The Grit-advocate., 1903-03-20
COLORADO BRIeFS


vanced to the presidential class April
lst
The President has reappointed John
F. Squire to be register of the land Of
flee at Glenwood Springs.
A committee has been appointed by
the business men of Manitou to endea-
vor to secure a library donation from
Mr.. Carnegie.
Pueblo ladies will endeavor to secure
a cleanup of some of the dirty and
disreputable streets that now do dis
credit to the city.
Negotiations for rights of way in
Grand county have been commenced
preparatory to letting grading con-
tracts for the Moffat road.
The date Of the launching of the
cruiser Denver at the Cramp ship
yards has been postponed from April
9Th to April 25th to accommodate Gbv-
ernor Peabody.
Dr. William p. Mum, president OF
the Colorado State Medical Society and
former health commissioner of Den
yer, died at Denver March 18th of con-
sumption contracted before he came 10
Colorado.
Arrangements have been completed
with the United States fish hatcher at
Leadville for the placing of 600 900 fry
trout in the Platte river through the
canon section by the Colorado & South
ern railroad.
1t is expected that over 100 families
will settle this spring on the tract of
land controlled by the Denver Sugar
the big Castlewood dam on Cherry
creek between Denver and the divide.
]. S. Welsh has been appointed tie
and timber agent of the Denver, North
western & Pacific railroad. Mr.. Welsh
at present holds the same position with
the Ell Paso 4 Northwestern. the Rock
Islands Ell Paso line.
The Pueblo Business Mems Associa-
ton has pledged itself to raise the
$4,000 bonus asked by the United
States Packing Company of Chicago in
consideration of the location of a large
packing plant in Pueblo.
On March 18th Postmaster L. C.
Dana of Colorado Springs celebrated
al at the Springs. Twenty-Five of
lhtot years hdNC DtCH SpShI III puIlIt
office, as sheriff, chief of police and
postmaster.
Winfield S. Grove of Denver has re-
Gently been made captain of the Philip
pine constabulary. Mr.. Grove left Den
yer in 1898 and since he has been in the
army has been rapidly advanced. Cap
tain Grove is in command of the prov
ince of Laguna.
Another roundup of wild horses was
recently made in the vicinity of Ala
mosa and La Jara and on the 18th in
slant 800 of them were auctioned OFF at
the Alamosa stock yards, mostly 10
eastern buyers. the average price be
ing about 81 a head.
Samuel H. Benton, prominent law
yer Of Colorado Springs, died at Byha-
liza, Mississippi, on the 18th instant.
His dead body was found in ditch.
There were knife cuts on his arms and
body. leading to the supposition that
he had committed suicide
A. D. Moorhead. a member of the
Gentlemen's Driving and Riding Club
of Denver. and Denver agent for the
Longmont flour mills. died suddenly
of heart disease March 14th while driv
ing home in a carriage from the City
park in company with W. j, Briggs.
The efforts of the Swedish-American
residents of Denver to raise money for
the benefit of the starving people in
Sweden are meeting with unexpected
success. DR.. A. E. Engzelius is chair
man of the finance committee and be-
lieves that there is a possibility that
81, 900 will be raised.
The story of the adventures of Miss
Ellen Stone, the missionary who was
captured by Bulgarian brigands and
be told in Denver by Miss Stone She
pices hf the First Congregational
Church.
The Colorado Fuel and Iron Com
pany will commence the delivery of
steel rails on its contract with the Mof
fat road next month, and at the same
time shipments Of ties and bridge tim
ber will begin, in accordance with the
recent contracts made by General
Manager A. c. Ridgway.
President Roosevelt has replied
through Secretary Loeb to the invita-
tion of the Colorado Springs Y. NJ. C.
A. and the Real Estate Exchange to
visit the Springs upon his trip to Colo
RADIO. The President stated that as vet
no definite schedule had been arranged
but that the matter would be given full
consideration.
On the 18th instant Bernardo Val
dez, miner near Hastings, Las AMI
mas county. found his wife in a room
Ititl or0fhor lyi11aI I,,v
cutting her throat with a razor Val
dez was arrested. He is about twenty
five years of age and his wife was
Twenty-Five. They had been married
but five months.
Bridgemen employed at the Bessemer
Steel Works have been notified that
they will be called out in sympathy
with the strike now on at Cheyenne
against the American Bridge Company.
This order will not affect the other
structural iron workers at the steel
works and will mean a loss of only
fifty men at the works