The Colorado statesman., 1910-11-19


Four women will sit in the
eighteenth general assembly of Colo
RADIO as a result of recent elections.
An addition to the Union Printers
home heating plant at Colorado
Springs, to cost $4,000. will be started
soon.
1t is understood that when the tax
levy of Larimer county is made 1t VIII
show reduction of about one mill or
of half mill.
Census returns issued from Wash
ington show the population or Pue-
bio, Colo, to be 44,395, as compared
with 2S,157 in 1900.
November is was payday at the
Golden Cycle mills and the Colorado
Midland shops in Colorado City, about
$4,000 being paid out.
The Peyton Oil Company's we'll, be
ing drilled near Peyton, has encoun-
tered considerable gas and strike of
oil is expected any day.
1t is reported that the Denver Res
ervoir & Irrigation Company is offer
ing contracts for completion of the
big Milton reservoir, east of La Sale.
The annual convention of the brick
layers, stone masons and plasterers'
union of Colorado was held in Mont
rose. There were thirty-five delegates
present.
The Fort Collins sugar factory has
made it's first payment for beets in
that district of s305,OOO. All beets
have been harvested, and the last have
been delivered.
Beet growers of Eaton, Windsor and
Greeley were paid s5S0,O00 by the
Great Western Sugar Company, for
beets delivered up to Nov. 1 to the
three factories.
A. NJ. Patten, commissioner for dis
trict three of Adams county, has for
warded his resignation to Governor
Shafroth, with the request that it take
effect Immediately.
A deed was filed in Pueblo transfer
ring water rights in the Orlando ditch,
valued at 100000, from the Ambursen
Water Company to the Pueblo-Rockv
Ford Irrigation Company.
A hen belonging to John H. Gibson
of Kersey has laid an egg measuring
seven inches around and seven and
one-half inches long. Her eggs aver
age four by five inches.
Colorado won the Guerner silver tro-
ply at the National Horticultural Con-
gress at Council Bluffs, Ia, for the
best box of commercial apples, with
box of Rome Beauties exhibited.
At a meeting of the city council
of Pueblo, held recently, the contract
for erecting the new bridge across the
Arkansas river on South Union avenue
was let at the stipulated price of
$4,000.
A Boulder man has discovered
treatment for gold ores which if sue
cessful will do away with smelling.
He has leased property near James
town, where he intends to give his
idea practical test.
With the recovery of the body of
Master Mechanic James Young from
beneath a pile of debris in the main
slope of Delagua mine No. 3 the list of
known dead has grown to seventy
five.
P. A. Lofgren of Greeley claims a
beet crop, having the highest percent
age of sugar, in the district. His field
of twenty acres tested 20.6 per cent
sugar and brought $6.75 to 81 per ton,
with an average of about twenty tons
per acre.
The frat" problem is again agitat-
ing the Colorado Springs high school
~ ayiN
against secret societies among the
students is to be waged by the new
principal, r. c. Hill. At least three
fraternities are said to be flourishing
among the boys, in direct violation OF
the school laws.
If conditions warrant, the schools of
northeastern Weld county, in the re-
gion tapped by the new branch line
of the Union Pacific, may be central
lied in a few large schools and the
children transported to these centers
by wagon or by motor cars over the
Union Pacific This includes the Lin
coin, S. L. & W., Olive Branch, Foss.
ton. Camfield, Briggsdale and Gill dis
tricts.
Huge snakes to kill off rats may be
imported to Greeley from the Philip
pines and kept in Greeley homes. All
efforts to get rid of rats have been
unsuccessful, and chicken yards have
been depleted. The rats are also con-
sidered a menace to public health.
Loss of the big toe of her right foot
by .amputation to save her life was
the result of what appeared at first
to be a mild attack of quinsy, suffered
by Mrs. Ross Jeirmiessen of Ault.
The poison passed from her throat