The Glenwood post., 1904-09-03
COLORADO NEWS ITEMS


Dennis j. Donnelly has been appoint
ed postmaster at Lawson, in Clear
Creek county. succeeding N. F. Hazen.
The Business Mems association of
Pueblo will publish $1,000 copies of an
illustrated pamphlet to advertise the
city.
The University of Colorado at Boul-
der will be opened for the next term
September 18th. Registration of STU
dents begins on the 9th.
A fully-equipped government weather
bureau has been installed at Durango,
in charge of Wayland Bailey. recently
from Portland, Oregon.
In the annual report of the commits
sioner of pensions, just made public,
| Colorado is credited with S,251 pension
ers, drawing $1,170,400 per annum.
A report has reached Rawlins. Wy
| oming that the village of Slater, Colo
rado, just over the line, was struck by
a washout, and much damage done.
So far the Denver and Colorado
| Springs teams of the Western Baseball
League have had no difficulty in keep
| ing well ahead of the other four teams.
Elisha Higgins committed suicide at
Longmont August 25th by taking
| laudanum. He had been working on
ranch near Longmont and was formerly
| miner.
r'he annual statement of the General
| Land Office shows that in Colorado
| during the past year 14,S09 entries were
| made comprising 1,629,905 acres. from
| which $523, LIS was secured.
A mail pouch containing many let-
| ters, some of them highly valuable.
| from Colorado Springs and Pueblo,
| was badly damaged by fire August Sth
| in a railway wreck in Indiana.
fine of $50 and Imprisonment for
| thirty days was the sentence imposed
| on Denver restaurant employe who
| trained bulldog to kill cats. He was
prosecuted for cruelty to animals.
Harry Davis, the snake handler, who
| was bitten in Denver in Julyby arattle-
snake and Gila monster, has had his
right hand removed at the wrist and is
! in danger of losing his entire arm, ii
not his life.
The annual convention of the Colo
RADIO Log Rolling Association of the
Modern Woodmen of America finished
its doings at Colorado Springs. August
cath and voted to meet at Pueblo next
year.
| The Colorado Crude Rubber Com
| pany has begun preparations for the
installment of it's rubber extraction
plant at Salida. 1t will use the build
ing formerly occupied by the Salida
Creamery Company.
| Prof. William Elzinga, formerly OF
the Pennsylvania State College, has
been engaged as an assistant professor
in the department of mechanical engi-
neering at the State Agricultural Col
lege at Fort Collins.
A number of centipedes have made
their appearance in Barnum, Denver
suburb and the wife of Special Police
man Hardman was dangerously sick
for several days on account of poison
ing by one of them.
Judge Malone has appointed his
brother, R. H. Malone, to be joint re-
ceiver with Judge ]. G. Helm for the
Fidelity Savings Association at Den
YER The petition for the removal OF
Judge Helm was denied.
Harry Devins, young man seven
teen years of age, was drowned in
| Horse creek about eight miles north
| OF Sugar City August 27th. He was
| watering a horse, when the animal
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!! Details of the cloudburst which
| flooded the town of Slater, Colorado,
have been received at Dillon, Wyoming,
| and show that it swept away many
thousands of tons of ranch property
besides almost wiping the town OF
Slater off the map.
| Frank Ruble of Denver, in the em-
| ploy of the Telluride Electric Company,
| died at Provo, Utah, August 23rd, as a
result of burns received from an cleo
trio shock. He was the son of Mrs.
| Alice Ruble of Denver, member Of the
| present State Legislature.
William D. Richardson of Park City
| ulah, was the only man out of eight
| applicants who was successful in Sc
, curing an embalmers license from the
| state, as the result of the recent eX-
! aminations conducted by the State
Board of Health. Seven failed.
The Western Slope Fair Association
has let the contract for the erection of
modern grand stand at the fair
grounds in Montrose. The seating ca
! pacity will be over 1000. The fair,
September goth to 23rd, inclusive. will
be one of the greatest in the state.
Plans have been perfected for the Or
ganization of an Automobile Club for
Pueblo. There are between fifteen anG
twenty owners of autos in the city who
will join the new organization. 1t is
planned to hold meet late this fall
or early next spring.
The Colorado attorneys in the Kan
sas-Colorado water right suit have de.
cided to publicly request the cooper
alton of all pioneer residents of the
state who are familiar with early con-
ditions along the Araknas river. The
pioneers who traversed the country
of the Arkansas as early as 1875 are
requested to communicate with Attor-
ney General Miller.
John Sheehan, well known miner
and old resident of Kokomo, was
struck by lightning August 26th and
instantly killed. With friend and
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