The Grit-advocate., 1903-02-27
COLORADO BRIEFS.

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orders establishing free delivery ser
vices at Rocky: Ford. June /.
General Funston and his aide. Lieu
tenant Burton Mitchell will leave
Denver Tor Vancouver barracks,
March Z.
The present bonded Indebtedness of
the city of Denver is sl,l3l.GlS, of
which amount $4,000 will be paid
during this year.
The Colorado Springs Chamber of
Commerce proposes to put an agent on
the road to secure tourist patronage
during the coming season.
Complaints of starving animals are
coming in to Humane Society headGuar-
ters at Denver from many parts OF the
state since the late storms.
President Roosevelt has accepted the
invitation of the Denver Chamber Of
Commerce to visit Denver during his
coming western trip in the spring.
The Womens Club of Colorado
Springs will consolidate with the Fed
Grafton of Women as the Colorado
Springs Federation of Women's Clubs.
The Pixies Peak Power Company,
whose electrical power plant is located
at Skagway, east of Victor, is soon to
begin extensive improvements at the
| dam.
Two new churches were dedicated
at Pueblo February 22nd, one by the
| Meth odists, costing about $4,000, and
one by the United Brethren, costing
about $4,000.
Complaints are being made by stock
men to the State Board of Animal Pro-
lection that reports of cattle starving
to death in this state have been great
ly exaggerated.
A runaway freight train on Marshall
Pass occasoned terrible wreck at
a. N. February 21st. Harry GOldwa-
| ter, fireman, of Salida, and Nelson Van
| Pelt, brakeman, were killed.
| Twenty horses were burned to death
in u fire which destroyed the stables
of the Continental Oil company in
Denver on the night of Feb. 10Th. The
entire loss was about $4,000.
| The Park Center Land and Water
| company has bought all the water
| flowing from the mouth of the Cripple
| Creek drainage tunnel and will use it
| to irrigate large tract of land south
| of Canon City.
Rev. Marvin A. RAIDER the young,
active and popular pastor of Grace NJ.
E. Church. Denver. has resigned to
accept a missionary appointment in
the Philippines and will sail from San
Francisco April 4th.
The Colorado Croatian Slavonan
Society of st. Jacob has incorporated
at Denver. Its headquarters are in
GiObevile, and its object is to teach
Siavs and Croatians the English Ian
guage and provide sickness and death
| benefits.
The members of the Pueblo Busi-
ress Mems Association are consider
ing a project for establishing a college
at Pueblo and propose to enlist the
services Of DR.. William Bayard Craig,
former president of the Drake Uni
versity Of Iowa.
Gen. William ]. Palmer Of Colorado
Springs, who has constructed $50 900
| bath house at Wagon Wheel Gap, is
said to be arranging for the purchase
! OF the McClelland hotel at the hot
springs which gives the Gap its promi-
nence as health resort.
! This new wagon road from Loveland
to Estes Park is being constructed as
rapidly as the weather will permit and
tHotlltl losiN 10 w bt Dulll "
Park from Lyons by means of money
furnished by the Burlington railroad,
by Boulder county and by the citizens
| of Lyons.
Superintendent Argo of the State
School for the Deaf and Blind at Colo
RADIO Springs, states that should the
Legislature allow the requested appro-
I priation of S59,5O0 for the institution.
will 1,, l,u; wit
an equal amount devoted to building
improvements.
The state oratorical contest between
representatives of the University of
Colorado at Boulder. the University
of Denver and Colorado College at Col
orado Springs was held at Denver
| February 21st, and was won by Clyde
| o. Epperson of the University of Colo
! RADIO, Charles C. Stanley of the Uni
| versity OF Denver taking second place.
| Gen. Thomas p. Stewart, command
| er-in-chief of the Grand Army Of the
| Republic, and a large party of the Of
4, ticers and leading members of the or
| der and of the Woman's Relief Corps
| and Ladies of the G. A. r., stopped
| over in Denver February 10Th on their
| way to San Francisco to arrange for
| the coming national encampment
| They were delayed in reaching Denver
| and missed the reception prepared for
| them, but took part in a great camp
fire in Trinity NJ. Z. church at night
d. E. Newcomb Of La lara, special
agent of the Humane society, sold 1923
head of wild Texas ponies at Alamosa,
| Feb. 10th, getting for the first car
| load 5000 per head; second 'S4.lO:
| third, So and the balance. $2.10 OF
| these 15S head were sold for the own
ers. So far Agent Newcomb has sold
| 1000 head of these ponies. and there
are probably 1000 head still running
| wild in the San Luis valley Five
| hundred more are reported to be in the
! pinon hills around La Veta. Many
horses are said to be suffering in the