The Springfield herald., 1910-02-11
COLORADO NEWS

pany has officially given out the num-
ber of deaths in the Primero coal mine
explosion at seventyfive.
State Humane Agent O'Connell is
making close inspection of grading
camps and arresting all foremen who
violate the state humane laws.
The wife of President Taft mas sent
n handkerchief to the South Side I'm
provement Society of Colorado City to
be sold at a bazar to be given by the
ladies of the society.
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.
An experiment farm conducted un-
der the auspices of the State Agricul-
tural College for growing alfalfa as
well as potatoes, will be established in
the Greeley district next season.
Surrounded by her family and
friends. Mrs. Abigail Durham. the old
est member of the Society of Union
Colony pioneers, celebrated her nine
ty-third birthday at Greeley on the 9th
inst
Andrew Carnegie has written Rev.
G. b. Stewart, pastor of the First Nj.
L. church at Colorado Springs, that he
Will give 81 200 toward the fund being
raised to buy n new pipe organ, which
will cost sS,5OO-
The work of tearing down buildings
on the site for the new Denver post
office building. between Curtis and
Champa and Eighteenth and Nine
teenth streets. will be commenced next
month.
1t is stated that as result of the
recent visit of the inspection board
of the Modern Woodmen of America,
at least $4,000 will be spent in i'm
provements on the sanitarum north of
Colorado Springs. A new tent colony,
to cost $4,000. win be put up.
Gen. Joe Wheeler Camp No. of the
Veterans of the Spanish-American
War. has been installed at Denver
with DR.. w. c. X. Berlin as command
err and r. II. Silvers as adjutant. This
is said to be the first camp of the Or
der named for Southern general
Department Commander John w.
wingate of the Grand Army of the Re
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all posts in the Department of Colo
RADIO and Wyoming, requesting the
members to observe Lincoln's and
Washington's birthdays in proper
form.
Richard R. Burke has relinquished
control of the eating houses and din
inE cars operated along the Moffat
Road to Clark Gregg, former superin-
tendent of dining car service on the
Denver & Rio Grande, and later stew
ard of the Colorado Traffic Club in
Denver.
The county commissioners of Prov
ers county have granted a permit for
the organization of the Holly < Grana-
da Irrigation district. for the reclama-
tion 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
The Holly Sugar Company has made
public its contracts for growers OF
beets next season, offering the best
terms yet made by it. For beets with
IL to IA $40 per cent sugar content
they will pay S5 per tom Is per cent,
s5.25: 16 per cent, $3.50; II per cent,
s5.75, and for each per cent. over IL, Is
cents.
Emulating the example set by the
Allied Printing Trades of Denver, the
Knights of Columbus, which now has
25o.O00 members. is seriously consid-
ering a proposition to build a large
wing to st. Anthony's hospital in Den
yer, similar to the one definitely
planned by the printing trades. for the
special purpose of accommodating
knights afflicted with tuberculosis.
Without dissenting vote the Hen
rylyn irrigation district voted bonds
of s4,3S7,O and ratified the action of
the district board in letting the con-
tract for construction of the system to
the Camfield Development Company.
The entire bond issue of the district
is taken by Farson & Son of Chicago
and the International Trust Company
of Denver will act as trustee for the
Henrylyn district. The plans provid ;
for irrigation of 100000 acres and the
system will also carry water TO the
Golden-Littleton district Of 10000
acres.
-If had the adoption of one law,
which | thought would be better th2n
any other law or any other two or
three laws, would sav that the law
which gives to the people the right to
initiate and refer measures was para
mount" said Governor John F. Shaf-
roth at the annual banquet of the
Christian Citizenship Union in the Au-
ditorum hotel at Denver. And if,
when | close my term of office, there
is law on the statute books giving
the people the right to pass laws re-
gardless of the legislature. shall re-
gard my term as having been worth
while"
Williams Brothers and S. NJ. Burby,
living at Hay Creek, about thirty miles
west of Palmer Lake. had four horses
killed in two days by mountain lions,
which are said to be numerous in that
vicinity. Residents of that section say
the mountain lions are bolder this win
ter than they have ever been.
General Manager Clark assured the
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