The Grit-advocate., 1904-11-18
COLORADO NEWS ITEMS

~ Colorado Telephone company
mas increased its capital stock from
$o'oooOOu TO S10,000.000 to provide
larger working capital.
}. E. Anderson of Trinidad has re-
celVea an appointment as captain in
the Chinese army He was formerly
adJulant Of the Twentieth Kansas.
The day after election a snow storm
was reported from many points in Col
orado But it was on the day before
that heaps of candidates were showed
under.
The Denver & Rio Grande railroad
Will build an ice plant at Pueblo that
Will nave capacity of 5000 tons and
all the latest devices for manufactur-
ing ice
| Justice OF the Peace Rice at Denver
broke the record by marrying three
couples in ten minutes ON the day after
| election. Perhaps they were paying
/ election bets.
! Special plans are being made for tho
| entertainment of the newspaper men
who visit Denver at the time Of the
i meeting of National Live Stock Asso-
citation January 9th.
| oAS VI tHt hISl lulIl6s lhaI AVN
Alva Adams did when he found that
he was probably elected governor was
to telegraph the news to his aged pa
rents at Pasadena, California.
! The remaining four bodies were
! taken from the mine at Tercio on the
/ 10th inst, and taken to Trinidad for
burial. The recovery of these bodies
raises the loss of life by the explosion
to nineteen.
Governor Bailey of Kansas has re
! fused reQuisition from Governor Pea
body Tor the return of Earl Daniels to
Castle Rock to be ried on the charge
OF larceny. The evidence adduced was
not satisfactory.
Elmer Sheeder of Independence,
while pushing a car in the PinkertOn
shaft, was disabled by striking his
head against timber and forced by
the car into the sump. where he was
drowned in two feet of water.
The day after election Chief Of Po-
| lice Delaney started in to clear the
hoboes out of Denver. This suggests
that possibly the campaign bosses had
no further use for them and FASTENED
to surrender them to the tender mer-
cies OF the cops"
BY vote of 143 to the Montezuma
valley irrigation district has voted to
bond sen for 100000 for the con-
struction of its irrigation system. The
proposed system will cover 100000
acres, much of which is open to settle
mont under government laws.
The manager of the Imperial hotel
in Pueblo offered his hotel for sale at a
81 chance, expecting that fully 23O,'
600 would send in a dollar. However,
there were only a few hundred who
sent in their dollar and he has re-
turned the money with the statement
that his scheme was failure.
Connt Pasquale Corte, Italian consul.
at Denver, visited Trinidad on business
connected with the affairs of the nine
teen Italians killed by the explosion in
the mine at Tercio He reports that
all of them leave families in Italy.
Rocco Di Gregorio left considerable
estate in the old country, but the 9TH
| erS were poor men.
A dispatch from Manchester-by the.
| Sea Massachusetts, November 9TH,
! says d. l.. Bingham, noted libra
rian of this state and one of the found
ers OF the famous Greeley settlement
! in Colorado, celebrated his Goth birth
day anniversary to-day. In 1888 he be-
came interested in the Greeley venture
and remained with it three years.
The Cripple Creek Central Railway
! Company has a corps of engineers in
! the field making the necessary surveys
| for the extension of the narrow gauge
| into the city of Cripple Creek and
about five miles of spurs into mines.
/ The Improvement planned by this com
/ pany, including the additional rolling
/ stock will cost between 100000 and
| $35O,0O0.
Patents have been issued to Colo
RADIO residents as follows: Milford r.
| Goss. Denver, water tube boiler; Ed
ward D. j. Hoff, Colorado Springs.
water meter; Ephriam X. Hutchison.
/ Denver, damper regulator: Louis C.
| Mayes. Greeley, metallic railway tie:
| Joseph w. Stephens. Denver coin re-
| ceptacle; Swan F. Swanson. Pueblo.
/ dumping car.
| Two carloads Of Las Animas county
I burrOs were recently shipped by ex-
/ press to San Francisco at which point
| they will be loaded on a transport and
sent to the Philippines to be used as
/ pack animals for the army. The bur
! ros were purchased by Secretary f1aw-
| ley of the State Agricultural College.
/ who acted as special agent for the
government
George w. Hoover, secretary Of the
Farmers club OF Garfield. Eagle and
| Pitkin counties, has gone to the st.
| Louis Fair with 3,000-pound ship
! ment Of potatoes from the district.
| There is not potato in the shipment
weighing less than three and one-half
pounds and the average weight is
about four and one-half pounds. The
shipment was contributed to by every
prominent grower in the district.
The health department OF Colorado
Springs has mailed 1000 copies Of the
October health report. copies being
sent to all the delegates from foreign
countries who were the guests of the
ctofac upyorp,napt in CT npis