The Glenwood post., 1904-12-03
COLORADO NEWS ITEMS

total OF ZJu students.
/ DR.. John p Wills, county Judge of
Grand county and prominent busl-
ness man OF sulphur Springs, died No
vember 18th of consumption.
The commission that is taking testi-
mony in the Kansas Colorado water
suit will hold a session in Colorado
Springs about December 18th.
/ The project of constructing a speed
way between Glenwood Springs and
Carbondale has been revived and the
Legislature may be asked to assist.
| Sir Wilfred Laurier. premier of Can
ada, spent three hours in Colorado
/ Springs November Goth. en- route from
the Worlds Fair to the Pacific coast.
Twenty-one marriage licenses were
issued in Denver on the day before
Thanksgiving and it is hoped that for
ty-two people had cause for giving
| thanks.
/ The rubber factory at Buena Vista
has been paying 11a cents a pound for
the roots Of the rubber weed, and col
lectors have been able to gather 200
pounds day.
The surveyor general of Colorado re-
ports 11l,9l5 acres of agricultural land
surveyed and accepted during the last
fiscal year. The number OF miles of
line established is 459.
The furnishing contracts have been
let for the new 100000 Carnegie Ii
brary at Colorado Springs, the formal
opening Of which will occur between
January 18th and February 1st.
The Pueblo Ministerial Association
thinks that the city is in need OF
children's home. If one is established
it will probably be in charge of the
/ deaconesses of the Methodist church.
At Cripple Greek November 23rd the
jury in the case of J. r. Lewis, charged
with the murder of AL Droddy in the
Joplin saloon in Victor, September
18th, brought in verdict OF acquit-
tai.
/ Isaac Dyer. who died at Gypsum a
few days since, was ninety-three years
old and was a veteran of the Seminole
/ Indian War, the Mexican War and the
/ Civil War. He was born in Benning-
| ton, Vermont
The fall meeting of the Clear Creek
/ Valley Teachers Association is to be
held at Central City December 9th and
10th. The association comprises the
teachers of Clear Creek, Jefferson and
/ Gilpin counties.
s. c. Gallup of the S. c. Gallup Sad
| dlery Company of Pueblo, died at his
home in Pueblo, November 25th. Mr..
Gallup drove an OK team to California
in 1853 and was later pioneer in Wy
oming, New Mexico and Colorado.
The Santa Fe railway is opening ex-
tensive coal mines about eight miles
southwest of Florence and building
spurs and branches to make them cas-
lily accessible. From these mines the
road can obtain all the coal it uses.
File maps of the new town of Min
turn, in Eagle county. have been filed
with the secretary of state. The filing
was made by the commissioners, who
are Frank Steacy, H. G. Keck, NJ. j.
Henry, d. j. Maynard and A. II. Laub.
According to the figures received by
Major Hooper. general passenger
agent of the Denver & Rio Grande
railroad, there were G.695.000 young
trout placed in the streams along the
Rio Grande system during the past
year
After the st. Louis Exposition is over
the Colorado agricultural exhibit,
which consists of 100 or more cases of
grains and other products of the state,
will be placed on permanent exhibition
at the Chamber of Commerce rooms in
| Denver.
The statement that the owners of
the Fort Collins sugar factory are CON
templating the purchase of large
tract of land on which to raise their
own beets, SO as to be Independent of
the neighboring farmers, is denied by
the company.
! OF the 27O voters registered in the
| Estes Park precinct, only seventy-eight
cast their ballots. Some voters live
twenty miles from the polling place.
OF those who voted fifty were Republi-
cans, twenty-five Democrats, five Pro
nibitionists and one Socialist.
/ William Toney, who was carrying
$225 in money on his person, was at
tackled by a footpad on the night of
| November 27th at Florence and re-
ceived a very bad cut in his left hand
from knife. Toney saved his money,
but the would-be robber escaped.
The museum of Stuttgart has asked
| General Passenger Agent Hooper of
the Rio Grande for series of Colo
RADIO pictures for display in the mu.
scum. The Rio Grande recently sent
various converts. per special request
from Rome
Miss Nellie Montgomery, wife of
Thomas j. Montgomery, a well-known
real estate and insurance man of Fort
Collins, committed suicide November
23rd by drowning herself in Terry lake.
small body of water near Fort Col
Inns. She left an incoherent note, indi-
eating temporary insanity.
The state officials at Denver are now
busily engaged in preparing their BIZ
ennial reports. The printers have al
ready received portions of the reports
of the auditor, printing commissioner,
board of health and attorney general.
The other reports will be ready to be-
gin printing in short time.
brakeman J. p. Widman of the I'm
ion Pacific tried a new style of aero
plane at Sterling on the 2Sth ult. The
roof of the box car on which he was
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