The Grit-advocate., 1904-12-09
COLORADO NEWS ITEMS


| citation will meet at Pueblo December
Goth.
Cattle shipments into Denver over
the Moffat road show a continued in-
crease.
Lester Mclean, a prominent Den
yer lawyer died suddenly on the night
of December 4th OF heart disease.
Manual training departments are be-
| inb established in many of the larger
district schools throughout the state
The Crystal theatre on curtis street.
in Denver, was burned on the morn
ing of December End. the interior be-
ing entirely destroyed.
The Colorado & Southern railway Is
! arranging to plant several million
! young trout in the streams, already
well stocked, along its lines next
summer.
Harry Pierson was accidentally
shot and killed by DR.. A. w. Robbins
ut Bayfield,. eighteen miles east OF
Durango. on the 2nd inst, while they
were shooting at a target.
Four thousand one hundred men are
now employed in the Minnequa steel
works at Pueblo, and the force will
probably be increased to 1000 or more
during the next six months.
Dunbar F. Carpenter, secretary and
treasurer of the Rocky Mountain Har-
ward club. Colorado Springs, wants the
address of all graduates Of Harvard
! University who live in Colorado.
President Slocum and the trustees
| Of Colorado College at Colorado
Springs are starting a movement by
which they hope to secure an endow.
ment of 100000 for the college.
A movement has been started in
Denver to arrange for an extensive
display of electrical appliances dur,
ing the convention of the National
Electric Light Association in June.
1t is stated at Pueblo that John D..
d. Rockefeller intends to build homes
in the Lake Minnequa reservation for
the steel workers. of whom there viii
be a large influx within the next six
months.
The United States Weather Bureau
in Denver is to be the central point
of a river and food signal service.
which will be established in New
Mexico, western Texas and southeast.
ern Colorado.
! The widow of William Johnson who
was killed by an ore car accident in
the Big Five mine at Camp Francis in
Boulder county last February, has
been awarded $4,000 damages against
the Big Five company.
4 The National Live Stock Associa.
tion meets in Denver January 10th for
five days session The National
Wool Growers Association will hold
a session at the same time and place,
cOnvenlng on the 9tn.
The secretary of the interior has di.
rected the issuance of grazing permits
for 194O0 head Of cattle and horses in
the northern division of the White
River forest reserve in Colorado, not
! more than 500 head to one owner.
frame building for accommoda,
ton of officers necessary for the use
of the United States reclamation serv-
ice in connection with the construc.
ton and maintenance of the Uncom-
pahgre valley project is to be erected
at Montrose.
Corporal punishment. except in the
case of rebellion. has been abolished
in the State Industrial School for Boys
at Golden by Fred l.. Paddleford. In
the future the punishment will be
bread and water and milk diet and eX.
ira guard duty.
F. A. Falkenburg, head consul of the
Pacific jurisdiction Of the WoOdmen of
. the World, with headquarters at Den.
YER has been compelled to take a va
! cation on account of i'll health and
overwork and will spend some time
/ in Los Angeles.
| The Delta County Business Mems
! Association is taking steps to secure
/ a sugar beet factory for Delta. More
/ than 100000 worth of beets were
! grown this year and the farmer
/ pledge a large increase in case they
| can have home factory.
! The intercollegiate football feud
| which resulted in the withdrawal OF
the State University at Boulder from
! the Athletic Association, has involved
I the goods" and three institutions
| have notified the girls basketball teai
that they cannot play with them an
more.
Bertha Henning. the seven-year-ol4
daughter of George Henning of
Greeley, swallowed carpet tack five
years ago in Missouri. 1t became
stuck in her throat and her health
suffered so that she was brought to
Colorado. A few day ago she ,..rew
up the tacl. in fit of coughing.
The new court house of Phillips
county, al HOlyOlie, has been com
pleted and is now occupied by the
county officers. 1t was formerly the
b. & NJ. eating house, and was pur-
chased by the county for small sum
and reconstructed so as to make it
fine and commodious structure.
Ihe Chautauqua reservoir at Boul-
der has been completed and will hold
4 100000 gallons of water. 1t will
supply the high grounds south of the
creek, the university and surround
ings. The Sunshine canon reservoir.
with a capacity of G,000,0O0 gallons.
will supply the main part oil town