The Grit-advocate., 1904-03-18
COLORADO NEWS ITEMS

P'Il vi iuDuLltiH lltHS nave
Teen smPned 20 the Worlds Fair at
ST. Louis from New Castle
hurat Tree delivery service has been
ordered al ManZanola, C;ero county,
April lsth with one carrier.
The Denver team of the Western
Baseball League will be brought to-
gether III Denver, March 25th to be
gin practice.
The baseball season is beginning
early this year. Already many match
games have been played in different
parts Of the state.
Inc tSn Grand Army posts at Pueb-
10 nave been consolidated under the
ZANE OF Pueblo Post No. s, Depart
ment ol Colorado and Wyoming, G. A.
X.
Inc Pueblo Fire Department is in
s'allinG new switchboard in its fire
alarm telegraph system at cost OF
about $4,000. 1t will be thoroughly up
tO-date,
Ihe county assessors with the state
board of equalization will hold meet
ing in the state houhe on March q to
discuss the assessment on state proper
" for the year.
IL Is reported that the Steamboat
Springs Town Company has given an
option upon its interests in the town,
which include all the hot springs and
much other property.
company from Kalamazoo, Michi-
gan, has taken a long lease on the
Manhattan EeaCh summer resort in
BenVer and proposes to make eAten-
sive improvements
The corner stone of the church
building OF the United Brethren
Church at Berthoud was laid March
18th. The new ediiice is to be con
s,ructed of red pressed brick and is to
cost about $4,000.
John c. Reagan of Merino. Colorado,
has sold his ranch of O0Do acres in Lo-
gan, Morgan and Washington counties
to the Coe & Steadman Realty Com
pany and S. d. Hanna OF Denver, the
price being 100000.
At q wedding celebration in Denver
where liquor was provided Tor the
guests Two fourteen -year-Oid boys
stole in and took enough to become
drunk, which led to their arrest and
confinement in the city jail.
The pipe line which supplies Primero,
in Las Animas county, with water was
dynamited on the night of the 11th
inst. just outside of Segundo. There
was water enough on hand to supply
the place while the pipe was being re-
paired
The ew gymnasium of the Colorado
Aer. trftural College at Fort Collins
vas formally opened on the Sth inst
The gymnasium has floor space of
54XSI feet. with a ceiling twenty-one
teet high, and is eXcellently equipped
throughout
The sum of $4,000 is bequeathed to
the home for consumptives at Denver
by the will of Sarah SchermerhOrn,
daughter of w. c. Schermerhorn OF
Newport and New York, in her will re-
Gently filed for probate at Newport,
Rhode Island
Jasper Hartley, fifty years of age and
committed snicide near
Brighton on the 9th inst by shooting
himself through the heart with a shot
gun The act is attributed to des-
pondency occasioned by incurable
heart disease.
The Pueblo City Council grant
Cd an extension of the franchise
of the Pueblo and lnterurban Railway
Company, which secured a franchise
about a year ago to build and operate
a street railway along Mesa avenue
and other streets
The confessions of six boys arrested
in Pueblo for petty larceny indicate
hat gang numbering as many as thlr
y-iire boys has been engaged for some
Inc in plundering vacant houses of
cad pipe, gas fixtures, etc. which they
,old 10 junk dealers.
a movement is on foot to organize
. Young Mems Christian Association in
Boulder and erect building State
secretary Bilhcimer advises that 70 de
,isiye action shall be taken until the
money is in sight for 100000 building
md $1,000 year for expenses.
owing to the shutting down OF the !
'uuIado Fuel & Iron Company's plant !
II PueblO the Mof1at road has been /.
to purchase a considerable |
-mOunt of steel rails in the East
which were brought out in 100 coal .
ars recently bought for the new line. /
TH" parents Of Dorothy Soper and .
Donald Soper, two Colorado Springs /
liden who We're badly burned by !
ending in contact with a live wire
/ the Colorado Springs Electric Com
ann have been awarded $3.50 dam
go $4,000 in the case OF the boy
nj $3.50 for the girl.
Complaints are being filed in the Of
rr i the state engineer with Division
p.@eer l.. r. Hope by Water District
~ located in Morgan county, to the
ic that companies along the Big
A uson and pOuGre rivers are stOr-
ny nter in reservoirs when it is need
The present time for irrigation
U es.
A Ueblo dispatch says that Miss
lu Chilson is suffering from in
IF received March 9Th when The
building at Oycr'ou blew down
.,. he teacher and twenty pupils
IS struck on the head by falling