The Grit-advocate., 1904-05-13
COLORADO NEWS ITEMS


ka have recently arrived to work in the
6eet fields in the vicinity of Greeley.
At the recent Montrose school cleo
ton it was voted to issue $4,000 bonds
for the erection of new county high
school building.
Mack kuntz, noted pigeon fancier.
is preparing u make carrier test
with sixteen pigeons from the Worlds
Fair to Pueblo.
The track of the new MOffat rail-
road has been laid to short distance
beyond Rollinsville, and the ballasting
is being completed as fast as may be. e.
W. S. Harden. a pumpman employed
at the Diamond mine. at Leadville. fell
tfty-tive feet down a winze and es-
capped with bruises not considered dan
eerous.
When Governor Peabody got home
from the St. Louis Exposition he felt
so good that he at .lce ordered the
dome of the state house to be illu-
minated
Prof. Norman McGee. a graduate OF
Leland Stanford University, has been
appointed to the chair of surveying in
the engineering department of Colo
rado College.
N. NJ. Johnson, prominent livery
man of Boulder, dropped dead in his
stable on the mornig of May I'd. He
was apparently as well as usual just
before his death
Ex-senator Edward o. Wolcott and
Senator Henry NJ Teller both arrived
in Denver on the 4th inst. The former
mer came from the East to attend the
"a
9Th.
The ministers of Denver. at recent
melting of the Ministerial Alliance,
passed resolutions deprecating Sun
day funerals and saying that services
at the grave should be omitted in such
cases.
W. NJ. Wardjon. organizer Of the
United Mine Workers of America, who
was assaulted and badly injured at
Sargent a short time since. has SO far
recovered as to be able to leave the
hospital at Salida.
The Colorado Federation of Woman's
clubs will hold it's annual convention
his year in Fort Collins from Octo-
ber 1st to 9Th, and the Fort Collins la
dies are already making preparations
for its reception.
Postmaster l.. c. Dana of Colorado
Springs, the newly elected president of
the Postmasters' Association, has ex-
tended an invitation to the letter car
riers to meet with the postmasters, at
Colorado Springs, on May 30th.
The Secretary of the Interior on
the 4th inst. issued permits permitting
the grazing of ,050 cattle and horses
IN Pixies Peak forest reserve, and ,4S1
cattle and horses in Plum Creek re-
serve during the coming season.
Sketches for the new Carnegie Ii
brary building in Denver have been ap-
proved by the board and ground will
be broken for the new structure about
October 1st. The entire cost of the
building proper will be about $250,OO0
The Colorado Springs Chamber Of
Commerce asserts that wltnln the
have located at the Springs, and that
past year about fifty wealthy families
the average amount invested by them
in residence property has exceeded
$4,000.
The Colorado State Reformatory has
more inmates at the present time than
ever before in it's history-l40. The
nearest approach to that number was
1875 for few days during Warden
Smiths term. The regular capacity OF
the place is lOS.
The first anniversary of the starting
OF the Y. NJ. c. A. health farm near
Denver. was celebrated on the Sth inst.
The farm is furnishing home and en-
ployment of many men who are con-
sumptives and promises to prove sue
cessful institution.
The interstate debate between the
Universities of Kansas and Colorado
held at Boulder May 7th, was decided
in favor of Colorado. Colorado had the
negative and Kansas the affirmative OF
the subject: Resolved. that the en-
ployer is justified in refusing to rec
ornize labor unions"
By the burning of Hotel Turret at
Turret mining camp in Chaffee coun-
ty on the night of May 5th. Raymond
Zook. miner, was burned to death
and II. J. Gregory perhaps fatally
burned and suffocated. Six other men
who were in the building barely es
capped with their lives.
The examining board of the State
Normal school has been appointed and
will consist of State Superintendent
Helen l.. Grenfel County Superintend
ent w. D. Thomas Of Boulder county,
and DR.. Snyder, president of the
school. The examinations begin May
18th, and continue one week.
While Mrs Eva Parkinson, who
lives about six miles east of Fort Col
Inns, alarmed by break in the banks
of the Iarimer and Weld canal, was
attempting to 80 to neighbors house
with her three small children on the
night of May I'd, the eldest. boy OF
nine, slipped into the swift current
and was carried away and drowned.
Senator Henry NJ. Teller, who has
the appointment of cadet for West
Point, has decided to make the eXami
nation of applicants for the place COM
petitive. The Examination will take
place about June lst and in the mean
time all applicants may notify Mrs. |