The Grit-advocate., 1904-01-08
COLORADO BRIEFS.

During the past year 2.S9G 600 trout
| FRY were turned loose in Colorado
streams through public appropriation.
II is estimated that reservoirs now
| under construction in Colorado VIII
add 10000 acres to the irrisaDle area
A recruiting Office for the United
| States navy will be kept open III Den
yer until January 10th at NO. Lewis
block.
The production of crude oil from the
| Florence oil fields in 1903 was approx
| imately 2O.UUO.UOO gallons. or 100000
barrels of forty-two gallons, which
were produced and refined.
Ralph Hammerslough. prominent
Trinidad merchant, dropped dead III
store on Fifth avenue III Chicago De
cember 29th. He went to Chicago to
be treated for Bright's disease.
Niagara W. Hall. prominent citizen
| of Greeley. and one of the pioneers
of the Union colony died at his home
in Greeley December 29th OF neural
| gia Of the heart in the siXty-ninth year
of his age.
In the Boulder oil field twenty six
wells are producing about 200 barrels
| OF crude oil a day. and while the pro-
| duct is small, the output is said to be
| of the highest grade produced in the
world. Other wells will be drilled.
The Boulder office of the Colorado
| Telephone Company has been moved
| into the company's handsome new
| building on Spruce street, opposite the
court house. Boulder now has 3lG
telephones and the Boulder district
| l,4O0.
The coroner's jury which invesrigat-
ed the death of little Margaret Aims
| worth who was run over by an cleo
tric car at Colorado Springs. stated.
IN their verdict, that her death might
have been averted by greater care on
the part of the motorman.
NJ. C. Parker, aged seventy-fve years
father of the wife of William A. Guz-
man. prominent Colorado Springs
contractor, was struck and instantly
killed by Rock Island train near
! Roswell station, a short distance from
Colorado Springs. December 3lst.
1t is stated at Colorado Springs that
negotiations have been practically
| closed by j. R. Mckinnie OF Colorado
| Springs and n. H. Stewart and H. B..
| Coleman. both of Kalamazoo, Mlchi-
! gan. for the erection OF Sl.UOO,oOO
beet sugar factory at Las Animas. and
! to acquire $500 acres for cultivation.
| Work is going forward along the
| Moffat road. near Denver, on the arte-
| sian wells to provide the engines with
water. One well has been finished at
Utah Junction. One is now under way
at Leyden Junction. Another well viii
be constructed farther west as soon as
the one at Leyden Junction is com
, pleted.
Bloodhounas have been sent to Pa
gosa Springs junction to be used in
running down incendiaries who are be-
lieved to be responsible for three bad
fires which have occurred at that place
entaling an actual loss of more than
$65, 900 on the Pagosa Lumber Com
pany, of which Whitney Newton, state
treasurer. is president.
Detroit Michigan. dispatch of De-
cember 29th says: Jacob Houghton.
well known in Michigan and Colorado
mining and railroad circles. died at his
home here to-day. aged Seventy-siX
years In 1878 he became manager Of
the Moose mine, in Colorado. and presi
dent of the Synclina Mining Company.
In 1890 he returned to Michigan.
The January term of the County
Court at Trinidad began on the 4th
inst. with siXty-fve cases on the
docket, consisting of siXtyfve crimi-
nal, eleven divorce, one lunacy. thirty
three civil. four delinquent children
ard two deserted or neglected chill
dren. The fees collected by this
court during 1903 amounted to S32,-
O71.22.
A. c. Glenn, who has been dispatch
er in the Pueblo postofiice, has been
named as superintendent OF station A.
which will be open for business in Bes-
semer about January 10th. The force
will consist of an assistant Superin-
tendent and nine mail carriers and will
handle all the mail in Bessemer and
what is known as the Upper Mesa, in
Guiding Minnequa.
The long-pending wine rooms case
was settled January 4th in Denver by
a decision of the United States Su-
preme Court. which holds that the
maintenance of wine rooms for women
in the Denver saloons is unlawful un-
der the ordinances of the city of Den
yer. The decisions Of both the Dis
trict Court and the State Supreme
Court are affirmed.
Colorado State Grange Patrons of
IIusbandry. will meet in thirtieth an
uual session in G. A. K. hall. Linden
street. Fort Collins. on Tuesday. Jan
uary 18th The grange will continue
in session Tuesday and Wednesday.
Fifth and sixth degrees will be con
ferred Wednesday evening. Thurs
days session will be held at the hall
of Union Grange, McClellanu station
Delegates and patrons will be enter
tanned during the sessions.
At Colorado Springs December 29th.
while here parents were busy packing
their trunks preliminary to departure
for the East. Marguerite Ainsworth.
nineteen months old, daughter of Mr.