The Grit-advocate., 1904-01-29
COLORADO BRIEFS.

of Senator Henry NJ. Teller. died at
Pueblo January I'D at the age OF eighty
gears.
1t is expected that the Moffat road
VIII be completed TO Boulder Park.
torty-fve miles from Denver, some
time in February
Up to January 10th more than $1,000
had been pledged to the Colorado Pro.
motion and Publicity committee to
advertise the state.
Colorado railroads will do an extra
amount of eastern advertising this
year. The new MoffaL road will issne
several publications.
John Powers, an old time miner OF
Cripple Creek, was killed by the ex-
plosion OF a missed shot in the Jerry
Johnson mine January 24th.
The county commissioners of Pueblo
county have voted 81 900 tor the pur
pose of preparing a marble exhibit to
represent the county at the St. Louis
Fair
The Colorado College of Osteopathy
at Denver has consolidated With the
American School of Osteopatby al
hilhNllle. NlSSouEl, anu VIII DC LuoNtu
to that place.
The Denver Choral Society, under the
direction of Professors Houseley and
Thomas. is arranging Two choruses OF
$50 voices to sing at the Worlds Fair
at St Louis.
Joseph Pearce. city street supervi-
sor of Leadville. died January 10th OF
pneumonia Mr.. Pearce was one of the
earliest pioneers and built the first
hotel at Orc city.
Fifty-tiye sportsmen took part in n
| rabbit roundup near uooper in Cos
lila county January 24th and 1.lG7
rabbits were killed. TWO men killed
sixty-four rabbits each.
The State Board OF Health. after
visiting Leadrille, reported that an cpl
demic of typhoid fever existed IN the
city. There are several hundred cases.
but the mortality has been low.
Officers of Fort Logan have SO far
looked in vain for a cannon range in
The foothills near Denver, where there
is room for target practice without in
terfering with anybody's safety.
Colorados death-rate per 1000. for
month of December. on the basis of an
estimated population of o6l, ,l36, was
IS, excluding still-births. There
we're 500 deaths during tie month.
D. J. Pridham. who was Denver
agent for the Chicago. Milwaukee L.
ST. Paul railroad from 1878 TO 1892
lied in Chicago January 22d at the age
of seventy-threc. The calIse OF his death
vas pleurisy.
1t is suspected that rad.um exists in
several of the large springs at Glen
wood Springs, and portions of the dried
sediment have been sent to prominent
chemists and photographers for the
purpose of having them tested
Robert Youngblood. the young man
who was shot on New Years eve in
Denver in the affray with Arnold. An
drews and Peters, in which the rob
bers killed him mother has SO far re.
covered as to be discharged from the
hospital.
The Herman Reuter- residence at
Brighton has been leased for the next
two years as a court house by Adams
county. The contents Of the safes
that passed through the recent court
house fire were found IN fairly good
condition.
II. S. Vaughn. commander of the de-
partment OF Colorado and Wyoming.
G. A. r., who has been i'll at St Luke's
hospital in Denver as result of an
attack of appendicitis, is improving
rapidly. A successful operation was
performed.
\ company has been incorporated al
Pueblo with a capital stock of 100000
to establish railroad cooperative
store. The store will be under the
control OF the railroad brotherhood of
Pueblo and the ownership Of stock is
limited to labor unions.
At Colorado Springs the other day
Rev. Duncan Lamont in competition
with thirteen other members of the
Ministerial alliance. won the annual
wcOdsawing contest at the City hotel.
At the close fourteen hungry clergy
men sat down to dinner at the hotel
\ few days ago b. c. Boyd. wool
contractor at Bailey III the Platte
canon. took seventeen shots at a
mountain lion that has been stealing
his beef. which he hangs in tree.
Boyd saw it standing under the tree
and opened hre, but the lion got away. |
Bids have been called for for the
construction of the new court house at
WalseEburs to be opened February Il.
ne bonds were voted last fall Every !
thing is to be modern and the building !
will cost $50, 900 1t is to be built of ,
white sandstone from quarries near
town.
After spending twenty years in a
dug-out in the mountains Il few miles /,
south of Buena Vista. W. +. Arflund. a |
Swedc DrOspectOr was found dead on |
the morning of January 22d He was |
seVenty-niEe years Of age and had no |
relations in this country so far as |
known.
The Denver Chamber of Commerce
sent a telegram to Ex-Governor Taft in
California on his way back to Wash