The Colorado statesman., 1910-07-30
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Thomas A. Mills, aged 81, died at
Fruita.
Las Animas is to have its third
bank.
Five miles of the big canal at Cedar
have been completed.
Ernest Uskivich was killed by rock
fall in the mine at Ludlow.
Oscar S. Compton, aged n, Civil
War veteran, died at Greeley.
September 23rd is the date set for
the annual harvest carnival at Ault.
A new irrigation project proposes to
water 10000 acres north of Grover.
Eaton has over $4,000 worth of new
residences built and building this
year.
Joseph Hudson, a Colorado Springs
drug clerk, was fineo 5000 and costs
for the Illegal sale of liquor.
The Ouray Pioneer Association will
hold it's annual gathering at Hollis
grove near Ridgway September 5th.
Timothy O'Connor, a resident of the
Grand valley for twenty-five years,
died at Grand Junction at the age of 73.
Edwin w. Baxter, a resident of
southern Colorado for forty years,
died at Pueblo at the age of siXty-two.
The contract for the section of the
new Santa Fe trail' between Rocky
Ford and Fowler has been let at
sS,SS5.
The Iowa Association of Larimer
county held its annual picnic Tuesday,
The association has a membership OF
$4,000.
Ouray county officials will ask the
state to appropriate $4,000 to build
concrete approaches to the state bridge
at Ridgway.
Clifford Pinchot, ex-forester, has Wis
tied Denver and made final arrange
ments for the visit of Colonel Roose-
welt August 29th.
The extensive forest fires which
have been raging near Steamboat
Springs for several days have been
brought under control.
The state convention of the Fedora
ton of Labor will be held at Grand
Junction beginning August Sth. About
200 delegates will attend.
The electric light franchise recently
granted to A. V. Walther by the town
of Ridgway has been extended and TAX
en- over by a new company.
Denver bakers are likely to have
the laws sharp stick after them II
the charge that much of their bread
is short in weight is substantiated.
Mrs. Rhoda Lutes, the oldest lady OF
the western slope, died at Grand juno
ton as the result of fall which she
sustained several days ago. She was
little over 95 pears old.
Farmers around Ridgway expect to
gather about 100000 bushels of wheat
from their $500 acres this year. There
Is mill at Ridgway, too.
The new hotel to be built at Fowler
will be three stories in height and
equipped with elevator, electric lights,
baths, and other modern convent
ences.
The Stove Prairie fire which has
been burning west of Fort Collins for
several days has been subdued. The
burned area embraces about eight
square miles.
Robert Harris, the first settler at
Windsor, who went there to trap
thirty years ago, will go to Wisconsin
to spend the rest of his days. He is
80 years old.
Carl Stark of Grand Junction has
filed an affidavit at Grand Junction
that nine-tenths of an acre of Jona-
tha naples last year netted him a
profit of s1,3S2.O6.
The body of Mrs. Christian Krouse.
who disappeared from her home in
Denver over week ago, was found
wedged in a drain just east of Den
yer by two Uamps.
MI Reagan of Rocky Ford has ap-
piled for a patent on valveless pump
which is designed to raise water for
irrigation purposes. 1t is described as
"just two twisted pipes revolving cen
trifugally in a cistern." The demon
stration model is delivering an acre
foot per minute, lifting the water 1872
feet. A small gasoline engine is the
motive power.
The new $4,000 factory of the Stiv
ers Automatic Cover Company at Sa-
| Ida has been completed. Mr.. Stivers
is the patentee of a cover for billiard
tables which is removed with coin,
the same operation connecting the
electric lights over the table and
starting an electric fan. Unless an
| other coin is deposited at a given
| time the cover rolls back over the ta-
BILE.
BY the annual report of Superintend-
ent Charles Deacon of the Union
Printers Home at Colorado Springs.
just issued, it is learned that the ex-
penses for the year were $70,276.32.
The medical report shows the results