The Grit-advocate., 1905-06-09
COLORADO NEWS ITEMS

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Gov. Joseph Folk Of Missouri is ex-
pected to visit Colorado this summer
IN his way home from the Portland
Exposition.
The five Grand Army posts of Den
yer will unite in holding a great June
Fair and Festival at Denver June 21st
to July 1st.
Many men are going from Trinidad
to work on the construction of the new
railroad from Durango to Pennington,
New Mexico.
Many thousands acres Of peat
lands have been discovered near Tol-
land on the Moffat road, and plans are
being formulated for the manufacture
of fuel from it.
The Tivoli-Union brewery in Denver
was set on fire by stroke of lightning
June I'd and burned to the ground. The
loss Of building and contents is esti-
mated at about 100000.
In the Western Baseball League the
Denevr team manages to hold pretty
steadily to third place, while Colorado
Springs seems to be safely anchored
at the bottom of the list.
Miss Nellie Donahue, cx-city treas
urer of Victor, was acquitted by jury
of the charge of misappropriating the
sum of STAG, city funds, during the
time she was in Office from 1900 to
1902.
The six-year-old daughter of Mr..
and Mrs. John Ryan of Pryor, Huer-
fano county, set her dress on fire while
working at the kitchen stove on the
29th ult., and was so badly burned that
she died next day.
Stephen and Charles Imprey, CON
victed of statutory crime against
Gertrude Miller at Leadville, have
been pardoned The girl last winter
made an affidavit that she swore
falsely against the men.
J. NJ. Hollands big ranch, twenty.
nine miles northeast of Pueblo has
been sold to J. J. Rose of Colorado
Springs for $G5,000. The ranch COM
prises many acres and several thou
sand head of cattle.
May receipts with the State Land
office is growing gradually. The re-
ceipts last month were $25,5O2.25. In
May, 1903, the receipts were 20,723.11,
d
Colorado is entitled to twenty dele
gates to the eleventh International
Sunday School convention, which will
be held in Tol onto, Canada, June 23d-
9th, and it is expected that many be-
sides the delegates will take the trip.
Sia Tieng Ang, Chinese graduate
of the University of Denver, and a
young man of much ability, died of con-
sumption Ut the Oakes Home in Den
yer, Juns I'd. Mr.. Sia had many ac-
Guaintances in Denver and was very
popular.
The United Brotherhood Of Railway
Trainmen, the Eagles, the letter car
riers' union and the carpenters union
are considering the building of homes
and sanitariums in Colorado for the
benefit of their members throughout
the country.
Authority for the expenditure OF Si5,-
900 for the improvement of the road
bed between Boulder and Fort Col
Inns on the Colorado & Southern has
been signed by President Frank Trum-
bull The track will be slagged for the
entire distance.
The congressional irrigation party
which left Kansas City June 1st, has
changed it's schedule to arrive in
Cheyenne June 3Oth, arrive in Denver
July 1st, Salida and Grand Junction
July I'd, Colorado Springs July 5th, and
dlsband in Denver July 5th and 9Th.
Attorney Lyman l. Henry, law part
ner of Congressman H. M. Hogg, was
purged of contempt by answers he filed
in the District Court at Pueblo to for
ty-nine interrogatories submitted by
District Attorney F. II. White. AS soon
as his answers had been read by the
court Mr.. Henry was discharged.
Mike Hanak the four-year-old son OF
Mr.. and Mrs. Clyde Hanak of Marshall,
in Boulder county, while picking flow
ers for the commencement exercises
on hill near Marshall, was fatally Bit
ten by rattlesnake. He was bitten
about - o'clock Saturday morning
June Sd, and died at 9 O'Clock the same
evening.
In 1903 the collection for liquor H.
censes by the state treasurer amounted
to $47,S75, and in 1904 they reached the
sum of $53,575. 1t looks now as if by
the end of the fiscal present year, in
December next, the collections will
reach the sum of s65,OOO. This result
is due to putting out the collectors
over the state.
C. B. Cooper of the American De
Forest Wireless Telegraph Company
has selected a site for the main receiv-
ing station for the Cripple Creek dis
trict. 1t is at point west of the Amer
lean Eagles mine on Bull hill, at which
point receiving station will be estab'
lished. The altitude Of Bull hill Is
above 10000 feet.
Chief Game Warden F. A. Gordon, To-
Gated at Glenwood Springs, has writ
ten to Commissioner Woodard that he
has caused the arrest of A. F. koehler
on a charge of polluting the Frying
Pan river by dumping lime into it at
his lime kilns. Koehler was taken be.
fora a justice at Meredith and fined SO