The Grit-advocate., 1905-05-12
COLORADO NEWS ITEMS
Strawberry Day will be celebrated
at Glenwood Springs June 18th.

Both.
The school census just taken at Fort
Collins shows 2.O66 persons of school
age being an increase OF 224 over last
year.
The Colorado Springs and Denver
base ball teams are considerably below
the top in the Western League SO far
this spring.
The Colorado & Southern railroad
has decided to extend its line to Apex.
a distance of seven miles from Black
Hawk, this summer.
1t is expected that the Pueblo sta
ton of the De Forest wireless tele-
graph service at Lake Minnequa will
be in operation within a few days.
A miners drilling contest Will be
one of the features OF the Boulder
Chautauqua on the Fourth of July. Au-
tomobile races will be another attrac-
lion.
Joel +. Vaile. at a recent meeting of
the directors of the Denver d Rio
Grande held in New York city. was
elected to succeed the late Edward o.
WolcOtt.
Judge Frank W. Overs of the Fifth
Judicial district is taking a vacation,
having gone East last month via Gal.
weston. He will visit England before
his return.
II is said to be definitely decided
that the Colorado & Southern will
operate motor cars between Denver
and Boulder some time between now
and fall.
Mr( 70 n nI
mayor of Durango. has taken a firm
stand for municipal ownership of the
lighting plant. street railway and
sewer system.
Ex-Governor John l.. Routt. whose
health has been quite precarious of
late, is said to be getting much
stronger. He lives at the Metropole
hotel in Denyer.
The case involving the right Of
the city of Denver to issue bonds for
the building Of an auditorium will be
argued before the Supreme Court of
the state May 10th.
Judge Riner in the federal court at
Denver has decided that the Pullman
Car Company is not liable for the state
fee sought to be imposed on its In
crease of capital stock.
The National Electric Light Asso,
citation will hold its twenty-eighth an,
nual convention at Denver June 9Th tC
11th. A broncho busting contest is
being planned as part of the enter
tainment.
The Pueblo City Council has called
on the mayor to appoint a committee OF
three aldermen and three business
men to take preliminary steps toward
securing a supply of mountain water
for Pueblo.
John O'Neill, pit boss, and Frank
Carmaletto and James Roe. miners
were killed by the cavinS Of great
mass of rock in the Starkville mine OF
the Colorado Fuel Il Iron Company on
the morning of May 5th.
E. H. Wilson, tried in the district
court at Pueblo on the charge of false
registration. was found guilty. The
case will be taken to the Supreme
Court on the plea that the Booth regis
! tration law acts as a bar to convic
| tiOn.
An offer has been received by the
Denver Juvenile Improvement Associa
tion from +. p George to give large
| plot of ground. between Eleventh anG
Twelfth avenues. two blocks south OF
City Park. as a playground for chill
dren.
Mrs. Eldora Steele. &c years of age
who has lived in Elyria for severa
years. recently made the 1,OOO-mllt
journey from Denver to Santa Ana
Cal, to be married to II. w. Hill OF
Los Angeles, who is three years hcI
senior.
Receipts at the Denver mint for the
month of April amounted to S2,2SG,9l6
The government is preparing to begin
the coinage of money at the mint in
August or September. Gold and silver
are now being stored in anticipation
of this.
At the annual meeting of the Denver
Union Depot and Railway Company
$2.5OO was voted towards the fund 1oI
the welcome" arch to face the depot
at the foot of Seventeenth street. The
old officers and directors OF the com
pany were reelected.
The Baptist church, the Oldest
church cdfice in Greeley, built in the
early '70s, is receiving an addition
|
show their good will, the men mem
bers of the congregation have under
taken 10 do all the work of building.
State Auditor A. T.. Bent has ap'
pointed j. l.. Frazier to the position OF
assistant boOkkecper. This Office was
| created by the recent Legislature III
accordance with the suggestion con
tanned in the annual report of Former
Auditor John A. Holmberg, the salary
being fixed at l.2o0 per annum.
Colorado people who wish to attend
the National Educational Association
meeting at Ocean Grove. New jersey
July Sd to 9TH. or to visit other East
| ern points. can go via either New York
or Washington, leaving Denver June
2Sth for the sum of si9.4O. plus s.
membership fee, for the ROUND trip.