The Grit-advocate., 1905-04-21
COLORADO NEWS ITEMS


Cripple Creek. on the charge of mur-
dering Mrs. H. C. Douglas, has been
set for April 25th.
Colorado Springs vegetarians are
anxious to secure the establishment
of branch of the Battle Creek sana-
torium at the Springs.
An elaborate system of brilliant
street lights is being arranged for in
Denver. to be ready by the beginning
OF the tourist season.
The meeting of the Anti-Cigarette
league at Stratton Park. Colorado
Springs. May 9Th. will be addressed by
Judge B. B. Lindsey Of Denver.
The Ish Reservoir company has been
organized at Berthoud. 1t is proposed
to raise the capacity Of Ish lake from
III 100000 gallons to 29O,OO0,0O0
Senator Robert La Toilette of Wis
consin has been invited by the Repub-
licans of Denver to deliver several ad-
dresses on the railroad problem in Den
yer next month.
Charles johnson, foreman OF a Rio
Grande wrecking crew at Denver. COM
mitted suicide April 18th by taking cy-
anide of potassium. The act is attrib-
uted to alcoholic insanity.
DR.. Rodney H. True of the Bureau
of Plant Industry of the Department OF
Agriculture at Washington is visiting
Colorado to make an examination of
the rubber plant in this state.
One OF the few Austrian theaters in
the United States is to be established
at Pueblo this spring. 1t will be
erected under the auspices of the Aus
ri ut hII nj
Pueblo.
The Longmont Farmers Mill and
Elevator Company has decided to build
Il large mill in Denver near the Bur-
lington tracks on the north side. The
enterprise calls for the investment of
about 100000.
The people of Trinidad turned out
almost en- maSse to attend the funeral
of John II. Fox, who was killed by Jo-
seph johnson on the Sth inst. There
was large representation of the Ma
sons, Elks, WoOdmen and Red Men.
A fire at Mnturn. on the Denver &
| Rio Grande railroad in Eagle county
on the morning of the 18th inst. burned
the American hotel, three residences.
a saloon and a barber shop. the dam
age being estimated at about 100000
| A stage line is being organized in
! Middle park to connect with the Moi
fat road at Arrowhead and from there
penetrate to Hot Sulphur Springs
| Steamboat Springs. Hahn's peak and
other important points in Grand and
Routt counties.
Adjutant General Wells has reap
| pointed the office force which served
under the former adjutant general,
Sherman NJ. Bell. Lieutenant J. b.
Goodman is retained as the chief clerk
and Otto Leise as stenograDher and
Sergeant II. w. Deane as orderly
| Judge Peter NJ. Housed died al Boul
| der on the 18th inst. at the age of
| eighty-One years. He came to Boulder
county in 1859 and was elected county
| Judge in 1862 and again in 1864. He
| was one of the trustees of the Boulder
| Valley road during its construction
and was prominent in many ways.
w. Perry Pollock, formerly of Platte
Vile. died April l4lh at Hot Springs,
| Arkansas. at the age of seventy-four
years. He was born in Missouri and
came to Colorado in 1858 His first
home was on the present site of Den
yer and in the early days he was en-
gagged in freighting across the plains
Among the bills that Governor Nc
| Donald has signed is House Bill No. i3S,
which makes it a misdemeanor to at
tend cock fight. dog fight, coursng
| match or other sport where animals
are the contestants. The measure did
not carry an emergency clause. so that
It does not become Il law for ninety
days.
The county commissioners OF Phil
| lips county have sold the tax deeds of
| ia quarter sections of land to II. n.
| White for $1,000, the same to be taken
within ninety days. They comprise all
the land in the two townships which
the county now holds. The county still
owns 800 quarters of land subject 10
| tax deeds.
The county commissioners OF Arapa-
| hoe county have granted a franchise to
the Colorado Monorail Company to build
a one-track railway between Engle-
| wood, the end of the Denver street car
! line, and Littleton. It is stipulated
/ that work on the road shall commence
July 1st. Fort Logan is included In the
franchise.
Henry Rustin. the expert who had
charge of the electric lighting at the
St Louis exposition. has devised a
| plan for lighting the streets of Denver
! by means Of incandescent lights to be
| placed on bronze arches. He pro-
poses, if his plans are carried out to
! make it the best lighted city in the
! United States.
On May 5th in Denver the State
| Board of Pardons will consider the ap-
| picatiOn for clemency of the three
young men sentenced to death for the
/ murder of Mrs. Amanda Goungblood
j in Denver on the night OF December
| 81, 1903. The criminals are Charles
o. Peters. Newton Andrews and Fred
Arnold.
! Two convictions under the game