The Colorado statesman., 1904-10-29
COLORADO NEWS ITEMS

dicate Is being formed to build a mag |
nificent big hotel at Steamboat Springs. |
1t is rumored that a number OF
Greeks will try to buy out the leading
bootblack stands in Denver and estab |
lish bootblack trust.
Samuel W. Meyers, auditor of dis
bursements of the Rio Grande system. |.
died of pneumonia October 25th in st |
Marks hospital, Salt Lake.
The knights of Columbus have sub
scribed $4,000 toward the erection of
a $4,000 club building in Denver and
expect to raise the balance soon.
The new Steele hospital at Denver
for contagious diseases will be opened
soon and will be one of the best
equipped institutions of the kind in the
country.
County Probation officer Reasoner of
Colorado Springs has made the club
women angry by asserting that they
neglect their children. This they
strongly deny.
Prof. c. A. Bradley, principal of the
Manual Training high school in Den
ber, says that more than one-third OF
the pupils who complete the grammar
school enter the high school.
The churches of Denver are planning
revival services on large scale TO be-
gin January 1st. j. Wilbur Chapman,
noted evangelist of New York CITY,
will have charge of the meetings.
The Pueblo Business Mems Associa-
tion has selected committee OF hve
to confer with two woolen manufactur-
ers for the purpose of installing plant
that will employ 200 men at the start.
Gen. Frank d. Baldwin, commanding
the Department of the Colorado, will
ask from the coming Congress- an ap-
preparation of 100000 to be used in the
enlargement and improvement of Fort
Logan at Denver.
The Dupont Powder Company is
making arrangements to build big
powder factory two miles west OF Pu-
eblo, near the Rio Grande railroad. 1t
is expected that more than 500 men
will be employed.
Judge Ben B. Lindsey, who has be-
come famous through his juvenile
court work in Denver, is to write
book book on "The Problem of the
Child" for the Macmillan Publishing
Company of New York.
The motor cycle run from Fort Lo
gan, at Denver, to Albuquerque. New
Mexico, by Sergeant Capron and Pri-
vate Bolen, was so delayed by bad
roads and washouts south of Ration
pass that no record was made.
Capt. Charles E. Eymann of the Den
yer Fire Department died November
21st from the effects of nitric acid
fumes inhaled at the time of the disas-
ter in the etching room of the Denver
Post, being the fourth person to die
from that cause.
For the purpose of starting fund
to build a home for invalid and enfee-
bled mail carriers of Denver, the Den
yer Letter Carriers Band. Of sthe Ma
tional Association of Letter Carriers
will give a concert and ball at Coli
scum hall on November 18th.
A bull dog owned by William Cor
] win saved the life of Mr. Corwin's two
year-old boy a few days ago at Den
yer. The child had fallen on the track
in front of rapidly electric
car when the dog seized his clothing
and dragged him away to safety.
Prof l.. d. Grain, head of the de-
partment of electrical engineering at
the Agricultural College, has been re-
quested by the American Institute of
Electrical Engineers to form branch
student organization among the stu
dents of electrical engineering at the
college.
>. f. w. Wetter, who finished serving
a sentence at Cripple Creek October
Gath, was Immediately rearrested on
his release, charged with desecrating
the flag by posting small miniatures of
a circular, the words of which were
printed on the stripes of the national
emblem.
An effort will be made by a number
of business men in Pueblo to reorgan-
ize the Fidelity Savings Association of
Denver, which is now in the hands OF
two receivers. 1t is said that their
plans are meeting with favor at the
hands of large number of the stock
holders.
The railway south from Durango to
Tucson, Arizona. under survey, added
another corps sent out from Durango
few days ago, to work from the San
Juan river in New Mexico north to
connect with the division working
south from Durango. Colorado, setting
grade and slope stakes.
The Supreme Court has granted a
writ of supersedeas in the case of
James Greenwood, George Young,
| Thomas Smith and Rollo f. McAllister,
four men who were sentenced to the
penitentiary from Delta county for bur-
| glary. The bond of each one of the
four men was fixed at $500. 1t is al
| legged that the District Court erred in
the matter of not allowing the legal
number of challenges.
The fifth amendment to the articles
of incorporation of the Colorado Fuel
and Iron Company, which has been
filed with the county clerk at Pueblo.
shows the capital stock of the company
to be SAG, 100000, divided into shares
| of 800 each. OF this total 10000 shares