The Julesburg grit-advocate., 1910-02-11
COLORADO NEWS

| News II received that President d.
II. A0nat has ordered twenty new 10
co0odves for the Moffat road
| The Colorado Fuel and Iron Com
psny has officially given out the mum
ber of Deaths in the Primero coal mine
exploston at seventy-five.
State Humane Agent O'Connell 10
making close inspection Of grading
camps aAd arresting all foremen Who
violate the state humane laws.
Tho wife of President Taft mas sent
. Handkerchief to the South Side In
provement Society Of Colorado City to
be sold at 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.
f. church at Colorado Springs. that he
will give $1,000 toward the fund being
raised to buy new pipe organ. which
will cost $500.
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 a 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 sanitarium north of
Colorado Springs. A new tent colony.
to cost $4,000. will be put up.
Gen. Joe Wheeler Camp No. 9 of the
Veterans of the Spanish-American
War. has been installed at Denver
with DR.. W. C. X. Berlin as command
er and r. H. Silvers as adjutant. This
is said to be the first camp of the Or.
der named for a Southern general.
Department Commander John w
Wingate of the Grand Army Of the Re
public has issued formal order to
all posts in the Department of Colo
RADIO and Wyoming. requesting the
members to observe Lincoln's and
Washington's birthdays in prope;
form.
Richard r. Burke has relinquishet
control of the eating houses and din
ing cars operated along the Moffat
Road to Clark Gregg. former superin
tendent of dining car service on tn,
Denver & Rio Grande, and later stew
ard of the Colorado Traffic Club IL
Denver.
The county commissioners of Prov
ers county have granted permit fol
the organization of the Holly & Grana
da Irrigation district, for the reclama
tion Of $4,000 acres south Of the two
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 ol
beets next season, offering the best
terms yet made by 1t. For beets with
IL to IA $40 per cent. sugar content
they will pay IS per ton; Is per cent.
$5.25; 16 per cent. $3.50; II per cent.
$5.75, and for each per cent. over II. IL
cents.
Emulating the example set by the
Allied Printing Trades of Denver. the
Knights Of Columbus, which now has
250,OOO members, is seriously consid
ering a proposition to build large
wing to st. Anthony's hospital in Den
yer, similar to the oLe 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 $4,3S7,O00 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-Lttleton district Of 10000
acres.
"If had the adoption of one law
which l thought would be better than
any other law or any other two OF
three laws, would saw that the Law
which gives to the people the right to
initiate and refer measures was para
mount" said Governor John F. Shat
roth at the annual banquet of the
Christian Citizenship Union in the Au
ditorium hotel at Denver. And IT,
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