The Grit-advocate., 1903-01-09
COLORADO BRIEFS.

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At Boulder
New buildings to the value Of about
$500 900 were erected in Boulder dur
ing the past year.
During December the cash receipts
of Secretary of State Mills amounted to
$l2.O63. of which $S,257 was from new
corporations.
| Denver building permits in 1902
amounted to $4,5l2 .55l, a gain OF more
than 100000 over the building busi-
ness of the previous year.
The Western Surgical and Gyne-
| Geological Association, at its recent
meeting In St. Joseph, Missouri, voted
to come to Denver in 1903.
Grade work was begun on the Moffat
| road at camp west of the end OF the
Denver & Northwestern January End.
by Orman & Crook. contractors
The school at Bennett in Arapahoe
Tor Adams) county has been discon-
tinued for want of funds until the
| Rush amendment controversy is set
tied.
Representative Bell has introduced a
bill providing for holding term OF
the Federal District and Circuit Courts
at Montrose the second Tuesday In Sep
tember in each year.
Major Ralph Hartzell. young Den
yer lawyer, was married at Canton,
Ohio. December 3Oth, to Miss Mary
Barber. niece of the late President
William Mckinley. They came at once
to Denver
The State Humane Society expects
to prosecute the participants in the
rabbit coursing at Central City New
Years day Special Agent H. B. Kerr
was present and secured evidence
which the society will use.
The Colorado Springs Mining Ex-
change has posted a notice that the
dues for the ensuing quarter will not
be called in, on account of the com
Portable balance in the treasury. The
treasury reserve amounts to over $780,
600. The dues are $25 per quarter.
Governor Orman has appointed the
following commission to examine ap-
plicants for position of coal mine in
spector: d. NJ. Simpson, Denver:
Thomas M. Everly, Rockvale; John
Lee. Engleville; Frank N. Oberding.
Louisville; John Rowley, Palisade.
Postmaster Morgan of Colorado City
has received notice from the depart
ment at Washington that it has ac-
cepted the proposition of the owners of
the new First National Bank building
to occupy one of the three stores for q
postofflce, leasing the room for the next
five years.
In the case of G. H. Parker. on trial
before Judge Cunningham at Colorado
Springs. the court declared unconsti-
tutional the statute which brands as
felony punishable by penitentiary
sentence, the giving of rebate by an
insurance agent, and discharged the de-
fendant
In saloon alteration az Minturn on
the night of December 3lst, Natalie Mol
inaro, an Italian, shot and mortally
wounded Dan Wright, a roundhouse
employe of the Denver & Rio Grande.
Molinaro was arrested and taken to
Redcliff. the officers having to use
strategy to prevent lynching.
AS result of the verdict of the cor
oner's jury at Red Cliff, in the case of
Dan Wright who was shot and killed
by Nat Molinaro at Minturn. Moinaro
was held without bail. Testimony was
introduced to show that while Wright
was abusive. and provoked the Italians
anger, he was helplessly drunk and un-
armed.
The annual reunion of Colorado pio-
neers at Denver on the night of De-
cember Both. was largely attended and
as gay as any that have preceded it.
Among the speakers were William N.
Byers, A. G. Rhoads, Levi Booth. An
drew D. Wilson, Mrs. Harry T. Sales,
Mrs. Birks Cornforth and Mrs. Fannie
D. Hardin. Everybody danced.
E. A. Meredith, field surveyor of the
Moffat railroad. recently established
surveyors camp two miles east Of
Hot Sulphur Springs on the Grand
river W. R. Dietrich is in charge.
with seventeen men working under
him. They will survey the valleys Of
the Grand and Fraser rivers up to
former survey about twenty miles west
from the mouth of the big tunnel.
The Oxnard beet sugar factory at
! Rocky Ford had it's most successful
| run in the year just closed. 1t COM
menced operations for 1902 in October
and the run will continue until some
time in February During the pre-
vious season a total of 100000 tons Of
sugar beets was handled. this season it
will probably exceed 100000 tons. The
plant has a capacity of 1000 tons q
day and is being pushed to the limit.
A Telluride correspondent telegraphs
to Denver that cattlemen of Norwood
who were reported to the Humane So
ciety for having 500 cattle in the Dry
creek basin which are starving to death
have been working with the herd for
some time and have succeeded in res
cuing 600 of them. The remainder are
| too weak to walk The owners say they
are willing to purchase feed but can OBJ
| to{p uopo and II iS {mpOSSjhle m dr rIvo
out the rest OF the cattle to where there
is anything to eat
Ten times the amount of electricity
supposed to be fatal to human life, and
| nearly four times the voltage used to
electrocute murderers, passed through
, the body Of Unis Stafford. an employe
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