The Colorado statesman., 1910-04-02
COLORADO
STATE NEWS
Otis has a new bank.

Virgins has a paper-the Courier.
Merino's new alfalfa mill is grinding
Peach trees are in bloom at Boulder
Gun-toting has been tabooed in Tel
luride.
Cripple Creek has organized boost
ers' club.
A Masonic lodge has been organized
at Marble.
A state bank has been Incorporated
at Brandon
A case of small pox has developed
at Manassa.
Durango Elks will build a $4,000
club building.
Grand Junction reports a scarcity
of carpenters.
Boulder city officials have had a
raise in salary.
Greeley beet contracts now amount
to $500 acres.
Denver bank clearings last week,
S10,066,000.
Paonia has organized a civic i'm
provement league.
]. H. Nessler thinks he has found
gold in his well at Kersey.
Isaac Howe, a Montrose pioneer,
died last week, aged 80.
The new Christian church at Bur
lington is nearly completed.
Easter weather in Colorado was all
that could have been asked.
Salida will officially invite the state
G. A. r. to meet there in 1911.
A new telephone line from Alamosa
to Durango is being surveyed.
Greeley proposes to celebrate its
fortieth anniversary May 5th.
Milliken's new United Brethren
church will be dedicated April 3rd.
Former Attorney General Eugene En-
gley is very Ill at his home in Alamosa.
The Florence Motor Club will erect
guide signs on routes about that city
Important gold discoveries are ru-
mored from Ute mountain, near Cor
tez.
The "drys" will petition to have the
prohibition question submitted in Den
yer.
Charles R. Winters, aged 62, was
killed by train at Pueblo Monday
night
The Mesa County Fair will be held
at Grand Junction September goth to
23rd.
Palisade citizens have called meet
ing to consider the establishment of
hospital.
The Fort Collins city marshal has
ordered all chickens penned up, both
large and SMALL
1t is reported that the Rock Island
is surveying a line of its own from
Limon to Denver.
Denver commercial bodies have Sc
lected $50 enumerators to help check
up the city's census.
A firm of New York seedsmen will
have about 5000 acres in peas near An
tonito for seed purposes.
Prof H. A. Hartman of the U. of c.
has been appointed superintendent of
schools at Marion. Ohio.
C. E. Phillips of Denver captured
seven young wolves near De Beque,
the bounty amounting to $140.
At the Trinidad fair in September
there will be a baseball tournament
with $1,000 for the winning team.
Ex-Governor Buchtel preached at
Grand Junction Sunday and raised
$2,5OO for the First Methodist church
twenty-five thousand acres have
been sold under the Two Buttes pro-
ject.
The Luconia Tunnel and Mines Com
pany at Idaho Springs will at once let
q contract for driving an additional
500 feet.
The Eagle Valley Cement, Paint and
Plaster Company has been incorpor-
ated at Red Cliff with a capitalization
of $5OO,OOO.
The Garfield County Rod and Gun
Club has been organized, which will
and fish laws.
Colorado Springs Odd Fellows are
preparing for the cornerstone ceremo-
nies of their new temple, to cost
| $4,000.
X. Keiro, superintendent Of cop
per mine employing 5000 men near
Toxic, Japan, is in Colorado inspecting
our mining practice.
Secretary Shute of the State Hor-
ticultural Society predicts that Colora-
dos 1910 fruit crop will be the biggest
in the history of the state.
Ben Ray, Colorado Springs cook.
claims that an unknown man stole a
gold tooth out of his mouth with nip
pers while he was sleeping.
A new reclamation project, to cover
10000 acres in Otero, Bent and Kiowa
counties, is under consideration, with
good prospects of consummation.
I. N. Dalton has filed suit for s10.-
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