The Grit-advocate., 1905-05-26
COLORADO NEWS ITEMS

Inc STATE convention OF the Ordef OF
Elks will be held at Salida June 5th
and 9th.
The Boulder Chautauqua board has
invited Tom Lawson TO make an ad-
dress next summer.
The national convention OF the Or
der of Eagles will be held in Denver
during the week beginning August
l4th.
Salida is making extra preparations
for a Fourth of July celebration and
has sent out invitations to all neigh
boring towns.
The association of railway tele-
graph superintendents at its session
in Chattanooga, selected Denver as the
next place of meeting.
A telephone exchange will be in
stalled at the state capitol building at
Denver to accommodate the thirty
three offices using telephones.
Mr. North, the director of the census,
estimates the present population of
Colorado at GO2,925, Il gain of l2,G45
over the estimate for last year.
The American Stockgrowers Asso-
citation, recently organized, will main
tain central office in Denver in
charge of Secretary T. w. Tomlinson.
The Denver posts of the Grand
Army of the Republic have made az
rangements for an immense June fair
and festival, beginning June 2lst and
lasting nine days.
In the District Court at Denver.
Judge Johnson has rendered deci-
sion affirming the validity of the
spring election last year. The case
will be appealed to the Supreme Court.
James Mcbride of Barela, in Las An
imas county, was bitten by rattle
snake on the 18th inst. and, insteadd
Of resortins to orthodox whiskey,
drank twenty pounds of milk and re-
covered.
Dr. l.. S. Turner of Trinidad has been
named member of the board of con
troll of the State University in place
of DR.. Corwin of Pueblo, who resigned
to become a member of the State Nor
NAL School at Greeley.
A second dividend of thirty per
cent. in favor of the creditors of the
First National Bank of Victor, Colo
RADIO, has been declared, making in all
sixty per cent. on claims proved
amounting 10 9GoD, iJ4.Oi.
DR.. Luke McLain, city health com
missioner of Pueblo has issued a proc
lamation calling upon citizens of all
classes to join in general movement
to clean up the city and make Pueblo
a healthier and better city.
George Huber Weiss of Elizabeth,
Colorado, while bathing at Santa Mon
ipn nj
ried out TO sea by the undertow and
drowned. Weiss was twenty-four years
of age and leaves a mother at Eliza
beth.
Mai. w. r. Norcroff, a Union colony
pioneer and veteran of the Civil War.
has organized a drum corps of forty
boys at Greeley from twelve to eight
cen years of age, which he will take to
the national G. A. X. encampment at
Denver.
The first excursion of the present
year over the Moffat road will be given
on June Sth, when the Denver, North
western & Pacific company will carry
the employees of the Denver TramWay
Company to Tolland on their annual
picnic.
The Santa Fe company will drive
a new tunnel under Ration hill, south of
Trinidad, at a cost of 81 l,OOO 900 The
contract has been let to the firm OF
Corrgan & Mcdonald of Pueblo. which
will place a force of several hundred
men at work in few days.
Evidence on the part of Colorado be.
fore the Kansas-Colorado water suit
commission was closed May 18th. Al
ter an interval of two weeks the COM
mission will again convene in Kansas,
where for about three weeks final eVi-
dence for that state will be taken.
A bond in the sum of $4,000 has been
filed by Messrs. White. HogIe and
Burns, the Portland fair commission
ers, with the secretary Of state. II Is
10 guarantee the return of the exhibits,
and to secure the state that they Will
not eXpend over $4,000 for the pur-
pose of making the exhibit.
An Enterprise. Oregon. dispatch says
that J. H. McBain of Grand Junction,
Colorado, who April 9TH shot and
killed the frost brothers at West
Grossman, Oregon, has been found
guilty of murder in the second degree.
According to McBain's story the Trosts
Jumped his ranch and he was forced to
'''ll them in self-defensc.
The report of the earnings of the
Denver 4 Rio Grandc for the first
week in May shows a substantial in
crease over the corresponding week
last year The earnings this year
amounted to 100000. an increase of
$4,000. The earnings from July lst
to May 7th show an increase of S3l9,-
600 over the corresponding period of
the year before.
Actuated by jealousy Frank f.
Cowles shot and killed Miss Stella
Boice at Pueblo May 18th, and then
shot himself through the head. dying
within few hours. Cowles is said
to have been member of the Order of
Railway Conductors. and the girl he
shot is reported to have formerly