The Grit-advocate., 1904-05-20
COLORADO NEWS ITEMS

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| Professor W. l.. Carlyle of the Agri-
cultural College has been appointed
deputy stock inspector at Fort Collins.
The Colorado State Sunday School
convention closed an interesting ses-
sion Of three days at Durango on the
11th inst.
| The second trial of John X. Brew
ster at Cripple Creek on the change
OF numbering Eugene McAfee resulted
in verdict of mot guilty"
Boulder's bond issue OF 365. 900 bear
| ing Az per cent. interest. sold at IN
| per cent. premium, making the cash
bonus to the city Of $l.462.5O.
The Democratic state convention for
the nomination OF ten delegates to the
national convention at St. Louis will
be held at Pueblo on June 7th.
The report of the census taker ap-
pointed by the school board shows that
there are 6.62S persons of school age
in District No. II. Colorado Springs.
The officers OF the Western Fedora
ton of Miners are making arrange
ments for representation of 300 un-
ions at the convention in Denver May
18th.
Edward r. Scott has been arrested
in Denver for forging passes on the
Denver & Rio Grande railroad. He Is
said to have had a large number OF
blank forms printed.
At the interstate track meet at
Boulder May 11th, the field and track
team of the University of Colorado de-
feated the University of Nebraska by
score Of 70 to 81.
Prof. H. A. Smith of Colorado Col
lege has been awarded an Austin
scholarship in Harvard university. He
is entitled to the special course pro
vided for teachers.
The Pueblo Title and Trust Com
pany, which failed last December paid
it depositors and creditors 100000 on
the 10th inst, and will soon pay the
balance of its indebtedness in full.
The trial of John Hawthorne,
charged with the murder of Merrett A.
Scott at Meredith, in Pitkin county,
last winter was concluded at Aspen
on the 10th inst, resulting in verdict
Of not guilty.
The University of Colorado is ar
ranging to send a track team to the
when big track meet is to take place
between the colleges located in the
Louisiana purchase.
G. F. Hancock Of Barr was killed by
railroad accident at Denver May
l4th. A switch engine ran into the
rear end Of the car ON the platform of
which he was standing, crushing him
to death almost instantly.
In it's first sixteen games this sea
son the Denver baseball team OF the
Western League climbed way up to
the top Of the heap. winning fourteen
games and losing only two. Colorado
Springs done nearly as well.
A large party OF Colorado editors,
members Of the State Editorial Asso-
alton, left over the Missouri Pacific
from Pueblo May 14th for a visit to the
Worlds Fair. Many of the editors
were accompanied by their families.
The Colorado conference of the
Woman's Home Missionary Society of
the M. E. Church has recently pur-
chased valuable property at Colorado
Springs, consisting of twelve lots and
a hospital building, with several cot
tages, for Deaconesses hospital.
The murderers of Mrs. Youngblood,
Of Denver, who are now in the state
penitentiary. were to have been hanged
during the week beginning May 18th,
but their case has been taken to the
Supreme Court and they will have at
least little longer lease of life.
At recent meeting Of the board Of
directors in Pueblo Judge J. H. Voor-
hees rendered his resignation az presi-
dent Of the Colorado State Fair Asso-
clation, giving as reason that he
would have to be absent from the
state during the spring race meet.
Bert Mellen, the bank teller, who
was recently sent to the state peniten-
tiary from Denver is now Deputy War
den Granger's clerk. His duties are
typewriting. making out the reports
of the deputy, answering telephone
calls and acting as messenger.
1t is announced that President
George f. Peck of the Pueblo G. Beu-
lah Valley Railroad Company, that
the bonds for the construction of the
line have been placed in Europe. A
A syndicate formed in Berlin under tile
laws Of Switzerland advanced the
money.
There are thirty rooms in the main
building of the new Deaconess hospital
at Colorado Springs. Of which Miss
Miss Caroline Rotis, an experienced
deaconess. is superintendent She will
be assisted by corps OF trained nurse
deaconesses. The institution is meet
ing with aid and sympathy from all de-
nominations.
Judge John I. Mullins of the District
Court in Denver has had Crawford
Hill. president, and William Stapleton,
editor, OF the Denver Republican, ar
rested for contempt of court in
printing a statement which says:
The Supreme Court assumes jurisdic-
ton, and no tool judge on the District
Court bench can hereafter interfere in
behalf of the election thieves"
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