The Colorado statesman., 1911-08-26

water nave DeSu lOullu at a uSPNh VI
500 feet.
Jesse C. Bayless, for twenty-five
years resident of Colorado, died in
Boulder.
The Senate has confirmed the nomi-
nation of Robert r. Hanna, postmas.
ter at Windsor.
The property of the Glenwood Hot
Springs Company has been sold at
mortgage sale.
Palisade will enter the race for Ap-
pie Queen at the apple show to be held
N Denver in November.
Work has ben started on the high
way between Lafayette and Longmont.
The road will cost $1.4OO per mile.
Cantaloupe growers of La Junta are
busy shipping a bumper crop. The
melons are unexcelled this year.
Negotiations for the settlement of
The srtike in the northern Colorado
cield fields have been called off.
For the power for an electric light
ing plant, Fort Collins proposes to
use the waters of the Poudre river.
Palisade has already shipped 115
carloads of fruit this season, and for
ty-two of them were shipped in one
week.
The corner stone of the new Capital
Heights Presbyterian church. in Den
yer, was laid with appropriate cere-
mony.
John Mott, well known in Colorado
criminology, is in Jail at Victor
charged with the killing Of Richard
Mooney.
Ten thousand head of elk will be
brought from the Jackson's Hole coun-
try in Wyoming to the mountains in
Colorado.
The Erie Commercial Club is work
ing on a project by which it hopes to
divert the Denver-Estes Park automo-
bile road through Erie.
The President signed the Guggen-
helm bill granting the state of Colo
RADIO an additional million acres of
land under the Carey desert land act
w. r. Haskell, aged thirty-seven, a
conductor on the Denver, Laramie Il
Northwestern, had his left leg crushed
by his own train at Utah Junction.
He may die.
In an attempt to save her nine-year-
old son from the attack of vicious
bulldog, Mrs. Margaret Meyers of Den
yer, was so severely bitten that she
will probably die.
Returns of $500 an acre are report
ed by two Japanese farmers at lone
station, near Platteville, for cabbage
shipped from fifteen acres and yield
ing ten to twelve tons an acre.
Richard Mooney, aged 65 years,
pioneer of Victor, died of injuries re-
ceived when he fell fifteen feet at
railing which guarded the sidewalk,
which was high above the ground
The government will intervene in the
controversy between water users OF
the eastern and western slopes over
the diversion of water from the Grand
river to reservoirs on the eastern
slope.
Supervisor John B. McGauran will
introduce a resolution before the board
CT supervisors in Denver, providing for
the erection of a memorial tablet
where Ralph tombstone, the aviator,
fell last summer.
An order issued by Justice George
w. Musser of the Supreme Court will
lead to the release Oh bond of thirteen
of the strikers now in the Denver
county Jail for violation of the injunc-
tion issued by Judge Greeley w. Whit
ford.
The beet sugar industry is only ten
years old in Colorado, but it has devel-
oped in that time to point where
the factories are making annual dis
bursements for labor, raw material,
freight charges and other expenses of
s15,OO0,OOO.
The authorities of Mancos are baf-
fled over the finding of the lifeless
body of Mrs Amelia E. Nicholson Of
Aztec. New Mexico, in room she had
engaged with two bullet holes in her
body, one through the head and the
other near the heart.
Estimates on the Greeley potato
crop at the present time vary all the
way from 60 per cent of normal
yield to one made by well-known deal
ers, who say that if weather condi-
tions are right there will be normal
crop, or about 5000 car loads.
A campaign to awaken interest in
the COLORADO exhibit of fruit, grains
and vegetables to be sent to the Amer
lean Land and Irrigation Exposition
better known as the New York Land
Shown Madison Square Garden,
New York. November to 10, inclu.
sive, has been started by the Denver
Chamber of Commerce.
A suit brought by the Rio Grande
Southern Railway Company against
the Telluride Power Company for
| slSO,O00 damages to the railway line,