The Grit-advocate., 1904-01-01
COLORADO BRIEFS.

meat market on Christmas.
The Denver Fire Department recent
iy purchased twenty-One horses i'll Iowa
at cost of nearly $4,000.
The successful bidder for the 100
coal cars FOR the MoTat road was the
Pullman Car company of Chicago.
The Denver lodge of Elks sent out
500 baskets full of provisions to that
| many poor families on Christmas.
The date of the state fair at Pu-
| eblo next fall has been fixed upon. 1t
| will begin September 24th and con
| tinue until the close OF the 2Sth.
William kammelar, a Denver BIZ
| cycle thief. has been sentenced by
Judge Malone to term of from i've
to ten years in the penitentiary.
! The county house Of Weld county. at.
Greeley, recently finished, cost ulfle
over 5000 and will comfortably ac-
commOdate the poor of the county.
| The new county hospital OF Weld
county, at Greeley, has been complet-
ed at a cost of $1,000 and is now one
Of the best equipped hospitals in the
state.
The Secretary of the Interior has
approved the selections of the state of
| Colorado of l. 500 acres located in the
Akron land district for school pur-
| poses
| Members of the Pueblo Fire Depart
ment We're presented with medals on
Christmas Day by the city government
in appreciation of their excellent work
during the year
! The demand of the Denver school
/ hfn nd ola laE
finally been acceded to by the board
of supervisors. who became convinced
that it could not legally be altered.
Marguerite Beulah Herndon, the
smallest infant on record in the West.
died at Pueblo hospital December 25th.
She was born on Thanksgiving eve.
weighing only twenty-eght ounces, and
was kept alive for the last three
weeks in an incubator.
l.. c. Dubois of Salida. a well-known
mining man and engineer, died at Sallda
of pneumonia December 25th. He was
a member of the American Institute
of Mining Engineers, the Masons. Elks.
| Woodmen Maccabees and the Amerl-
can Yeomen
The full force of the National Guard
now in the Cripple Creek district to-
tails 290, distributed as follows: Head
quarters Teller county military dis
trct, q rank and file; Camp Goldtield,
1876: Camp Libby, Cripple Creek. 81:
camp Independence, "a; Camp Victor.
SO.
On the morning of December 2Sth
James Jordan, president of the coal
Miners union at South Canon, was en-
| ticed half mile out of town at New
Castle by two strangers, who robbed
him of $67.50 and left him tied. He
rolled and tumbled back toward town
until found and released.
Ora Rice, a young man who owns
considerable property in live stock and
ranches, became insane at Fort Collins
a few days ago and terrorized the
neighborhood by a display OF firearms.
He was arrested, after severe conflict
by Deputy Sheriff Richart and Night
Watchman Ganders and his relatives
were notified of his condition.
John Ryan and Miss Leonora Zor-
mig were drowned in Berkeley lake at
Denver on the night or Sunday. De-
cember Goth. They were skating on
the lake and broke through the ice.
Their bodies were not discovered un-
til Tuesday. Ryan was butler for a
private family and Miss Zornig was
employed at boarding house.
The time for holding the Fremont
County Farmers Institute has been
fixed by the executive committee for
January 18th and 14th Several mem
bers of the faculty of the State Agri-
cultural College at Fort Collins will be
present. as we'll as Hon. j. w. Crow
ley of Rocky Ford. all OF whom will
address the institute on matters OF In
terest.
Mai. NJ. V. B. Wason died on the
night of December 9th at his ranch in
Mineral county, two miles below
Creede,, from pneumonia at the age Of
seventy-two years. Major Wason has
been for many years one OF the most
prominent men in that part OF the
state and will be greatly missed. He is
survived by his wife, Mrs. H. Wason,
the well-known poet, and an adopted
son.
Colorado College. Colorado Springs.
has completed its new laboratory build
ing, which it has taken two and one
half years to construct. 1t is regard
ed as one of the best structures for
scientific purposes in the country and
it is to be dedicated with series of
scientific conferences Feb % and 90.
which will be attended by large num-
Der of the leading scientific men OF the
country.
MIR. Stearns. banker of Littleton has
announced through his attorney.
Judge Stephen B. Pratt. that he in
tends to build an interurban street car
line from Englewood, the southern ter
minus of the Broadway electric line
to Littleton and Fort Logan. with out
side capital, if the county of Arapahoe
declines to allow the proposed line to
come the possession of the Denver
| Tramway Company.
From evidence gathered since the
confession of Peter Neidermeier, the
self-confessed Chicago murderer. it is
thought that he and companion may
be guilty of the murder of DR.. j. r.
!