The Grit-advocate., 1901-08-09
COLORADO NOTES.


a year.
The Pueblo Y. NJ. C. A. has added
fifty members in three weeks since the
accession of the new secretary, Mr.. G.
w. James.
Contracts are to be let soon for the
construction of new steel bridge
across Clear creek on the Middle Park
road at Idaho Springs.
The death penalty law went into ef-
feet at midnight August LIST, according
to an opinion rendered by Assistant
Attorney General George Post.
The total precipitation at Denver
during the month of July was one
hundredth of an inch. Hardly equiva-
lent to moderate fall of dew.
The comptroller of the currency has
extended the corporate existence of
the Western National Bank of Pueblo
Colorado, until the close of business
July 26. 1921.
Delays in the construction Of equip
ment for the new telephone exchange
at Colorado City will postpone the
opening for three weeks. About $1,000
Will be expended.
Mrs. J. l.. Brush. aged sixty years,
wife of cX-Licutenant Governor Brush,
died July '1st. at the family home in
Greeley of dropsy of the heart She
had been ill only a short time.
All the county prisoners have been
removed from the Cripple Creek city
Jail to the county Jail. The new Jail
has a capacity to hold 100 prisoners
and cost Teller county $25,o00.
The agent of the state land office
who went to look after the fire on Mt.
Evans telephoned that it was ex-
tinguished. 1t is the opinion Of state
officials that the rains will put stop
to the fires that have been reported so
frequently of late.
The Reed Investment Company Of
Colorado Springs has decided to demol-
ish the old Brunswick hotel building
at Grand Junction and erect on the
site a tirst-class modern hotel to be
called "The Reed" 1t will cost 2o,OOO
and will contain fifty rooms.
On July 9th Mayor West of Pueblo
ordered the closing of all gambling
houses and the disuse of all the slor
machines used for gambling He said:
Il decided that if gambling could not
be controlled by the authorities, as the
authorities saw fit to control it, the
time had come to close all the gam
bling establishments. The order is
absolute and means not only the
gambling houses, but the policy shops
as WE'LL
The strike of the Denver hOd car
ricrs is declared off. This ends one of
the longest and most ficrcely waged
building strikes that Denver has ever
seen. On June 1st over 500 hod car
riers went out for an increase in
wages. After protracted discussion
on the night of August list, the hod
carriers voted unanimously to declare
the strike off. This action was taken
because the State Board of Arbtra-
ton decided against the strikers.
Leopold Batres. MeXicos greatest
archacologist. may visit Mancos canon,
Colorado it is reported, for the pur-
pose of making researches among the
cli:f dwellers' ruins. recently brought
into prominence by Mrs. Virginia Nc
Clurs of Colorado Springs. Mr. Batres
hopes to prove by his Investigations
that Mancos valley may have been the
ancient IIuetlapalla of the Toltecs,
from which they started on their
southern pilgrimage to populate the
land of Anahuac
Mrs Jane Fish, who figured in one
of the most sensational murder trials
this state has ever experienced, was
locked up in Denver a few days ago on
the charge of disturbance. Mrs. Fish
was arrested for murder of her hus-
band, Gaylord Fish, at Georgetown.
December {. 1897. Her present trouble
was brought about by quarrel with
Raymond Kircher, her granddaugh-
ter's husband with whom she has