Irrigation Drive Aims to Transform Great Plains Farm Life
Guy E. Mitchell outlines plans to pump underflow water from the Arkansas River for the Garden City irrigation project in Kansas. The system will use hundreds of wells along a five mile line fed by a central plant, with power distributed to the wells. The scheme seeks to revive farming in the semi arid plains, boost alfalfa and sugar beet production, and attract thousands of settlers.
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Arkansas River
Kansas
Nebraska
England
Great Plains
Garden City
United States
Arkansas Valley
Elecce
Guy E. Mitchell
Policy Almost Out Governs McNulty Estate
Minnie McNulty was named administratrix of Peter A. McNulty estate by Judge McCall in Denver. The only asset is a $2 500 life policy from Standard Life and Accident of Detroit taken for three days and expiring the night he was killed beneath a Union Pacific train. Bond of $5 000 posted with American Surety of New York.
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Union Pacific
Peter A. McNulty
Minnie McNulty
McNulty
California
American Surety Company of
New York
Sweet Pea Seed Day Draws 200 Plus at Tribune Giveaway
The Tribune offered free sweet pea seed last Saturday drawing over 200 participants. The program, now in its third year, aims to foster a love of flowers and beautify yards, with C. A. Granger of the Greeley sugar factory supplying the seed. Meanwhile a separate note reports Cummings, a noted criminal, was moved to Canon City penitentiary after a Kansas City meeting with detectives.
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Tribune
C. A. Granger
Greeley
Kansas City
Cummings
Canon City
Florance
Union Pacific Builds Six New Gasoline Motor Cars
Six new gasoline powered cars constructed at the Omaha shops of the Union Pacific railroad will run on the line between Greeley and Denver for suburban service. The first car was built for an experiment in March 1905 and tested in Omaha yards before trips to Greeley and the Portland exposition. The new cars measure 32 and 55 feet in length, reach 50 to 60 miles per hour, and claim greatly reduced noise and vibration.
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Omaha
Union Pacific Railroad Company
Greeley
Denver
Portland Exposition
Two New Armories Planned for Ault and Fort Morgan
At a Denver meeting of the state military board contracts were set for armories in Ault and Fort Morgan. Each structure is priced around seven thousand five hundred dollars with a ten year buyout option. Leases for Fort Morgan and Ault run about 75 dollars monthly.
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State Military Board
Denver
Ault
Fort Morgan
Aults Pioneer Merchant Sells Store to Alpha Man
Aults pioneer merchant R L Pence sold his store to F J McIntyre of Alpha Iowa. The store grew to be one of the largest in northern Colorado and was founded by Pence in December 1807, the town's origin. Pence will remain in Ault as postmaster and focus on other business lines while retaining his home and role in town.
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Ault
R. L. Pence
F. J. McIntyre
Alpha
Iowa
Colorado
Pence
Cummings Returns Home After Short Jail Stay
Sheriff Ben Florence escorted outlaw John Cummings from Springfield Missouri to Florence Friday morning. Cummings had escaped from jail on January 7 and remained free for three months and forty minutes before being recaptured. He behaved as a model prisoner during the journey home.
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Ben HU
Florance
Springfeld
John Cummings
Cummings
Springfield
Mrs Fritz Dies Sudden at Meeting in Odd Fellows Hall
Mrs Maragret Fritz wife of J S Fritz collapsed from heart paralysis last Thursday evening at about 6 after attending a W B R C meeting in Odd Fellows hall. She had lived in Greeley since 1885 and married Mr Fritz in 1891. Survived by husband and son J B Ardell funeral held at First Presbyterian church with W R C G A R and Eastern Star participation.
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Maragret Fritz
J. S. Fritz
W. BR. C
Odd Fellows’ Hall
Fritz
Margaret Ardell
Greeley
J. B. Azdel
Eastern Star
First Presbyterian Church
R. J. Hunter
Spring town elections sweep neighboring towns
In Eaton Ault Windsor and Evans voters chose new leaders. Windsor cast 152 votes, Eaton saw 169 votes with 86 straight and 81 scratches, and Aust 202 ballots. BE. I. Raymond Eaton mayor T. TH. Dailey Windsor trustees G. W. Deffke Evans J. H. Behrens mayor and others were elected.
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Eaton
Ault
Windsor
Evans
BE. I. Raymond
A. Hahn
Louis McCullough
J. S. Newell
E. Stoneberg
C. H., McNeil
Ray M. Gale
Frank J. Stoner
Emanuel Schroll
J. W. Tellefsen
Messrs
Jeremiasseh
Hart
Citizens’ Party
Taxpayers’ Party
J. H. Behrens
Fred Minns
Louis Larson
G. R. Lansdale
J. ©. Hudson
Woman Wanderer Recovered After Hallucination Walk to Fort Collins
Rita Robertson, about 50, wandered from county hospital last Wednesday driven by a health delusion to reach a higher altitude. She was found wandering the Agricultural college grounds in Fort Collins and brought back Saturday morning. A county charge for months, she previously lived in a sandhills shack near Grover.
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Rita Robertson
Fort Collins
Agricultural College
Sandhills
Grover
Colorado & Southern Extends Rail Line North of Windsor
The Colorado and Southern Railway awarded a contract to a Longmont contractor to build a section from Wellington to near the Mahood and Bennett ranch, placing a large farming area in northwestern Weld County on rail. Completion is expected promptly.
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Colorado & Southern
Wellington
Mahood & Bennett
Windsor
Weld County
Longmont
Play Houses Planned for Windsor and Eaton Theatres
R S Dennis remodels the Palace Hotel in Eaton into a 350 seat theatre with a new stage and dressing rooms. In Windsor plans mature for an opera house with Western Theatre Construction overseeing seating, pricing, and possible stock sale. A Fitcheson & Eggleston plan removes partitions, adds exits, and brings in scenery and curtains. Multiple rooms will be adaptable for dances with removable folding chairs.
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Eaton
Windsor
Windsor House
Odd Fellows
Masons
Western Theatre Construction Company
Kansas
Illinois
Nebraska
Boulder
Eaton R. S. Dennis
Palace Hotel
Aitcheson & Eggleston
Palace Cafe
Colorado State Association Pushes Ellis Island Exhibition Hall Plan
The Colorado State Commercial association asks Congress to fund and build a permanent exhibition hall on Ellis Island New York harbor to showcase Colorado resources to arriving immigrants The group argues this would attract settlers to Colorado and cites other states operating port agents to recruit aliens for western lands Federal help is sought as a social remedy for overconcentrated urban areas.
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Colorado State Commercial Association
Congress
Ellis Island
New York Harbor
Colorado
Atlantic
New York
Seven Lakes Reservoir Company Plans $20,000 Expansion
The Seven Lakes Reservoir Company will spend about $20,000 to enlarge its system of reservoirs and ditches thirty miles west of here. Directors voted the amount at a recent meeting. Civil engineer C. D. Page will oversee the project to boost storage capacity of the already substantial system.
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Seven Lakes
C. D. Page
Supplementary Analysis and Derivative Tables Twelfth Census
The Census Bureau releases a special report on population statistics from the Twelfth Census prepared under Prof. Walter F. Wilcox of Cornell University. The volume comprises two parts with studies and tables, some previously issued and others new to the public.
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Bureau of the Census
Walter F. Wilcox
Cornell University
Census Office
Census Bureau
Cranford property sale nets $30,000 near State Normal school
The Cranford Sale, Sanborn and Houston bought the Cranford property for $30,000 on Thursday. The 200 acre tract, once bought from Union colony in 1872 for $1,900, was gifted by Crawford to his wife and partly donated as a site for the State Normal school. Heir Fred Crawford notes the land has paid better than a gold mine.
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Fred Crawford
Dispute Over School Land For Empire Reservoir
Complications arise as Empire reservoir construction submerges four sections of school land. Denver state land board weighs whether the land must be purchased or could pass to the irrigation district without compensation under irrigation law. Attorney General asked for opinion on a possible land transfer without payment.
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Big New Empire
Big Lake
State Land Board
Denver
Register Mark Woodruff
Colorado
New Empire
Miller
Rubber milk from Monte Cristo plantation shocks observer
F H Badger reports a quart of milk from Monte Cristo rubber trees in Mexico that was drawn on a visit. The fluid initially resembled milk but darkened and a fist sized rubber chunk coagulated in the center. Badger asserts clear evidence of successful cultivation and potential commercial value.
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F. H. Badger
Monte Cristo
Mexico
P. E. O. Sisterhood Guests Study Romola at Day Home
The P. E. Q. Sisterhood met Friday at Misses Abbie and Reba Day's home. After a brief business meeting the group studied Romola with papers by Emma Richey and Reba Day followed by a general discussion. Refreshments were served.
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Abbie
Reba Day
Romola
Emma Richey
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Collins
C. & S. Extension
Eaton and
R. S. Dennis
Palace
Cranford
New Empire Reservoir
P. E. O. Sisterhood
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