The Grit-advocate., 1904-02-05
COLORADO BRIEFS.

typhoid fever epidemic has begun 10
abate.
The Burlington railroad is testing the
value of northern Colorado Ignite coal
for use in its locomotives
Emmett Fox has been appointed
regular and Bessie Howe substitute
rural carrier at Fort Collins.
Additional rural free delivery service
has been ordered established March Isl,
at La Junta, with one carrier.
The next annual meeting OF the Colo
RADIO State Federation OF Nomen's
Clubs will be held at Fort Collins next
October.
Arthur Casady. aged ten. son OF
Harry Casady. treasurer OF the Colo
rado Commission to the Worlds Fair,
died at Boulder, February LIST, oil
diphtheria.
A Leadville dispatch OF January 18th
quotes DR. Mcdowell of the State
Board of health as saying that the ty-
phOid fever epidemic is practically over
in Leadville.
The commissioner of patents reports
to Congress that i0i patents and de-
signs were granted to Colorado people
during 1909, this being one for every
.3335 people.
The ownership of tn" Denver and
Kansas City Baseball Club franchises
in the Western League by George Ie-
beau was recognized by the league at
its recent meeting in Chicago.
The Colorado 4 Southern Railway
Company has had 15,000 trout fry de-
posted in the Platte river at Bailey.
the trout are six inches long and Will
be good size to catch when the fish
| ing season opens.
Joseph l.. Bailey. a prominent Dem
! yer pioneer. for Il long time well known
| throughout the state as proprietor OF
the Bailey corral on Sixteenth street.
died at his home in Denver February
| lst. in the siXtyninth year OF his age.
! Mrs. Arvilla Meeker of Greeley wild
Ow of N. c. Meeker, is recovering from
a severe attack of pneumonia. She is
ninety years old and it was fearel that
she would not be strong enough to
overcome the disease.
The trial of Newton Andrews and
Charles Peters, charged with the muir
der of Mrs Amanda Youngblood. was
begun in the West Side Court at Den
Yer. January 25th. 1t was decided that
Arnold should be tried separately.
Charles Beall of the confectionery
firm of Davis 4 Beall nj Colorado City.
committed suicide January 10Th by
shooting himself through the stomach
with shotgun. The deed is attributed
to despondeLcy occasioned by ill
health
| Upon the advice of Attorney d. NJ.
| Campbell the members of Company G
of the National Guard at Pueblo de-
cided to make one more plea to Gov
ernor Peabody for settlement of their
claims before nstitutng a suit against
| the state.
Eight hundred students have been
enrolled in the State Normal School at
Greeley this year. of whom 800 are in
the normal department proper, COM
posed Of high school and college grad
yates. who are studying the art OF
| teaching.
The religious census taken by the
| united effort of the churches shows
Florence to have 1000 families. 1000
| people and a religious population of
about 900. These religious people are
considered those directly connected
with churches of some denomination.
| Fred Bishop. who graduated at the
Colorado Agricultural College in 1891
and afterward took a post graduate
course, has just accepted a'position as
cntomologist under Dr. L. O. Howard
of the United States Department of Ag-
rculture at salary of 81 200 per year
and expenses while in the field
Miss E. Whitney and Miss Carry
Echonohoff, both of Denver have pur-
| chased what is known U the Pueblo
Childrens Home at Peublo. The home
has been under the management of Mr..
and Mrs. w. A. Gray for the las elev-
en- years. and they retire on account of
old age and i'll health. About 100 chill
drcn are in the home.
Mr. Dallas j. Osborne a prominent
ranchman and wool man from Las We
gas, New Mexico. has purchased a tract
of land adjoining the Union stock
yards in Denver on which he is prepar-
ing to build an extensive wOol-Scour-
ing plant The building will he 150x40
feet in size and two stories in height,
and is to be completed by May LIST
An electric light wire which was
blown down by the wind storm in
Denver February LIST occasioned the
death of two young men, Charles
Ormsby and William Daniel who SIM
ultaneously took hold OF ii to remove it.
Ormsby lived with his father and
mother in Denver and ninie had re-
Gently came from Butler, Missouri
Joseph J. c. Woolcot who died at
Denver January 3lst, was probably the
lagest man in the state, his weight be
ing nearly 400 pounds He was a vet
eran of the Civil war and at the time
of his death had charge of the Or
HntS Nanln,t
feet ten inches in height and of enor-
nous girth. He weighed about 400 |
pounds.
Attorney General Hughes for the |
Denver & Northwestern appeared in |
the federal court January 25th and in |
formed Judge Hallett that the court or