The Grit-advocate., 1904-07-22
COLORADO NEWS ITEMS

| convention in Denver in 1905.
Active preparations are being made
| for the opening OF the Railway Mems
| Cooperative store at Salida.
The farmers clubs OF Garfield coun-
ty have fi..ed the date for the county
fair at September 22d. 23d and 24th.
United States Senator Carmack OF
| Tennessee will deliver an address at
the Boulder Chautauqua on Democrat
! ic Day.
relief fund has been started for
| the benefit of the victims OF the lnde-
| pendence depot explosion in the Grip
I Pile Creek district.
| The business of the Mofat road.
both passenger and freight. is so much
! larger than was expected that the COM
pany is having to hustle for new cars.
George Geim shot large cinnamon
bear four miles from Palmer Lake on
the 18th inst He also killed cub at
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 Denver team of the Western
baseball l-tdSue idS DetH pay Iu6 "Sh
il the lead for some time. w.,u Colo
RADIO Springs second. Colorado is in
it this year.
The acting director of the mint at
Washington is reported to have stated
that an effort would be made to inaug-
urate the coil.ina of money at Denver
by January lst
Ed Morledge, a fireman in the en-
ploy of the Colorado Springs & Cripple
Creek District road. was run over and
instantly killed in the yards at Grip
pie Creek July 18th.
DR.. Ellsworth Gage Lancaster, as
sistant professor of philosophy and
pedagogy at Colorado College. has for
mally accepted the presidency OF Oil
vet College at Olivet. Michigan
The body of John Owens. who was
drowned in the Cache la Poudre flood
OF May 2ist. was found near Fort Col
lins July 18th. Owens, who was sew
enty-three years of age, lived in dug
out On the river bank.
The relief fund for the benefit OF the
families Of victims of the lndepend-
ence dynamite outrage. is increasing
rapidly. Already $3,G35 has been do
lief fund will be held August 1st
On the evening of the 18th inst a
fire in the sulphide fiber plant of the
Rocky Mountain Paper Company at
Denver caused damages estimated at
about $4,000. The plant IVES insured
and will be rebuilt at once.
A notable gathering of workers will
meet in Denver September 29th, wnen
the general board of managers Of the
Woman's Home Missionary Society OF
the Methodist Episcopal Church opens
in Trinity Church its twenty-third an
nual convention.
President ]. E. Topping OF the State
Fair Association at Pueblo is making
tour of the western part of the state
for the purpose OF securing live stock
entries for the fair. At present the
entries are coming in as rapidly as
they can be cared for.
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.
biologist of the University of Colorado
during the absence of Dr. Ramaley in
Inuia, has been asked to make a spe-
cial study of the food and feeding hab-
ito of the famous golden trout of
Mount Whitney. California.
Mayor Speer of Denver has appoint
ed an art commission of six members
who will have control of all public
i ~
the city cannot become the owner OF
any such work of art until it has
been approved by the commission.
The jury in the condemnation suit
at Greeley. brought by the Boulder
and Weld Reservoir Company to Sc
cure a right OF way for the outlet
ditch Of the reservoir from John God
ding. a banker of Rocky Ford, who
wanted IS. 900 damages, returned YER
dict giving the defendant 81 600 dam
ages.
1t is announced that George w.
Vallery. general agent of the Buring-
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
iSt.
News has reached Pueblo that the
new oil well being sunk on Salt creek
by Pueblo parties has struck a consid-
erOble flow of gas and some oil at
depth of 800 feet. Several Pueblo COM
pan.es are interested in that region
and much development will follow this
new discovery. The well will be sunk
still deeper with the hope of opening IL
large flow of oil.
San Juan. the Ute Indian now in the
county jail at Denver with three COM
panions on the charge Of numbering
Wap, the Ute medicine man, will prob
ably not be removed to hospital, as
was at first intended He was thought
TO be suffering from consumption, but
his health has improved greatly under