The Grit-advocate., 1901-05-17
COLORADO NOTES.

Denver letter carriers have decided
to adopt the shirt waist for summer
wear
Mrs. Mertie Burger, the Pueblo
school teacher who mysteriously disap-
pearcd some two weeks ago, has not
yet been found.
An attempted auction of real estate
in Denver Il few days ago did not
prove successful. Only two lots were
sold and those ut less than their value.
General Irving Hale and Henry Il.
Rogers will represent Denver Unitar-
ians at the annual meeting OF the
American Unitarian Association in
Boston the last week in May.
The Denver Real Estate Exchange
has voted to employ competent experts
and arrange some plan for boring n
we'll in the Denver basin to ascertain If
there is any oil to be found.
John c. Henry, who died at Denver
May &rd. is claimed to have been the
inventor of the overhead trolley for
electric railways. which was first used
in Kansas City in 1883. He made
fortune ont of his inventions.
Governor Orman has named Friday,
June 18th, as Flag Day. The Sons
and Daughters of the American Revo-
luton are preparing an extensive pro-
gram in Denver and will ask all the
school children to assemble in the City
park.
On the 9th inst. Amos Frazer, super
intendent of the Scott X Ogden lease
on Sheep mountain. near Placita in
Pitkin county. was instantly killed by
Il snow slide. His remains We're
shipped to Aspen, where his family re-
sides
PalSOn UZZell of the Denver Taber
nacle has arranged with the manage
ment of the Loveland beet sugar fac
tory to, supply several hundred work
ers from his congregation for cmerg-
ency labor in the beet fields this sum-
mer.
The recent heavy rains caused sew
eral large rock slides on the track of
the Denver Il Rio Grande railroad
along the Grand river near Glenwood
Springs. The water in the river was
also at Il very high point, OccasioninG
a good deal Of anxiety.
With the recent orders secured for
steel rails from the Colorado Midland
road, there is enough work on hand
to keep the rail mill at Bessemer busy
throughout the summer. At present
work is being done on large order of
eighty-fiye-pound rails for the Santa
Fe road.
The school census just completed at
Central City shows a school population
of 1,115, as against $50 in 1900. This
puts Central City in the list of first
class districts'and entities it TO a school
board numbering five instead of three,
but no change will take place till next
year.
Jesse A. Moore, convicted in the
District Court at GlenwoOd Springs
of the murder of Walter Phillips, was
sentenced to the penitentiary for life.
Moore received his sentence with ap-
parent Indifference. This Is the first
criminal sentence passed by Judge
Shumatc
In the new science building at Colo
RADIO College in Colorado Springs there
Will be a department for the accommo-
daton of the museum, recently much
enlarged by the purchase in California
of the Coronado collection. secured for
the college through the generosity of
W. s. Stratton.
There are said to be a few Denver
people left who have not yet been ap-
pointed on the committee to receive
President Mckinley June 9Th. They
can doubtless figure in the committee
of the whole. even they don't get their
names in print in small type in 4
crowded column of the blanket sheets.
Il. F. RockafelIow, the Canon City