The Grit-advocate., 1904-06-03
COLORADO NEWS ITEMS

The Denver School Board has decid-
ed 10 erect a new manual training
mig school, the present high school
DolIHInEs being insufficient TO accom-
moe all the students
Dan Collins. who held up a Pueblo
ia" Yer H. e. Robinson. and robbed
him vi $40 and gold watch, has been
seht"u""d by Judge Dixon to fourteen
yea the state penitentiary.
On May 25th the state engineer re-
por that all the irrigation bitches
COM ed with the Platte river. includ-
ing the Burlington and High Line. were
fuli q! water for the first time within
yea
TIE cornerstone of the new Carnegie
library a Idaho Springs was laid May
25th with Masonic ceremonies. An ad-
dress was delivered by Superintendent
Aa1uu Cove of the Denver public
scL00s
T." school census OF Greeley. just
ccn' "E"d. shows 1873 persons between
the ages Of six and twenty-one years.
bcilE gain of 243 over last year.
The are thirty one more girls than
boys
e W Rollins of Denver offers to be
one ot Seventy-iive persons to give
$40" each for the purchase of suit
able size for the new Denver auditori-
um .or which the people have just vot-
ed tarypond 100000.
CHARLES De Molli has filed a direct
information in the District Court at
PuehIu charging o. Pagnini and Paul
GreguIE formerly Denver deputy
sheTil and now ranchman at La
Sail with assault to kill.
Claude h. Lytle, for the past ten
monhs an employe of the Hehey-
Acularius Drug Company of Colorado
Sprinus, has been arrested on a charge
of systematically robbing the firm. 1t
is thought that he has stolen nearly
5000 worth of druggists supplies
A special election will be held at
For Collins June 9th to vote on the
quesron Of granting franchise for
gas works. The the privilege is voted
Mr.. Frank English of Boulder who pro-
pose 10 build the works, agrees to
COMPETE the plant within two years.
Tic first municipal election of
Bow urwan. held May 2ith, resulted in
the election of the Citizens ticket, the
following named being the first Off
Cials. Thomas J. Kane. mayor; j. w.
White +. o. McFall, Andrew Short,
b Beymer, John Chapman and A +.
DIkcman, trustees.
At Canon City the memorial address
Sunday and the Grafton on Memorial
lay were both delivered by sons Of
Confederate soldiers. One of the
srcakers. the Rev Mr.. Thomas, pastor
q the First Presbyterian church. is
nephew of Gen. George H. Thomas Of
the Union army
Richard Barton who was eXtradited
from Clear Creek county to Massachu
sctts and sent to the states prison for
swjndlng a railroad out of s2,10O by
pretending to be hurt on the lines
when his injuries We're received else
Where, has been pardOned by Governor
Bates.
IDAHO Springs will invite the people
Cf he state to an "lnler-MOuntain Fes-
tiyal" August 18th The Newhouse
tunnel will be thrown open to visit
Or who will be given free ride on
an electric line running two and one
! af miles underground There Will be
Uauy other unique attractions.
The Fort Collins City Council has ap-
IIuyed of an ordinance granting an
electric railway franchise TO the North
err Colorado Electric Railway Com
pauy. The ordinance provides that
obstruction work on the line or lines
must be commenced within one year
and the railway completed within two
yeas.
colorado College at Colorado Springs
wi graduate class of forty-two
Yong men and women this year. Great
pTcUarations are being made for the
CCmmencement exercises, which will
begin June 5th and last for three days
Hon Charles J. Hughes, Jr., of Denver,
wi, deliver the commencement address
June Slh
Iiday, May eth, was commence
meuL day in many of the high schools
Of estate. Tt Fort Collins there were
pieh cen graduates; at Grand Junction,
niur, at the high school department OF
The State Normal School at Greeley,
at La Junta. thirty-six;
al ltaho Springs, eleven; at Aspen,
ton at Glenwood Springs, four.
A directors meeting Of the Uncom-
pa re Water Users Association, held
At Ielta, developed the fact that less
than 1000 acres will complete the
amount required by the government be
lore it will commence work on the
Iuupison tunnel. 1t is probable, how
7yer that some Of the subscriptions
vii be rejected. hence the directors are
ryl-s to secure an additional 10000
,cres
dorado City pioneers are about to
naUgurate movement to preserve IN"
DID rnrritorial capitol building. The
which was once occupied by
he 'erritorial Legislature, is now used
or q Chinese laundry. 1t is proposed
o ecSe an appropriation from the
-eg sature. with which to repair and
improve the building. using it for
tOTe house of relics.
A. F. Meyers has been awarded a
,On act to build wagon road from
he Wetmore postotIice fifteen miles