The Grit-advocate., 1905-09-01
COLORADO NEWS ITEMS

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Der 18th at the state fair at Pueblo.
The Fremont County Fair will be
held at Canon City September goth to
22d.
The date for Pumpkin Pie Day at
Longmont has been fixed for Septem-
Der 29th.
Samuel R. Decker, an old resident of
Fort Collins, died August 2Sth, after
long illness. He leaves a widow and
eight children.
The Denver Board of County Com
missioners has voted $3.50 in aid of an
exhibition at the state fair in Pueblo
September 18th to 18th.
The Bank of Berthoud, which has
been in successful operation since
1882. has announced its intention of
becoming a national bank.
A new volunteer fire department has
been organized at Silverton with forty
members. The organization includes
a hose team and hook and ladder COM
pany.
Loveland's annual corn roast festi-
val will be held September 7th. Sth
and 9Th The corn roast and free din.
ner will be served on the first day at
IL o'clock.
The Independent Telephone Com
pany, which has occupied the Fort
Morgan-Brush field, is now no more,
having passed under the control Of the
Colorado Telephone Company.
Colorado Springs will make strong
e6ort to secure the location of the Ma
tiona letter carriers home. 1t is ex-
pected that the matter will be decided
at the convention in Portland next
month.
Dr. T. D. Bancroft spoke at the
Central Presbyterian Church in Den
yer on Sunday, August 9th, in the
interest of the free home for con-
sumptives which he hopes to estab-
lish at Salida.
The Colorado Methodist conference
will hold it's forty-third annual confer
ence in Fort Collins, beginning the
evening Of Tuesday, August 29tn, and
ending Monday. September 4th. Bishop
McCabe will preside.
The Denver & Rio Grande Railway
Company has filed answer in the first
suit brought against it for damages
growing out of the Eden wreck and al
leges that the accident was brought
about by an act of God.
William l.. Wilson, miner working
on the Gloriana claim on Blue hill at
Victor, was killed August 26th by the
falling of . rock. He was twenty
three years of age and single. His
parents live at Cripple Creek.
The State Stock Inspection Board is
meeting with many evidences that the
laws pertaining to inspection and en-
tries of cattle are being daily violated
and immediate prosecutions of all Of
lenders have been ordered by the
board.
James Germand. cowboy, was
killed at Norwood, forty miles north
drunk and resisting arrest, by City
Marshal Watkins and Deputy Sheriff
Truax. He shot at the officers, who
returned his fire with fatal effect.
Following is the list OF the dead in
the Tabasco flood in Las Animas
county: Mrs Joseph Veltry and child.
Joseph Smotherman. Harry ONeil,
William Rieboldt, Pasquale Canto, JOS
pph Morocco, Rafael Bucchio, Antonio
Constantine, Philip Pastero, Pasquale
Bartolomeo.
September 1st is the opening of the
grouse season. which ends October
goth. The open deer season begins
September 25th and lasts until Octo-
Der 10th The state game and fish
commissioner is receiving numerous
applications for hunter licenses, owing
TO the approaching open seasons.
Charles Francis Adams of Boston
has offered to sell the city of Trinidad
North lake, the finest reservoir site in
southern Colorado, for storage use by
the city waterworks. The lake is To-
Gated forty miles west on the North
fork of the Purgatory river 1t has
capacity of 2,000,0O0,000 gallons, es-
timated to be enough for ten years
Edward L. Scholtz is president of
the Society of the Soss of Colorado
which has been organized at Denver
Qualifications for membership are as
follows: "All white males of good
moral character, residents of Colorado
prior to August J.. 1876, and the male
descendants thereof, native born.
when they shall reach the age of
twenty-one years, shall be eligible to
membership" Branches will be es-
tablished throughout the state.
Dave Parks, an employe of the Clyde
Lumber Company, at Clyde, on the
Short Line, was arrested August 2Sth
by Deputy Sheriff Underwood and
placed in the county Jail to await the
outcome of the injury that he inflicted
on William Snyder, proprietor of
store at Clyde. Parks is said to have
struck Snyder with scale weights. frac-
turing his skull, after which he
jumped on him with both feet and it
is alleged was only kept from killing
him through the efforts of the wife
and son-in-law of Snyder
Mrs. Marth;. A. Shute, secretary of
the State Board of Horticulture. re-
Gently received letter from w. G.