The Grit-advocate., 1903-04-24
COLORADO BRIRF4

drank heavily mineralized water. They
were all taking gold cure.
A new ordinance in Denver requires
the owner of an automobile to take
out license and display the number
Of the vehicle in large figures.
The hospital equipment OF the Colo
rado National Guard at Denver will be
placed at the use of the International
Christian Endeavor convention in next
July.
Plans are being perfected to reor-
ganize the Denver Gas and Electric
Company and take it out of the hands
of the receiver. A stockholders meet
ing will be held May l2th.
An expert accountant who has been
examining the books of f. G. Coray,
building inspector at Colorado Springs
finds that officer to be short in his ac-
counts to the extent of 81 .203 Al.
A colonization scheme is being
planned in Pueblo by c. G. Nikirk
city agent for the Santa Fe railroad.
and others, by which 100 Swedish fam
lilies will be placed on farms in Pueblo
county.
The annual joint midsummer meet
ing of the Colorado Editorial Associa
ton and the Arkansas Valley Press
Association will be held at Glenwood
Springs on Monday and Tuesday. June
Sth and 9th.
The board of directors OF the Festi-
val of Mountain and Plain has an
nounced that no festival will be held
this year A committee has been ap-
pointed to arrange for great mid
summer festival in 1904.
The Ouray Business Mems Associa-
tion has been organized with large
membership to protect the merchants
of the city against the danger of strikes
and boycotts. E. II. Powell is president
and William Storey, Jr.. secretary.
The land Office at Washington has
confirmed the transfer of the Denver
Pacific railroad land grant in Colo
RADIO to the Union Pacific. The amount
involved is about 5000 acres. The
transfer was made at the Hugo office.
John X Shireman was elected secre
tary of the Colorado State Fair Associ-
alton at meeting of the directors al
Pueblo April 18th. He succeeds
Charles A. Galloway. who becomes
manager of the Mirnequa Amusement
Company.
Mrs Hearon. president of the board
of managers OF the Colorado Cottage
Home in Denver, an asylum for unfor-
tunate and erring girls, which has re-
Gently been closed, announces that the
institution has only temporarily sus-
pended operations.
Doc" Baggs, the famous confidence
man who once ran things pretty much
his own way in Denver. and occasion
ally extended his activities to other
parts of the state. has recently been op-
Grating in Omaha. His bait there was
bogus mining stock
Bradley and Morrison. the men ar
rested for dynamiting the Longmont
postoffice safe, are now in custody in
Denver They confessed the crime 10
the United States marshal and postof-
fee inspector Three other men arrest
ed on suspicion We're released.
The state land board. after hearing
the protest OF the New Century Light
and Power Company against granting
the Denver, Northwestern and Pacific
Railway Company the right of way
through Gore canon. decided the con-
Iaofciss Ii oNoA VI tLc -hoiioI Ioas--
The George w Cook drum corps of
Denver has changed its title to the
Cook band. 1t is now seventy strong
and is equipped as full military band
and drum corps The band will have
a conspicuous place in the coming ted
ication services of the Worlds Fair
site at St. Louis.
Mayors and trustees of the suburban
towns surrounding Denver met at the
St. James hotel April goth and decided
by vote of twenty-one to five 10 resist
annexation until the Supreme Court de-
cides the territorial limitations Of the
city and county of Denver Globcyille
voted to come into the city.
John Trusty a colored bootblack.
was. arrested at Colorado Springs on
the night OF April 18th on the charge
of having murdered his wife. His
story is that he returned home at II
o'clock at night and found her dead
body Her death was caused by
gunshot wound in the head.
The Denver & Rio Grande railroad
has selected the engineer who shall
pull the Roosevelt special over its line.
Engineer Rice has been selected to
bring the trains from Denver to Pueblo
with his engine. No. 731 From Gu
chara Junction to Trinidad B. J. Syl-
vester. with engine No. 623. will have
charge of the train.
sThe Denver. Northwestern and Pa
cific Railroad Company CMofat road)
has secured an injunction from Judge
De Frances court at Golden restrain
ing the New Century Light and Power
Company from doing any further work
on their reservoir site in Gore canon
which will in any way interfere with
the right OF way of the railroad
The Rio Grande railroad is said 10
have begun work on thirty miles Of the
new line to run from Castle Rock 10
Hustled. crossing the divide about six
miles east of Palmer Lake. Ii is UNDER
stood that it is not the purpose Of the
Rio Grande to abandon the present
line. which will be retained for the
ODerating of local DaSSeDper and .r,;rb,