North Park union., 1905-12-01
COLORADO NEWS ITEMS

will hold its national convention a
Denver next August.
More than 5000 tons Of beets ar
piled up at Delta awaiting transports
tion to the sugar factory.
An attempt will be made to pass Al
ordinance In Denver requiring the US
Of wide tires on freight wagons.
All Of the old directors of the Colo
RADIO 4 Southern railroad were re
elected ut the annual meeting held IL
Denver.
Women are to be allowed to TAX
part in the shooting tournament of tn,
Canon City Gun Club On Thanksgiv
ing day.
Montrose has become a city of thu
second class by action Of Governor Nc
population of 2.30s.
Arthur ]. Ventress, who was injured
by being thrown from trolley car II
the Newhouse tunnel at Idaho Springs
died on the 18th inst.
8. l.. Brooks, a former employe ol
the State Agricultural College. dropped
dead from heart failure on the streets
of Fort Collins. November goth.
1t is estimated that ten months will
be required to build the Moffat road
through Gore canon after the grade
reaches the entrance, which will be In
a week or two.
Bishop Cranston of the NJ. E.
Church, formerly of Denver, was mar
ried to Miss Lucia NJ. Parker at Gin
cinnati. Ohio. on the 18th inst, Bishop
Moore officiating.
James p. True, pioneer of Colorado
and one of the first settlers Of Poncha
Springs, was found dead in his room
at Denver November GOTH. He was
seventy years OF age.
Eliza Thomas, convicted at Golden OF
criminal assault on his wife's fourteen.
year-old sister, was sentenced by Judge
France to three years in the State Pen
itentiary at Canon City.
Charles Reardon, Rio Grande sec
tion foreman near Buena Vista, was
struck by passenger train and killed
November 18th. He had been section
foreman on the road for sixteen years
Montrose has voted to give o. NJ
Clay and r. H. Washburn a twenty
five-year license for the construction
of gas plant. 1t is proposed to ex
pend $4,000 on the plant during the
next year.
Percy Ellis, the three-year-old son OF
Normal Ellis, was instantly killed near
Berthoud on the 18th inst. by falling
under the wheels of a loaded bee,
wagon, which passed over the chi1d's
head.
The residents and ditch companies
OF Chaffee and Fremont counties are
preparing to contest the use of the wa
ter rights from the Arkansas river
near Buena Vista. which were recently
acquired by the Otero district.
William Jennings Bryan is the
grandfather Of young Coloradan
who's, mother is Mrs. w. H. Leavitt
Mr.. Bryan's daughter. The youthful
statesman was born at the Lafayette
hotel In Denver on the 10th inst.
Out OF the frying pan into the fire
was the experience of o. H. Stevens
IN the District Court at Pueblo. After
being released from the insane asylum
he was sentenced to from two to three
years In the State Penitentiary fol-
perjury.
me new UulIuAue WINCH 9e W ps
used for Offices of the United States
reclamation service and the uncom
pahgre Valley Water Users Associa
ton at Montrose has been completed
and the government officers have
moved In.
A special election will be held in
Greeley, Tuesday, December 26th, fol
the purpose of voting on the question
of issuing 100000 bonds to supple
ment the $3.50, 900 bond issue voted last
spring to be used in increasing the
city's water supply.
Governor Mcdonald of Colorado and
Governor Brooks of Wyoming eN
changed greetings on the completion
of the wireless telegraph station at
Cheyenne last week. Their messages
were not SO weighty as to overtax the
light air of Colorado and Wyoming.
The body of Raymond Minister, the
Canon City boy who, on June 4th
while catching wood floating down the
Arkansas river. fell into the water
was found near Portland November
18th by j. w. Thompson while hunting
wood. The father identified the re
mains.
The special inspector sent by the
Postofflce Department to investigate
the federal building at Denver will re
port that the business of the Denver
postoflice has entirely outgrown the
Accommodations and that new build
ing ought to be provided for as soor
as possible.
The Douglas County Ditch and Res
ervoir Company has received TWEEN
ty-five.horse power engine built espe
cially for plowing and ditch work. The
engine weighs 5000 pounds and will bt
used by the company to plow, disk ant
seed at one operation the 1000 acre.
Of land owned by 1t in the vicinity o.
Castle Rock.
The Santa Fe Railway Company 1.
erecting a $4,000 building at La Junt;
for an employees club. 1t will be AZ,
100 feet in size, three stories and base
ment, and will have such convenience.
for railroad men as bath rooms, read
ing room, bowling alley, billiard hal
and Office room, while the upper stor,
will contain sleeping rooms.
H. R. Sahlgaard, vice consul at Den
yer for Sweden and Norway, has beer
appointed by both countries to act ir
the same capacity since their separa
ton. His Jurisdiction is not limited Il
the state Of Colorado, but comprise.
also the adjoining states and terrific
ries, as Utah, Idaho, Wyoming, Ari
zona, New Mexico and others.
In list of 112 policy holders quail
fed to act as directors of the Eouitabl,
the New York Herald includes the fol
lowing Colorado men, who are each in
sured for 100000 or over: Brown