The Grit-advocate., 1904-04-22
COLORADO NEWS ITEMS

has completed extensive improvement.
at La Junta.
Isaac Howe and wife Of Montrose re-
ding anniversary
kiowa county is TO have a hand
some new court house. Two stories ir
height and constructed of pressed
brick.
The ritual OF the Grand Army q,
the Republic was observed at the IN
neral of the late Gen. John w. Brown.
ing in Denver on the 18th inst.
Thomas Hamilton. aged seventy-six
locomotive engineer who had lived
in the county for twenty-five years
dropped dead in Pueblo April 18th OF
heart failure.
A. A. Alexander. who pleaded guilty
in the federal court at Pueblo to the
charge OF issuing money orders to
himself while serving as assistant post
master at Caro-. was fined $3.50 and
costs
The Rev. George Edward Young.
dahl, pastor of the Swedish EvangeIj.
cal Lutheren Church of Colorado
Springs, and president of the Colorado
Luther league, died of consumption on
the 18th inst
Bert Keller was accidentally wound
ed near Lake Minnequa at Pueblo on
the 10th inst, by shot from gun in
the hands of man who was shooting
at pelicans, and who was a mile away
from where kellar stood.
The Pueblo armory has been over
hauled. refurnished and refitted, and is
now one of the best equipped. hand
soonest and most comfortable state bar
racks. Several thousand dollars have
been spent in overhauling the old
buildings.
Work has been commenced on No
and No. 3 reservoirs of the Colorado
Fuel and Iron Company near Pueblo.
They are larger than Lake Minnequa.
and will he filled by means of canals
from the Green Horn range and the
ST. Charles river.
1t is believed in Boston that DR.. w.
F. Mcdowell, former chancellor of the
University of Denver, will be elected
bishop at the Methodist conference in
Los Angeles next month. He is re-
Sarded as enc of the best speakers in
the church.
The Colorado Editorial Association
is TO have an excursion to the st.
Louis exposition. The summer meet
ing of the association will be held in
St. Louis, beginning May Goth. The
start from Pueblo will be made May
.ith, via the Missouri Pacific.
In the District Court of Pueblo.
April 18th, John Norgate was awarded
5000 damages in a suit against the D.
& R. G. Railroad Company. Norgate
was caught in frog and run over by
a car about a year ago in the Pueblo
yards His injuries necessitated the
amputation of his left leg.
The first reservoir of the Fountain
Valley Land & Irrigation Company
has been completed and water was
turned into the canal leading into it
for the first time April 18th. The res
eryoir. located on the Sn.nner ranch
between Fountain and Colorado
Springs, has a capacity of S0,O0u,0 0n4
gallons.
The trial of William r. Dye of
':ocky Ford, in the United States Court
al Pueblo on a charge of sending
threatening letters through the mail to
Colonel Lockhart, goes over to the next
term of court on account of the jury
being unable to agree. 1t is said that
the Jurors stood half for conviction and
half for acquittal.
Gen. William J. Palmer is having
plans drawn for the immediate erection
Of an inn on the new Bear Creek Can
on road leading into Cheyenne Canon
al Colorado Springs. The structure will
be of logs, with sheds for horses. and
picnic grounds for children. 1t will be
completed within thirty days and open
the year round.
Mark Love and Elmer Stephenson,
proprietors of the Deep Lake hotel in
the White River forest reserve. in
Routt county. have been arrested on
charge of fencing in government land,
having been indicted by the grand jury
in the United States Court at Pueblo
They entered plea of not guilty and
were released on bonds.
Postmaster l.. c. Dana of Colorado
Springs has received notice of his ap-
pontment as government custodian OF
the site Of the proposed federal build
ings. located at the southwest corner
of Pixies Peak and Nevada avenues
The land was recently purchased for
$50 900 cash from the Stratton estate.
and will be the site of $l35,O00 post
Office building.
1t is reported in Denver that bond
holders OF the Denver. Lakewood and
Golden railroad will bid in the prop
erty at the foreclosure sale May II,
reorganize the corporation, equip the
line with electricity from Denver to
Golden, and later possibly extend the
road over to and through Clear Creek
ald Gilpin counties, so as to tap the
rich mining sections there.
William w. Ferguson, custodian OF
the war museum at the state caDital