The Grit-advocate., 1904-09-16
COLORADO NEWS ITEMS

unusually large crowd
Mrs. Margaret Pollock of Greeley has
been picking her second crop OF straw
berries, and good crop. too.
Adjt Gen. Sherman Bell rejoices in
the advent OF a daughter and proposes
to name her after Helen Gould.
State Treasurer Newton and his fam
lily have forsaken Pueblo and intend to
make their permanent home in Den
yer.
Patrick Mccain. widely-known
mining man of Gilpin county, died at
Central City on the 10th inst. OF paral-
ysis.
The Pullman Car Company has or
not stated when. If at all. they will be
reopened.
Engineer AL Philliber OF the d. &
R. G. lost his left eye at Red Cliff on
the 18th. inst. by the bursting of the
water gauge-:of his engine.
Mayor Speers of Denver has appointed
Mrs. c. j.. Hughes. Jr.. and Mrs. Will
liam G. Fisher as members. of the Den
yer Public Library Association. There
are six other members. =
T. John .Mosley, who came to Colorado
Springs from Lonuon a.:few' months
ago, will tour the mountains with, his
family lin; a ''palatiaEs camp wagon, ,tfit-
ted with electric light. gasoline heat
ers. ETC. ~
The new bridge over the Arkansas
riyet at La Junta is to'cost 81 ,0b0.- The
sum Of $4,000 was appropriatedtb tby( the
I yiclo on L.
sioners will :. furnish an additional
$1,000. - ~
On the ranch of Wilson Bros, near
Lusk. Anton Miklas and Peter Jensen
quarreled over who should shoota rab-
bit and struggled for the possession of
a gun, which went off in the fraeas and
killed Miklas.
The State School for the Deaf and
Blind at Colorado Springs recently re-
ceived sixteen pupils from Idaho. There
are twenty-four other non-residents in
the institution. mostly from Oklahoma
and Wyoming.
The hearing on the probate of the
will of the late Charles NJ. Stebbins,
who left the bulk of large fortune to
found an orphans home in Denver,
will come UP in the County Court at
Denver, November 10th.
Mrs. West, wife OF X. E. West, organ
izersfor the Modern Woodmen of Amer
lea, was found dead in her room in the
ConmefciaT hotel at Trinidad on the
l1th inst, having died OF he lrt fail
ure. She, came to Trinidad from Okla
homa City.
President Moffat of the Denver,
Northwestern & Pacific railroad, who
has, fecently returned from the East.
says that work will soon be COM
the line to meet the grade from Den
yer.
The state engineer has let contract
to the Pueblo Bridge Company for the
construction OF Routt county bridge
over the Yampa river at Steamboat
Springs, to cost $4,000 The county
commissioners will furnish the abut-
ments. which will cost $500 extra
Prof. Samuel l.. Boothroyd, instruc-
tor in physics at the Colorado Agri-
cultural College, has accepted an ap-
pointment as instructor OF descriptive
geometry at Cornell University, New
York. He is a native of Colorado and
graduated at the Agricultural College.
A large number of Pueblo sportsmen
took advantage of the opening OF the
duck season on Sunday, the 11th, to
visit the lakes and reservoirs south OF
the city. and the result was that many
teal ducks were bagged. The number
of these ducks is said to be the largest
ever known.
On the morning of the 18th inst. the
body of an unknown man, supposed to
be a tramp, was found near Wigwam,
one the d. &, r. G., cut in two pieces
by car wheels. The unfortunate man
was apparently about thirty-tive years
of age, medium built, and wore small
light mustache.
One of the. questions that will come
before the State Supreme Court at its
present session In Denver is the consti-
tutionality Of the statute permitting the
Humane Society to take charge OF
starving cattle and other live stock and
care for 1t at the expense OF the owner.
Miss Ida z. =Michener, who has charge
Of the Colorado Midland eating station
at Cascade, twelve miles west of Colo
RADIO Springs, expected to share an es-
tate of SIS 100000, which her mother,
Mrs. Talitha Jane Michener of Carmel,
Indiana is said to have fallen heir to-.
Mary F. Lathrop, who sued the
George w. Clayton estate, for a $4,000
attorney fee for services alleged to
have been rendered in securing the pro-
bate of Mr.. Clayton's' will, donating
some 81, 900 900 for the establishment Of
a boys school, has lost her case in the
Court of Appeals.
Roger Greenough. aged sixty-eight
years, an oiler in the employ Of the
Telluride mill at Colorado City, and
one of the pioneers of Colorado, was
caught in the betting of the machinery
at the plant on the night of the 9Th
inst, and probably almost instantly
killed. His body was not found until
several hours had elapsed.
The hunting season for wild ducks,