The Colorado statesman., 1911-05-20

sane fOurIn OF july CeleDTdtloh tniS
year.
The farmers near Greeley will seed
about $4,000 acres to potatoes this
| year.
Mrs. Emma Kalbaugh. one of Gold
ems earliest pioneers, died at the age
of eighty.
The Colorado Association of Letter
| Carriers will hold convention in Boul-
der June 2Sth.
Mrs. John Gregory, aged 70, and a
in Cripple Creek.
For the first time in many years
Montrose will celebrate the glorious
Fourth this year.
The two-year-old son of Human
Straub of Rocky Fork, was drowned in
the High Line ditch
Genuine flaxseed imported directly
| from Holland is to be given a tryout
in the Greeley district.
Mrs. Emmett Barton, wife of a
wealthy sheep man and one of the old
est residents of Fruita, is dead.
Tom Reams has been sentenced to
ninety days in Jail and fine of 800
for bootlegging at Grand Junction.
Prof. Thompson of the La Junta
high school and six of his assistants
went on strike and refused to teach.
Broadmoor casino, Colorado
Springs most popular summer resort,
will open for the the season June
22nd.
Ira a.asser, aged Is, son of Henry
Masser, a prominent ranchman, was
instantly killed at Grote, by a passen-
ger train.
T. w. Thomas, former sheriff of
Garfield county, died suddenly at
Glenwood Springs, of heart failure,
aged SO.
The largest payroll at the Minnequa
steel plant at Pueblo, this year has
just been paid and amounted to nearly
$175,OOO.
Rio Grande passenger train No. 16
rau over Pat Dolon, a section man, at
Texas Creek near Canon City, killing
him instantly.
Hotel men from over the state to
the number of 200 will spend June
End, Bird and 4th in Colorado Springs
and Manitou.
The annual Larimer County Sunday
School convention met in Loveland
with delegates present from every part
of the county.
The big pumping plant of James
Smith on Orchard Mesa near Grand
Junction was destroyed by fire with Il
loss of 100000.
Montrose will produce its regulation
bountiful fruit crop again this year,
and the fear of loss by frost is now
practically past.
A great many of the Alamosa resi-
dents are planning to cooperate in
building a club house in the Conejos
Canon this summer.
The comptroller of the currency has
received an application to convert the
Limon State bank into the First Ma
tional bank of Limon.
An old fashioned camp meeting is to
be held in the grove at Fort Lupton
beginning May 21st. Great prepara-
tions are being made.
Mills in Boulder county have been
ordered closed down because they are
communicating the water in streams
and destroying fish.
About three hundred skilled beet
raisers from Globeville have reached
Alamosa to take up the culture of
sugar beets in the valley
James Salzar, 14-year-old son of
Adam Salzar, living three miles east
of Berthoud, accidentally shot and
killed his 6-year-old brother at the
ranch.
Southern Ute Indians in southwest
.ern Colorado are to be protected in
their water rights by the government,
SO that they may continue irrigated
farming.
While working on the county road
near Fort Collins, and near a point
where one of the frontier highways
formerly crossed the Poudre river,
men discovered human bones, an old
iron kettle and rusted barrel of a
rifle, mute evidences of some from
tier tragedy.
Denver bankers have received no.
tice from the executive council of the
American Bankers Association to the
effect that new national system
designed to facilitate the forward
ing of bank cnecks mas been adopted.
BY the new method every bank in the
United States will be numbered and
the work of numbering has begun.
The question of establishing a ma
tionaI sanatorium at Colorado Springs
to cost 100000 will be decided at the
biennial national convention of the
Brotherhood of Railway Trainmen.
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