The Colorado statesman., 1910-02-12
STATE NEWS ITEMS

news IS received tnHt freslueut ~
II. Moffat has ordered twenty new To-
comotiyes for the Moffat road.
The Farmers and Merchants State
Bank of Fort Lupton has been incor-
porated with a capital of $4,000.
A bald eagle measuring six feet one
inch from tip to tip was recently cap
tured near Fort Collins in a coyote
trap.
Contracts amounting to 10000 have
been made for free band concerts in
the City Park at Denver next sum-
mer.
The Colorado Fuel and Iron Com
pany has officially given out the num-
Der Of deaths in the Primero coal mine
explosion at seventy-five.
State Humane Agent O'ConneH is
making close inspection of grading
camps and arresting all foremen who
violate the state humane laws.
Canon City automobilists have taken
up the movement for the Arkansas
valley automobile boulevard, and VIII
join Pueblo in extending the road from
Pueblo to Canon City.
About LOCO carloads of potatoes left
the Greeley district during January
and with a steady market and fair
prices, as many should go out this
month but for the shortage of cars.
Andrew Carnegie has written Rev.
G. b. Stewart, pastor of the First Nj.
f. church at Colorado Springs, that he
Will give $1,000 toward the fund being
raised to buy new pipe organ, which
will cost S3,5O0.
In the case at Denver of the Cen
tral Business college VS.. A. w. Ruth
erf.rd, the State Supreme Court de-
cided that the mere fact that the
guests at a dancing party are negroes
does not make the affair disreputable.
In order that the new towns of
Briggsdals and Fosston on the eastern
edge of the Grow Creek district, may
have telephones, the top wire of
barbwire fence extending for miles in
that locality will be utilized by the
Northern Colorado Telephone Com
pany
More railroad employees were killed
in Colorado during the first six weeks
of the present year than in the last
six months of 1909 Such is the effect
of a statement made by f. F. Kellogg,
manager of the inter-mountain divis-
ion of the Continental Casualty Com
pany at Denver.
Representative Rucker of Colorado
has introduced bill providing for the
extension to include the Philippine
islands trade of the coast-wise laws
which restrict to United States vessels
the transportation of passengers and
merchandise between ports of the
United States.
The county commissioners of Prov
ers county have granted permit for
the organization of the Holly 81 Grana-
da Irrigation district, for the reclama-
ton of $4,000 acres south of the two
| towns. The water supply will be
taken from Rule creek, west OF La
mar, and be stored in large reser-
Voir
At the annual meeting of the stock.
holders of the Portland Gold Mining
Company, held at Cheyenne, the old
board of directors was reelected by
majority of about four to one. Accord
ing to the report of President Peck,
there has been a gross production OF
S3,90S tons, with a gross value OF ST.
43S,650, yielding net earnings OF S4Z5,-
444. AZ, of which $330,0O0 has been paid
in dividends.
Three miners from the big COLORADO
Fuel & Iron Company's coal mine at
Crested Butte were taken to Gunnison
and tried in the County Court for car
rying matches in the mine. They were
found guilty and fined each $25 and
costs. Information was filed by the
district attorney and the superintend-
ent of the mine was the complaining
witness.
Hundreds of delegates from the CEN
trail and western parts of Kansas gath
cred at Dighton, Kas., on the Sth inst,
at a good roads convention, which
had for it's purpose the launching OF
a movement for the building of an
automobile speedway from Great Bend,
Kas., to Pueblo, Colo. Clement l..
Wilson. of Tribune. Kas., was elected
president. and F. H. Lobdell of Digh-
ton, Kas., secretary.
The 100000 necessary to be raised
at Lamar for the Denver 4 Gulf rail-
way has been deposited in Lamar
bank. 1t will be turned over to the
directors of the railroad upon its COM
pletion, which is to be not later than
July 1, 1911 The railroad also gets
twenty acres of land for roundhouses
and yards, and residents furnished the
right of way for fifty-one miles south.
The line will run to Texhoma, Texas.
The Colorado Springs City Fedora
tion of Colored Women's Clubs has
addressed a petition to Manager Nye
of the Colorado Springs opera house,