The Grit-advocate., 1904-07-15
COLORADO NEWS ITEMS
Tourist travel in Colorado continues
10 be heavier this year than last.


have been held for trial in the United
States court.
The annual rife practice of the Col
orado National Guard will begin the
first week in August. on the rifle ranges
/ near Golden.
Peter Bloom, an old prospcctor liv-
| ing at Empire station. committed sui
eide at Idaho Springs on the 11th inst
| by taking carbolic acid.
Four white women and fourteen
| colored women confined in the county
| Jail at Denver are reported to be nurs-
| ing race feud.
An organization to be known as the
Colorado Liberty League has been
started at Denver and Cripple Creek
to oppose the spread of Socialism.
The Rocky Mountain Chautauqua at
| Glen Park began its summer session
! July llth Rev. b. r. Vincent, ID,
| presided and made the principal ad-
| dress.
| The people of Greeley have started
| crusade against the cotton-bearing
cottonwood trees and are marking a
| great number of them to be cut down
at later date.
j. Brisbin Walker, editor and pro-
| prietor of the Cosmopolitan Magazine,
| has written to persons in Colorado Of
| fering his services as arbitrator III the
| adjustment of the difficulties now exist
| ing in this state.
State Senator Cashmere Barela and
| eighty-four other former Democrats Of
Las Animas county have issued a
statement telling why they have trans
| ferred their allegiance from the Dem
ocratic to the Republican party.
| The expenses of the District Court
in Pueblo county have already exhaust
| ed the appropriation and the county
| commissioners are in somewhat of a
| quandary as to how it shall be sus-
tanned for the remainder of the year.
Harry Martin, the Kit Carson county
cowboy who was injured in the bron-
cho riding contest at Hugo. July ith,
| died the next day The horse was
| pitching hard when it fell and turned
a complete somersaAt, rolling over its
! rider.
For the twenty-eghth consecutive
time Mrs B. T. Vincent, wife of Dr.
Vincent of the Methodist Church OF
Greeley, win conduct the department
of women's work at the Chautauqua
Assembly at Chautauqua. New York,
this summer.
Charles R. Jones, who graduated
| from the Colorado Agricultural Col
| lege this spring. has accepted a position
! with the government in the investiga-
! lion OF the boil weevil. Mr.. Jones made
a speciality of entomology during his
| college course.
| In the District Court at Greeley
Judge Garrigues has sustained the con
tenton OF the owners OF Lake Love
| land as against the contention OF the
| Loveland Sugar Company in regard to
| four cubic feet of water per second
during the sugar manufacturing sea
| son.
The Colorado and Wyoming dele
gates to the national encampment of
the Grand Army of the Republic at
| Boston in August will do all in their
! power to have Denver selected as the
site of the 1905 encampment. 1t is
understood that they will have good
backing.
Appraiser j. A. Elston is at work
| upon supplemental report of the
StrattUn estate, in order to ascertain
| the exact amount due the state of
Colorado as inheritance tax The
amount of claims outstanding against
the estate will be deducted from the
estimated value.
The farmers along Beaver creek, in
Fremont county. have pettoned the
government for rural free delivery.
| The petition hes been signed by over
| POO people. who claim that the service
reaching the Beaver Creek postofIice
is such that it is impossible for them
to get their mail.
Edward B. Powell. d student at the
East Denver high school, has been ap-
pointed to cadetship at the United
States Naval Academy at Annapolis.
The appointment was made by Con-
gressman Brooks. Mr.. Powell is a son
of Thomas r. Powell Of the Cooper &
Powell Furniture Company
A $1,000 damage suit has been filed
against the city of Salida by Mrs. Helen
l.. Johnson. who alleges that she re-
ceived personal injuries in the collapse
of grand stand on July 4. 1902, and
that the city authorities are responsible
for the accident The case is set for
trial at the September term.
A small run was begun on the Bank
of Victor on the 1lth inst, it being re-
ported that David Fl. Moffat, the prin-
cipal stOckholGer was about to with
draw his support. He settled the mat
ter by telegraphing that he was the
sole owner and il necessary would
send money to pay all depOsitOrs.
The property of the Colorado Elcc-
tric Power Company of Colorado
Springs and Canon City was sold by
Sheriff Grimes July 9Th at public auc-
ton. w. S Mitchell. representing the
Union Trust Company of Pittsburg,
PENNSYLVANIA. mortgages, buying in
the title for the sum of $2l5,SIl 10.
Phillips county will contribute to the
private menagerie of D. Willard. vice
president of the Burlington system
HAYS Mcfarland. son of the supern-