The Glenwood post., 1905-12-16
COLORADO NEWS ITEMS

Two rival electric railway com
panies propose to build lines between
Canon City and Florence.
Who says Colorado isn't Il winter re
sort? A butterfly was captured at
Florence few days ago.
Frank Zindle Of Greeley, twenty-rour
years of age, accidentally shot himself
while out duck hunting November 26th
and died instantly
Customs revenue collected in Colo
RADIO during the past fiscal year
amounted to $139,9SS, while land office
receipts reached $292. .16S.
| The Methodist Church building at
Julesburg was destroyed by fire on the
| 18th inst. The loss is stated at about
$4,000, with $1,000 insurance.
The Colorado State Teachers Asso-
citation holds Its thirty-first annual
meeting at Denver during holiday
week, beginning December 26th.
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
Fred H. Pratt, well known Jeffer
son county ranchman, living near
Cresswell, suddenly dropped dead of
heart disease while working in his
barn
In preparation for the holiday rush
sixty-five men have been added to the
clerical force at the Denver postofiice.
The new clerks will serve until after
New Year.
The Office building at the mouth of
the Cave of the Winds, near Manitou,
JIyo fN,,y-v fbrv, iryht r,ft tE<E
1t contained small stock of valuable
curios, which were destroyed.
The Palisades National Bank of Pal
isades, Colorado, has been authorized
to begin business with $25,O00 capital.
j. j. Durke is president, o. H. Shoup
vice president and J. G. Mckinney
cashier.
Albert II. Branch, formerly manager
of the Denver Gas Company and one
of the most prominent members of the
Masonic order in Colorado, died at
Denver on the 9th inst, of disease of
the lungs.
William H. Dixon of Denver, an old
time mining man and inventor Of the
Dixon ccncentrator and other mining
machinery, was killed by fall in the
Cash mine at Gold Hill, in Boulder
county, on the Sth inst.
The handsome new school building
at Alamosa, just erected at a cost of
$4,000 and not yet occupied, took fire
on the morning of the 10th inst. from
stoves that were being used to dry
the plastering, and was almost entirely
ruined.
Guy LIE Roy Stevick, receiver of the
Denver Savings Bank, has paid div
ident of twenty per cent. to depositors.
making a total of thirty-tive per cent.
to date. He expects to be able to pay
seventy-fve per cent of the entire de-
posits.
John B. Drew of Angora, in Rio
Blanco county, aged 70 years, walked
all the way to Rawlins, Wyoming, a
distance of 1876 miles, to testify in a
lawsuit in which some of his friends
were interested. He covered one TWEEN
ty-five mile stretch at night.
Five men were badly scalded at the
Fort Collins sugar factory on the 7th
inst. by steam from heating drum.
Charles Anderson of Chino, California,
died from his burns and Nesbit Els
more was seriously injured. The other
three were not dangerously hurt.
The United Association of Plumbers
and Filters of the United States and
Canada is negotiating for the purchase
OF the sanitarium at Fairmount park,
in Pueblo, for the purpose OF convert
ing the building into national home
for members of the organization.
Harrison H. 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 LIST. He leaves a
widow and eleven surviving children.
A new postoffice has been estab-
lished at the halfway station along the
new road between Loveland and Estes
park, and Mrs. Ella Van Bramer has
been appointed postmistress. The new
Office has been named Drake in honor
of the present state senator from Lari-
mer county.
E. S. Alnutt has made application to
the Pueblo Board of County Commits
sioners for a forty-year franchise for a
railroad from Pueblo to Avondale. The
use of gasoline motor cars is contem-
plated. 1t is Mr.. Alnutt's intention to
build short tracks from the main line
to the farmers homes for the purpose
of handling freight
DESTROYS of affording its guests the
pleasure of distinguishing Pixies Peak
from other mountains during the win
ter nights, the Antlers hotel manage
ment at Colorado Springs is negotiat-
ing for the installation of an arc light
on the summit of the peak, which can
be turned on from switch in the ho-
tel, nearly seven miles distant on an
air line.
President George E. King of the Pu-
.eblo Business Mems Association has
appointed a committee to investigate
the construction of a railway using
gasoline motor cars between Pueblo
and Avondale, fifteen miles down the
river, for the carrying of passengers
and freight, and particularly sugar
beets to the factory which it is pro
posed to establish in Pueblo.
Eraply Tr,iil1n aud L tho