The Grit-advocate., 1903-05-08
COLORADO BRIEF S

AT tn huOl election in Boulder,
May ith t was voted to issue $50 900
in bond 1or the erection of two new
school holdings.
Mrs. Helen Grenfell. state superin
| tendent Dl Instruction. addressed the
Teacher Association of eastern coun-
ties at Iusyuke. May End.
l.. r. lgcrsoll of the class of 1902 i'll
Colorad' College. has secured fellow
ship in Hysics for the coming year at
the NoIIlN estern University.
The thrysulite saw mill and lumber
yard OIL Fryer hill. al Leadville. was
burned uU the night of May lst, the
loss beiHg estimated at 100000.
Presidea' Roosevelts fifteen minute
stop at Hugo and cowboy breakfast
| with TN H.ate and cup, was the most
pictures TH feature OF his tour through
| Colorado
All th" cables of the Colorado Tele-
phone Company in Pueblo which have
been erected on poles, have now been
| transferrrl tD an underground system
of conduIrs
Nearly all the inhabitants OF Colora-
| do Springs. Colorado City and Mani
tou sreeiai President Roosevelt at
COLORADO springs and the city was pro-
fusely decorated
From I, fact that |. Harry Stratton
has sem for some of his furniture to
be shipprI to Pasadena, Calf, it is
though trar he will not return to maLr
his hon' at Colorado Springs.
Sccretary Martha Shute of the State
| Horticultural Board has received from
Senator Patterson $500 small packages
of vegetable seed for gratuitous distri-
button from Eer Office at Denver.
George W Andrews & Co nave
closed deal for the purchase OF the
old Hiawaiha garden at Manitou. An
opera troupe has been engaged for sew
eral weeEs and entertainment through
out the summer will be provided.
Thirty-Ihree medical students were
graduate by the Denver and Gross
| College OF Medicine, a branch OF the
| universitF of Denver. on Tuesday,
April 2Srh. They hail from eleven diff
ferent states Of the Union and one is
from Canada.
The directors of Denvcr's first social
settleme,l he Neighborhood House in
West Denver. has arranged for the
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building at a cost OF $4,000. This Will
give the settlement a well located and
commodl0us headquarters.
A ha, some photograph of William
| N. Brf.S 'Fhas beel! presented to -
State Historical and Natural History
Society of Colorado by Mrs. Byers,
Mary 3ycrs Robinson and Frank sum
ner Uyars. Mr. Byers at the time OF
his death was president a the society
Dr. Arthur Allin. professor of psy-
choloEy and education at the State uni
versiIy will deliver the commence
ment 0ration at the University of New
Mexico June 5th. President Baker will
delivel the commencement Grafton at
the diversity of Wyoming June 17th.
f! FU.g 800 delegates will be in attend
ance a' the sessions OF the convention
of the Brotherhood Of Railway Train
men. Which will meet in Denver, be
ginniug May 18th. They will repre-
sent locals from every state and terri
tory in the Union, also the Canadian
provinces.
Captain Hamilton S. Hawkins, Unit
ed Staras cavalry, has been assigned to
duty 40 Denver as assistant to the
chief rummissary of the Department
of the colorado. He will relieve Cap
tain Frank A. Cook, who will proceed
to Omaha for duty in the Department
Of the Missouri
Mr Brooks. congressman-at-la large
for CCurado, has written to Hot Sui
phur SPRINGS that the petition recently
sent iu for the establishment of mail
route between Kremming and To-
hot /, II, ,i,try
ton a,aI that it will receive his most
earnc-r support.
ProsDectors and miners who have re-
maiuCU in the La Plata mountains all
winter rstimate the snowfall at from
twenty-five to thirty feet, probably one
third of this having fallen since the
first Il. March. There is said to be
a grua'er quantity of snow in the
mounlans now than at the same date
for ffn"n years.
A Tupeka, Kansas. dispatch of May
4th say Jesse NJ. Stone, a merchant
of Siygrton, Colorado, who was visit
ing Iii brother. George NJ Stone, an
artist u this city, committed suicide
this e.ning by shooting himself in
! the right temple He left a note Civ
ing thc intense pain he had suffered
from rtrumatism as the cause.
A Nldison. Wisconsin, dispatch.
says Frof. w. l.. Madison. professor
of animal industry in the State Uni
| yersity mas decided to accept a posi-
ton oil red him as professor of agri-
culture n the State Agricultural Col
lege O. Colorado. He will not leave
| Wisconsin until the end OF the college
year.
John Nackey, a pioneer of Colorado
/ and 4, Paso county, died at Colorado
Springs May 4th at the age of sixty
! eight lr. Mackcy came to Colorado
in 1858 and conducted stage and
freightils : business in the early days.
| He also erected the first house. log
| cabin. g Colorado City which after
ward was used as the state capitol.
Joscp0 S. Updegraff, county clerk
and recorder of Gilpin County. died at
| 81 lule'S HOeDital in Denver on