The Grit-advocate., 1904-03-11
COLORADO BRIEFS.

has arranged TO take q religious cen
SIS Of the City next month.
4. Durango on the 5th inst. Ben
Beatty, a fourteen-year-old boy. fell
oye! cliff on the mountain above the
smelter and was instantly killed
District Attorney Trowbridge at
Cripple Creek has nolled the remain
ing cases against Sherman Parker and
Thomas Foster for train wrecking.
4 large and characteristic education
e. exhibit is being prepared AZ the
University Of Colorado 10 be displayed
a. the ST. Louis Exposition next sum
neT
The new Ss5, 900 addition TO ST Fran
els hospital at Colorado Springs will
be formally opened with appropriate
exercises on April l4th. The equip
nsnt will bring the total cost TO $780,
OOg.
The Denver Horse Chow Association
has decided not hold a horse show this
year on account of the WORLDS Fair.
The finances of the association are in
good shape. there being $4,000 in the
treasury.
The option given TO Pueblo parties
six weeks ago on the Colorado Springs
Western League baseball team expired
March 1st and the team will remain a,
the Springs. Players have been ordered
to report on March 2lst.
A great wind and dust storm ragged
March End all the way from Cheyenne.
Wyoming. down to Trinidad. Colorado
1t was fearfully bad at Denver, Colo
rado Springs and Pueblo AT Colorado
Springs the wind reached velocity
CT sixty-six miles an hour.
John Hawthorne. who shot and
killed Merritt A. Scott at Merideth. in
P.tkin county. March 18th. waived
preliminary examination and was
bound over to the District Court. He
was admitted to bail, as appearances
seemed to indicate that he shot in self
defense.
The big steel bridge OF the Trinidad
electric railroad across the Las Animas
river just above Jansen has been fin
ished and accepted from the contract
ors by the company. All Of the thirty
two trestles and small bridges on the
line between Trinidad and Sopris and
Starkville have been completed.
The Overland cotton mills at Denver
were started up on the 4th inst. with
q force Of twenty-five men for the pur-
pose OF finishing up the cloth left In the
looms when the works closed for want
of coal last fall. When this work is
done, and it will only last few weeks.
1t is expected that the mills will be per-
manently closed.
On March End fire near Glenmore
lake, about two miles west of Pine
Grove, in the Platte canon. burned all
the buildings on the Maui ranch. in
cluding hay. buggies. wagons and farm
implements. St Marks church in
Denver had an option on the ranch
for use in connection with their sum-
mer home.
It is reported that Rev. C. w. Bride-
well. the ex-preacher who gave street
sermons in Denver and other towns
of Colorado since he was relieved OF
regular charges by his church, was re-
Gently tarred and feathered at Bride
well, Montana. where he was accused
Of preaching doctrines calculated to in
duce wives to leave their husbands.
Lulu Adams. who shot and killed P.
H. King, Jr.. few days since. was
given a preliminary hearing at La
Junta before Judge Clark and bound
over to the District Court in the sum
of $4,000, in default Of which she was
remanded to the county Jail. there to
await the conyening OF the District
Court. the second Monday in June.
Colonel w. W. Ferguson, custodian
of the war relic department at the
state house in Denver, who was so Sc
riously injured in a street car accident
December end. is now able to visit the
museum occasionally and keep track of
things. He has some slight use of his
left arm, which was broken in three
places, but the right arm. which was
fractured in i've different places, is still
carried in sling.
David r. Stotler of Fort Lupton
has been appointed by Governor Pea
body to the State Board of Horticul-
ture to fill the vacancy caused by the
removal of the former incumbent, S. A.
Smith, who has left the state. Mr..
Stotler, who is practical fruit grower,
will have supervision over district No.
1, comprising Larimer, Weld. Morgan.
Logan, Washington, Sedgwick, Phil
lips, Yuma, Grand and Routt counties.
A large storage reservoir will be
constructed in Sedgwick county during
the next few months by Greeley and
Denver capitalists at an estimated cost
of about 100000. The reservoir site
is located on the range line between
Sedgwick and Logan counties and is
known as the Jumbo site. 1t covers
l 700 acres of land and will have
capacity of 1,20O,000,000 cubic feet. q
sufficient volume of water to irrigate
35 900 acres Of land.
Attorney John NJ. Glover. who resist
ed arrest at Cripple Creek, has filed
suit in the District Court. in which
Governor James H. Peabody, Colonel
Verdeckberg, and every known mine
manager and mining corporation rep
resented in the Mine Owners and Op-
orators Association, as we'll as its Of
ficers, and Nelson Franklin, are named
as defendants. He sues for $150,000
a O ma peS for alleged mistreatment in