The Grit-advocate., 1905-07-21
COLORADO NEWS ITEMS

Amlty IN regard to the reported out
break of anthrax among the cattle.
The canning factory of the Barlow
Consolidated Canning Company at
Loveland has begun operations on
raspberries.
During the week ending July 18TH
$500 tourists visited the Cripple
Creek district. Most of them were Ep-
worth League tourists.
James F. Maloney, a prominent To-
cal politician and alderman Of the
Third ward in Denver, died of heart
disease on the 10th inst.
Miss Rosa NJ. Layton of Denver has
been appointed stenographer and type
writer. and assigned to duty In the
Denver Office of the reclamation SER
vice.
Attorney General NJ C. Miller has
gone to Chicago and will be away two
or three weeks. He will spend his va
cation visiting with his brothers and
sisters in Illinois.
Michael Dowd and Peter Miller, SEN
fenced to the penitentiary from Denver
convicted Of election irregularities, ar
rived at the penitentiary at Canon City
on the 18th inst.
A dispatch from Oyster Bay July
18th says: William G. Lewis Of Colo
RADIO to-day was appointed to be sur
veyor general Of Colorado under the
General Land Office.
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.
!. The fourteen-months-ol baby son OF
Mr.. and Mrs. Hal Baird of Goldfield
managed to get hold of some strych7
nine tablets on the 10th inst, and ate
enough to cause its death.
The old Palisades hotel at Gunnison
was burned on the morning of the 18th
inst 1t was built about twenty-five
years ago at reported cost Of 100000
and was insured for a considerable
sum.
The Morgan County National Bank
of Fort Morgan has been authorized to
begin business with a capital of $50
900. NJ. l.. More is president. r. NJ.
Mandy, vice president, and J. H. Roed-
iger, cashier.
The grading of the Pennington line
of the Denver & Rio Grande has been
completed as far as Aztec and track
laid for fifteen miles below Durango.
Several of the grading contractors are
i preparing to move to other fields.
The next convention to swoop down
on Colorado viii be that of the Fra
ternal Order of Eagles, which will
meet at Denver August 14th. An inn
mense gathering is anticipated and
they propose to soar all over the state.
The Pueblo steel works are receiv-
ing more than 500 tons of iron ore per
day from the iron deposits in Mime
sofa. This, it is said. will continue,
until the new deposits in Wyoming are
opened up to the satisfaction of the
company.
The state convention of the Ameri-
can Order of Protection will be held at
Florence July eth, when delegates to
the supreme convention to be held in
Lincoln in September, will be elected
Twenty-Five delegates are expected
from outside lodges.
The state memorial statue to be
erected in honor of the Coloradans
who served in the Civil War, for which
$4,000 was appropriated by the last
Legislature, will be placed in front OF
the capitol building in Denver, where
the flagpole now stands.
Melvin Acorn. the eager employed in
the 10 Dandy mine on Raven hill at
Cripple Creek. was killed on the 10th
inst, by falling off the cage and going
down the shaft 12O feet. He had gone
down to the fourth level to bring the
miners up to surface for dinner.
An old man was robbed and brutally
1,np no ut Sail
the 14th inst. by two tramps. On his
tai 1t was found that his skull was frac-
tured in thirteen different places. He
has been identified as Frank Geron.
A public drinking fountain was un-
yelled at Trinidad on the 18th inst
1t was erected by the w. c. T. U. as
memorial TO the late Mrs. P. d.
Learnard, former president of the un-
ion, who was well known throughout
the state as {. prominent temperance
worker.
At recent meeting of the state land
board an order was entered selling
1,500 acres of land in the San Luis val
ley to the Colorado Valley Land Com
pany. This is the tract that the board
recently inspected, and it is taken over
by an irrigation company which pro-
poses to water it.
Pueblo people have purchased tho
Western League baseball franchise SO
long held by Colorado Springs. and the
fans" at the Springs will now have to
content themselves with amateur
games. The Pueblo club begins way
down next to the bottom, where it left
off at Colorado Springs.
Miss Maude Fealy opens her second
week at Elitch's gardens, Denver,
Sunday night, August 22nd. in the title
role of the stirring drama of Queen
Elzabeth's time, Dorothy Vernon of
Haddon Hall" Miss Fealys popu-
larty in Colorado is demonstrated by
crowded houses at every performance.
VIII r. Eerril curator at tho Ct,ta