of this year
will be held at Cascade canon from
July 22d to August 1st More than
thousand delegates are expected to at
tend.
Hon. S. A. Griffin, prominent law
yer of Boulder, died suddenly at his
home Sunday. He was about 65 years
old and at one time was regent OF
the State University.
| AL hy q
late Gen. William ]. Palmer at Colo
RADIO Springs, has been sold to DR.. A.
M. Forster of Baltimore for consid-
Grafton around $4,000.
Linley Sample, ranchman living
near Calhan, received serious and
possibly fatal wound when a gun he
was carrying in his hip pocket
dropped and was discharged into his
thigh.
Evarts Tracy, architect of the new
Denver postoffice, says that, after hav-
ing visited the famous marble quarries
of Italy, Colorado marble quarries have
no superior in the world for capacity,
quantity and quality.
Professor Claude Hinman of the
Kansas Agricultural College has noti-
fled DR.. Lory that he will accept his
offer to become director of farmers
institutes at Colorado Agricultural
Colorado.
Glenwoods annual Strawberry Day
celebration Saturday is reported to
have been the best ever. About 5000
attended. In the hose contest the team
from Aspen was awarded the first
prize, Palisade second and Glenwood
third.
1t is proposed to have body guard
comprising every sheriff in Colorado
to meet Col. Roosevelt at the state
line and escort him upon his trip
throughout the state upon the occa-
here this fall.
Walter B. Edwards, vice president OF
the First State Bank of Hillrose, was
found dead Monday, he having commit
ted suicide by means of shotgun. Ill
health is supposed to have been the
cause. He left an estate valued at
about $25,O00.
The commissioners OF Larimer coun-
ty have just been informed by gov
ernment inspector that the lumber
they have been buying for numerous
new bridges, ETC., had been cut from
government land. Informations are to
be filed against the dealers.
New officers of the Colorado State
Christian Endeavor Society elected at
Sterling Saturday are: President, Her
bert r. Chapman, Colorado Springs;
vice president, w. M. Cocks. Denver;
recording secretary, Miss Edna Bru-
ner, Loveland treasurer, Joseph
SchIotter, Colorado Springs. Rev. Joel
Harper was chosen superintendent OF