The Grit-advocate., 1904-04-15
COLORADO NEWS ITEMS

The members of the Church OF Christ.
Scientist, at Colorado Springs are plan
ming to erect a temporary $4,000 edihce ,
They now occupy the All Souls Uni
tartan church.
Louis r. Blackstock, proprietor OF
the Blackstock hotel at Fort Collins,
died on the 9th inst. as the result OF
surgical operation performed a few
days before in Denver.
Winfield S. Hughes, charged with tha
embezzlement of $3,l64 while acting as
clerk in the city water department at'
Colorado Springs, has been bound over
for trial in the District Court.
The statements Of the two national
banks and one savings bank in Trlnl-.
dad show that the total resources are
$25S2,075. and deposits aggregating VI,
800 $50. One of these banks has i,2Oo'
individual depositors.
Col. l.. c. Ellsworth, one of the plo-
neers and most prominent citizens OF
Denver, having taken leading part
in many important public enterprises,
died at his home in Denver April 9TH
from paralysis
The Steamboat Springs Commercial
Club recently paid tribute OF respect
to Ex-Governor Routt by electing him
to honorary membership and making
him an honorary president OF the Or
ganiZaton for life.
i The operating department OF the
Denver & Southwestern road, which
| has been in Canon City, has just been
removed to Denver and established IN
! the general offices of the road in the
Boston building on Seventeenth street.
1t is stated that Mary Rouse, the
! twelve-year-old girl who accidentlly
| shot herself in the neck at Brecken-
ridge, and who was taken to Denver
| hospital where the bullet was extract
ed. is doing we'll and will recover.
| PROF. e. r. Wolcott of the State
| School of Mines has found evidences or
radium in the hot mineral waters OF
| Glenwood springs He says the radio
activity of the waters is greater than
that of any that he has previously test
| ed
The recent discovery of the tusk OF
a mammoth near Golden by Prof. Geo.
/, Cannon of the East Denver high
school, has awakened new interest in
the search for fossil remains along the
foot hills Colorado is rich in such
relics.
The first meeting of the Colorado
Racing = ssociation will be held al
Trinidad May 31st and June list. I'd anc
3rd. There will be each day two har-
ness events and three or more running
events for purses amounting to over
$4,000
The knights of Maccabees of the
World, at their state convention lI
Denver elected J. A. Griffin of Denver
state commander for the coming three
years. The ladies of the Maccabees
elected Mrs Murrea Marvin OF Denver
as state commander.
The federal grand jury at Pueblo
made its report to Judge Hallett on the
9th inst, and returned twenty-one in.
dictments Most of them are revenue
end timber trespass cases. Only few
names of those indicted were given out
because many arrests have not beer
made.
The Anti-SalOon League at Colorado
Springs is proceeding against a nun
her of druggists for the sale of liquor
in quantities less than one quart. On'
of the druggists. who has been fined tt
the extent of $500, has appealed five
cases from the Police Court to thu
County Court
That Canon City has suffered very lit
tie loss from during the past year i!
shown by the annual report given by
George L. Cassidy. chief of Canor
Citys Fire Department, for the municl
pal year ending March 3lst. Loss b!
fire within the water district, was S532
| y,umher Of fires eighteen
1t is reported in Denver that Rober
w, Speer, Theodore Mcclure and J
Frank Adams have purchased 2,0Ol
acres of oil land in Saguache county
representing value of half million
dollars A company is to be formed
and it is the intention of the owners tt
drill number of wells during the sum
mer.
The loss by the fire at Granada OF
the night of April 4th. which destroyed
the lumber yards of S. c. Gregory, i.
estimated at $4,000 or upward. OF
which there was $4,000 insurance
Nearly the entire population turned
out and worked most of the night tt
fight the fire and prevent it from
spreading.
ternoon of April 9Th box car wa
blown from the side track upon thu
main line and ran all the way Il
Aroya. thirty miles east, where it wa:
stopped by the section men. Forum
ately the trains happened to be in sue,
position that the dispatcher wa:
able to keep the track clear.
On April llth the rail mill at thu
Mnnequa plant resumed operations
and added to the working force some
thing over 300 men. AT present this
department of the plant is working OF
soft steel only, it being necessary It
start the great machinery off at al
easy gait until it is known that ev
clything is in good working order.
j. II. Jones, who was sentenced on,
month ago to six months confinemen
in the county jail at Colorado Spring
| tor wife he's ting has bppD released or