The Grit-advocate., 1903-10-02
COLORADO BRIEFS.


Bishop MatZ.
Miss Pearl G. Josey of Grand .mnc.
ton. has been appointed cook at the
Grand Junction Indian School at a saI
ary OF $500 per anEum.
Burglars entered the ofiice of The
Fort Collins Courier on the night of
september 27th and robbed the safe
taking $40 in cash and $50 in checks.
The executors OF the Stratton estate
deny the report that 50 200 900 has been
offered for the property of the Colo
RADIO Springs a. lnterurban Railway Co,
Allen B. Seaman. a prominent attor-
ney of Denver. died of heart disease
on the night of Sept. 24th. He went
to bed apparently In his usual health
and was found dead in the morning.
Miss Alfredo Stebbins. late of Lin
coin. Nebraska, has been elected IL
brarian at Fort Collins. She is an ea-
pcrienced librarian, having taken .
regular course in library work in Phil
adelphia.
c. w. Wells. engineer in charge of
the state wagon road to be built from
Durango to Orc Fino. has established
his camp midway between and has been
exploring the section TO determine
upon a route.
The Postoffice Department has or
dered two additional rural free deliv-
cry routes established out OF Rocky
Ford. The length of the new routes is
forty-one miles and they serve a popu-
lation of $50.
The postoflices at Hotchkiss and Pa
onia Colorado. are among those or
dered to be advanced TO the presden-
1ial grade October 1st, the postmas-
ters' salaries being fixed at $1,l00 and
Sl,2OO respectively.
By the caving in of the earthen roof
of a house eight miles east of Aguiar
a short time since, Elferino Aguilar
aged 13. was killed and six grown peo
pie more or less injured. The boy
died from suffocation.
General Frank d. Baldwin, com
mander of the Department of the Col
orado, has just returned from attend
ing reunion of the Nineteenth Mich
igan infantry at Otsego. Michigan
General Baldwin has been for twenty
years president of the regimental asso-
citation.
1t is now expected that the First bat
talon of infantry of the National
Guard of Colorado will be detained so
long at Cripple Creek that it will be
unable to attend the military maneu-
vers at Fort Riley, Kansas. October
18th to 27th. for which honor it has
been selected
The Live Stock Company, a corpo-
ration, has sold it's ranch lands. six
miles northwest of Fort Collins, 10 S
II. Clammer and John Schwartz. The
total embraces 1920 acres of pasture
meadow and cultivated land. carrying
water rights for all the meadow and
cultivated land.
The United States Circuit Court of
Appeals for the Eighth Judicial dis
.trict has finished the Denver term. All
three of the judges left for their homes
September 23rd. Judge Sanborn going
to st. Paul. Judge Van de Vanter to
Cheyenne and Judge Hook to Leaven-
worth, Kansas.
Loveland calls attention to the fact
that the foundations are being laid for
.wo large business blocks. a new
church building and a $1,000 residence
within the radius of less than two
blocks. The old town hall is being
torn down and plans are being pre-
pared for new one.
Grand Exalted Ruler Joseph T. Fan
ming has accepted an invitation to at
tend the dedicatory exercises Of the
new Elks' Club building in Colorado
Springs November 11th. A state re-
union of all the Elks will be held to
celebrate the opening of the new build
ing and banquet will be served.
The Great Western Sugar Company
now owns and is operating one engine
and about fifty freight cars on the new
road between the Loveland factory and
Johnstown. This road was built by
tie sugar company last year, is about
fifteen miles in length and is used
mainly to haul beets to the factory.
The report of Louis Schwanbeck,
former state auditor, who has been ex-
aminng the city clerks books at Grip
pie Greek, states that the books show a
shortage of $500 and further that the
city. has lost at least $4,000. chiefly
from nom payment of saloon licenses.
through the carelessness of the former
city clerk.
The home of James Barton Adams,
poet and paragrapher, the famous
Postscript" man. at Denver. was
burned on Sunday afternoon. Septem-
Der 27tn, while the family was absent
The loss is estimated at $4,000 on the
building and such furniture as the
neighbors were unable to save. Insur-
ance partly covers the loss.
Mrs. James NJ. Young, wife of Pu-
eblo dentist claims the distinction of
being the only woman in Colorado who
has killed a bear this year. Several
weeks ago DR.. and Mrs. Young went
on hunting trip to Chama, New Mex
leo. where Mrs. Young succeeded in
killing a large cinnamon bear. Mrs.
Young was Miss Nora Gremba OF 1850
Humboldt street, Denver.
Ground was formally broken Septem-
ber 2Sth for the beginning of the
! grade on the new Pueblo 4 Beulah
railway Miss Lyle Burns. daughter of