The Glenwood post., 1904-10-29
COLORADO NEWS ITEMS

| Mr.. John Hall picked some ripe
Strawberries from under the snow at
Boulder on the 10th inst.
1t is rumored that number OF
Greeks will try to buy out the leading
bootblack stands in Denver and estaD-
lish bootblack trust.
The knights of Columbus have sub
scribed Sis 900 toward the erection of
a $50 900 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.
Mrs. Schier Of Pueblo thickened her
soup with rat biscuit, which she mis-
took for crackers, and only the vigor-
GUS use OF stomach pump saved the
lives of the family.
Prof. c. A. Bradley. principal OF the
Manual Training high school in Den
Der, 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 ]. Wilbur Chapman.
noted evangelist of New York City.
Will have charge of the meetings.
The Pueblo Business Mems Associa-
tion has selected a committee of five
to confer with two wooden manufacture
ers for the purpose of installing plant
that will employ 200 men at the start
Governor Peabody has appointed Er.
Leroy C. Hedges of Grand Junction as
a member of the State Board Of Medi-
cal Examiners, to fill the vacancy
caused by the resignation of DR.. c. +.
Slough
DR.. w. A Bell has purchased the
Mansions hotel and the site of the for
mer Manitou house adjoining, In Mani
tou, from the NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. Hotel
Company. The sale was made to salts
fly mortgages.
Gen. Frank D. Baldwin, commanding
the Department of the Colorado. will
ask from the coming Congre1s an ap-
preparation of 100000 to be used In the
enlargement and improvement Of Fort
Logan at Denver.
The tax levy of the town of Greeley
for the year 1904 has been placed at
Is mills, one mill less than for last
year. The total valuation of city prop
erty is $1,3SS,6 ,655. This will give an in
come of $2O.S29S2
Judge Ben B. Lindsey, who has be-
come famous through his juvenile
court work in Denver, is to write q
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
Mpvicn h1r 10 pri.
vate Bolen, was so delayed by bad
roads and washouts south OF Ration
pass that no record was made.
For the purpose of starting fund
to build home for invalid and enfee.
bled mail carriers Of Denver, the Den
yer Letter Carriers Band of the Ma
tional Association of Letter Carriers
will give concert and ball at Coli.
scum hall on November 18th.
Prof. l. D. Grain. head of the de-
partment Of electrical engineering al
the Agricultural College, has been re-
quested by the American Institute OF
Electrical Engineers to form a 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
circular. the words of which were
printed on the stripes OF the national
emblem.
The State Historical Society is anx-
ious to acquire the fine collection OF
prehistoric relics made in western New
Mexica by Captain Cecil A. Deane. The
captain is not only an enthusiastic col
lector but patriotic CoioradOan, and
will sell them to the society cheaper
than he would to eastern purchasers. A
subscription has been started to secure
the necessary funds.
Mrs. Mary Ann Motley died at St
Joseph's hospital in Denver, October
23rd at the age of 102 years. She was
one of the pioneers of Denver. having
come across the plains with her hus-
band in 1860. Mr. Motley was drowned
in the Platte river in 1868 while trying
to go from Denver to Omaha in boat.
Mrs. Motley was a native of Switzer-
land and came to this country in 1850.
At the Worlds Fair in st. Louis the
Colorado state school exhibit took a
grand prize, the Denver elementary
school took gold medal, the Denver
high school gold medal, and the Man.
ual Training and Art school gold
medal The state OF Colorado has
taken three grand prizes, twelve gold
medals, eleven silver medals and four
bronze medals in the educational and
social economy exhibits.
In the federal court at Pueblo on
the 18th inst. Jack O'Brien and Will
Morgan were sentenced by Judge John
Riner to three years each at hard labor
in the government penitentiary at Fort
Leavenworth for passing counterfeit
money Both pleaded guilty, as did
George c. Johnson, arrested on the
same charge. The sentence of John
son, who was thought to have been q
tool of his associates, was postponed.
Ernest R. Myers, who entered plea
OF guilty in the federal court at Pu-
eblo to charge of using the mails to
defraud Mrs. Matte Mcdonald OF
Charleston, Illinois, was sentenced tc