The Colorado statesman., 1910-06-11
COLORADO
STATE NEWS

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Uncle Joe" Roberts OF Telluride is
dead at the age OF 81.
A trades and labor assembly has
been organized at Sterling.
Bonds will be issued for new
school building at Genoa.
Red Cliff and Florence have ar
ranged for Independence Day celebra-
tions.
Mrs. Ulrike Luehe, a pioneer of HUI
go, died last week at the age of eighty
three.
Holly reports the outlook good for
record-breaking crop of sugar beets
this year.
The Interurban Telephone Company
at Center has been Incorporated, with
$4,000 capital.
Catholics of Walsenburg contem-
plate establishing parochial school
to cost about $4,000.
Masonic ladies' of Julesburg are or
ganizing a lodge of the Order OF the
Eastern Star.
Oren Gray of Yampa has killed four
bears within the past month, besides
| capturing TWO CUPS alive
Trinidad will invite the Colorado
State Realty Dealers Association to
hold it's next meeting there.
Wattenburg, one\of the new towns
on the Denver, Laramie & Northwest
ern, is to have a newspaper.
w. l. Hall of Berthoud was fined
5000 for his second offense at boot
Logging, and the costs amounted to $50
more.
The siege of measles at Livermore
having been lifted, church services
and other gatherings have been re-
sumed.
Among other crops in the vicinity
of Penrose this year will be 300 acres
of Mexican beans, to help out the chill
industry.
On June 18th the D. & r. G. will be-
gin running it's trains Nos. Is and 16
through between Denver and Grand
Junction, as last summer.
Rev. w. F. Pitner, pastor of the
Methodist church at Trinidad, has
hustled up $4,000 of the $4,000 need
ed for his new church building.
II. E. Killian, Florence restaurant
proprietor, formerly prominent in
state politics, died at his home Sunday
while drinking a glass of milk.
Col James Pope, assistant quarter
master general in charge at Denver
of the Department of the Colorado,
has been retired on account of age.
A citizen of Two Buttes captured a
young antelope on the plains the
other day and it is being domesticated
by one of the ladies of the town.
Eleven carloads of machinery have
arrived at Newcastle for the Rocky
Mountain Fuel Company, which will
begin operations in that district.
meeting of citizens of Yuma coun-
ty will be held at Vernon on the 18th
to consider propositions that have
been made for new railroad by east
ern capitalists.
The Croft family, near Mattison, in
vited hundred of their neighbors to
their house warming and among other
items of refreshment were fifteen
cakes.
The Lake City Phonograph says
that on the previous Sunday over 1000
trout were caught from Lake San
Cristoval, and that forty was about
the average catch.
President Taft on Tuesday signed
Representative Taylor's bill permit
ting various towns in Colorado to ac-
quire government land for park pur.
poses upon the payment of SLIPS per
acre.
B. N. McCracken, an employe of the
Adams Express Company at Trinidad
was arrested Tuesday upon tele.
graphic order from Oklahoma City
where he is wanted to answer the
charge of murder.
Colorado representatives in Wash
ington have been assured by the di
rector of the geological survey that a
survey of the DeBeque oil field will
be made by government engineers
during the summer.
The surveyors of the new Denver &
Gulf road have reached Lamar, and
their figures show the distance from
Texhoma, Texas, to Lamar, to be 1877
miles, twelve miles less than the es
innate.
Supervisor A. L. Stroup of the Rio
Grande national forest, with headquar-
ters at Monte Vista, has resigned from
the forestry service and will be sue
ceeded by Prof. w ]. Morrill, late of
Colorado College.
Cash Cunningham of Wray had a
finger badly mashed one day last
week in the forenoon and in the aft
ernoon of the same day fell off a
windmill and broke four ribs. Quite
enough bad luck for one day.
General Manager Clark of the Den
yer & Rio Grande has addressed let
ter to the Salida Chamber of Com
merce denying the recent report that
| passenger service between Salida and
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