The Grit-advocate., 1904-11-11
COLORADO NEWS ITEMS

erected at Grand Junction by the Den.
yer L Rio Grande railroad.
A station Of the United States
Weather Bureau has been established
ut the University Of Colorado at Boul-
der.
The State Board Of Dental Examin-
ers has begun Z crusade against den
fists In the state who practice without
licenses.
The Rev. William P. George. late OF
Kansas City. has been engaged as pas
tor Of Trinity NJ E. Church in Den
yer. to succeed the Rev. Frost Craft.
A Greeley potato Weighing seven
pounds was recently sent to the head
quarters Of the Colorado Promotion
and Publicity Committee at St. Louis
by B. d. Sanborn of Greeley.
The town OF Manitou is negotiating
with General Palmer for a lease on
Manitou Soda Springs park If 1t is Sc
cured the park will be greatly i'm
proved and made city park.
The Denver Real Estate Exchange.
by a series of resolutions, has placed it
self as opposed to the proposed amend
ment to the city charter extending the
term of the present aldermen from two
to four years.
The bodies OF eight of the victims Of
the coal mine explosion at Tercio had
been recovered up to the 5th inst. The
last three bodies found could not be
identified owing to their burned and
mangled condition.
M. J. Mcnamara. one of the pioneer
dry goods merchants of Denver. as well
as one of its most puDlic-spirited and
enterprising citizens during a long
business career. died at his home IN
Denver on the 5th inst.
Stanley Gorse. u ten-year-old Pueblo
boy. had the unusual experience few
days ago of being run over by switch
engine In the Minnequa yards and be.
ing picked up bruised but not danger
ously hurt after it had passed.
T. G. Lennon. superintendent OF
the Grand Junction Indian school has
been transferred to the superintendency
Of the Indian school at MoQui, Arizona.
Superintendent Charles E. Burton OF
MoQul coming to Grand Junction.
The Office of the weather bureau in
Denver has been removed from the
federal building to the fourth story OF
the Boston building. at Seventeenth
modious quarters have been secured.
Fred Keller, young Swiss. slipped
and fell from horizontal bar while
practicing in the Turner hall gymna-
SUM in Denver a few days ago. strik-
Ing the floor SO hard as to break his
neck He lived but two days after
being hurt.
Jacob Riis, celebrated for bringing
about remarkable reforms in the tene-
ment house sections OF New York, will
lecture in Denver November 18th and
l4th. under the auspices of the Y. NJ
C. A. President Roosevelt called him
tho most useful man in New York.
Fred F. Whiting. proprietor Of drug
store on Humboldt street in Denver,
was held up on the night OF the 7th
inst. by a masked robber and robbed
Of Sis in cash. Drug stores and sa.
looms being open nights. are the favor
lite victims of the hold-up fraternity.
W. E. Pabor, an old-time Colorado
editor and colonizer. is still printing
the "Pabor Lake Pineapple" at Avon
Park postoffce, De Soto county, Flor
ida. 1t is published monthly and pre-
sents an attractive and prosperous ap.
pearance. The October number is a
special information" issue.
General Manager Vallery Of the Col
orado Midland is considering the pro-
ject Of arranging to run electric cars
between Colorado Springs and Wood
land Park. 1t is proposed to operate
hourly trains between Colorado Springs
and Woodland Fark. and oftener il de-
manded, during the summer.
robber snatched woman's pock-
etbook on an electric car at Cripple
Creek and knocked down the con.
ductor after the latter had restored it
to the owner. Then the robber jumped
off the car near the Morning Glory
switch, going over precipice and
breaking his neck on the rocks. His
body was found later.
While taking a Mexican beet topper
to the town Jail at Holly. Town Mar
shal Atkin was stabbed in the left
shoulder by the prisoner. The Mexi
can while trying to escape, was shot
twice in the neck by the marshal and
captured. The marshal's wound is deep
and serious, but not fatal. The Mexi-
ran was not badly wounded.
An orchard owned by w. s. Coburn
president of the State Board of Horti
culture, has made a record in Colorado
fruit this year. says a Denver daily
The orchard is located at Hotchkiss
and contains about thirty acres. Mr.
Coburn has already picked $500 boxes
of apples from the trees and Is prepar
Ing to care for 1900 more. 1t is one
of the heaviest yields ever made by the
orchard and establishes a record in
that vicinity.
The following delegates were at
pointed by Governor Peabody to rel
resent Colorado at the National Irriga
ton Congress at Ell Paso, Texas. NJ
yember 18th to 18th: l.. G. Carpenter
state engineer, Denver; F.. H. Branden
burg. Federal building, Denver; Jo-
seph F. Thomas, Manassa; B. l., Rock