The Grit-advocate., 1904-01-15
COLORADO BRIEFS.

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postmaster At Longmont.
The students in the State University
at Boulder have formed a large Cross
| Country Club and will make some long
runs
Alderman John Omera OF Black
Hawk was injured by an explosion in
the Pet shaft up Silver creek, on the
9Th inst. and died the next day.
| The officers of the cadet company OF
the West Denver High School have
resigned because the school board re-
fused to permit them to hold cadets
ball
| The city council of Boulder has vot-
ed to purchase of James =. Maxwell
what are known as the Goose Lake
reservoirs at the foot of Arapahoe
peak
| A hunting party OF Salida people
| went over to Saguache on the 10th inst.
and together with number of citizens
from Saguache and Moffat. killed 800
rabbits.
| Representatives Of the Russian gov
ernment have contracted with the
Colorado Packing and Provision Com
pany at Denver for 100000 pounds OF
mess beef, to be delivered at the op-
| tlOH Ol lne purchaser.
DR.. r. j. Mason, the Denver physi-
clan who was found wandering about
the streets of Juiesburg in an uncon-
scious condition last north, was still
unconscious in St Joseph's hospital at
Denver on the 1lth inst
| Henry Frey. Denver tailor, likes to
be in Jail. Whenever he is discharged
he smashes window somewhere, so
as to be sent back. His last feat was
to break a $3.50 plate glass window in
the Joslin dry goods store.
On the 7th, at Central City, Ernest
Bishop and James Doyle were killed
by the explosion of missed shot into
which they drilled while at work in
the Cook shaft on Bobtail hill. Doyle
| was forty-five years of age and Bishop
twenty.
Denver newsboys have several times
assaulted congregations OF the Pente-
| cOstal Union, called Jumpers" The
| boys allege that these religionists
prayed for the death of Policeman AS
kew, who had arrested them, and who
died recently.
, In quarrel over question Of rent,
George A. Morrison, owner Of Ell Jebel
farm. shot and killed Harvey White at
the ranch owned by Morrison and
leased by White near Basalt. on the
11th inst. 1t is reported that White had
threatened to kill Morrison.
! Mr. and Mrs. George c. Batchelder.
aged respectively ninety and eighty-six
years, celebrated the sixty-third ami
versary Of their wedding at Boulder
on tn 5th instant. four generations OF
the family being present. The aged
couple are still hale and hearty.
A tallyho coach, in which party
, of Boulder young people were out rid
ing on the night of January 9Th, was
= upset and several Of the party injured.
Miss Velena Newman, daughter Of
State Senator Newman OF Durango, a
student at the university, had her left
ankle broken.
The house of J. NJ. Crawford in Hay
| gulch, fourteen miles from Durango,
was burned on the night of the 9th
inst while MIR Crawford was absent.
Mrs. Crawford and her son, Allen, es-
! capped, the latter with severe burns,
but Mrs. Crawford's father, Peter Nor
ris, was burned to death.
Glen F. Carnes, former secretary of
! the state Republican central commit
tee and secretary Of the State Board
of Arbitration, died at his home in
Denver January 8th of heart disease
Mr.. Carnes was thirty-one years of age
! and came to Colorado from Missouri
five years ago on account of lung trou-
BILE
The body OF Robert Green, the
twelve-year-old boy who was missed
from his parents home in Cripple
Creek August 18th. was found on the
tn inst 225 feet underground in the
Bob Womack tunnel at the FL Paso
Gold King mine in Poverty gulch. He
had evidently fallen through an old
stope and mill hole.
The Society of Colorado Pioneers at
its meeting in Denver January 11th
elected the following officers: Arthur
E. Pierce. SO, president; w. H. Ma
comber, SO. first vice president; w. A.
Smith, go. second vice president: Mi
chael Storm. So, secretary; John l..
Daley, SO, treasurer and James l..
Boutwell, SO, marshal
E. A. Tulian. superintendent of the
government fish hatchery at Leadvlle.
has been offered a commission by the
| Argentine Republic in South America
to establish a fisheries bureau in that
country. The commission guarantees
five years contract at large salary.
Mr. Tulian has gone to Washington to
confer with his superior about the Of
| fer.
Joseph Bellew was struck and in
stantly killed by mass of falling rock
in the Vindicator mine al Victor on the
llth inst. This is the same mine in
which William Mccormack and Shift
Boss Melvin Beck were killed by an ex-
plosion since the strike troubles be-
| gan. Bellew owned a ranch near
Rocky Ford and leaves a wife and a
grown daughter.
Upon the recommendation of the
| chief forester of the Agricultural De-
| na ri menf to create the Park RanCe for.