The new era., 1911-02-16


sold for 100000.
The Denver Athletic Club boxing
and wrestling tournament is fast and
entertaining affair.
from scabies, cattle in the Eaton vi
cinity are being dipped.
Cars of potatoes shipped from
Greeley to Juarez, Mex, have been
broken into and stolen.
Greeley has sold more Red Cross
stamps than any town of its size in
the state.
Two troops of cavalry from Wyo-
ming to Nogales, Ariz., passed through
Denver recently.
DR.. T. J. Estill. prominent ply
sician and pioneer of Colorado
Springs. is dead.
The corner stone of the new federal
building in Denver will be laid in the
near future.
Denver has a "San Francisco, 1915"
club, probably the first organized in
the country.
Fourteen thousand two hundred ar
rests were made by the Denver police
department in 1910.
The Farmers Institute at Long
mont has closed and great good re-
suited from the meeting.
The safe of lumber concern at
Gilcrest was cracked by yeggmen
but no money was secured.
II plans of an Eastern company are
carried out, Milliker will have to-
mato cannnery costing $4,000.
The two-year-old child of ]. Plerson
of Greeley swallowed a ten-penny nail.
but has suffered no bad effect.
In the Rifle country in 1910, 1.O00.-
900 pounds of potatoes were raised on
thirty-seven and one-half acres of
land.
Northern Colorado farmers have
begun prospecting for grasshopper
eggs by blowing around the edges of
their fields.
Fulton Alexander, negro known in
Denver police circles as Steamboat"
is in Jail in Castle Rock charged with
horse stealing.
The dates of the Western Slope De-
velopment Congress, to be held at
Grand Junction, have been changed to
March % and "a.
Work soon will begin on the new
flour mill at Milliken and 1t will han
die this years crop, with capacity Of
l25 barrels a day.
Change of venue in the damage suit
against the city of Pueblo by the'Pueb-
lo Water Supply Company for $780,
900 has been denied.
The San Luis Oil and Gas Com
pany struck oil of excellent quality
at a depth of $50 feet eight miles
northeast of Alamosa.
The loss resulting from the burning
of the shaft house of the Frank Hough
mine above Animas Forks in San Juan
county is estimated at $175,O0O.
Because of a government regulation
that no one can be postmaster who is
suffering from tuberculosis, George
Hamilton of Num- has resigned.
Dr. Samuel D. Hopkins, reputed
of the best neurologists in the West
and a leading member of the medical
profession in Denver, is dead.
Finishing touches are being put on
the lines which will complete the
great high tension loop of the North
ern Colorado Power Company.
Seven beautiful pictures, copies OF
old masters, have been presented to
the Agricultural college for the deco
ration of Guggenheim hall by the
Woman's Club of Fort Collins.
Jack Johnson, negro, champion pugi-
list of the heavyweight class. stopped
over in Pueblo two hours on his way
to San Francisco. Johnson arrived un-
heralded and without notice.
Carmen Laten and George I. Burgen,
promoters of the Paradox Valley rail
road, say work will start on the final
survey from Montrose as soon as snow
disappears on the Uncompahgre valley
plateau.
Three Fort Collins men have sold
to the North Poudre Irrigation Compa
ny their old priority rights to five feet
of water in the Poudre for $4,000.
A panorama of the Grand valley, six
by forty feet, is being painted at the
expense of the Grand Junction Cham
ber Of Commerce and will be displayed
in the capitol at Denver next month.
The largest land transaction in the
history OF the Grand valley was closed
when the Palisade Fruit & Land Com
pany sold to the Moncrief Orchard
Company Ill acres Of peach land for
$111 200.