The state herald., 1904-04-01
COLORADO NEWS ITEMS

me Oruer Oi Eihs IL preparing W
erect $685. coo building at Ouray.
Ex-Governor James b. Grant has gone
to Texas for rest and recuperation.
Former residents OF Minnesota will
organize a Minnesota Club in Denver
Idaho Springs is preparing for an en-
ter supply system,
A Woman's Union Label League has
been organized In Denver. Its object
is to encourage the use of union-made
goods.
Gen. VIM. ]. Palmer of Colorado
Springs is arranging to start soon for
a European trip, accompanied by his
daughters.
A big convention of the Knights of
Pythias will be held at Denver April
18th A banquet will be held at the
Windsor hotel
The pooling of the two electric light
systems at Victor has caused a move
ment of property owners to erect an in
dependent plant
Prof. r. l.. Morrison, principal of the
Brookside school in Fremont county,
died suddenly of heart failure March
23rd, shortly after dismisslng school in
the afternoon.
Admiral Dewey has written to Cover
nor Peabody that he will be unable to
accept the invitation to visit Denver
the Revolution.
Judge l. Il. BaTnum, prominent
Denver lawyer and publicspirited citi-
zen, died March 22d Of pleuro-pneu-
monia at the age of siXty-two. lie came
TO Colorado in 1877.
Troops Il and G of the Fifth United
States cavalry left Fort Logan, near
Denver March 22d. to march to Fort
Apache, New Mexico, 500 miles distant.
The ride is expected to take thirty-siN
days.
Congressman Brooks has appointed
Rex Evans of Hulyoke to Annapolis as
naval cadet. Master Evans is high
school boy and n distant relative OF
Fighting Bob" Evans Of national
fame.
A United States grand jury has been
summoned to begin two-weeks' sit
ting at Pueblo April 9TH. Several eases
will come before 1t in relation TO post
Office embGzzlement and misuse Of the
mails.
Cattlemen at Huehne In the Suntlow-
er valley, below Trinidad, are reported
TO be having n good deal of trouble
with mango among their stock. the dis
ease having been brought in from
Texas.
In the District Court at Canon City
March 2Gth, Judge Bailey appointed
George NJ. Lawrence as receiver for the
Canon City Gas Company, which has
defaulted in the payment OF interest on
It's bonds.
Automobile lines are projected In
Routt county to connect with the Moi
lat road next summer. II will open to
tourists a new and interesting country
which could be shown to advantage by
number Of automobile routes.
1t is stated that the farmers along the
valley road between Boulder and Louis
! Vile will give tifteen-foot right oi
way across the farms to the proposed
Denver Boulder electric line II 1t can
be induced to adopt that route
Chief Of Police W. S Reynolds OF
| Colorado Springs went to st, Paul,
Minnesota. with requisition ana
! brought back w. $. hughes on a charge
OF embezzling $1,000 while clerk In the
| Colorado Springs water department.
Steps have already been taken for
| starting the free delivery system
which Longmont is 10 have by July
| The Council is to see that all the street
corners are furnished with sign boards
and citizens are having their houses
numbered.
The settlement OF Ault eleven miles
north Of Greeley, will incorporate, Fiji
ty-two citizens voted for Incorporation
and twenty eight against li The anti
liquor people voted tu incorporate and
the opposing element threaten 10 con-
test the election.
Otto Fleck farmer living eight
miles north of La Juufa, lost 100 tons
oi hay his barn. and Outbulldings h
few days ago, 'as the result Of a hre
which caught from sparks driven from
the kitchen stove by q high wind which
was blowing al the time
Eighty depositors OF tho Pueblo Title
and Trust Company, which concern be.
came insoyont last December, have
failed TO apply at the Office OF the com
pany to receive a forty per cent diyi-
dond on their deposits. An attempt will
be- made to locate the dCpaaitnrR.
Omar T.. Garwood. Tor five years soc,
retnry Of the University Of Colorado at
boulder. has rendered hs resignation
10 30 into effect April lst Ne will re-
move 10 Pueblo and 80 Into the practice
of law. His successor will probably be
Harry J. Kcsner the present assistant
secretary
Carl Jung. one Of the oldest residents
oi Phillips county. wuH buried March
18th under the Husplrrg Of the Grand
Army lie was veteran Of the civil
War and served under sI'scl Ia the Re
bolllon of the southern German prov
iGces In 1875 lie waH seventy
years old
Col. Lewis c. skinner Of Colorado
Springs died March goth he had been
prominently connected with the prog
icaa Of tho city and county for twenty
fiN years and owned n fne sheep ranch
twenty miles east n lhr city, on which
ho bred fnu Mrfinn sheep Colonel
skinner served with distinction DURING
the ClyIl War. FuinF uut with a New
York regiment
LonFmont has military company
Major Arminrtuu u. Brighton visited
| IonrmOnt March 2a-I and mustered In
twenty men, with fuIf men Transferred
from Company hn election Of aiiis
rcr was held and william y MrKiu-
nry was elected rlptaln james G
Harris, int lieutenant and = y Wal
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