The Grit-advocate., 1905-05-19
COLORADO NEWS ITEMS


prairie dog village is another attrac-
tion for the children.
The Colorado Horse and Cattle
Growers Association is laying plans
for the wholesale destruction Of prai-
rie dogs on the ranges.
Colorado Springs has an ordinance
forbidding the beating of carpets inside
the city limits. The inhabitants get
dust enough from other sources.
If experiments that are to be con-
Quoted this season in beet culture are
successful Durango will make a-strong
bid for beet sugar factory next year.
Henry Wianand. who murdered his
wife in Denver last January. has been
sentenced to an indeterminate term
OF from ten to fifteen years in the pen
itentiary.
Thursday, June 1st. has been de-
cided upon as the date for the com
mencement exercises at the Colorado
State School for the Deaf and Blind.
Six students will graduate.
Miss Belle p. Gill of Denver has
been appointed deputy state dairy
commissioner under Mrs. Mary
Wright. Miss Ella Wright held the Of
fee during the past Two years.
Fifty thousand young trout were re.
ceived at Salda recently from the
Gunnison hatchery and taken to the
South Arkansas and turned into the
river by committee of citizens.
Mrs. Mary E. Lapier was elected
foreman of jury in divorce case at
Cripple Greek a few days since. She
bears the distinction of being the first
woman jurist to serve in Teller county.
Postmaster l.. c. Dana has received
authority from Washington to adver-
tise for bids for the construction of the
United States postoffice in Colorado
Springs, to be erected at cost of
$135,00O.
The Montrose Chamber of Com
merce has issued 10000 pamphlets Of
twenty pages each entitled Facts Per
tinent to Montrose County, in the
Heart of the Uncompahgre Valley and
Under the Gunnison Tunnel"
Rev. William Potts George, who was
succeeded by DR.. J. S. Montgomery at
Trinity M. e. church. Denver. will &C
cept the call of Bishop Hamilton to fill
the pulpit of Washington Street M. E.
church at Poughkeepsie, New York.
By the falling of bin under which
they We're working in the Portland ce
ment works at Florence on the 18th
inst, Grove Miller, Reuben Bayliss and
George Leonard were crushed to
death. They were all young men and
single. ..,.
The Carpenters District Union of
Denver has issued a statement that the
mechanics have not combined with the
builders to raise prices. They also
state that the cost of building is no
greater now than at any time for the
past five years.
At Salida on the Sth inst. Archie
kimball, aged seventeen years cap.
tured young mountain lion which had
been driven into the city by the heavy
SHOWS. He made a cage for the animal
and intended to keep it, but during
the night it escaped.
In the recent award of twenty-five
fellowships by the state university Of
Wisconsin, r. H. Hess. a graduate OF
Colorado College. was chosen fellow in
political economy and Helen Summer
of Denver was made honorary fellow
in the same branch.
The following postmosters have been
appointed in Colorado: Charles NJ.
Ayres, Needleton, La Plata county.
vice A. A. Steward, resigned John S.
kemnitZ, RosiIa, Custer county, vic"
w. l.. Kirk, resigned; George NJ. White.
Vega, Mesa county, vice H. n. Camp
bell, resigned.
Dressed in overalls and jumpers. 200
students Of the University of Denver
recently planted 200 trees on the cam
pus. This was the direct result of a
department of landscape gardening
which has been installed at the uni
versity. Ash, elm and locust trees
were planted.
The result of examinations of the
mineral waters of Manitou by Profes
sor Wolcott of the School of Mines,
which showed that the waters were ra
dio-active. has caused local promoters
to think seriously of erecting large
sanitarium in Manitou for the cure Of
cancerous diseases.
Governor Mcdonald and Attorney
General Miller have arranged to retain
the services of Professor Carpenter
former state engineer pending the de
cision Of the Kansas Colorado water
suit. No other man is so we'll informed
on the question in controversy and his
services will be invaluable.
The time for putting in operation
the new stage route from Arrowhead
to points in Routt county has been
changed from May 18th to June 1st,
owing to the impossible condition of
the roads over the range, there being
from two to three feet of snow on the
level for many miles on both sides OF
the summit.
Great interest is shown by Pueblo
real estate dealers who handle ranch
lands in the soil culture scheme advo-
Gated by the Business Mems Associa-
ton. Many experiments are being
conducted in the growth of different
products on arid lands without irriga-
ton, and thus far they are said to
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