The Grit-advocate., 1904-05-27
COLORADO NEWS ITEMS

The Denver High School Cadets will
hold their summer encampment al
Crystal Lake in the Platte canon.
The annual convention Of the Colo
rado State Realty Association Will be
held in Denver on June 18th and 8th.
! Rural free delivery service has been
| ordered established June 18th at Car
| bondaIe. Garfield county, with one car
rier
Mrs. Martha Taft. member Of the
| governing board OF the Industrial!
! School for Girls at Morrison, has been
| appointed president OF the institution
! by the board.
Harry c. Dunlap, rural letter carrier
at Arloa, MOnteZuma county, is in the
county jail at Denver, charged with ap-
propriating $50 given him to be sent
| BY money order.
| Steps are being taken at Durango to
! annex Brooksite, a suburb between the
town and Animas City. With the rapid
growth OF the town, Armas City will
naturally come in soon.
Two men stopped the assistant city
physician in Pueblo a 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.
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 2lst, aged seventy
nine years His wife, aged tifty-tiye,
died the same day.
On May 18th the people of Morrison
/ in Let hE q m Il
ty of 76 to incorporate the town.
protest was entered by several persons
III the County Court contesting the le-
gality of the proceedings.
George O. Bea! committed suicide at
Colorado Springs on the 18th inst, by
taking carbolic acid He was only
twenty-four years of age. but had re-
Gently been in financial difficulties and
was separated from his wife.
Three good oil wells have been
struck within the past week or two
in the Florence district, the first by
the National OIL Company, the sec
ond by the Blaney Oil and Gas Com
pany, and the third by Philip Griffith.
Fifty Colorado Springs high school
cadets will attend the annual encamp-
ment, presumably at Palmer Lake.
from June 4th to 1+th. The boys Will
go in a special train and have secured
equipment from the state armOry IT
Denver.
Judge Frost of the County Court at
Cripple Greek is planning to send all
boys who desire employment during
the summer vacation to Rocky Ford to
work in the beet. watermelon and cant
aloupe fields. 1t is thought that from
80 to 100 boys will go.
The plaster factory at the cement
works, at Portland, near Florence, will
be started up soon, after an idleness
OF some duration. The Santa Fe road
has completed a spur from the gypsum
beds to the factory, which insures
easy transportation Of the product.
Incorporation papers for the Colo
rado Rubber and Improvement Com
pary, capitalized at $4,000, 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.
Judge Alvin Marsh. a Colorado pI;
oneer formerly a prominent resident
of Central City. was stricken with apo
with small chances for recovery.
Judge Marsh served a term as attor-
ney general OF Colorado, and as dis
trict Judge.
William Gleason. a non-union black
smith employed on the Theresa mine
at Victor, was shot twice by Ralph
Cartwright in a quarrel over labor
! troubles May 2lst. His injuries were
not considered dangerous. Cartwright
was arrested and claimed luat he shot
in self defense.
At meeting of the board of direct
ors of the State Fair at Pueblo it was
decided to add several thousand dol
lars in improvements to the fair build
ngs and grounds. Twenty thousand
square feet OF new roofing will be
placed over the boxes and fifteen
thousand feet over the grand stand
and state and county buildings. All
buildings will be repainted.
According to a letter received by
Walter C. Smith of Colorado Springs
from Superintendent Baker of the Ma
tional Geological park at Washington,
D. c.. the golden eagle sent there by
the former has grown to be one of the
finest eagles in the cage. Young Smith
caught the eagle in a scrub pine on
cliff in North Cheyenne canon and sent
it TO the Smithsonian Institution.
Ten strikers arrested during the past
two weeks charged with intimidation
and other offenses were placed aboard
a southbound Colorado e Soputhern
passenger train at Trinidad May 23d.
| in charge of a military officer and
| squad of soldiers. and taken to the New
| Mexico line. where they were left and
| ordered not to return to the district.
| The men are said to have gone to Ra-
! ton.
| Articles Of incorporation have been