The Grit-advocate., 1904-03-04
COLORADO BRIEFS.

The Seventh Day Adventists church
at Pueblo was burned February 23rd.
The summer school OF the State Nor
rsal school at Greeley will begin June
18th and continue until July 22d.
The new Protestant hospital at Colo
rado Springs will be called the Deacons $
hospital. 1t was formerly the Bellevue
sanitarluE.
company has been formed TO pros
pect for mineral in Yuma county and
work will be carried on with dia-
mond drill.
The annual golf tournament OF Colo
rado clubs will be held at Overland
park. in Denver, beginning May 11th
and continuing four days.
A new hotel. a $4,000 opera house. q
Carnegie library and possibly new city
hall. are among the buildings that
Trinidad expects to see finished this
year.
The careful enforcement of the game
laws during the last few years Is grad
ually making Colorado a great quail
state. whereas formerly there were but
few quail here.
The Colorado Springs Y. NJ. c. A.
has received check for $2,5oO from
Rev. Il. Stewart Dodge, a New York
minister to be applied on the $4,000
Indebtedness of the organization.
DR.. Sol Itingolsky .. Denver has ac-
copied the terms of the Salida City
Council and has agreed to install rub
Der plant in the Salida creamery build
ing. The plant is to be ready for ope-
ration within thirty days.
R. Struble of Chicago, international
lecturer of the American Anu-Cigarette
League, crusade has been inaugurated
il Colorado against the smoking of ci-
sarettes by school children.
The plan adopted last fall by an or
sanization of Denver Wholesale dealers
Il giving free transportation to all
merchants purchasing certain
amount of goods from members Of the
organization, will be tried again this
spring.
In the District Court at Walsenburg
February 18th Judge Northcutt SEN
fenced Henry Crumbley to the peniten-
tary for from two to five years for
arson. Last October Crumbley set fire
to barn at La Veta belonging to
Charles Martin.
The Pueblo City Council has added
$500 to the 5000 already given by the
county commissioners for the purpose
of iefraying the expense of construct
ing relief map of the Arkansas val
ley, which will be shown at the St.
Louis exposition.
According to an agent OF the United
States secret service who recently re-
turned from foreign service yelling
ton c. Llewellyn. the soldier who
killed Policemen William Griffiths and
Thomas Clifford at Denver, is now in
the Philippines.
The Board of County Commissioners
of Chaffee county are making strong
effort to place big collection of min
erals on exhibition at the Worlds Fair.
Thomas France of Salida has been APP
pointed to visit all parts of the county
in interest of the work.
Herbert E. Salee, operator and agent
for the Colorado & Southern at hoko-
mo, was caught in a cut between a
train and snow bank near the depol
on the night of February 23rd. and had
his upper jaw broken besides receiv-
ing other serious injuries.
C. E. Wood, proprietor and manag.
! ing editor Of the Evening Star at Grip.
| pie Creek for the last year, will as.
sumo the management of the Evening e
, Telegraph Of Colorado Springs. His in.
| terest in the Star has been acquired by
| w. Robert karr of Idaho.
An examination of the registration
books at the University of Colorado
shows that there are 130 students from
/ Denver now attending the state univer-
sity. In other words, little more than
twenty per cent. of the students now in
the university come from the capitol
city.
r. w. Cline, one of the best known
: and most popular Grand Army men OF
Denver and past commander of Wash.
! ington post, died a few days ago at the
/ Boulder sanitarium and was buried
| from his home in Denver February
2Sth. He had been sick for five or six
weeks.
J District registration will open on
! March Sth and continue until March
18th. Those who are not registered
and the number is very large in the res
ldent parts of the state. will have an
opportunity to do so before the rush to
register for the presidential election
| begins.
Charles Kresham, proprietor of the
Southern hotel at Pueblo. died Febru
ary 25th at the age of siXty-eight years
Mr.. kresham formerly conducted no
tel at Alamosa and had been a stage
driver on the old Santa Fe trail. also
a pony express rider for the Wells
Fargo Express Company.
Fleeler. Saxon & Co., have been
awarded a contract to construct two
reservoirs near Twin Lakes and build
a canal from Twin Lakes to the Ar,
kansas river below Leadville. for the
purpose of draining Twin Lakes water
into the river. The water will be
brought down the Arkansas river to
J the Portland cement works, where an.
! other large canal is to be built to con
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