The Glenwood post., 1910-02-19
STATE NEWS ITEMS

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Wis Of Denver has been allowed. carry
ing with it $1,000 back pension.
The Farmers and Merchants State
Bank of Fort Lupton has been incor-
porated with a capital of $4,000.
The production of the new oil well
of the Fidelity Company in the Boul-
der district may exceed 100 barrels n
day, according to present indications.
A carload of hogs was sold on the
Denver market on the 18th inst. for
$s.75 per hundred, which is the record
price up to that date.
Asahel Sutton, for more than twen-
ty years cashier of the First National
Bank Of Colorado Springs, died sud
denly on the 14th inst. of angina
pectoris.
DIR. Hubert Work of Pueblo has been
elected chairman of the Colorado Re
publican State Central committee.
Mrs. Thalia Rhoads will be continued
as vice chairman.
Company A, Second Infantry, Ma
tional Guard of Colorado, has been
mustered in at Colorado Springs with
a membership of seventy-eight. DR..
Paul NJ. Lennox was elected captain.
The body of Reuben Dougherty, one
of the American victims of the Pri-
nero mine explosion, was taken from
the mine on the 14th inst, bringing
the total of bodies recovered to sixty
six.
Judge Dixon OF the Denver County
Court has held the act regulating
horseshoers and requiring them to be
examined and pay a license fee, which
was passed in 1897, to be unconstitu.
tional.
The Automobile show OF the Den
yer Motor Club will be held in the
Denver Auditorium February 23d t.
26th. Special rates to the show have
been granted by the Colorado rail.
roads.
1t is announced that a new theater
and hotel will be built in Greeley on
the old Catholic church property, at
cost of 100000. The structure will
be 100x19O feet and will have a seat
ing capacity of 1900.
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.
Beet Growers in the Greeley district
are to be paid according to the sugar
content of the crop this year. For all
beets over 12 per cent sugar and un-
der Is per cent, the price will be s.
per ton. For over 15 per cent. $5.25,
and an increase of 25 cents for every
cent. gained in sugar content.
Aged and infirm, unable to get out,
sixty residents of the Denver Old
Ladies' Home enjoyed immensely the
concert given by Bellstedt's band and
other musical artists at the Audito-
rum Sunday. Though three mil IS
away. the aged women sat in easy
chairs, heard and enjoyed the num-
bers as though the musicians had
been in an adjoining room.
The receipts of the Denver postof-
flee last month were $100,38S, as
against $s0.145 for January. 1909. an
increase of twenty-five per cent This
percentage of increase was exceeded
at but three offices in the country.
and at but one in the West, Portland,
Ore. The increase at Kansas City was
thirteen per cent, Omaha eleven per
cent, and Salt Lake ten per cent.
The 100000 necessary to be raised
at Lamar for the Denver & Gulf rail-
way has been deposited in a 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 l. 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.
Tho line will run to Texhoma, Texas.
The second state indoor rifle match
of the national guard of Colorado has
just been finished. The first prize
was won by troop A of Walsenburg,
the second by troop D Of Boulder and
the third by company M Of Golden.
The contesting teams did the shooting
were sent to the executive committee
in Denver. who made the decisions and
will award the prizes.
James A. Warford, charged with the
murder of Chris Miller and Ike Leibo
in 1904, has just been released from
Jail in Canon City, where he has been
held since his trial. During the elec-
tion of 1904, Warford Is alleged to
have killed at Goldfield. Colo, Chris
Miller and Ike Leibo, shooting them
dead as they sat on fence. He was
convicted and sentenced to life i'm
prisonment, but was granted a new
trial on a writ of error issued by the
State Supreme Court. Securing q
change Of venue. his second trial IN
Canon City resulted in disagreement.
of the jury. When released he was
warned by District Attorney Ferguson