The Glenwood post., 1904-04-16
COLORADO NEWS ITEMS

versary and raised $4,000 to pay OF its
| Indebtedness.
The Baird House at Durango, for
| merly used as a hotel, but OF late rent
! ed to housekeepers, was burned on the
afternoon of April 9Th, leaving eleven
| families homeless.
| Mrs. Mary Gillispie. who died in the
county hospital at Denver few days
ago at the age of eighty-six, was dur
! ing her life time the mother of fifteen
| pairs of twins.
| Louis r. Blackstock, proprietor OF
| the Blackstock hotel at Fort Collins,
died on the 9th inst. as the result of a
surgical operation performed few
| days before in Denver.
The State University has begun the
publication of a new periodical entitled
THE University of Colorado Medical
Studies" 1t is proposed to make it c
high-class medical journal.
Winfield S. Hughes. charged with the
embezzlement of So, ,164 while acting as
clerk in the city water department at
Colorado Springs, has been bound over
| for trial in the District Court.
DR.. Rose, a well-known veterinary
| surgeon of Salida, was found dead in
his room on the night of April 3rd.
| CoTOueI jury QeClueu lndl HIS uedlh
was occasioned by heart failure.
TeXas-Colorado railways will arrange
| low excursion rate from various
places in Texas to st. Louis via Colo
RADIO points, giving tourists a chance to
visit the mountains and cool of going
| oil coming.
The statements of the two national
banks and one savings bank in Trini-
| ial chn hot tIa tpto nj q no
S25S2075, and deposits aggregating ST.
909.OS0. One of these banks has 4,2O0
| individual depositors.
Col. l.. C. Ellsworth, one of the pio-
peers and most prominent citizens OF
Denver, having taken a leading part
in many important public enterprises,
died at his home in Denver April 9th
| from paralysis.
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 a Denver
| hospital where the bullet was extract
| ed, is doing well and will recover.
Little Ethelyn McGill, the three-year-
old daughter of Representative and
Mrs. E. D. McGill of Wray, was badly
| bitten by two vicious hogs a few days
| since, but her injuries were not con-
sidered dangerous.
Dr. N K Morris and Frank A.
Knight propose to erect mill in Dem
yer for the treatment of fuller's earth,
which they will procure from ranch
near Akron, where the deposit is said
to be of exceptional purity.
Prof. E. r. Wolcott of the State
School of Mines has found evidences of
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.
William Danner has just been elected
secretary of the Young Mems Christian
Association at Denver for the seventh
consecutive term. His work in connec-
tion with the establishment of the
health farm near Denver is attracting
national attention.
The Knights of Maccabees of the
World. at their state convention in
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.
At Breckenridge on the 4th inst
| Mary Rouse, aged twelve years acci-
|
| receiving dangerous wound. On ad-
vice of her physician she was immedi-
ately sent to st. Luke's hospital at
Denver for treatment.
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
and timber trespass cases. Only few
names Of those indicted were given out,
| because many arrests have not been
| made
| The Anti-Saloon League at Colorado
Springs is proceeding against num-
| Der OF druggists for the sale of liquor
| in quantities less than one quart. One
| OF the druggists, who has been fined to
the extent of 5000, has appealed five
cases from the Police Court to the
County Court.
Jimmy Brennan, known as the her
nit of Independence, who had lived
| alone for twenty years in a cabin at the
| old mining camp of Independence. near
| Aspen, was found dead in his cabin a
| short time since, his death having evil
IDENTIFY resulted from natural causes.
| He was about seventy-two years old
and was confederate veteran.
1t is said that DR.. C. o. Rice is con-
fined in Jail at Ashland. Virginia, for
safe keeping as a result of his behavior
there several days ago DR.. Rice shot
and killed Policeman Silas Marts in
Pueblo recently while in an intoxicated
condition. He was cleared of the
charge on plea of insanity and left
Pueblo in charge of his wife several
weeks ago.
Gen. John w. Browning of Denver
who died on the 7th inst at Mobile
Alabama, served in the National Guard
of Colorado from 1887 to 1901 and was
promoted to the rank of brigadier gen
eral November 8, 1898. Adjutant Cen
eral Bell has issued an order requiring
the officers of the guard to wear the
usual badge of mourning for thirty
days in honor of the memory of Gen
eral Browning.