The Grit-advocate., 1904-02-26
COL ORADO BRIEFS.


lnspector smith. Larimer county last
year produced sl5o.oOo worth OF fruit
Tie noW Protestant hospital at Colo
rado 81 IS will be called the Deacon
hospltaI 1t was formerly the Bellevue
sanitarru
Georso Waybright deputy city mar
shal a. Hastings, was assaulted and
badly injured by striking Italian min
ers at Agliiar February 10th.
An attempt to change the date OF
the meeting OF the Republican State
Central Committee did not succeed. 1t
Will De April I'd, as at first announced.
Two hundred lawyers were present
at the annual banquet OF the Denver
Bar AssD'lation on the night of Feb
ruary -0On at the Brown Palace hotel.
A ne& hotel, a $50 900 opera house, a
Carneglc library and possibly new city
hall. are among the buildings that
1'rinidaI expects TO see finished this
year.
The careful enforcement of the game
laws during the last few years is grad
ually making Colorado IA great quail
state. whereas formerly there were but
few quaII here
PuebIn is to have an open air am
phitheairr al the corner OF Sixth and
Main streets that will seat 1000 people.
| 1t is proposed to complete the structure
by Jtne LIST.
The Colorado Springs Y NJ. c. A.
has regejged a check for $1,000 from
| Rev. j Stewart Dodge. a New York
| ministcr TO be applied on the 100000
indebteIness of the organization.
DR.. Sol Ringolsky of Denver has ac-
| copied the terms of the Salida City
Ccunci and has agreed to install rub
| Der plant in the Saida creamery build
| ing. The plant is to be ready for ope-
| ration within thirty days.
Samuel Raugh one of the principal
| ranch and horse owners OF the Platte
| valley died at Brush. February 18th.
He was the owner of the NH brand
and had been resident of this valley
| for over thirty-five years.
Under the direction of DR.. Wallace
| r. Struble of Chicago. International
lecture Of the American Anti-Cigarette
| League a crusade has been inaugurated
in Colorado against the smoking OF ci-
garettes by school children.
MabeI Joseph, three-year-old daugh-
ter OF Mr.. and Mrs. |. w. Joseph of
Puebi. died February 18th as the re
suit IS burns received few days be
fore Her clothing caught fire while
playing near a fire in an alley.
In The District Court at Walsenburg
February 18th Judge Northcutt SEN
tenced Henry Crumbley to the peniten-
tiary for from two to five years FOR
arson. Last October Crumbley set fire
to barn at La Veta belonging to
Charles Martin.
The Pueblo City Council has added
500 10 the $500 already given by the
| county commissioners for the purpose
of drtraying the expense Of construct
ing relief map of the Arkansas val
ley which will be shown at the st,
Louis exposition.
Judge Voorhees, in the District
Copr, at Pueblo condemned attaches
Of the sherlff's office and police de-
par'ment for permitting the increase
of houses of i'll repute and saloons of
Questionable character in certain dis
trctS Of the city
W a. odNllle, Uulteu SldteS IhetHdll-
icaI Engineer, has come to Denver to
assume charge of the mechanical equip
! men Of the new mint. Under his di-
rection the placing of the machinery
for the electric lighting. heating. etc,
of the building will begin at once.
Tunnel No on the Moffat line is
about completed. 1t is thirty miles
| from Denver and is 1922 feet in length,
being one of the first long tunnels on
the DAD. This will make the eighth
tunnrI finished. the track having al
ready been laid through seven of them
Al examination of the registration
book, at the University of Colorado
shows hat there are 1870 students from
| Denyor now attending the state univer-
| sity In other words, little more than
tweniy per cent, of the students now in
the Uuiversity come from the capitol
| city.
Two Methodist ministers who for
mery lived in Denver and who have
| man, friends in Colorado, are now III
Korea and some concern is felt as to
their 7afety. They are Rev Phillip
GillelI" and Rev. w b. McGiIl the lat
ter graduate of the Ilin School of
The ngy.
Pa Dermott, one of the pioneers of
Cripp Creek, who was credited with
hayiu- been the locator of the Last
DOIla' mine, was found dead in his
cabin 1t Independence on Tuesday. the
10th "st. He had not been seen since
Satu ~ and it is supposed that he
died nday.
BY he report of the committee ap-
poiursI to audit the Pueblo county
treas'rer's books it was shown that
william B. Moore, a clerk in the treas
urer's uttlce. was 81 300 short in his ac-
count The committee recommended
that 10 prosecution be made, as the
friend, Of Mr.. Moore will make good
the amount.
The Ouray correspondent of the
Denyer News, under date of February
18th. says: From seventy-five to
st-o d. . IT