The Grit-advocate., 1903-04-10
COLORADO BRIEFS.


big easter packers.
The new A. T. & S. F. depot on I'm
ion avenue in Pueblo was informally
opened April lst, and several thousand
visitors Inspected the building.
The stcckmen and cowboys of Hugo
want Pr sldent Roosevelt TO stop and
accept their hospitality for twenty-five
minutes on the morning of May 4tb.
A big fair will be held in Denver, be-
ginning May 9TH for the benefit of the
House OF lie Good Shepherd, an insti-
tuition foF he reclamation OF wayward
or fallen girls.
The fIsi train from Denver in five
days reached Silyerton April 9Th car
rying somc ninety sacks of mail. Dur
ing the same day nearly twelve inches
of new snow fell
Permits for the erection OF new
buildings to the value of $512, ,395 were
taken out in Denver last month. This
is considerable increase over the
same period last year.
Mrs. Olga kretschmer, police matron
at the civ Jail in Pueblo, recently eX-
ercised her police authority by arrest
ing a negro woman. whom she charged
with having stolen a number of ducks.
Ralph ". Smith of Denver has been
appointed by the governor a member
of the StaIc Board Of Pardons. He sue
ceeds to the vacancy made by the res
ignation Of w. l.. Dayton.
Brickluyers' Unien No. ! of Denver
has issued notice to eastern unions that
there are already enough bricklayers
in the city Denver builders have been
advertisins in the East for workmen.
The sikh biennial convention of the
Brotherhood of Railway Trainmen Will
meet in Denver May 10th, and an at
tendance Of deegata rs and their tami-
lies to tbc number Of 5000 or more Is
expected.
During his late visit to Colorado.
George Gould with his party made Il
brief visit to the steel works at Pu-
eblo and also visited the coal proper
ties of the Colorado Fuel and Iron
Company at Trinidad.
A small dog insisted on riding with
his drunk and disorderly master to the
city Jail in Denver a few days ago.
jumping INTO the patrol wagon after it
was in notion despite the policeman
in charge
Acting Postmaster General Wynne
| has authorized the postmaster al Fort
| Collins to increase the wages OF three
clerks i, his Office July lst; one from
$500 to 5000; one from $500 to 500, anc
one from $500 to $500.
Forty survivors of the battle of Shi-
loh are now living In Denver. They
held a meeting on Sunday, April 9th
| the forty-tirst anniversary of the bat
| tie. and took measures to form per
manent organization, S. NJ. French be-
ing secretary
Anthony Bott has offered free site
for the $4,000 public library building
to be built by Andrew Carnegie in Col
orado City. The site is on the south
side of the city. Other offers will be re
ceived by the City Council before ac-
cep,ing.
Six girls, ranging in age from thlr-
teen to eighteen years. were before the
Police Court in Pueblo, April lst, or
the charge of shoplifting. They con
fessed that for several months they
had been taking dry goods from the
large stores in the city.
A change of venue to Grand county
was granted by Judge Carpenter at
| Denver in the injunction suit brought
by the New Century Light and Power
Company against the Denver. North
western & Pacific railway, for the pos
session of Gore canon.
The report of the national commits
| sioner of education for 1901 shows that
the average number Of days in the
school year in Colorado is l4S as
| against an average Of III in New Eng
land and the Middle Atlantic states
and lG5 in California.
| The new road from lOveland tC
Estes Park is being pushed by a large
| force of men. About $50 men are
| working on the road work in the
| Thompson canon and it is believed that
| this road will be completed to the
park by the first of July.
At Trinidad, Judge J. G. Northcutt
| has handed down decision in the case
| of the People versus Walter G. Moss
| manager of the Trinidad Opera house
| in which he sustains the defendant
and holds that the law against Sunday
| thcaters is unconstitutional.
George Norris, the colored man whc
! took the money from the safe at the
Denver Club, was sentenced on the 3ls'
ult. by Judge Mullins to serve from
one to four years in the penitentiary
| Thomas Harris, also cOlored was dis
missed for turning states evidence.
Willis Sweet, who was resident OF
| Denver in 1879 and became well known
at I.eadville and other parts of the
state, has been named by Senator Hey
burn of Idaho. who was requested by
the President to suggest man for the
appointment. to be attorney general OF
Porto Rico.
A Denver Republican correspondent
saws that farmers In the great wheat
belt adj jacent to Monte Vista, stimulat-
cd by The prospect Of an abundance OF
water Tor irrigation. are putting in an
unprecedented acreage of grain this
sprng. counting on the biggest harvest
ever gathered.
Articles of incorporation Of the towI
of Hot sulphur Springs. Grand county