The Glenwood post., 1904-07-30
COLORADO NEWS ITEMS

speut the udy sightseeing.
An ordinance has been passed by the
City Council of Denver and signed by
the mayor, providing for the issue OF
bonds to build an auditorium.
George Geim shot a large cinnamon
bear four miles from Palmer Lake on
the 18th inst. He also killed cub af-
ter trying in vain to capture it alive.
Visitors returning from the Worlds
Fair praise the work of the Colorado
Promotion and Publicity Committee.
which is sowing information broadcast.
The full amount donated by Andrew
Carnegie for the erection of a library
building at Colorado Springs, $4,000,
has been received by the library board.
The business of the Moffat road,
both passenger and freight, is so much
larger than was expected that the COM
pany is having to hustle for new cars.
The summer school of the State Nor
NAL School at Greeley closed highly
successful term July 22nd. 1t lasted
six weeks and 260 teachers were in at
tendance.
The acting director of the mint at
Washington is reported to have stated
that an effort would be made to inaug
urate the coming of money at Denver
by January 1st.
Ed. Morledge, a fireman in the em-
ploy of the Colorado Springs & Cripple
Creek District road, was run over and
instantly killed in the yards at Grip
pie Creek July 18th.
In the settlement of St. Thomas, Las
Animas county, a few days ago, Felippa
ZarZigliero, little Italian girl, two and
one-half years old, was killed by a
stray bullet fired from some unknown
point
By recently adopted city ordinance
in Cripple Creek license of $1,000 a
year is required of all foreign trading
stamp combines and 500 year from
all local merchants using the trading
stamps.
Thomas McNlullin, former marshal
of the town of Bachelor, near Creede.
was found in a demented condition,
near the Hoosier mine in the Cripple
Creek district, few days ago and was
placed in custody.
Conductor Thomas Worlds Fair
prize chorus of over one hundred
voices, which captured prize of 81, 500
in the first-class competition at st.
Louis. is arranging to make tour OF
the larger cities of the state.
Special services were held on the 18th
inst. at the Glen Park Chautauqua in
honor of the memory Of Frank M.
Priestley, former president of the So
ciety, to whose self-sacrificing labors
the society owes much of its success.
Miles Mcmahon, longtime resident
of Trinidad, was killed instantly at
pany, few miles west of Sopris, July
22nd, by the falling of a smokestack
that was being raised with blocks and
tackle.
The Northern Colorado Fair Associa-
ton will soon be Incorporated. 1t is
proposed to hold big lair at Fort Col
Inns next fall A large amusement park
will be established two and one-half
miles from town, with grounds for rae
ing, baseball, polo, etc.
On Colorado Day at the St Louis
Worlds Fair in September it is pro-
posed to distribute twenty carloads of
melons and fruit from the Arkansas
valley. The rest of the world will be
able to get some idea of our annual
melon and fruit day celebrations.
The Ethiopion Protective and Beneti-
cial Association. of which Isaac B. At
kinson is manager, is reported to have
$50 acres of land in Huerfano county
and wants to start an old folks home,
and industrial school and a hospital
for the benefit of colored people.
The school officers of the district in
which Mrs. Rose Norgard was teaching
in Garfield county closed the school two
Aonths before the expiration of the
term for which she was engaged. She
took the case into court and was award
ed judgment for pay for the full
term
1t is announced that George w.
Vallery, general agent of the Burling-
ton railway in Denver who has been
selected as general manager of the
Colorado Midland will be succeeded in
his present position with the Burling-
ton by his brother. j. F. Vallery. who
will take charge of the office August
LIST.
Game Warden Charles A. Purington
recently arrested a ranchman named
August Schempp, living on Oak creek,
six miles from Sidney, Colorado for
killing deer July 10th Schempp was
tried for the violation of the game laws
before Magistrate E. F. Garduer of
Steamboat Springs, He was fined SIS
and costs, amounting in all to S54.
C. w. Taylor, state senator from Car
field county, has been appointed ref
cree under the bankruptcy laws for tho
counties of Garfield, Pitkin. Mesa,
Routt, Rio Blanco and Grand The
appointment comes from the United
States District Court in Denver, over
which Judge Moses Hallett presides,
and the term of Office is for two years,
beginning July 18th.
Mrs. Grace Espy Patton Cowles. wife
of Major Cowles of Fort Assinniboia,
in Montana, died at the post July 22nd
of convulsions. after an illness of three
hours. She was about forty years of
age, and during 1897 and 1898 was
state superintendent of public instruc-
tion in Colorado. For several years
she held the chair of modern languages
in the Agricultural College of Colo