The Grit-advocate., 1904-06-24
COLORADO NEWS ITEMS

Mrs. Julia c. Roberts. wife OF State
Senator H. l. Roberts, died at Idaho
Springs June 18th.
The assessment Of the corporations
in Boulder county has been raised
s111, ,455 over last year.
The school census just completed in
Pueblo county shows l4,TS9 persons OF
school age, being 45l less than last
year
Superintendent Frank Harris of the
Burlington railroad recently placed
10000 trout in the North fork OF the
st. Nrain river at Lyons.
An immense cinnamon bear from
Pagosa Springs is one of the COLORADO
exhibits at the St Louis Exposition.
Bruin weighs over 500 pounds.
The school census just taken shows
that there are 45.l7i children of school
age in the city of Denver. This Is
gain of .52S over last years hgures.
Subscriptions to the Gunnison tunnel
have been coming in rapidly and the
full 10000 acres will. it is confidently
| expected, be pledged in few days.
The summer school OF the Colorado
Normal School has begun work with
oil excellent attendance, The school
will continue six week, closing July
22d
! Rev. Robert F. Coyle. pastor OF the
| Central Presbyterian Church of Dem
yer. has accepted a position as member
| Of the board of trustees OF Colorado
| College.
The labor unions of Denver are ar
ranging for picnic on July I'd. for the
Lenefit of the wives and children of the
deported miners of the Cripple Creek
district
Strawberries and cream for all and
free swim in the big pool at the hot
springs were the great attractions at
| Glenwood Springs on strawberry Day,
| June 18th.
Corporations must pay taxes upon
the.r franchises uNler the revenue law
| OF 1902 according TO the decision hand
ed down by Judge NJ. S. Bailey of Ere
mont county.
Edward Gibbons, the seven-year-old
son of Dennis Gibbons OF Denver, who
was bitten by vicious dog few days
ago. has been sent to Chicago to be
treated at the Pasteur institute.
The total assessed valuation of cor
poration property in Pueblo is about
! $500, 900 Tie property of the Santa
'''-N-
the Rio GTande at Sl,4I2,l90
A large excursion of Denver printers
with their families and friends visited
the printers home at Colorado Springs
on Sunday the 10Th inst. 1t was a great
! event. in the history of the institution.
I Detective Samuel f. Enrich. Who
was convicted of the murder of VIII
liam Malone, saloonkeeper. in Den
I has nd tn a It
fourteen to sixteen years in the peni-
tentiary.
Harry White. a ranchman living two
miles from LOngmOnt, was killed on
the 18th inst. by stroke of lightning
while at work irrigating field. He
! leaves widow and two children, the
| youngest but nine days old.
w. w. Wolf and wife of Boulder
have returned from trip to Palestine,
| having gone as delegates to Jerusalem
with a steamboat load of other dele
gates to the International Sunday
School convention, which was held
there last May.
Requests for the special literature be
ing issued by the Colorado Promotion
and Publicity Committee in its efforts
to make the resources, attractions and
| industries of the Centennial State bet
ter known are being received from all
over the United States and even from
Europe.
Leslie w Popejoy has withdrawn his
claim against the W. S. Stratton es-
tate from the probate division of the
County Court in Colorado Springs and
announces that he will institute suit
for SIS. 100000 in the District Court. He
alleges a partnership with StrattOn at
the time his great discoveries were
made.
Prospecting for oil has been com
menced near Longmont again by
Adolph Zang OF Denver and George
Smith. of the Emerson golG mine. a
derrick has been erected about nine
miles east of Longmont and the inten-
| tion is to go at least 5000 feet deep
t Other parties are also building der
rick in that vicinity
Mrs. Mary Esterbrook was killed by
lightning at Pueblo on the afternoon
of June Goth while standing on the
sidewalk talking to her husband, Mr.
| W. d. E,sterbrook. who was also hurt,
but not seriously. little girl. the
| daughter of B. S Baker. who was
standing about twelve feet away was
| made unconscious and remained so for
about four hours.
| William L. Harmon, town marshal
and also deputy sheriff Of Pitkin, was
shot and almost instantly killed on the
| 10th inst, by Timothy Sullivan. whose
| wife had sent for Marshal Harmon TO
| protect her. Sullivan just before the
/ shooting had made threats of beating
! his wife and the entire neighborhuOd
| in the vicinity Of his home was dis
tUrhed. SBlivan and his wife had been
| separated for some time.
Judge Peter l.. Palmer in the District
/ Court at Denver refused the motion OF
! The Rocky Mountain News Publishing
| Company fOI a new trial in the suit