The Colorado statesman., 1916-11-11

Show at Denver.
Feb. 2-4-Y. NJ. C. A. Annual Conven-
tion at Colorado Springs.
A ski club has been organized at
Yampa.
A new Blue Bird cottage is being
planned for Boulder.
Fort Collins has abolished hitching
posts on paved strees.
Not in twenty years have there been
SO few vacant houses in Pueblo.
Beet pulp wagons are prohibited
from using the streets of Fort Collins.
Over $50 carloads of lambs were re-
ceived at the Fort Collins yards in
three days
There are 200 people in Rollinsville
and there are new families moving in
every day.
Shipments of cattle from Hugo in
the last fortnight have ranged in value
around s150,O00.
B. H. Moon has sold section of
non-irrigated land to L. H. Gerstenber-
ger of Byers for $12,S00.
Mrs. Anna Nagel Schirmer, wife of
Godfrey Schirmer, died of heart dis
ease in her home in Denver.
A spur of the Santa Fe railroad is
under construction to the Wolf Park
coal mine near Canon City.
The Espy Ice Company is building
new dam above Rollinsville, twenty
five feet high and 200 feet wide.
Plans to purchase both the Soda
Springs park and the Mansions park
are being made by Manitou citizens.
Boulder county commissioners have
denied the petition for vote on a
proposed good road bond issue of
$240,Co0.
w. H. Seltzer, a pioneer broom man
ufacturer of Denver, died in the home
of his son, Herbert E. Seltzer, at Long
Beach, Cal.
Prospects of opening a large body
of iron-manganese in the Penrose shaft
at Leadville are said to be exceed
ingly bright.
Thomas H. Gibson, deputy in the
Denver city attorneys office, must
pay his wife, Dorothea, $40 a week
temporary alimony.
The Pueblo Trades and Labor AS
sembly has indorsed plans for the pur-
chase of the Wade building in that
city for labor temple.
Ranchmen in Routt county are ad-
vertising for laborers, offering SO a
day and board for able-bodied men
who can handle farm work.
Friendless and alone, although ap-
parently possessed of some means,
Martha Scanlon, 81 years old, died in
O rooming house in Denver.
The state tax commission has made
a cut of $2S,420 on the original ap.
praisement of the property of corpora
lions in Boulder county.
The art exhibit recently held by the
Loveland public schools brought net
profits close to $50. The money will
be used for school purposes.
H. U. Nudge, reelected president OF
the Denver & Rio Grande at the an
nual meeting of the board of directors,
returned from New York to Denver.
There were 1900 candidates on nine
tickets for Colorado voters to select
from at Tuesdays election. Eight
special measures were also on the bal
lot.
Miss Agnes McKenna, a teacher in
the Cheltenham school, is in serious
condition at her home in Denver as
the result of blow over the heart
from golf club.
All Delta mourns over the tragic
death of Tied" Widney, the popular
fullback of the Delta High school foot.
ball squad, as result of an injury re-
The Colorado School of Mines at
Golden has been designated as the
first school in the United States to
become a federal military college un-
der the provisions of the national de-
fense act Of June 8, 1916.
The irrigation project which the
farmers living about twelve miles
from Montrose are building is now
about half completed. When finished
it will cost about $4,000, and will ir-
rigate about 1000 acres.
mangel wurzel beet weighing fif-
teen and one-quarter pounds was pro-
duced on the truck farm of F. w.
Smith, at Wheatridge this season. The
crop, grown on small garden patch
for COW feed, ran more than thirty
tons to the acre.
The Fidelity mining property near
Leadville, which has been under de-
velopment for several years, is the
scene of an important strike. A tun-
mel driven 1900 feet has cut the vein
and disclosed four feet of smelling ore
averaging 5000 to the ton.
The city of Colorado Springs has in
creased its holdings of lands on the
north of Pixies Peak by the addition
,f the tract on which is located the