The Grit-advocate., 1905-01-27
COLORADO NEWS ITEMS

The President has nominated
Tho0as A. Davy for postmaster at
Fort Collins.
inSure the erection OF canning fac
Tory at Palisade.
A new Grand Army post has been
organized al Wheatland, near Denver
II vii be No. ll2.
The Boulder Valley Oil Company
has paid on all its Indebtedness and
declared It's first dividend.
The Rio Grand round house at Gun
nlson was burned on the morning OF
January 18th. Loss. $4,000.
The Colorado Springs Carnegie Ii
brary board has already received $i5,-
900 OF the $50. 900 donated by Mr.. Car
3e8le. and the building is nearing
completion
The clearing house reports for the
past two weeks show the business OF
Denver TO be about the same AS that
Of Omaha, in each case over $4,000
900 for the week
The members OF the Woman's
League Of the State University at
Boulder are raising fund 10 be loaned
20 young ladies who are working their
way through college.
The NJ E. Church South and the
Cumberland Presbyterian church at
Colorado Springs have exchanged
church buildings. the former paying
Il bonus OF $ll 900.
There are about 200 japanese EN-
n1nVau at ;h. punhjn stool works They
all board at hotel fitted up for them
near the shops and live and dress well.
being cleanly in their habits.
The ore house at Stratton's lnde-
pendence at Victor was destroyed by
fire on the morning OF January 2lst.
The structure and its equipments cost
between $4,000 and $4,000.
The county commissioners OF Mesa
county have appointed Judge Walter
S. Sullivan. whose term expired Janu-
ary LIST, to fill the vacancy caused by
| the. death of Judge w. c. Sloan, who
| was elected last fall
Professor Hayden of Fort Collins. to-
| gether with number of eastern men,
| has secured ground surrounding
Doughty's mineral springs, near Hotch-
kiss. and will Immediately proceed to
build 100000 sanitarium.
OF the 81 ,0S7, 800 spent last year by
the United Mine Workers for the relief
of strikes, $437,575 went into the Colo
RADIO district Colorado shows an in
crease Of 40 paid-up membership, an
increase from 537 to 347.
The body of a Mexican found in
| M
could not be identified. The man was
apparently upwards Of fifty years OF
age A union labor card on his body
was water-soaked and illegtble.
The application of F. NJ. Weiland S.
". Taylor R. L. King. J. o. Nelson and
J. D. Mcdonald to organize the First
National Bank OF Fowler. with $25,OOO
capital. has been approved by the
comptroller of the currency.
At q recent meeting the Denver
Chamber OF Commerce took action to
greatly increase its membership. 3,0OC
being the figure named. Young and
active men are being pushed to the
front in that and the Real Estate Elk
change.
c. NJ. Williams, a prominent mining
man and capitalist of Colorado
Springs. died on the 18th inst. of heart
failure. He was one of the pioneers
of Durango and for nearly eighteen
years president OF the First NatiOnaI
Bank of Durango.
By the aid of United States customs
| inspectors crusade will be com
menced in Denver against a society
that is known to be engaged in bring
ing young women to the city for i'm
moral purposes. Many have been
brought from France.
| An adjourned term of the District
Court is in session at Fort Collins
with Judge James f. Garrignes OF
Greeley on the bench. Several i'm
portant irrigation suits that were con
tlnued at the regular September term
will be heard at this term.
Representatives of Frank p. Blair
Post Of the Grand Army Of the Repub'
! lie at St. Louis have already been in
| Denver to engage headquarters for the
post for the national encampment the
| first week In September. They expect
an immense crowd and came early tO
avoid the rush.
, Dr. S. Cordelia Enos and Miss Grace
| EnOs, who were burned to death on
1 the 10th inst. Dy gasoline explosion
| at the home of their father. DR.. Charles
| X. Enos, at Jerseyville. Illinois, were
sisters of Drs. Charles W. Enos and
| Clinton Enos of Denver and Dr. J. W.
| Enos of Boulder.
Maxwell Price. a well known miner
of independence. has completed a
| model OF a flying machine by which
he claims to have solved the problem
of sustaining the machine IN air with
out the aid of gas. The model is ar
ranged with reverse action fans o!
| high gear.
There has been no dearth Of news
for the Denver papers this year. Be
tween Nan Patterson, Mrs. Chadwick
the Russo.Jap war. Colorado ballot
box suffers and the high jinks at the
state house while the Legislature is in
g,.Iinn thav arc rpIDinp a tull Il +.