The Grit-advocate., 1905-12-29
COLORADO NEWS ITEMS

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, The second trial of Mrs Helen
Schmidlap at Denver on the charge OF
numbering her husband has been set
for January 10th.
John Leigh, aged ifty-four. was
killed on the 18th inst. between Lafay'
ette and Louisville by being thrown
from his buggy in a runaway.
Sixteen designs for the proposed sol.
diers' monument at the capitol In Den
yer have been submitted and are now
on exhibition at the governors ofice.
William Van Horn was sentenced In
the District Court at Pueblo to from
one to two years in the penitentiary
for a murderOus assault on q colOred
porter.
A big clock is to be installed in the
clock tower Of the city hall at Den
yer. on which the handless dials have
long reproached the folly Of the mu.
nicipal builders.
Former State Labor Commissioner
]. w. Brentlinger died at Pueblo a few
days ago. His funeral was held in the
Fountain Presbyterian church and was
largely attended.
There were 1856 deaths In Colorado
during the month of November. OF
this number twenty-six were caused by
typhoid fever, which Is much less than
during the previous month.
The annual report OF the Denver
Board of Public Works ending Decem-
ber 10th has been made public. In
that time 5000, 1880 had been ex,
pended in public improvements.
dent of Miners Union No. 40, and an
active participant in labor troubles in
the Cripple Creek district, died at To
nopah, Nevada, December 10th, Of
pneumonia.
Representative Brooks shas intro.
duced bill authorizing the resurvey
of fifty townships In Baca county.
These lands were surveyed many years
ago. but the old markings are practi-
cally obliterated.
Wilson Finney. foreman for w. S.
Scott Of Nederland, on the Graham
lease near that town, was accidentally
killed December 18th by an explosion
Of dynamite which he was handling.
He leaves widow and three children.
A Washington dispatch says that
,
for the past five years general secre-
tary Of the Young Mems Christian AS
ISOLATION, has resigned, to take effect
December 81, on account Of impaired
health.
Ten loaded coal cars at the Garfield
coal mine at Coal creek In some man
ner started down the tipple into the
mine, and after travelling at almost
lightning speed for nearly 1000 feet.
struck the face of the coal and most
of them were demolished.
The citizens of Boulder have Just fn-
ished raising funds amounting to more
than $4,000, for the erection of a
Young Mems Christian Association
building. Boulder has never had an
association. but Is preparing to start
in the right way with an adequate
home for its young men. This will be
the second building to be owned by a
Y. M. C. A. in Colorado.
The Greeley correspondent of the
Denver Republican says: The people
in Ault and vicinity are agitating the
propriety of dividing Weld county into
two parts. The proposed division
would be made a few miles north Of
Greeley. All the country north Of that
line would be known as Ault county,
with Ault as the county seat. and Gree.
ley would remain the county seat OF
the southern tract.
Nearly twenty weight miles of sewers
have been constructed in Denver this
year. There are now fifty-seven miles
Of streets surfaced with disintegrated
granite. The paved streets of Denver
measure 1914 miles. And there are
nearly 219 miles of sidewalks in the
city limits. The total value of the pub
lie improvements in the city under the
care of the Board of Public Works
is placed at $s,5S5,s04.32.
A Cheyenne dispatch says that ST.
mon Smith, the richest colored man
in Wyoming; J. r. Booth and Albert
Jones have purchased the Half-Dia.
moni-Dot ranch, in South Park, Colo.
RADIO, for $1O5,375, and will take charge
of the property July 1st. Smith, who
started his fortune at Cheyenne few
years ago as city garbage removal con
tractor, has $4,000 interest in the
deal The ranch is to be managed by
Smiths twenty-year-old son Carl, who
Is the champion negro broncho buster
of Wyoming.
Is Denver seaport? Charles L.
Tutt of Colorado Springs has named
Denver as the port of entry Of his
yacht, the Anemone. On the 14th inst.
the Anemone left New York on a 1900
mile trip around the Horn to San
Diego, California. 1t will arrive there
about April and Mr.. and Mrs. Tut and
party will take three months cruise
around the waters of southern Califor-
| MIA June and July they VI go far.
ther north to Puget sound, where Mr.
property at Waldo, Oregon.
The following new patents have been
issued to Coloradans: Robert H. Bow
man, Canon City, combination tool (;
Peabody A. Brown, Denver, thermo
stat; Walter c. Cunningham and w. A
Stebbins, Denver, edge ironing and
shaping machine; Frank H. Franken
burg, Pueblo, lawn mower; Henry w
Gremmels, Denver, combined socket
and plug for incandescent lamps; Kate
Mercer, Greeley, attachment for pickle
casters; Herman p. Neptune. Boulder
shinge gage; David Plattner, Denver
hay stacker; George w. Skinner, Jr.
Denver, centrifugal pump.
Mrs. Mary Weston died at her home
near Buena Vista, December 18th, at
the age, of ninety years. She was the
Oldest settler living in the valley, hav-
ing lived in the stone house where she
died for nearly forty years. She came
tn Colorado in the aorly cSytipc croSG.