The Glenwood post., 1904-11-26
COLORADO NEWS ITEMS

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turn after killing few deer.
The Ell Paso County Horticultural
Society has decided to hold the next
exhibition in Colorado Springs on
August 90, "a and 25 1905.
AS soon as the St Louis Exposition
closes the mining machinery in opera
ton in the government building will
be shipped to Denver and set up.
( Glenwood Springs will vote some
time in December on the renewal of
the franchise of the Glenwood Light
and Power Company, which expires in
1907
/ The average yield of beets per acre
in the Greeley, Eaton and Windsor
sugar districts this year is reported
at fifteen tons, as compared with
twelve tons in 1903 and nine tons in
/ 1902.
DR.. Jacob Eisenhut, aged 1O4 years,
made speech and sang two songs at
the celebration of the anniversary of
Swiss independence held by the people
of that nationality in Denver a few
days ago.
Active preparations are already in
progress in Denver for the national Ep-
| worth League convention to convene
on the 5th of next July. 1t is expected
to bring more than 10000 visitors into
the state.
The sum paid to employees at the Pu
eblo steel works on November 18th and
| 10Th amounted to $25O,0O0. This is the
largest pay day since October, 1903. The
| largest in the history of the company
was 100000.
w. II. Tuttle, conductor on the Col
orado Midland, paid an election bet by
grinding a hand-organ for an hour in
front of the Mesa County Bank at
Grand Junction. He had cup and col
lected $2134 for charity.
The chapel at the Cakes Consumpt-
/ ives Home in Denver has been pre-
sented with a chime of nine bells on
which Mr.. Oakes and Miss Lewis, the
organist, play many charming tunes
that can be heard for mile or more.
! The county commissioners of Weld
county have appropriated $3.50 to the
Colorado State Really Association for
the purpose of advertising the Greeley
district by the Gilbert McClurg lee
lures, which are said to have benefited
the district.
| The State Forestry Association as
serts that since the first settlement of
Colorado the forest area of the state
has been reduced from 10000 square
miles to 5000 square miles, princl-
pally by fire and wanton waste, though
much has been used.
One of the biggest reservoir schemes
that has ever been projected in Colo
RADIO is being promoted by Colorado
Springs and Cripple Greek capital. 1t
| provides for the irrigation of about
/ 100000 acres in the San Luis valley.
| The site of the reservoir is about tif-
teen miles west of La lara, and will be
fed from the Alamosa river.
Elaborate plans will be perfected at
! Colorado Springs for the entertain
ment of the National Electric Light
| Association, which will hold six
days session, three in Denver and
three in Colorado Springs next June
complimentary trip over the Grip
pie Creek Short Line and other ex.
cursions will be rendered.
Three hundred thousand dollars was
paid to the farmers on the 18th inst.
for their October delivery of beets by
the owners of the Greeley, Eaton and
( Windsor sugar factories. This was
the first payment this season, and ex-
ceeds that of last year by several
thousand dollars. The payment was
tor 10000 tons of beets at s. ton.
Former State Senator Henry Boil
singer, who has been in the State In
sane Asylum at Pueblo has been re-
leased on parole and taken back to his
home at Central City in custody of a
brother. Senator Bolsinger became de-
ranged during the Democratic state
convention, but the attack was not Sc
rious and as soon as he reached Pueblo
he seemed to be in his right mind.
George F. Turner of Denver writes
to the Denver News: 81 notice the pass
ing away of my esteemed and old-time
friend John Mcnamara, and that you
| quote him as the last of the Ben Holli-
day stage drivers. Allow me to cor
rect you, as the undersigned drove for
the Overland Stage Company and then
for Ben Holiday six years before my
friend Mcnamara came to Colorado,
and | am still on earth and am quite
lively for a kid of my age, | think"
The Woman's Club of Colorado
Springs has adopted a resolution
bill pending in Congress restricting
womens suffrage in the proposed
states. This resolution will be pre-
sented to the Colorado congressman.
The club also has adopted the recon-
mendation of Mrs. Fred Dick. state
chairman of the Federation Of Wom-
ems Clubs, advocating a minimum sal
ary of $50 for public school teachers.
Judge Cunningham at Cripple Creek
denied bond to James A. Warford, the
watchman at the Golden Cycle mine,
who, while acting as a deputy sheriff on
election day, shot and killed Gus Mil
Ter and Ike Liebo. A coroner's Jury re-
turned a verdict that Warford shot in
self-defense while acting as peace Of
ficer in the discharge of his duty. Tom
Brown, who is charged with COM
plicity in tho killing, had his bond
placed at $500 in each instance. or
$1,000 in all.
Attorney w r. Ramsay who was