The Grit-advocate., 1903-10-30
COLORADO BRIEF S.

an artesian well TO supply the town
with water.
Moritz Barth, a Denver pioneer who
has accumulated great wealth through
the rise in real estate, has sold all his
Denver holdings and will remove with
his family to Boston.
Miss Honora de Busk of Trinidad.
Colorado, who has been working as u
Congregational missionary among the
Indians of New Mexico, is in New Eng
land on a preaching tour.
James A. Layton one of the pio-
neers Of Mesa county, died at Grand
Junction, October 23d. He was promi-
nent In city and county affairs from
the first settlement of the valley.
b. W, Lewis, proprietor of the La
Veta hotel at Gunnison, died suddenly
october 23d. While apparently in the
best of health he was attacked with
sudden illness and lived only a lew
hours.
The Carbonate Variety Theater at
Leadville was burned on the morning
| of October 10th. the building and con-
tents being totally destroyed. The en-
tire loss is about 5000, with no in
surance
The beautiful new chapel at the
Oakes Consumptives' Home in Denver
was dedicated by Bishop Omstead on
October 26th. The cost of the building
is about $4,000 and it comfortably
seats 200 people.
A San Diego, California, dispatch
says that Dr.. w. E. Cowell, of Grand
Junction, Colorado who was commit
ted to the southern California insane
asylum some six weeks ago, has been
discharged as cured.
The report OF Secretary f. L. Car
rington of the Colorado Springs Asso-
ciated Charities, shows that the total
receipts for the year were S55e7, W;
number of meals furnished, II, ,OlO, and
number of beds, 3,40O.
The contract for constructing the
new Delta water system will not be let
at present. the City Council having re-
iected the proposition submitted by Mr..
Whitelaw, for the sale of the Dough-
spoon water rights owned by him.
The University Of Colorado is to
have two interstate debates this year.
One is to be with the University of
Texas and the other with the univers-
! ity of Kansas. The Kansas-Colorado
debate comes to Boulder this year.
II. X. Sullivan fifth vice president
of the International Brotherhood of
| Teamsters. has been in Denver for
some time, laboring to perfect the local
organization Out of 1900 teamsters
he found only about 800 organized.
| c.. L. Wantland, land agent for the
| Union Pacific, has received lettes
! from Commander Frederick Booth
| Ii,
of Denver for providing COW for the
| Cherry Tree Home in Amity.
Trinity NJ E. Church in Denver will
celebrate its fortyfourth anniversary
| November 22nd at its magnificent
church building on Broadway. An ad-
| dress will be delivered by Joseph w
| Powell, organizer of the Brotherhood OF
! St. Paul.
! The Denver e. Northwestern Rail
| road Company has made arrangements
| TO supply Denver with coal from the
| Leyden mines, using steam power FOR
transporting the coal into the city in
stead of the electric power heretofore
depended upon.
On Thursday October 22d. Miss No
ia Gaynor, who had recently arrived
| in Denver from Boulder, stepped off
an electric car while it was in rapid
| motion and was killed The accident
seems to have been due to a temporary
+ alteration of mind.
A Laramie Wyoming, dispatch. Of
| October Goth says: Mrs. Annie Burns
of Denver and Jacob May of Laramie
were married lore to-day. The bride
secured a divorce from John Burns,
her fourth husband. in Denver few
months ago. Mr.. May has been mar
| ried three times.
Consul Emma Booth-Tucker visited
! the Salvation Army colony at Amity
| Oct. 21st She expressed herself as
| greatly pleased with its success and
| called it a great work in embryo. She
| found ffty.one orphan children at the
Cherrytree house, which is in excellent
| condition.
Five hundred men. whose sole bust
| ness is the endeavor to divert immi
| grafton to farm lands in the Middle
| and Southwest have agreed to make a
| party tour of Colorado next May. Of
| fically they are agents for the Missou-
| ri Pacific immigration Bureau, an ad
| junct Of the Gould railway system.
William c. Stover. one of the Oldest
residents of the Poudre valley, has sold
| his home at Fort Collins and removed
to San Diego, California. He came to
Fort Collins in 1860. was member of
| the Territorial Conference in 1873, and
also fthe Council Of 1876 which passed
| the Constitution of the State of Colo
| rado.
On the afternoon of October 2Gth.
| Clark Steele, the thre-year-old son of
| F. b. Steele of Colorado Springs
walked out upon the Denver & Rio
Grande railroad track with his pet dog
| and was killed by passing train Al
though the engineer signalled frantic
ally, the child was unaware of the dan
ger ard remained on the track.
Lon Briscoa, one of the escaped con-
victs from the federal prison at Leav-
enworth Kansas, who was captured