The Glenwood post., 1905-12-09
COLORADO NEWS ITEMS


sion from the school.
1t is expected that the Moffat road
terminal will be completed so that it
will be running into Denver on its own
tracks about Christmas.
One hundred teachers were in at
tendance at the meeting of the Arkan-
sas Valley Teachers Association in
Pueblo, which closed December I'd.
T. ]. Dugan. president of the Ma
tional Bank of Commerce of Denver,
has decided to drill wells for artesian
water on the Gale ranch in Beaver
A r. Meyer, one of the founders Of
Leadville, who built the first sampling
and smelling works there, died at Kan
sas City, December list, of rheumatism
of the heart.
The comptroller of the currency has
authorized the Berthoud National
Bank to begin business with $4,000
capital. T. C. Bunyan, president; John
Bunyan, cashier.
The auditorium committee of the
Denver City Council will receive offers
of sites up to December 18th. No site
will be considered that has less than
sixteen full city lots.
AT special election to vote upon
the refunding of the lake City water
bonds, the vote was almost unanimous
in favor of the proposition, two voting
against and 20 for it,
The contract for the erection of the
sugar beet factory to be built at Brush
for the crop of 1906 was let December
I'd to Byhre & Co of Cleveland, Ohio.
Work will begin December Goth.
Tho Stato S,pra,,a Court bnc do
cided that life insurance companies
are not subject to money Judgment
unless the insured personally makes
a revocation in favor OF his creditors.
Some boys who were refused ride
on the electric cars at Trinidad are
believed to have heaped rocks on the
track. throwing a car off the track and
injuring one of the passengers, Miss
Gladys Bent.
Crude oil by the bucketful has been
struck at the Gwillim ranch, twelve
miles northeast of Colorado Springs,
at 920 feet. The second oil stratum
has been penetrated, and rapid prog
resS is expected.
At Denver, December list, Mrs. ].
w. Hampton was run over by an auto
mobile and severely injured, suffering
a dislocation of the thigh. The driver
never stopped and at last accounts had
not been caught and lynched.
An election will be called at Fort
Morgan to vote bonds to construct an
electric light plant to be owned and
managed by the city of Fort Morgan
and run in connection with the water
works plant in the same building.
Horace De Moss of Colorado City
was so incensed at the theft of his
thirty-pound prize turkey, which was
stolen from his hen coop Thanksgiv-
ing morning, that he offered IS reward
for the conviction of the thief.
A New York dispatch states that the
Colorado Fuel and Iron Company has
sold its entire output of steel rails for
the year 1906 and practically all of the
product for the year 1907. The dis
patch estimated the output of rails at
100000 tons.
The dead body of George Lines, a
wolfer and trapper, was found in his
cabin on Lone Tree, seven miles south
of Gillette on Sunday, the Sd inst A
coroner's jury was summoned and
brought in verdict of death from
acute alcoholism.
T-uWdlu w. ItoDlHSDl, H. l.. ltDDlu-
son and e. NJ. Duncan were held up
by a lone robber in the office of the
Robinson Lumber Company at Den
lver on the evening of December 1st
and robbed of small sum of money
and gold watch.
: The receipts of the Canon City post
office for the month of November eX
ceed that of any month during the
fiscal year and exceeded by $500 the re-
ceipts for November, 1904. Every
month of the present year has eX-
ceeded the same month last year.
( Harrison r. Martin, one Of the best
known and most highly esteemed col
ored men of Denver who has been EN-
ployed in the Office of the Board of
! Public Works for the past fifteen
years December 1st. He leaves Il
widow and eleven surviving children.
In the District Court at Cripple
Creek the jury in the case of James A.
iWarford, charged with the murder of
! Ike Liebo at Goldfield on election day
Il year ago, brought in verdict of
murder in the first degree and recon-
mended sentence of Imprisonment
for life.
+, Dr. Harlan a. lraSk oil colorado
Springs, who has been in the Ell Paso
county jail eighteen months awaiting
action upon his application for writ
of supersedeas, after having been SEN
fenced to the penitentiary for six to
eight years for larceny of jewels from
patient, has been granted a new
trial.
Robert wilbraham. the Englishman
who was found dead in his chair at his
home near Greeley, was the owner of
the valuable Dixon ranch, willed to him
by Alfred Dixon, who was found dead
in his bed year ago. At Wilbraham's
death it was not known where his rel
atives were. Two days after his death,
Wilbraham's brother, living in Chi
cago, saw an account of his death and
sent the money required for funeral ex-
penses.
Judpe Renpett pf Grae1ev held a