The Glenwood post., 1904-04-30
COLORADO NEWS ITEMS

| Denver.
The Colorado Telephone Company
mas completed extensive improvements
at La Junta.
klowa county is u have a hand
some new court house, two stories in
height and constructed of pressed
brick.
| Leonard Cutshaw, well-known
Denver architect and engineer and
prominent Grand Army man, died at
Denver April 22d at the age of sixty
| one years.
| Thomas Hamilton, aged seventy-six.
locomotive engineer who had lived
in the county for twenty-five years,
dropped dead in Pueblo April 18th of
heart failure.
i "Shanty," a handsome Irish setter,
! Tell 100 feet down the shaft of the Gold
King mine, in the Cripple Creek dis
tr1ct, few days ago, and still lives, not
+ exactly to tell the tale but to wag the
tail.
| The Rev. George Edward Young
DAM, pastor of the Swedish Evangeli-
cal Lutheren Church of Colorado
Springs. and president of the Colorado
Luther league, died of consumption on
the 18th inst.
Bert Keller was accidentally wound
ed near Lake Minnequa at Pueblo on
the 10th inst, by a SHOT from gun in
the hands of man who was shooting
at pelicans, and who was a mile away
from where Kellar stood.
The principal business Of the Colo
RADIO Springs Police Court appears to
be filming Otto Fehringer for infraction
OF the law in regard to selling liquor.
by druggists. Mr.. Fehringer makes it
his business to appeal every case.
1t is believed in Boston that DR.. w.
F. Mcdowell, former chancellor Of the
University of Denver, will be elected
bishop at the Methodist conference in
Los Angeles next month. He is re-
garded as one of the best speakers in
the church.
Trembling and on the verge of col
lapse Seymour B. Wacaster. who shot
and killed his young wife at the Glen
/ arm hotel April 7th, pleaded not guilty
when arraigned before Judge Carpen-
ter in the West Side Court at Denver.
| Inc trial was set for May 18th.
Judge b. B. Lindsey, who conducts
the Denver juvenile court has con-
ferred with Mr.. c. S. Morey in regard
to the work for boys in the beet fields.
| WI. MoIty, DIS pTeSlueuL Vi lue ITedl
Western Sugar Company promised to
do all he could to help place the boys.
| State Live Stock Inspector Lebbey
and M. S. Tillery and T. w. Monnell,
president and secretary respectively
of the Western Slope Cattle Growers
| Association, have completed an exam
| ination of the stock of Montrose coun-
ty and report that it is in excellent
i, condition.
The Colorado Promotion and Pub
| licity committee seems to be meeting
with good success in collecting fund
to advertise the state. Greeley and
Cripple Creek are recent liberal con-
tributors. Colorado Outdoor Life"
and Mineral Resources" are being
sent out in large numbers.
Bishop Henry w. Warren sailed
from France April 10th for New York
on his way home from a visit to
China, Japan, India, Korea and the
Philippines. He expected to arrive in
Denver April 9th and will go on from
Denver to California to preside at the
Methodist conference in Los Angeles.
The United States Court at Pueblo
adjourned April 21st and will meet
again about October 10th by special cr-
Ger, as Congress provides for but one
session annually in Pueblo. a number
of criminal cases are carried over from
this term and several indictments "
the grand jury did not receive the at
tention of the court.
Active steps are being taken at Pu-
eblo to locate the parties who have
sent Police Matron Hoover several
threatening letters. The letters re-
ceived were unsigned, and threatened
Mrs. Hoover with death of she at
tempted to further interfere with the
conducting of dances at the Board of
Trade hall.
The News-Dspatch of Leadville sus-
pended its daily publication April 18th.
announcing that only the Sunday
morning edition would be issued for
the next thirty days, pending changes
in the plant. The Herald-Democrat ex-
presses its belief that the suspension
of the last daily rival of its two edi-'
tons. the Herald-Democrat and Chron-
icle, will be permanent.
Mrs. Minnie Sterrett mother Of
Harry Sterrett. who was injured on
STATIONS Independence, limited, last
January, has sued the company for
$50,O0O There is hardly another case
on record where a person received
| SUCH HuheIOuS anu sellOuS injuries
and lived to tell it. as Sterrett He.
was buried under mass of rock and
| dirt and received injuries from his
head to his feet.
Oil has been struck at depth of
/ twenty feet in lot at the corner OF
First and Washington street, Colorado
City, and II expert analysis warrants,
shafts will be sunk by adjoining prop
erty owners. Adam Geiger and George
and Tony Michaels, Colorado City resi-
dents, are engaged in the erection OF a
$4,000 ice house, and while drilling for
water to supply the plant. struck oil
in such quantities that the water is I'M
fit for use.
Fire destroyed the Rio Grande
bridge across the Uncompahgre river
at Colona April 18th. The structure
was 200 feet long and the loss amounts