The Julesburg grit-advocate., 1910-02-18
COLORADO ITEMS

Il. OOOVUe6VOS ssoO
The pension application of RaDlh Da'
Wis Of Denver has been allowed. carry
ing with 1t $1,000 back pension.
The Farmers and Merchants State
Bank Of Fort LuptOn has been tncor-
pOrated With . capital Of $l5.0eo
Coatracts amounting to $4,000 have
been made for free band concerts in
the City Park st Denver next sum-
mer.
The production Of the new oil we'll
Of the Fidelity Company in the Boul-
der district may exceed 100 barrels a
day. according to present indications.
A carload Of hogs Was sold on the
Denver market on the 11th inst. for
$S.75 per hundred. which is the record
price up to that date.
DR.. Hubert Work Of Pueblo has been
elected chairman OF the Colorado Re
publican State Central committee.
Mrs. Thalia Rhoads will be continued
A. vice chairman.
Company A. Second Infantry. Ma
tional Guard of Colorado. has been
mustered In at Colorado Springs with
. membership Of seventy-eight. DR..
Paul n. Lennox was elected captain.
About 1000 carloads of potatoes left
the Greeley district during January.
and with . steady market and fair
prices. ~ many should go out this
month but for the shortage Of cars.
Tho Automobile show Of the Den.
yer Motor Club will be held in ths
Denver AuditoriuD February Esd T.
36th. Special rates to the show have
been granted By the Colorado rail-.
roads.
Aged and infirm. unable to get out.
sixty residents of the Denver OH
ladies' Home enjoyed immensely tho
concert given by Bellstedts band and
other musical artists at the Auditc-
rum Sunday. Though three miles
away. the aged women sat in easy
chairs. heard and enjoyed the mum.
bers rs though the musicians had
been in An adjoining room.
The receipts of the Denver postof-
flee last month were $100.3Ss. as
against $S0.145 for January. 1909. an
increase of twenty-five per cent. This
percentage Of increase was exceeded
at but three offices in the country.
and at but one in the West, Portland.
Ore. The increase at Kansas City was
thirteen per cent. Omaha eleven per
cent, anl Salt Lake ten per cent.
Senator Guggenheim has re-intro-
duced his bill providing for an appro-
priation Tor establishing courses in
forestry In state agricultural colleges,
changing 1t from the original bill SO
rs to include in the benefits of the
proposed law such institutions as may
have maintained a course in forestry
lor . year prior to its passage. The
bill proposes an appropriation Of $500
to each institution.
Tho 100000 necessary to be raised
at Lamar for the Denver 4 Gulf rail-
way has been deposited in . Lamar
bank. It will be turned over to the
directors Of the railroad upon its COM
pletion, which is to be not later than
July /. 1911. Tho railroad also gets
twenty acres Of land for roundhouses
and yards. and residents furnished the
right of way for fifty-one miles south.
The line will run to Texhoma, Texas.
The second state indoor rifle match
Of the national guard Of Colorado has
Just been finished. The first prize
was won by troop A Of Walsenburg.
the second by troop d Of Boulder and
the third by company NJ Of Golden.
The contesting teams did the shooting
in their own quarters and the results
were sent to the executive committee
In Denver. who made the decisions and
will award the prizes.
DR.. c. A. Hanson. representative OF
the Colorado sanitarium ut Boulder
and the Advent churches and organiza-
tions Of Wyoming. Colorado. Nebraska.
Kansas and Missouri. assured the
Boulder Commercial Association that
it is the purpose Of the church organi.
sation q tho five states to greatly en-.
large the Boulder sanitarium and to
make It equal to the Battle Creek insti-
tuition. 1t 10 already crowded to its
capacity and the output Of the health
food factory has reached its limit.
The Colorado Springs City Fedora
ton Of Colored Womsn's Clubs has
addressed . petition to Manager Nye
Of the Colorado Springs opera house.
asking him to cancel the engagement
Of "The Clansman." booked to give
two performances February 26th. The
petition cites recent riots and blood
shed in Southern towns a. q direct
result, It says. Of the production Of
'"The Clansman." and says the play
"sogenders race prejudice and hatred -
Superintendent Taylor Of the Central
Colorado Power Company is installing
the big generators at the power house
in Middle Boulder canon. The initial
installation will be 10000 kilowats