The Grit-advocate., 1905-07-14
COLORADO NEWS ITEMS

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The DeForest American Wireless
Telegraph Company will establish a
station at Trinidad.
The mountains surrounding Breck-
enridge were covered with snow on
the morning of the Sd Of July.
Miss Josie E. Gibson Of Missouri has
been appointed nurse at the Grand
Junction Indian School at a salary OF
5000 year.
The Colorado & Southern Railroad
Company has deposited 10000 trout
inches in length.
The Denver Chamber of Commerce
is arranging to offer cash prizes for ag-
ricultural products for both irrigated
and non-irrigated lands.
Alexander Gordon, foreman Of Ten
Mile Mining Company at Robinson,
was instantly killed on the Sth inst. by
falling down shaft.
Hereafter the State Capitol building
at Denver Is to be kept open on Sat
urday afternoons and holidays, at least
during the summer months.
Mrs. Clida NJ. Adams, wife of Alva
B. Adams and daughter-in-law of for
mer Governor Adams. died at Pueblo
July 4th. after short illness.
The Woman's Civic Society OF Trini-
dad proposes to enforce the Sunday
closing ordinances and to prosecute tho
gambling houses and wine rooms.
The floral parade at the Boulder Fes-
tival on the 7th inst. was one of the
finest ever seen in the state. Both car
riages and automobiles took part in 1t.
At Denver, July 9Th, Mrs. w. D.
Schmidlap shot and killed her husband
at the place where he was rooming.
They had been separated for about
year.
Twenty-Five counties of Colorado are
represented in agricultural exhibits at
the Chamber of Commerce building in
Denver. and specimens are wanted
from other counties.
There were fourteen fires In Denver
on the Fourth of July, but the loss in
each case was small, except at Hurl-
butts store, where the damage may
reach nearly $4,000.
In the Western Baseball League Des
MOines and Denver are close competi-
tors for first place and Colorado
Springs and st. Joseph are nip and
tuck for the BOBBY prize.
Colorado postofice appointments
have been made as follows: Jefferson,
Park county, Charles F. Peake, vice
Schattinger, resigned; Muriel. Huer-
fano county. Wilmer B. Kenny, vice E.
l.. Reubendale, resigned
The Boulder Farmers mill at Boul-
der has been burned to the ground, in
volving a loss of about $4,000, with
$29 900 insurance Previous to the fire
the safe at the mill was broken open,
but it contained no money.
Pueblo has raised a subscription of
5000, pledged for the maintenance Of
the Arkansas Valley immigration Bu-
reau. The object of the bureau is to
run homestead excursions from east
ern farming districts and to advertise
the advantages of the valley exten-
sively.
John NJ. G. Wadlin has sold to
Thomas l. Valentine of Peoria. Illinois,
2,100 acres OF land and the Wadlin
reservoir fifteen miles east of Greeley
for $4,000 The capacity of the reser-
voir is 45,O00,0O0 cubic feet and this
will be nearly doubled by the pur-
chaser.
The following patents have been is
sued to Colorado inventors: Aaron NJ.
Beam, Denver, ore treating furnace;
John Crone, Greeley, valve cap, Bar
nett Dodd, Boulder, combined door
closer and fly chaser; G. A. Seaman
independence, pipe coupling; A. A.
Smith, Paonia, brake shoe.
The Colorado Supreme Court has de-
cided that the fiat tax law passed by
the Thirteenth General Assembly Is
valid. The law places tax of two
cents on each $1,000 of capital stock
in domestic corporations capitalized in
excess of $4,000, and four cents per
81 900 on foreign corporations.
Roscoe Harris, aged sixteen years.
and the only child of former Mayor
Ira Harris of Colorado Springs. was
shot through the heart and almost in
stantly killed at Colorado Springs on
the 5th inst, by the accidental dis
charge OF a rifle in the hands of Mat
thew DAILY young friend with whom
he was arranging to go out hunting.
Three hundred and sixty acres OF
land near the Union Printers Home on
Mob hill, and $4,000 in cash for the
construction of the building has been
pledged respectively by two citizens of
Colorado Springs for the National Let
ter Carriers Home, should the national
convention at Portland, Oregon, next
September, choose the Springs as the
site.
At Golden July 10th Judge Garri-
gues OF Greeley, who was sitting in
the District Court for Judge De
France, sentenced Aubury Church to
the penitentiary for not less than five
nor more than twenty years for Grim
inal assault. Church pleaded guilty.
He was a former inmate OF the State
Industrial School for Boys. His term
expired about the first Of the year.
Gen. George Cook of the national en-
campment committee of the G. A. R.,
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