The Glenwood post., 1904-06-04
COLORADO NEWS ITEMS

Manitou, died May 21st of heart dis
ease.
John c. Scott of Sterling has been ap-
pointed special agent of the General
Land Office at a salary of LOO.
Judge Alvin Marsh. who was striker
with apoplexy few days before, died
al the Homeopathic hospital in Denver
May oath.
The Salida City Council has author
iZer the issuance of 100000 in bonds for
the purpose of building new city res
ervoir and otherwise improving the
water service.
Harry C. Dunlap, rural letter carrier
at Arloa, Montezuma county, is in the
county Jail at Denver charged with ap-
propriating 500 given him to be sent
by money order.
The Denver School Board has decid-
| ed to erect a new manual training
| high school, the present high school
| buildings being insufficient to accom-
modate all the students.
Dan Collins, who held up a Pueblo
lawyer II. E. Robinson, and robbed
him of $40 and a gold watch, has been
sentenced by Judge Dixon to fourteen
| years in the state penitentiary.
On May 25th the state engineer re-
| ported that all the irrigation di.ches
connected with the Platte river, includ-
ing the Burlington and High Line, were
full of water for the first time within
| year.
Two men stopped the assistant city
| physician in Pueblo few nights ago
and were about to rob him, but when
! he told them he was a doctor hurrying
to visit a patient they politely let him
go on.
The cornerstone of the new Carnegie
library at Idaho Springs was laid May
25th, with Masonic ceremonies. An ad-
dress was delivered by Superintendent
| Aaron Cove of the Denver public
| schools.
The school census of Greeley. just
completed, shows 1913 persons between
| the ages of six and twenty-one years,
being a gain of 243 over last year.
| There are thirty one more girls than
boys.
f. H. Carr, who with John Mulvihill
| built the Carr hotel and corral in Den
yer in the early days of the city. died
at Longmont May 21st, aged seventy
| nine years. His wife, aged tiftyfive,
| died the same day.
e. w. Rollins of Denver offers to Je
one of seventy-five persons to give
| 81 900 each for the purchase of suit
able site for the new Denver auditori-
| UNI for which the people have Just vot-
| ed to expend 100000.
Charles De Molli has filed direct
information in the District Court at
| Pueblo charging o. Pagnini and Paul
| Gregory, formerly Denver deputy
] sheriff and now a ranchman at La
| Sale, with assault to kill
Claude B. Lyle, for the past ten
months an employe of the Hef1ey-
Acularius Drug Company of Colorado
| Springs, has been arrested on charge
of Systematically robbing the firm. 1t
| is thought that he has stolen nearly
$4,000 worth of druggists supplies.
A special election will be held at
Fort Collins June 9Th to vote on the
question of granting & franchise for
gas works. The the privilege Is voted
Mr.. Frank English of Boulder who pro-
| poses to build the works, agrees to
complete the plant within two years.
The plaster factory at tho cement
works, at Portland. near Florence, will
| be started up soon, after an idleness
of some duration. The Santa Fe road
I has completed spur from the gypsum
! beds to the factory, which insures
easy transportation of the product.
Incorporation papers for the Colo
| RADIO Rubber and Improvement Com
pany, capitalized at $50000 main Of
| flee in Buena Vista, have been filed
with the county clerk of Chaffee coun.
| ty. 1t is the intention of the company
| to begin producing rubber by the first
of July.
| The first municipal election of
Bowerman, held May oath, resulted in
the election of the Citizens ticket, the
following named being the first Off
cials: Thomas j. Kane, mayor: j. w.
White. F. O. McFall, Andrew Short.
Bert Beymer. John Chapman and A. F.
Dukeman, trustees.
A St. Louis dispatch of May 21st
says: Blowing out the gas resulted in
| Charles Kimber of Louisville, Colorado.
being found unconscious and almost as
| phyxiated in his room here to-day. He
stated that he was unacquainted with
| gas and blew out the flame of the jet
upon retiring, He will recover.
The Fort Collins City Council has ap-
| proved of an ordinance granting an
electric railway franchise to the North
ern Colorado Electric Railway Com
pany. The ordinance provides that
construction work on the line or lines
must be commenced within one year
and the railway completed within two
years.
Colorado College at Colorado Springs
| will graduate class of forty-two
young men and women this year. Great
preparations are being made for the
commencement exercises, which will
begin June 9TH and last for three days
Hon. Charles j. Hughes, Jr., of Denver.
will deliver the commencement address
June Sth.
Friday, May 9th, was commence
ment day in many of the high schools
of the state. Tt Fort Collins there were
eighteen graduates; at Grand Junction.
nine; at the high school department OF
the State Normal School at Greeley,
thirty-seven; at La Junta, thirty-six;