The Colorado statesman., 1910-03-12
STATE NEWS ITEMS

pointed Frank w. Harper OF Gunnlsoh
as water commissioner for Water Dis
trict No. SO.
About 1,40O acres has been pledged
by Greeley farmers to crops for the
cannery, including 1,100 of peas, 200
each of tomatoes and beans. and about
100 of cabbage.
A number of Hungarian partridges
have been received by the state game
and fish commissioner and will be lib
Grated in the different parts of the
state this spring.
BY it's decision in the case of w. Fl.
Murray and II. Putnam VS. Katherine
Aull, the State Supreme Court has
upheld the law which says that gam
bling debt cannot legally be collected.
Members of the faculty of the Colo
RADIO Agricultural college will make ad-
dresses before the thirteen normal in
stitutes to be held throughout the
state during the summer school vaca-
ton.
At a meeting of the stockholders of
the United States Portland Cement
Company at Florence, it was voted to
issue bonds for 100000 to make i'm
provements on the company's plant at
Concrete.
An aviation meet for Denver is
planned to take place about May 2Sth
The main feature will be an endurance
balloon race in which eight local bal
loonists are expected to take part. Eff
forts will also be made to secure an
exhibition of aeroplanes.
Louis Reiter, stenographer to Mayor
Robert w. Speer of Denver, has been
awarded damages of $4,000 by the
State Supreme Court for the loss of
one of his legs while he was an en-
ploye of the Denver G. Rio Grande
railroad five years ago.
Philadelphia capitalists are backing
the Coal and Operating Company, which
has been incorporated at Denver with
a capitalization of s2,5OO,000. The in
terests represented in the company
have acquired 1900 acres of coal land
near Como, and will begin extensive
DEVELOPMENT work on it at once.
After conference with the board of
trustees of the State Normal school,
Governor Shafroth advised them that
| they cannot let a contract for prac-
tice building to cost S123,000, when
the appropriation for building, para
phernalia and furnishings amounted
only to 100000 The board agreed to
readvertise.
Professero w. H. Olin, formerly a
member of the faculty of the State Ag-
ricultural college at Fort Collins, has
been commissioned by the Colorado
| aiI tn write
book which will be entitled Soil and
Products" pertaining priciapally to
the magnificent potato raising country
in the neighborhood of Carbonate.
Rev. w. H. Hopkins, pastor of the
Third Congregational church, at Den
yer, has been appointed state superin-
tendent of congregational work in Col
orado. DR.. Hopkins will attend to the
needs of the small non-self-supporting
Congregational churches, which have
heretofore looked outside of their own
denomination for aid.
The United States government has
paid 81, 900 to each of the six widows
who lost their husbands in the Gunni-
son tunnel disaster a few weeks ago.
In the event a person is killed while
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who has no wife, the amount of his
salary for one year will be paid to
anyone dependent upon the deceased.
Mrs. Helen Grenfell, formerly state
superintendent of public instruction,
has been secured by the National Wo-
mans Suffrage Association TO lecture
for their cause in the twelve Eastern
colleges, among them the university
of Chicago, University of Cincinnati,
University of Michigan, Olivet college
and Oberlin.
With all the previous records bro
ken, there have been more than 1,7OO
land entries filed in Weld county since
the beginning of the year and in one
day forty-two filings were made by as
many different persons. More than
half the entries have been on half sec
tions, and three-fourths of them ara
on land in northeastern and southeast
ern Weld county.
Marcus S. Meade, one of the first
conductors to take train out of Den
yer, died on the 4th inst at st. Luke's
| hospital in Denver. He was one OF the
four conductors who ran on the Old
! Denver Pacific and was in charge OF
the first train to run from Denver 10
Boulder. Mr.. Meade was for over
thirty years a conductor on Colorado
roads and was well known over the
state.
T. ]. Holland, state game and fish
commissioner, wants the open season
on doves abolished. He says: when
a man goes out dove hunting, with his
license in his pocket, and quail flies
up in front of him, he blazes away at
it and if he gets it he sticks 1t in his
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