The Grit-advocate., 1905-10-27
COLORADO NEWS ITEMS


meet at Florence next year.
The Greeley Starch and Potato Com
pany has been incorporated to manu-
facture starch from potatoes.
A sea gull. measuring more than
four feet from tip to tip Of its wings.
was recently shot near Florence.
The new sugar factory at Holly has
begun operations and it Is expected to
handle over $4,000 tons Of beets this
season.
A remarkably large number of peo-
pie attended the harvest festival at
Auit. Governor Mcdonald was among
tho visitors.
A postodice will be established at the
west portal OF the Gunnison tunnel, to
be called Lujane, with r. E. McCollum
as postmaster
The Denver Republican says that
Joel F.. Vaile will be candidate be-
fore the next Legislature for election
to the United States Senate.
Simon Guggenheim has given $1,000
to the West Side NeighbOrhood house
in Denver 1t will be made the nucleus
for fund to erect new building.
What troubles the Greeley starch
factories is that there are no small
| potatoes this year; or at least the
| farmers can't spare the time to handle
them.
Fred l.. Pahdleford has resigned as
! a member of the board of control of the
State Industrial School for Girls. In
doing SO he did not make his reasons
| public.
A Settlers Forest Reserve conven-
| ton. under the auspices of the Roaring
; Fork and Eagle River Stockgrowers'
Association has been called to meet at
Glenwood Springs. December 1st.
John Doyle. employed in the rail
mill at the Bessemer steel works, was
drawn into the machinery and in
stantly killed. He was twenty-five
years of age. unmarried, and had for
merly lived in Denver.
The first annual cowboy tournament
was held in Salida October 2lst. Cat
tlemen were present from Chaffee, Sa-
guache, Park and Fremont counties.
In the parade Saturday there were
fully 100 visiting cattlemen.
| Thomas c. Clayton believes he has a
good prospect for placer mining on
| some land the state owns near Castle
Rock. The State Land Board has
leased him 100 acres on the terms of a
ten per cent. royalty on the gross out
put.
Judge ]. c.. Abbott, aged about sixty
five years, an old-timer of the San
Juan country, was found dead in his
bed at the Hoffman House at Silverton
on the morning of the 10th inst, death
having been caused from heart fail
| ure.
The first report of the new Weather
Bureau station at Lake Moraine, on
Pixies Peak, 10000 feet above sea
level, was issued October 18th. The
| instruments were imported from
France through the generosity of Gen.
w. ]. Palmer.
Fifty dollars reward is offered by
State Game and Fish Commissioner J.
W. Woodward for information leading
to the conviction of the person or per.
sons who killed two fine elk on Sleepy
Cat mountain in Rio Blanco county re.
! Gently.
Ex-Mayor H. C. Watson of Greeley,
accompanied by his wife, has started
for trip around the world. A crowd
of friends met at his house the even
ing before his departure and presented
| him with valuable pair of field
| glasses.
Judge Moses Hallett, of the Federal
| Court, has refused to modify an in
| junction recently issued restraining
| the Ute Coal 4 Coke Company, of
Durango. from trespassing on govern
ment land from which the company has
been mining coal.
The law firm of Goudy & Twitchell
at Denver, in behalf of the relativea
| of Abe Schiller, the missing Alamosa
banker, advertises reward of $500 for
information which will lead to discov-
| cry of his whereabouts if alive, or the
| recovery Of his body il dead.
At its last meeting, the State Board
Of Audit allowed the bill of the Banks
Law Publishing Company of Chicago
and the state treasurer has cashed a
! warrant for it. The bill amounted to
$2,468 with interest. and portions of it
have been running for nearly ten years
1t is for publication of the reports.
Col. w. H. Sweeney. Jr, of Pueblo,
has been detailed by Adjutant General
Bulkeley Wells to collect the military
poll tax for the year 1904. Col Swee-
ney made an examination of the books
Of the tax in the state auditors office
and discovered that $25,000 remained
to be collected on the last years tax
Through the generosity of Simon
Guggenheim the State University has
acquired an important set of plants
from Routt county-a region hitherto
little known to botanIsts. He re-
Gently placed sum Of money at the
disposal of the regents for the pur-
chase of museum specimens and the
collection of plants.
A subscription is being taken up for
funds for the erection of new post
Office building at Silverton. and as
soon as the inspector settles upon a
site for the structure plans for the new
building will be adopted. and, if posi-
BILE, work commenced this fall. The
s,ressaas:6ad A,Iiliisasr will ale,.,t