The Grit-advocate., 1903-01-16
COLORADO BRIEFS.

free the University of Denver from
debt.
George " Bnusman. one of the
prominent business men Of Silverton
died January 18th from appendicitis.
Robert e Bell OF Denver is at the
head Of movement to establish a
home for consumptiye actors and ac.
tresses.
Governor Orman has appointed Ed
ward Fitzpatrick commissioner OF
Adams county, vice Wilson X. Smith.
resigned.
The Alta Vista hotel at Colorado
Springs is Installing an electrical
cooking plant. said to be the first in
use in the West
Walter II. Bailey, tried at Pueblo on
the charge of numbering James w.
Wilson at Minnequa last October, was
acquitted by the jury.
The Colorado Telephone Company is
gathering in the Independent lines in
the San Luis valley and promises many
improvements in the service.
The contract has been let for two
miles of the extension Of the Otero ca
nal near La Junta. bonds being ac-
cepted in payment for the work.
The shaft house and other buildings
at the Cross coal mine, near Golden
were burned on the morning of the 9th
inst. The mine was being operated.
1t cost the county of San Juan 81
444.25 to support twenty-three men and
six women last year. according to the
poor report filed with the secretary of
state.
The Greeley sugar factory sliced its
last beets for the season January 10th.
Forty thousand tons were handled and
the enterprise SO far is pronounced a
success.
Washington, with a large number of
signatures. asking for the establish
ment of a forest reserve south OF
Longs Peak.
The county commissioners of Jeffer
son county will erect new buildings on
the county poor farm which has been
recently purchased Heretofore the
county has rented a poor farm.
The business men of Golden are en-
deavoring to secure cheaper and more
frequent passenger transportation be-
tween Golden and Denver They want
to be as well accommodated as Ar
vada
A young bob-cat was caught within
the city limits of Loveland few days
ago. The animal was not more than
haf grown. and seemed to have been
driven in from the foothills by cold
and hunger.
George w. Drake. a Colorado pio-
neer and one of the prominent citizens
Of Denver, died on the 10th instant af-
ter few days illness from an attack
Of appendicitis. He was about sixty
dve years Of age.
The railway survey from point
on the Atlantic and Pacific system to
Durango has been completed. The
engineers stated that the survey was
made at the instance OF w. s. Hope
well, representing eastern men.
The body of Robert Cohn;. saloon
keeper at Como, who wandered few
miles from town during a fit of i'll
ness year ago, has been recovered.
There was about $2,500 insurance on
his life which will now be payable.
Antoine Woode, the celebrated boy
criminal in the Canon City peniten-
tiary. is attempting to secure evidence
to prove he was only ten years old at
the time he was given life sentence
for murder, and that he was therefore
Illegally sentenced.
The coroner's jury which investigat-
ed the death of James E. Bailey at
Colorado Springs returned verdict
that death was caused by drinking
whisky. which had been poisoned with
strychnine, and sent to Bailey by a
party or parties unknown to the jury.
The poor report of Arapahoe county
filed with the secretary of state, shows
that $S2,S1 was expended on the poor
of the county last year. There were
1897 cared for in the county hospital,
35S at the poor farm, $3.50 cared for on
the outside. and 5.435 treated by the
county physician.
The pay roll of the Minnequa steel
works at Pueblo for the month of De-
cember last amounts to $303,97373
This Is an increase of nearly S25 900
over any previous month in the history
of the big plant, and is exclusive of the
sum paid the small army Of men en-
ployed on contract work.
The State Land Board has granted
A. B. Gray a lease of 2,440 acres of
coal land in Routt county. Gray is to
pay no rental for the first year, but
must pay 500 a section for the follow
Ing two years, when the lease expires
He must pay the state 10 cents a ton
for all marketable coal mined.
An effort is being made by the w. C.
T. U. workers Of Colorado to raise
birthday purse for Mrs. Antoinette
Hawley, state president, who sails in
February for long trip abroad Mrs.
Hawley's birthday occurs January 23rd,
and all unions of the state have been
asked to contribute to the fund
F. C. Lory, the "Klondike King"
has left Colorado Springs for his home
in Petersburg, Indiana. The county
commissioners will not send for the
bunco men who are alleged to have
fleeced Lory out Of s65,000 in a fake
foot race the Indiana man having