The Glenwood post., 1904-12-24
COLORADO NEWS ITEMS

IHe machinery is DelnS SET up lot
the new rubber extraction plant at Sa-
'lida.
The Boulder-Colorado sanitarium at
Boulder will take no consumptive pa
uents after January 1st.
company has been incorporated in
Denver TO manufacture ornamental ar
ticles from cactus fiber.
The Colorado Telephone Company
has increased its capital stock from
$5.OOO.O00 to $10,000,000, in view of ex-
tensive improvements.
An alarm was sent in over the new
fire alarm system at Greeley few
days ago for the first time. 1t worked
perfectly and called out the depart
ment-just twelve hours later.
The following rural carriers have
been appointed for Colorado routes:
Dolores, regular. George S. Gardner;
substitute, Mamie Gardner. Mont
clair, regular, Felix z. JONES' substi-
tute, James A. Jones.
One hundred and fifty or more of the
business and professional men of
Denver will make a trade expansion
month, leaving Denver January 10th,
and being gone six days.
DIR. T. D. Bancroft, who built the
Bancroft free home for the poor in
Kansas City, has started a movement
to establish home for poor consump-
tives at Salida. The plan Is to sur
round it with farms and gardens.
The application of s. G. Hurst, ]. C.
Twombly, B. f. Twombly. d. w.
Strong and G. b. Kinsey to organize
the First National Bank of Brighton,
with s25, 900 capital, has been approved
by the comptroller of the currency.
1t became necessary few days ago
for the Moffat road to borrow a snow
plow from the Colorado Midland to
clear the track between Mammoth and
Arrowhead. An immense rotary, on its
way from the East, had not yet ar
rived.
There has been considerable sympa
thy manifested at Greeley for the
starving people of Ireland, whose po-
tato crop was a failure. Mayor Wat
son says that the Greeley farmers will
donate 100 carloads to help relieve their
distress.
More than 200 stores and Offices in
Colorado Springs were closed from
1920 a. m. to l o'clock on the 18th
inst, on account of a great revival
meeting at the Temple theater under
the direction of the Rev. J. Wilbur
Chapman.
The Colorado State Grange will
convene in Denver January 10th, 18th
and 18th, at Britannia hall, third floor,
1882 Arapahoe street. An excellent
programme has been arranged, includ
ing speakers from the State Agricul-
tural College.
The mandamus proceedings brought
by the newly-elected officers of Arapa-
hoe county to compel the officials ap-
pointed by Governor Orman to vacate,
was heard at Golden by Judge De
| France anu a verdict rendered in ia
vor of the petitioners.
Three prisoners escaped from the
county Jail at Montrose on the night
OF the 18th inst V. A. Laughlin, be-
| ing held for obtaining money under
false pretenses; Alex Moore for forg-
cry, and Paul Gregerson for burglary.
| broke the locks and got safely away.
While burning off pasture land on
! his ranch near Parlin a few days ago
/ Wilson Moore, a pioneer of Gunnison
county, was overcome by the e1Gc.iop
and fell into the flames. An italian
with him quickly beat out the fire
around his body, but Moore was dead.
The Colorado State Forestry Asso-
citation has elected the following dele
gates to the American Forestry Con-
gress, which meets in Washington, D..
| c., January I'd to 9Th: l.. G. Carpen-
ter, Denver; William T. Kirkpatrick,
Durango; Dal Deweese, Canon City;
Gen. U. S. Hollister, Denver: James p.
Maxwell. Boulder.
A branch office OF the United States
! Census Bureau will be established in
Denver, January 1st The first work
to be done will be the compilation of
statistics relative to the manufactur-
ing industries, and the territory to be
| covered includes the states Of Colo
rado, Utah. New Mexico. Arizona, Wy
oming and Montana.
Rev. Franklin Spencer Spalding. rec
tor Of ST. Pauls Episcopal Church of
Erie, Pennsylvania, for the past nine
years, was consecrated bishop of Salt
Lake, at Erie, on the 14th inst. Bishop
Spaldings father, now deceased, was
| consecrated bishop of Colorado in the
same church as the son. almost ex-
actly thirty-One years ago.
Lost in blizzard on Sugar Loaf
mountain near Leadville, Joseph Sier-
bent, miner, wandered for four days.
He was found by trackwalkers within
a few feet of the Rio Grande railroad
tracks in an unconscious condition,
placed upon train and taken to the
Denver county hospital, where 1t was
found that his ears and feet were ter
ribly frozen.
The last of the twentyfour bridges
built to replace those washed out by
the flood in Weld county has been COM
peted OF these bridges three were
built in the Black Hollow district, four
teen at Lone tree, three over the Eaton
ditch, and four over the Poudre river.
The four river bridges cost $4,000, the
others $4,000, and $1,000 was expended
in repairs on various bridges.
The Montrose City Council has
n,ccad an ordinance calling for SDe-