The Grit-advocate., 1905-03-24
COLORADO NEWS ITEMS

resident c. p. Dodge of the Colo.
ra to -rngs y. NJ. c. A. has received
Nn-a'.uu of $500 from Helen Gould.
tate equalization board will
ne m Denver April lst. Governor
M'uaaaid will preside at its sessions.
AoI'. Gen. Sherman NJ. Bell has in.
1olme. the governor that he will re
III Npril lSt. after Il service of eN-
aclIg Two years.
Rural route No. has been ordered
established April 18th al Collbran.
NJ ga county. serving 364 people and
n1He'J-on houses.
Nils. Helen Grenfell addressed six
ty teachers present al the meeting of
tn Weld County Teachers Associa-
tiou at La Sale March nth.
sult has been Appealed to the state
supreme Court which will test the
rlSui Of county judge to grant ali
mon IN excess of $4,000.
Iha blacksmiths of Boulder have en-
tereG into an agreement to raise the
prlcc Of work done by them, because
OF the Increased price of material
a .Iyil service reform association
haa been organized al Boulder with
DR.. Walter H. Nichols as president
and Dr. John b. Phillips as secretary.
Nicholas Miller. while at work on
the roof Of the Capital Ice Company's
plan at Denver on the 18th inst,
touched "A live wire and was instantly
killrt
the Colorado 4 Wyoming railroad is
making arrangements to open num-
Der Of new coal fields in Las Animas
county this summer preparatory to
opening them next fall.
company has been organized with
SllO,lOp capital to build a new bath
housr at Manitou Springs. Ii will be
bull on the site of the Norris hotel,
which burned last fall.
The annual state championships at
golt will be decided in Colorado
Springs on June 2lst. I'D and 23d.
the dates having been accepted by the
golt players of the state.
Forged tickets over the Colorado &
Southern for points between Denver
and Fort Worth. Texas. are reported
to have been discovered and TO have
been taken up by conductors.
William NJ. Danner has just been
elected as general secretary of the
Young Mems Christian Association of
Denver for the eighth year. The board
.also voted to raise his salary.
The teachers institute of the Fifth
normal district comprising the coun-
lies of Teller. El Paso. Douglas and
Ebert, will be held in Colorado
springs during the week of July 3lst.
The Greeley starch factory began
operations on the 18th inst. Four
tDns of potatoes were consumed the
trst day. but it is expected that up
wards of fifty tons a day will be used
soon.
The Grand Valley Fair Association
las filed amended articles OF incorpor-
zion with the secretary of state
hanging the name to the Mesa
county Industrial and Fruit Fair Asso
cation.
Kid Mccoy, local prize fighter.
and S. harrisburg, got into a fight at
Salida on the night of the Eth inst,
IN which eleven shots were fired but
nobody hit-not even an innocent by
SANDER.
The Intercollegiate Association OF
colorado has changed its title to the
Rocky Mountain intercollegiate Ath-
lclic Association. designed eventually
TO cover Utah and Wyoming. as well
as Colorado.
The coroner's jury in the case Of
Gus. Neufeld, who was shot by Will
lam G. Smith March 18th in Denver,
Lrought in verdict discriminating
smith, who has been held on the
rharge of murder
II. Clay Cowles. one of the oldest
and best known prospectC s IN Clear
creek county, was found dead in bed
in cabin at Georgetown on the morn
ing of the 14th inst. His death re-
sulted from dropsy.
A Cheyenne dispatch says that that
city and Laramie are preparing to
send teams to the tircmen's 1ourna-
wcnt at Fort Collins July 4ih to com
pete for the 1000 in prizes to be Of
,ered on that occasion.
carney McQueeney, vino was crush
ed between the cage and the station
root in the Reindeer mine on the lIth
Inst. and died the next day. was the
zenith victim OF mine accidents i'll
Lradville since February 18th.
The report of the State Board Of
Iloalth shows that there We're SSl
fcaths and 81 still births in Colorado
ring the month of February last
past. This shows a death rate OF
lf'le over nineteen per thousand per
aHnum
\ donation Of $500 has been made
1u The Colorado Springs Carnegie
lrary by the Board OF County Com
sioners OF FL Paso county. In con
saeration of this gift the privilege Of
the libary will be extended to all resi-
ITS of the county.
N the night of March 10th at Buona
VISTA, as result of an article in the
{. .Drado Republican. Editor Gilbert A.
Walker was waylaid at the corner of
tie city park by Hugh Stewart. a sa-
To- keeper and terribly beaten about
II head with a rock and Stewart's six