The Glenwood post. (Glenwood Springs, Colo.) 1897-current, 1904-03-12
COLORADO BRIEFS.


Springs baseball team OF the West
ern League will report for practice on
March 31st
al exhibit is being prepared at the
University of Colorado to be displayed
at the St. Louis Exposition next sum-
Mer.
David De Graft of Colorado Springs
has Just celebrated his eighteenth
birthday anniversary, yet he is eighty
years old. He was born February 20.
1924.
The new $65, 900 addition to st. Fran
F, cis's hospital at Colorado Springs will
be formally opened with appropriate
exercises on April 18th. The equip
ment will bring the total cost to $780,
900.
Less than an inch of snow fell at
Colorado Springs during the month of
February. Last year the fall for the
| same period was ten and one-half
inches. The weather was unusually
warm.
The Denver Horse Show Association
has decided not hold horse show this
year on account of the Worlds Fair.
The finances of the association are in
a
treasury.
The option given to Pueblo parties
six weeks ago on the Colorado Springs
Western League baseball team expired
March LIST and the team will remain at
the Springs. Players have been ordered
to report on March 21st.
| A great wind and dust storm ragged
March End all the way from Cheyenne,
! Trtr CD1nrod0
It was fearfully bad at Denver, Colo
RADIO Springs and Pueblo. At Colorado
p, Springs the wind reached a velocity
Of sixty-six miles an hour.
The big steel bridge of the Trinidad
f, electric railroad across the Las Animas
river. just above Jansen has been f1n-'
ished and accepted from the contract
ors by the company. All of the thirty
two trestles and small bridges on the.
line between Trinidad and Sopris end
Starkville have been completed.
George Bernard has purchased a
3.750-acre ranch northeast of Colorado
| Springs which he will stock with a fine
herd of thoroughbred Galloway cattle,
blooded horses and Berkshire hogs.
In addition he will erect $4,000
/ dwelling for his amily. He will sell
his fine residence in Colorado Springs.
Miss Jennie l. Potter and Miss Eva
Potter, twin daughters OF DIR. j. H.
Potter of Longmont, although twenty
years of age, have had but four birth
day anniversaries. They were born
February 20, 1884. At their last birth
day celebration they received several
gifts appropriate to four-year-old chill
dren.
| Tho nd mills af
were started up on the 4th inst with
a force of twenty-five men for the pur-
pose of finishing up the cloth left in the
looms when the works closed for want
Of coal last fall. When this work is
done, and it will only last few weeks
1t is expected that the mills will be per-
manently closed.
On March End fire near Glenmore
lake, about two miles west of Pine
Grove, in the Platte canon, burned all
the buildings on the Maui ranch, in
Guiding hay, buggies, wagons and farm
implements. St. Marks church in
Denver had an option on the ranch
for use in connection with their sum-
mer home.
| 1t is reported that Rev. c. w. Bride
well, the ex-preacher who gave street
sermons in Denver and other towns
of Colorado since he was relieved OF
regular charges by his church, was re-
Gently tarred and feathered at Bride
we'll. Montana, where he was accused
of preaching doctrines calculated to in
duce wives to leave their husbands.
| Lulu Adams. who shot and killed p
H. King, Jr.. few days since, was
given a preliminary hearing at La
Junta before Judge Clark and bound
over to the District Court in the sum
of $4,000. in default of which she was
/ remanded to the county jail, there to
await the converting of the District
Court, the second Monday in June.
A Denver commission firm recently
received a carload of cabbages import
ed from Denmark. The cabbage CROP
in the United States last season is said
to have been the shortest ever known.
The drouth in California has cut on
the supply from that state. usually in
the market about this time. and the
Texas crop will not begin to come in
until April.
Dallas M. Quincy, sixty-one years
old, killed himself at a station twelve
miles east of Durango. February goth.
When last seen. at $50 in the morn
ing, he had one of his children in his
lap In the barn door. At 10 o'clock
his wife found him dead. Coroner
Hood said he was shot with a 38-Colts,
his own gun. He leaves six children,
aged from two to twenty-five years.
The State Hospital, which is support
ed by the city and county of Boulder,
and is conducted by the medical de-
partment of the University of Colorado,
has grown to such proportions that the
regents Of the university have estab-
lished training schoo. for nurses.
Miss Anna E. Harris, graduate of the
Polytechnic hospital Of Philadelphia,
ha1 been appointed superintendent of
the school.
The Colorado delegation to the an
nual conference of the Methodist
Church at Los Angeles, California, in
May. will travel west in a special train
on the Santa Fe route, leaving Denver
April 20. Rev R. A. Chase Is chair