The Glenwood post., 1904-10-08
COLORADO NEWS ITEMS

Ietl, leuDoThTlly SuspeuolHS 'i"4As w.
the cog road.
On the night of October lst the mer-
chants of Pueblo gave the exhibitors
at the state fair big banquet at the
Maine hotel.
The Colorado Midland railway has
been placing an immense number OF
young trout in Lake Ivanhoe and the
Frying Pan river.
A saowshed one mile IN length is be-
Ing built at the summit OF the range
by the Moffat line. This insures the
operation of trains all winter.
Rural free delivery route No. will
be established November 1st from
Grand Junction; population to be
served, $50; houses on route, 500.
On account of the heavy rains dur
ing the week the state fair at Pueblo
did not close on Saturday as sched-
uled, I'm was held open for another
day.
The Cowenhoven tunnel, Aspen,
which has been shut down for five
months. is now open to all the mines.
| Wires are now being strung for light
and power.
Tho National Association of Railway
Agents, with membership of 600, will
hold its convention in Denver next
year, visiting different parts Of the
state.
Miss Katherine Sullivan, living at
the Kerr ranch, south of Colorado
Springs. shot and killed a 175-pound
cub bear on Cheyenne mountain, just
outside the city limits, a few days ago.
William Richardson, a miner in the
Bonanza district, who has been con-
sidered dangerous for some time, has
been adjudged insane by the County
Court Of Saguache county and ordered
taken to the insane asylum at Pueblo.
The eighteen-months old son of Mr..
and Mrs. c. F. Cummings, living three
miles from Parker, in Douglas county,
on September Goth, drank the contents
of laudanum bottle and died within
few hours.
There is in Pueblo. according to the
police, an organized gang of bicycle
thieves. The police think that bicycles
stolen are shipped away Several cases
where wheels have been takn apart and
shipped in boxes and crates are known
to the police.
What appears to be an inexhaustible
supply of Fuller's earth is being
opened near Akron. A large plant has
been erected for drying the sartn,
which is used for verifying lard, clari-
Tying sorghum, cleaning woolens and
for various medicinal purposes.
At the meeting of the Rocky Noun.
tain Hotel Mems Association in Denver
resolution was passed strongly in
dorsing the work of the Colorado Pro-
motion and Publicity Committee and
pledging it active moral and financial
support.
Thirteen years and eleven months in
the Canon City Penitentiary was the
sentence given Thomas Talbot and Joe
Sales, boys eighteen and twenty-one
years of age, who pleaded guilty to the
charge of robbery before Judge John |.
Mullins in the West Side Criminal
Court at Denver.
Joseph Flynn, young miner of
Central City, fell under moving
train at Idaho Springs on the after
noon of the End inst. and died at St
Joseph's hospital in Denver on the
night Of the same day from the effect
OF his injuries. He was the youngest
son Of Mrs. John Flynn of Central
City and was only in his twenty-second
year.
One hundred thousand copies of
"Colorado-lts Hotels and Resorts"
the sixth booklet in the series being is
sued by the Colorado Promotion and
Publicity Committee, for the advertis
ing of the resources and attractions of
the Centennial State, will be distrib
uted the coming winter, in the hotels
of the eastern Gulf and Pacific coast
states.
The golden wedding of State Senator
G. w. Swink and Mrs. Swink was right
royalty celebrated at Rocky Ford Octo-
ber 1st. Six hundred invitations were
issued, the guests being divided into
three groups. and being received at
three periods of two hours each. Sena-
tor Swink wore the identical high silk
hat he wore on his wedding day and
Mrs Swink was dressed in the fashion
of fifty years ago.
Overland Park, the site of the race
tracks at Denver, was sold at public
auction October 3rd. under foreclosure
but the sale is understood to have been
merely for the purpose of clearing the
title. John c. Mitchell of the Denver
National Bank bid the property in at
$S5 900, and is presumed to have acted
in the interest of Henry R. Wolcott
The whole park will likely pass into
the hands of new corporation about
the first Of the year.
William Larson, OF Grover, in Weld
county, had his head badly hurt few
weeks ago by the falling OF horse.
On the last day Of September he rode
fifty miles in order to get to Greeley in
time to be hanged, as he said He
changed horses several times along
the road, taking fresh one when he
wanted it. He was captured by Mar
shall Camp of Greeley and placed In
the county jail for safe keeping Lar
son had been charged with larceny
from his landlady in Greeley,
City Detective E. H. Wilson was ac-
quilted on the 3rd inst. in the District
Court at Pueblo of a charge of embez-
element. The case was not allowed to
go to the jury. The prosecuting wit
ness. Louis Wolf. refused to testify
against the defendant. At the conclu-
sion of the examination by the district