The Colorado statesman., 1910-01-29
COLORADO ITEMS

orado Springs, has been appointed
custodian of the public building.
The Colorado Bankers Association
will holds its next annual meeting at
Grand Junction some time in Septem-
Der
Walter A. Peterson has been APP
pointed Swedish vice consul at Den
yer to succeed IL. r. Salgaard, re-
signed
By a majority of just thirty votes,
he people of Pueblo decided against
holding a charter convention. The re-
suit may be contested.
The new comet in the west is NOV
ing northward and eastward. For sew
sral days yet it will be a fine sight be-
tween six and seven o'clock p. m.
Services were held in st. Johns
chapter house in Denver January 21st
in commemoration of the founding of
the Episcopal church in Colorado fifty
years ago
A. F. Wuensch, a prominent Colo
RADIO mining engineer of Denver, died
suddenly of heart disease in the lobby
of the Alvarado hotel at Albuquerque
New Mexico, January 22nd.
State Auditor Roady Kenehan has
appointed Norvell H. Cobb to the posi-
tion of deputy state examiner in his
office. Mr. Cobb was previously in
the employ of the Adams Express Com
pany
At one o'clock on the morning OF
January 25th a fire broke out in the
basement of the office of the Star
Journal at Pueblo and was only ex-
tinguished after inflicting about $1,000
damage.
The poultry show at Denver was
highly successful and plans are al
ready on foot for larger exhibit next
year. An appropriation of $4,000 will
be raised to further the poultry indus
try OF the state and an attempt will
be made to secure the Auditorium for
the 1911 exhibition.
The Palmer estate has filed a plat
in El Paso county for the Randall
reservoir, to be built at some future
time, at an estimated cost of $4,000.
The reservoir, which will have ca
pacity of 100000 gallons, will draw
its water supply from Jimmy Camp
creek, near the Palmer home at Glen
Eyrie.
The Otero irrigation district has let
a contract for widening its ditch. Ce-
ment headgates will be constructed
and it is intended to make the capacl-
ty 500 cubic feet per second, which
will supply $4,000 acres. The farm
ers recently voted for bond issue of
S150.0OO with which. to enlarge the
canal and build storage reservoir.
At a meeting held in the Pueblo
Chieftain office at which eleven cities
were represented. the Colorado State
Baseball league was launched with the
election of A. ID. Runyon of Denver as
president. and o. F. Nelson of Pueb-
10 as secretary-treasurer. The new
league will be composed of eight
towns. which are Denver, Pueblo, Colo
RADIO Springs, La Junta, Trinidad, Fort
Collins, Cheyenne and Cripple Creek.
A new irrigation system to be known
as West Nile irrigation district has
been started in the vicinity of Hoyt,
thirty-five miles southwest of Fort
Morgan. The reservoir will have ca
pacity of 15v,000,000 cubic feet and get
its water from Routt, Bijou and Ante
lope creeks. 1t will bring under irri-
CATION about 5000 acres of level land
in the extreme southwestern part OF
Morgan county.
Two trainmen were killed and three
others badly injured when extra
freight train locomotive No. 921 on the
Rio Grande exploded near La Veta at
LIS o'clock on the morning of Janu-
ary 25th. The dead are: William
Stiles, brakeman. Pueblo; C. E. Koch
Ter, fireman. Pueblo. Seriously injured:
]. c. Howard. engineer, Pueblo; c. w.
Barker, brakeman. Pueblo; c. Faulks,
conductor, Pueblo.
Figures compiled in the office of the
state superintendent of public instruc-
;tion show that the school land sales
of the past year have swelled to such
an extent that there will be an in
crease of $S7.252.92 in the school ap-
portionment for the first year of the
present administration over the appor-
tionment for the last year of the ad-
ministration preceding 1t. The appor-
tlonment for 1908 amounted to $221,-
267.9S. That for 1909 amounts to $685.
5000.
T. ]. Holland. the game and fish
commissioner has received letter
from w. NJ. Poteet of Nepesta, asking
permission to kill some beaver who
are undermining the banks of the Ar
kansas river where it skirts his farm.
inc banks keep caving in, he says,
carrying with them the willow trees
along the river and breaking down his
fences. 1t takes him all his time to
keep his fences repaired and all be-
cause the law won't let him kill beav-
er without a permit. r. F. Pace of
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