The Glenwood post., 1905-02-25
COLORADO NEWS ITEMS

rate flower contest in Denver next
summer
Extensive beds of gypsum have been
located eighteen miles west of Pueblo
and it is proposed to put up mill.
Rock breaking has been commenced
on the Pennington railroad south of
Durango.
1t is now stated that the Manitou &
Pixies Peak cog road will not be cleo
trified this year as has been contem-
plated.
Isaac Rosskam, who died at Phila-
delphia recently, left $1,000 for the Ma
tional Jewish Hospital for Consump-
tives at Denver.
William +. Jones, auditor of the Mof-
fat road, who has recently returned
from the East. states positively that
the road has not been sold.
1t is said that creamery men
throughout the state propose to take
active steps to enforce the law in re-
latlon to oleomargarine and butterine.
The name, San Cristobal," as ap-
piled to a body of water in Hinsdale
county, has received the approval of
the United States Board on Geograph
ical Names.
Chris Laib of Longmont was badly
frozen while trying to walk from Ned
erland to Caribou on the 18th inst, and
1t may be necessary to amputate some
of his limbs.
The Colorado Springs Municipal
League has been formed by leading
citizens to investigate the manage
ment of city affairs. A paid secretary
will be employed.
Boulder county is looking up. A few
days ago Mrs. John Freeburg of Louis
vile gave birth to three healthy boys.
The father is coal miner and both
parents are natives of Sweden.
The Fruit and Produce Association
of Colorado Springs has induced the
express companies to deduct twenty
five per cent. from the gross weight of
poultry shipments as an allowance for
ice.
Numerous robins and meauow larks
made their appearance in many parts
of Colorado previous to the recent eX-
tremely cold weather and it is feared
that some CT them may have been
killed by it.
Oscar C. ReitZe. former president of
the Reitze Wall Paper and Paint Com
pany at Denver, committed suicide by
shooting himself through the head in
his room at the Baltimore hotel at Vic
tor February 18th.
Mrs. Jennie Peabody, widow OF the
late Jesse Peabody. and sster-in-law
of Gov. James II. Peabody, died at her
home in Canon City February 18th,
eight days after having suffered a
stroke of paralysis.
Several members of band of gyp-
sizes We're arrested for vagrancy at
Denver a few days ago. The gypsies
have been travelling through the coun-
try,t supported mostly by the earnings
OF the women as fortune tellers.
The late FLA Falkenburg will be
succeeded as head consul of the Wood
men of the World by John II. Foley
head adviser of the order, until meet
ing of the head board of managers
| can be held to make permanent Sc
| lection
Mrs. Elizabeth Sopris, widow of
Richard Sopris, former mayor of Den
yer. celebrated her 9Oth birthday ami
yersary at Denver on the 18th inst
Richard SopTis, was the first represen-
lullNt Vi lHt Int > tdh country Ill
the Kansas Legislature.
Fifty-fivs carloads of lambs, mum
berng 1900 head, left the depot at
Greeley for Omaha, St. Joseph and
Chicago February 10th. 1t is estimated
that about one-half of the sheep being
fattened for market in northern Colo.
RADIO have been sold.
Ca11c Of hn nj o..
Pixies Peak cog road, who has Just
returned from an eastern trip, says
that everybody in the East is headed
the largest number of Colorado tour,
lists in the history of the state.
Miss Margaret Prendergast, first as,
sistant in the Department OF Domestic
Art at the Colorado Agricultural Col,
lege has ben elected to the professor
ship of domestic science and art at the
Wyoming Agricultural College and will
begin her duties there next Septem.
ger.
The second annual convention of the
. first district association, knights of
Pythias, at La Junta, February goth,
was largely attended and in every way
elected: President, A. b. Wallis of La
Junta; secretary, G. II. Winchell of
La Junta; treasurer, William Welles
of ManZanola.
The trial of Charles Wynn, alleged
to be Wellington Llewellyn, for the
murder of Policemen Thomas Clifford
and William Grifiiths, will be held at
Denver during the second week in
March. 1t is claimed that many wit
nesses will swear to the identity of
Wynn and Llewel!-n, which the de-
tense will deny.
Thirty members of the senior and
junior classes of the engineering
school of the University OF Colorado
will visit the big smelter and reduction
plants at Colorado City and Pueblo and
the mines at Cripple Creek. during the
week beginning March 9th This is
part of the required course, and all
students in the department must at
tend.
q joint committee has been appoint