The Glenwood post., 1904-11-19
COLORADO NEWS ITEMS

| so.OOO,OO0 to S10.0O0.0O0 to provide u
larger working capital.
/ ]. e. Anderson of Trinidad has re
ceived an appointment as captain in
the Chinese army. He was formerly
adjutant of the Twentieth Kansas.
/ The day after election a snow storm
was reported from many points in Col
orado. But it was on the day before
that heaps OF candidates were showed
under
The Denver G. Rio Grande railroad
will build an ice plant at Pueblo that
will have capacity of 5000 tons and
all the latest devices for manufactur-
/ ing ice.
/ Justice of the Peace Rice at Denver
broke the record by marrying three
couples in ten minutes on the day after
election. Perhaps they were paying
election bets
Special plans are being made for the
entertainment OF the newspaper men
who visit Denver at the time Of the
meeting of National Live Stock Asso-
citation January 9Th.
One of the first things that Hon.
Alva Adams did when he found that
he was probably elected governor was
to telegraph the news to his aged pa
rents at Pasadena, California.
The remaining four bodies were
taken from the mine at Tercio on the
10th inst, and taken to Trinidad for
burial. The recovery of these bodies
raises the loss of life by tho explosion
to nineteen.
Governor Bailey of Kansas has re
fused a requisition from Governor Pea
body for the return Of Earl Daniels to
4 Castle Rock to be tried on the charge
OF larceny. The evidence adduced was
not satisfactory.
Elmer Sheeder of independence
while pushing a car in the Pinkerton
shaft, was disabled by striking his
head against a timber and forced by
the car into the sump, where he was
drowned in two feet of water.
The day after election Chief Of PO
lice Delaney started in to clear the
hoboes out OF Denver. This suggests
that possibly the campaign bosses had
no further use for them and hastened
to surrender them to the tender mer
cies of the cops
By vote of 143 to the Montezuma
valley irrigation district has voted to
bond itself for 100000 for the con
struction of its irrigation system. The
proposed system will cover 100000
acres, much OF which is open to settle
ment under. government laws.
At the annual meeting OF the Y. w
C. A. of Colorado Springs Mrs. Mary
T. Hatch was reelected president, as
were all the officers with one excep
ton, and fifty of the most prominent
society and charitable women Oh the
city were chosen for the board OF dI-
reCtors.
The manager of the Imperial hotel
In Pueblo offered his hotel for sale at
81 chance, expecting that fully go.
900 would send in a dollar However,
there were only a few hundred who
sent in their dollar and he has re-
turned the money with the statement
that his scheme was failure
Count Pasquale Corte, italian consul,
at Denver, visited Trinidad on business
connected with the affairs of the nine
teen Italians killed by the explosion in
the mine at Tercio. He reports that
all of them leave families in Italy.
Rocco Di Gregorio left considerable
estate in the old country. but the 9th.
ers were poor men.
The Cripple Creek Central Railway
Company has corps OF engineers In
the field making the necessary surveys
for the extension of the narrow gauge
into the city of Cripple Greek and
about five miles of spurs into mines.
The Improvement planned by this com
pany, including the additional rolling
stock. will cost between 100000 and
$35O00o.
Two carloads of Las Animas county
burros were recently shipped by ex-
press to San Francisco at which point
they will be loaded on a transport and
sent to the Philippines to be used as
pack animals for the army The bur
res were purchased by Secretary Haw-
ley of the State Agricultural College.
who acted as a special agent for the
government.
George w. Hoover, secretary Of the
Farmers club OF Garfield, Eagle and
Pitkin counties, has gone 10 the St
louis Fair with a 3.000-pOund ship
haent of potatoes from the district,
There is not II potato in the Shipment
weighing less than three and One-hali
pounds and the average weight is
about four and one-half pounds. The
shipment was contributed to by every
prominent grower in the district.
The health department of Colorado
Springs has mailed 900 copies of the
October health report, copies being
sent to all the delegates from foreign
countries who were the guests of the
United States government In St Louis
at the tuberculosis congress and the
congress Of military surgeons. The
report is the best ever issued from the
city 1t shows death rate, exclusive
of tuberculosis, of SO per thousand. on
basis of 10000 population.
/ A sensational suicide occurred at
Tercio on the morning OF the Sth inst.
when Harry Waters stood at the en-.
trance of No. 3 mine and blew the top
of his head off with six-shooter. This
is the mine in which nineteen people
lost their lives in an explosion. Waters
had been acting az a watch.nan about
the mine since that time 1t is sup
: posed that he became temporarily in
sane from the grlIeSOmp sipht, yphe