The Grit-advocate., 1904-12-30
CCL9RADO NEWS ITEMS


On 'ec"mber 21st. the Fort Collins
sugar factory finished slicing $4,000
tons o. sugar beets. after q successful
run o. 'eyenty-two days without In
TERMS ion.
Inc prisoners in the city jail at
PueDi were given An excellent Christ
mas dinner and showed their breeding
by polite letter Of thanks to Chief Of
Police shoup.
Alt A Thompson. An old resident
OF DefreT and formerly . grocer. cole
bratee Christmas convivially and came
to hfs death by falling down \ flight Of
stairs a. the Apex saloon.
New poS,ofnce appointments In Colo
rAdo are. Fort Garland. CoStillA
COUNT Helen c. Peters, vice Charles
John, resigned; Psrigo. Rio Grands
county. D. Cronian, vice J. Moody. re-
signed
Or" Mears is said to be preparing
to test track automobile on the Sill
verton Northern railroad between Sill
vertor and Animas Forks, with q view
Of using automobiles for all passenger
business
A neH machine works which will
make speciality Of manufacturing air
brakes OF various patterns Is to be es-
tablished in Denver within the next
six months. Half block Of ground
has been purchased for the site in
West Denver
The Uintah railroad, which has just
beer completed from Mack, Colorado,
into the Uintah reservation in Utah.
has ordered two large track automo-
biles to carry passengers. 1t has had
one automobile car in service several
months, giving excellent satisfaction.
Owing TO stress of private business
Judge J. G.. Helm, co-receiver with
Richard NJ. Malone Of the Fidelity Saw
ings Association at Denver, has re-
signed from the receivership and trans
ferred his entire responsibility for the
property Of the association to Mr.. Ma
lone
Mrs. Ann Thomas of Erie, who was
found living in apparent destitution
and tried before the County Court at
Greeley on the charge Of insanity, was
declared sane by the jury and re,
turned home. She was found to have
$4,000 deposited in Boulder and Long
mont banks.
Mrs J. W. GLADDEN. shot and killed
her husband at their home in Arequa
Teller county, on the morning OF De
sen..er 2lst They had been separated
for several weeks and GLADDEN. wen
home drunk and violent after having
assaulted Frank Harris. a neighbor
Sheriff Bell placed Mrs. GLADDEN. un
der arrest
George Walker. alias John Mayo, and
c. T. Putnam, awaiting trial on 8
charge of horse stealing and John
Adolado, Greek, awaiting trial on a
charge of stealing 5000 from persons
with whom he WAS boarding. escaped
from the county jail at Trinidad on the
evening of December goth by tunnelng
under the wall.
The direct and highly compliment
ary reference to the Colorado Juvenile
Court and Judge Lindsey's work mad,
by President Roosevelt in his last mes
sage to Congress has brought flood
Of inquiries from all parts Of the ma
lion. asking for the Colorado Juvenile
laws, the history of the court, its pro
ccdure and results.
Attorney George Morris has filed
suit in Denver against the Colorado
Midland railroad for 100000, which he
considers the value of his vote. Mr.
Norris was in Glenwood Springs the
day before election and wreck on the
Midland road delayed him twelve
hours, so that he arrived in Denver
after the polls had closed.
A Boulder gentleman of prominence
is quoted as saying that he has it on
the authority of a man connected with
the Moffat road that 1t will build a
spur from Rollnsvilc to Nederland.
The distance between the two places
by wagon road is about four miles. BY
raj it might be necessary to build
vice that distance because of the
hilly nature of the country.
The Anti-Saloon League Ministerial
association and Christian Endeavor
Union of Colorado Springs have de-
rided to cooperate in the placing of a
good government ticket in the field at
he spring election. A committee has
been appointed to report January End
upon the records of prominent persons.
with a view to naming them as candi-
dates.
At the end of a protracted spree Pat
rick Brennan shot and mortally
Mrs. Lowney at Stockton.
about three miles from Leadville. on
he night of Christmas. Then he shot
inflicting a dangerous wound.
Brennan, who is twenty-eight years of
age, had been engaged to Mrs. Low
ley, a widow Of thirty-three with three
.hildren.
Secretary F. w. Palmer OF the
pueblo Business Mems Association has
'eceived letter from Gov. La Fol
cite of Wisconsin to whom he had
written for Information on the primary
Lection laws of Wisconsin. With the
etter he sent large quantity OF mat
er pertaining to the statutes and ex-
'ressed the hope that Colorado would
ioon enact such law.
Theodore Anderson was found dead