The Grit-advocate., 1904-07-01
COLORADO NEWS ITEMS


Wallace Colby. fifty-fouT years OF age
and one of the pioneer mining men OF
the district, was killed in runaway
accident at Leadville. June 9th.
The heavy rain in Prowers county
| on the night Of June 21st did consider
able damage to bitches and fumes in
some places, but it wet the ground
| thoroughly.
The D. & R. G. railway eating house.
round house and machine shop at Sar-
gents in Saguache county, were burned
June oath. Two locomotives in the ma
chine shop were ruined.
The Colorado Springs City Council
passed an ordinance making it mis-
| demeanor to use, sell or give away toy
pistols or giant crackers. The penalty
is fine Of from SIS to $40.
| The annual death rate per thousand
for the month of May. as reported by
the State Board of Health was sixteen
aid one-third, or 800 out Of an esti-
mated population of SCI, ,13G.
The Santa Fe Railway Company Is
making plans to relay its tracks be-
tween Pueblo and Florence. The pres
| Ont fifty-two--pound rails, laid fifteen
years ago. will be replaced with eighty
tive-pound steel rails.
Mrs. A. l.. Clark and daughter, Flor
ence, aged sixteen, drove into the Lari-
mer and Weld canal near Fort Collins.
June 23rd, and were both drowned Mr..
Clark was in Ohio at the time. TWO
children are left motherless.
The saw mill industry has been re-
vived in the vicinity of Monument. Ell
o,,Ir l. ,rtr of n c
600 feet of lumber for the Highly
Mercantile Company. which has bought
several thousand acres of timber.
The report reached Wray June 23rd
| that Ira Lamb. a ranchman residing
just over the line in Nebraska, lost
thirty-one head Of cattle by lightning
In thunder storm the day before.
From appearances all were killed by
Cne bolt
Russell Boles. convicted of the mur-
der Of Harold Fridborn at Denver. is
now in the penitentiary. Unless some
outside force interferes or Boles is re-
prieved or pardoned he is doomed to
remain behind prison bars for the rest
CT his natural life.
Bert Hughes, Roy Reeves and Will
lard FELTON,. three lads who found the
body Of Pearl Holland, aged eight. in
the Royal Gorge June Gath, are entitled
to the $50 reward offered by tho Salida
City Council shorty after the accident
on Memorial Day.
Charles He'll is in Jail at Denver
charged with having killed James Hen
ry in fist fight. beating in the face and
kicking him until he died. Henry was
employed as a fireman at the Globe
smelter and He'll was engaged as clerk
in the smelter store
! Canon City is entering upon street
improvements on a large scale. 1t Is
proposed to lay about twenty-five miles
OF artificial stone sidewalks. The work
is to be paid for in ten annual install
ments. bonds bearing five per cent. in
terest being issued on that account.
r. A. Leigh, general superintendent
OF the American Crude Rubber Com
pany, states that work will soon be
commenced on the water power and
factory Of the company at Buena Wis.,
ia and that he expects to have 100 men
at work in the factory by October 1st.
Fritz Asmus. aged sixty-two years,
and for score of years resident of
the mountains in the vicinity of Colo
RADIO City, committed suicide June 25th
by shooting himself through the head
at his cabin three miles southwest Of
the town. RemorSe following a week s
spree caused the action.
The Windsor town board has grant
ed an electric railway franchise to the
Northern Colorado Electric Railway
Company. 1t was stated to the board
that the company proposes to build its
main power plant at Windsor, operat-
ing lines to Fort Collins. Greeley, Love
lard, Cheyenne and Denver.
Patents issued to Colorado residents
June 2lst are as follows: John W.
Bodge, Denver, wire fence clip; Erik
Johanson, Ouray. chalk holder; Algot
johnson, Denver, non-refillable bottle;
Phillip H. Kohler, Denver, jar closure:
Ira F. Mcneil. Boulder, ore sinner;
Lewen R. Nelson, Boulder, hose coup
ling.
The will of Charles NJ Stebbins OF
Denver, who died in Berlin. Germany.
June 18th, practically disinher:ts his
three children and leaves the bulk OF
an estate estimated at $500 900 for the
erection near Denver OF an orphanage
for dependtn white children. 1t is
expected that contest will be insti-
tuted.
Delos F. Powell cemetery superintend-
ent of Colorado Springs, former
member of the City Council and a
prominent figure in local politics, COM
Initted suicide at the cemetery June
23rd, rather than face the disgrace re-
sulting from the charge of padding Of
cemetery pay rolls. He shot himself
through the head with a revolver.
Work has begun on the new 81, 1,00O.
900 cemetery and crematory to be con-
structed by Philadelphia capitalists
near Monument park. north of Colo
RADIO Springs. H. ID. Patton sent from
Philadelphia to supervise the work, has