The Grit-advocate., 1903-04-17
COLORADO BRIEFS.

pines, has been ordered to Fort Logan.
AT a special election held April 1lth
the citizens of Rife cast 1S2 votes in
favor OF incorporation and six against.
J. Clark Wells OF Denver has been
elected by the board Of trustees to be
registrar of the State School of Mines
to succeed B. A. Amber, resigned.
At the annual meeting OF the Acad-
emy of Ophthalmology and Otolaryn-
gology at Indianapolis. DR.. Edward
Jackson of Denver was elected presi-
dent.
An act of the Legislature provides
that portrait of Hon. Otto Mears, the
pathfinder of the San Juan shall
adorn stainedg!ass window OF the
Senate chamber
The Logan County Cattle Growers
Association has raised nearly $4,000
for breakfast and entertainment to
be given President Roosevelt on the
morning of May 4th.
W. f. Pabor is still running the Pa
Dor Lake Pineapple at Pabor Lake.
Florida. 1t has been discovered that
pineapples can be proftably grown un-
der cover and Mr.. Pabor is again push
ing his colony plans.
Two men who blew open the safe in
the l.ongmont postotfice at a. m.
April 18th, failed to get any booty eX-
cept two registered letters. They were
followed by their tracks in tie snow
to lumber yard and there arrested.
Reports of the recent municipal cleo
tions show: Delta high license; Gun
nison, Citizens liberal ticket; Golden,
al; rfi ca n
Fort Collins. high license mayor; AS
pen. Citizens ticket; Glenwood, Ciu-
zens' ticket.
The University of Colorado has
placed the Loveland high school upon
the accredited list of high schools of
the state, This means that graduates
from the LOveland high school can en-
ter the university without examination,
their Loveland diploma being sutti-
cient.
The will of the late William N. By
ers was admitted to probate in the
County Court at Denver April 18th.
Personal property amounting to $14,-
900 is left to his wife, son and daugh-
| ter. He had decided all his real estate
| to them several months before his
death.
At noon April 18th A. C. butcher,
the new warden at the State Reform
! atory at Buena Vista, took charge of
| that institution. The former warden,
| Joseph Smith, turned over the keys and
a number of the guards also quit, whose
places were taken by new men from
Denver and Colorado Springs.
Eleven citizens of Colorado Springs
have applied to the District Court for
an injunction to prevent the sale of
| liuuor by druggists. The court is pc
ttioned TO restrain the company from
handling spirituous liquors in any
form. The liquor clause" in all title
deeds to city lots is cited as grounds
for the injunction.
The Brown Palace hotel at Denver
may be sold at auction soon on mort
gage of s66O,OOO which was formerly
held by W. S. Stratton, but is now
owned by the Lockhaven Trust and
Safety Deposit Company of Connecti
cut decision OF the Court of Appeals
is understood to have cleared away all
obstacles to the sale.
d. NJ. Conway has been sentenced
in the District Court at Denver to
term of from one year to eighteen
months in the penitentary for selling
an imaginary dairy business. He is
said to have victimiZed many purchas-
ers. who could never find what they
had paid their money to secure. His
attorneys may enter an appeal
The two-fifths mill appropriation
made by the Legislature for the Uni
yersity of Colorado was the occasion
of great rejoicing among the faculty,
students and friends of the university
in Boulder. Visiting senators and
representatives, who had favored the
bill were given a cordial reception and
talked to the students. being after
wards entertained at banquet by
President Baker.
The reward of $500 offered for the
arrest of Dinwoodie who shot and
killed George Wright in Alamosa last
October. has just been allowed by the
Conejos county board of commission
ers. Frank A. Hyatt of Alamosa and
Sheriff Stump Of Creede were the Off
GERS who made the arrest and they will
receive the reward. A similar reward,
offered by the business men of Alamo
sa, was paid at the time of the arrest.
Il. y. Ferguson OF ManltOu recently
returned from New York. where he
personally interviewed Andrew Carne-
gle in regard to the proposed library
building for Manitou. Mr.. Ferguson
states that Mr.. Carnegie was most en-
couraging. and gave him an applica-
tion blank to be filled out and re-
turn. Within the past six weeks Mr.
Carnegie has agreed to give Colorado
Springs a $4,000 building and Colo
RADIO City $4,000 building.
The presence of watchman at the
Bonney reservoir, fifteen miles above
Delta. and telephone connections. are
all that saved dozen families from
the flood that was sent down the I'm
compahgre valley by the bursting of
the dam at 9 o'clock on the morning of
April 11th. Couriers from Delta were
able to reach all the ranches in dan