The Glenwood post., 1904-11-12
COLORADO NEWS ITEMS

( A station of the United States
Weather Bureau has been established
at the University of Colorado at Boul-
! der.
| The State Board of Dental Examin-
ers has begun crusade against dem
lists in the state who practice without
| licenses
The Rev. William P. George. hate Of
Kansas City, has been engaged as pas
tor of Trinity NJ E. Church in Den
yer. to succeed the Rev. Frost Craft.
| A Greeley potato Weighing seven
pounds was recently sent to the head
quarters of the Colorado Promotion
and Publicity Committee at st. Louis
by B. d. Sanborn of Greeley.
The town of Manitou is negotiating
with General Palmer for a lease on
Manitou Soda Springs park. If It is Sc
cured the park will be greatly i'm
proved and made a city park.
The Denver Real Estate Exchange,
by series of resolutions, has placed it
self as opposed to the proposed amend
ment to the city charter extending the
! term of the present aldermen from two
to four years.
The bodies of eight OF the victims OF
the coal mine explosion at Tercio had
been recovered up to the 5th inst. The
last three bodies found could not be
Identified owing to their burned and
mangled condition
NJ. ]. Mcnamara, one of the pioneer
dry goods merchants of Denver, as well
c.s one of its most public-spirited and
enterprising citizens during long
business career died at his home in
Denver on the 9th inst.
Stanley Gorse, a ten-year-oId Pueblo
boy, had the unusual experience few
days ago of being run over by switch
engine in the Minnequa yards and be
ing picked up bruised but not danger
ous!y hurt after it had passed.
T. C. Lennon, superintendent of
the Grand Junction Indian school has
been transferred to the superintendency
of the Indian school at Moqui, Arizona.
Superintendent Charles E. Burton Of
Moqui coming to Grand Junction.
The office of the weather bureau in
Denver has been removed from the
federal building to the fourth story of
the Boston building at Seventeenth
and Champa streets. where more COM
modious quarters have been secured.
Fred Keller. a .ypung Swiss, slipped
and fell from a horizontal bar while
practicing in the Turner hall gymna-
SUM in Denver few days ago, strik-
ing the floor so hard as to break his
neck. He lived but two days after
being hurt
Jacob Riis, celebrated for bringing
about remarkable reforms in the tene-
ment house sections of New York, will
lecture in Denver November 18th and
14th, under the auspices OF the Y. M.
C. A. President Roosevelt called him
the most useful man in New York"
Fred f. Whiting, proprietor of drug
store on Humboldt street in Denver,
was held up on the night of the 7th
inst by a masked robber and robbed
of s115 in cash. Drug stores and sa-
looms, being open nights, are the favor
ite victims of the hold-up fraternity.
W. 2 Pabor. an old-time Colorado
editor and colonizer, is still printing
the "Pabor Lake Pineapple" at Avon
Park postofilce, De Soto county, Flor
ida. 1t is published monthly and pre-
sents an attractive and prosperous ap-
pearance. The October number is
special information" issue.
General Manager Vallery OF the Col
orado Midland is considering the pro-
ject of arranging to run electric cars
between Colorado Springs and Wood
land Park. 1t is proposed to operate
hourly trains between Colorado Springs
and Woodland Park. and oftener If de-
manded, during the summer.
A robber snatched woman's pock-
etbook on an electric car at Cripple
Greek and knocked down the con-
ductor after the latter had restored it
to the owner. Then the robber jumped
off the car near the Morning Glory
switch, going over a precipice and
breaking his neck on the rocks. His
body was found later.
While taking Mexican beet topper
to the town Jail at Holly, Town Mar
shal Atkin was stabbed in the left
shoulder by the prisoner. The Mexi-
can, while trying to escape, was shot
twice in the neck by the marshal and
captured. The marshal's wound is deep
and serious, but not fatal. The Mexi-
can was not badly wounded.
An orchard owned by w. S. Cobu-n.
president of the State Board of Horti.
culture, has made q record in Colorado
fruit this year. says a Denver daily.
The orchard is located at Hotchkiss,
and contains about thirty acres. Mr..
Coburn has already picked $500 boxes
of apples from the trees and is prepar
ing to care for 1900 more. 1t is one
Of the heaviest yields ever made by the
orchard and establishes a record in
that vicinity.
a new company has been organized
to manage the Silverton railway. Re.
Gently this road was sold to John A.
Ewing of Loadville for $4,000. The
company has now been reorganized
and articles of Incorporation filed with
the secretary of state. The new com.
pany is known as the Silverton Rail
way Company and is Incorporated at
100000. 1t will have offices in Denver
and Silverton and will operate in Ou-
ray county. The incorporators are
Otto Mears of Denver, Alexander An.
derson Of silverton, John A. Ewing OF
Leadville, George Crawford of New