The Colorado statesman., 1910-08-06
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Canon City is also in the race for
the location of the Odd Fellows home.
Fruit shipments from Palisade up to
August 1st amounted to sixty-three
carloads.
The thirteenth annual road race be-
tween Basalt and Glenwood Will be
held August 14th.
Bonds in the sum OF s1.OoO.OOO for
the Florida Mesa project in La Plata
county were voted Saturday.
L. v. Carter of Greeley found a beet
in his field having a root forty-seven
inches long. This beets the record.
William Babberger of Canon City
calculates that his forty-five colonies
of bees will net him $400 this year.
Denver's school enrolment Is 27,73O
and it cost s45.95 per year for each
child's education. Teachers number
963.
A factory has been established at
Windsor for the manufacture OF beet
toppers and dry land farming imple-
ments.
orado State Editorial Association will
be held at Buena Vista August 10Th
and goth.
The 100 acres of beans around Gree
ley which were planted for canning
purposes are yielding three to five
tons per acre.
Arthur Gogelin, aged %. night mar
shall at Telluride, was killed Monday
morning by Jesse Mum, miner and
bad man.
The town of Moffat, in the San Luis
valley, has two newspapers-the Times
and the News-while a few weeks ago
it had none.
]. o. V. Wise, farmer near Long
mont, caught 125 bushels of grasshop-
pers in three days. mot one at
time. however)
Station No. on the Dent-Fort Col
Inns branch of the Union Pacific, To-
Gated northwest of La Sale, is to be
known as Koenig.
Howard C. Chaplin. well known min
ing man, is in the hospital at Aspen to
recover from injuries received when
he was thrown from horse.
If weather conditions continue favor
able the Wyatt ranch OF $500 acres,
three miles east of Ault. will harvest
a crop valued at 100000.
| Mayor Houston of Greeley has is
sued a circular warning druggists
against the sale of Jamaica ginger
and other hybrid brands of firewater.
A girls Sunday School athletic
league is being organized in Fort Coz
Inns. Basket ball, volley ball and ten
mis- will be played and taught to mem
bers.
In District Court at Greeley the
Union Pacific filed a condemnation
suit to secure land for extension of its
lines from Dacono to Fort Collins, thir-
ty miles.
An item showing the prosperity of
| Crested Butte is the fact that over
three blocks of cement walks have
been laid lately. with incident cross
ings.
Alamosa is having great deal of
city improvement done, including the
grading and filling of streets and the
laying of many blocks of cement
walks.
Guy Armstrong, aged 19, was acci-
dentally shot and killed by William
Fedder near Proctor Sunday. An au-
tomato gun in unfamiliar hands was
the cause.
A movement is on foot at Gunnison
to buy land and equip a fair ground
and several thousand dollars in sub
scriptions rewarded the first efforts
of the boosters.
Ninety-seven thousand one hundred
people availed themselves of the priv
iliges afforded by Denver's public
bathhouse during the first seven
months of this year.
Canon City authorities have finished
| the part of the new Royal Gorge-Park-
dale road assigned to the city and the
| county will now finish it. Visitors can
now see the Royal Gorge from the
top.
The Evening Herald and the Even
ing Telegraph at Colorado Springs
Springs have been consolidated as the
Herald Telegraph. G.. c. Hamlin and
associates are said to be the new own
ers.
The body of Alfedolas Zero, sheep
herder, was found on Pinon mesa, thir-
ty miles south of Grand Junction,
where he had evidently been killed by
the discharge of his rifle, which was
found beside him.
The interior department has with
drawn 10000 acres of public lands in
western Colorado from homestead en-
try and all other forms of disposition
under the land laws. This area is 10
Gated in the vicinity of the Grand val
ley reclamation project and is thought
| to be susceptible of irrigation by that