The Grit-advocate., 1905-10-13
COLORADO NEWS ITEMS

The approximate assessed valuation
for the city and county Of Denver for
the year 1905. IL 3116.212.943.
Ground was broken on the 3Oth ul-
timo for the new Central high school
building in district 20. Pueblo.
Sheriff Davis of Trinidad has bought
a pair Of bloodhounds, warranted to
follow the scent Of criminals.
w. E. Porter of Loveland lost two
fingers Of his right hand a few days
ago while helping to move heavy
safe.
Lee Bostette< was killed by falling
bucket in a shaft Of the Gold Sovereign
mine at Cripple Creek on the I'd in
stant.
Mrs. Kate T. Bennett has been ap-
pointed regular and John s. Wiltsie
substitute rural carrier on Route at
Longmont.
Scarcity of milk in Greeley has oc-
casioned a raise in price. dairymen
who formerly charged cents a quart
now charging z.
The Association Ct American Rail-
way Surgeons. at its meeting in Chi.
cago. elected DR.. r. W. Corwin of Pu-
eblo. Colorado, president.
In the District Court at Cripple
Creek, James Warford and Walter Ken
ley were found guilty of assault with
intent to kill Sheriff Edward Bell.
Judge Dixon has decided that the in
junction issued by the District Court
on Pueblo county against the ticker
brokers will stand until the Supreme
Court can pass upon the matter.
About $1,000 was collected at the
United States internal revenue ONCE
in Denver curing the month of Septem-
| ber. The territory covered by the Of
hce includes Colorado and Wyoming.
Gen. w. ]. Palmer has offered to
bear the expense OF converting Dor
chester park at Colorado Springs into
a pleasure retreat and children's play
ground, provided the city will estab-
1ish street grades and approaches.
This will be done at once.
The Boulder Poultry Association has
been organized with membership of
twenty. The officers are: L. R. Nelson.
president; NJ. H. Crandall, vice presi
dent, AMI d. w. McNutt, secretary and
treasurer. 1t has been decided to hold
poultry show December 18th to 10th,
inclusive.
The state treasurer's office is making
a record collecting the liquor license
tax this year. In the ten months clos
ing September Goth there was collected
! s65, 1926, which is $15,425 in excess of
the same period last year, and $11 800
in excess Of the entire year 1904. The
collections will probably run to $4,000
by January 1st.
All records for the production OF
beet sugar by the American Beet Su-
gar Company, with factories at Rocky
Ford and Lamar, Colorado, will be
broken this season, it is believed by
the officers. During this season, the
factories will give employment to 500
laborers who will receive from $2.10
to $3.50 per day for their work.
The secretary of the interior has
| executed contract with Orman &
Crook of Pueblo for the construction
of divisions 10 to q, inclusive, OF the
south canal of the Uncompahgre val
J ley irrigation project. Colorado. By
! the terms of the contract the work
must be completed within one year
from the date of the execution of the
| contract.
Following its improvement OF its
station grounds at Colorado Springs,
the Denver & Rio Grande Railroad
Company will expend several thousand
dollars in enlarging and improving the
building. The baggage room, now at
the south end of the depot, will be re.
moved to the north, and the present
building will be occupied by the ex-
| press companies.
The first convention of its kind ever
held in any western state, a gathering
of secretaries of Colorado chambers Of
commerce and boards of trade, will be
held in Denver, Tuesday, October Gath.
The convention will be under the aus
pices of the Colorado State CONNER
cfal Association, and all meetings will
be held in the headquarters of the as
sociation, 7O7 Eighteenth street.
Henry Light, a former resident of
Montrose, was killed at Dragon, Utah,
on the 29th ultimo, by falling off the
wagon bridge near the hotel. His
death was instantaneous. Light was
about seventy years of age andsha
been a resident. of Montrose for the
last thirteen years, most of the time
being in the employ of the Denver &
Rio Grande Express Company.
Governor Mcdonald has been invited
by the executive committee in charge
to name delegates to the interstate
commercial law convention which is
to be held at the Auditorium hotel,
in Chicago, October 26th and 9th The
object of the convention is to urge
upon Congress the necessity for gov
ernment supervision of railroad rates,
along the lines suggested in the Pres
ident's last message.
This is the way Fremont county
cackles in the Denver Republican:
III A. Tennis of Florence has the most
productive hens ever raised in Ere.
mont county. He has one hen that has
brought off three settings of young
ones this year. four that laid every day
during the summer, spring chicken
that is not five months old that is the
mother of thirteen young chickens, and