The Glenwood post., 1905-06-10
COLORADO NEWS ITEMS

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Adjt. Gen. Bulkley Wells left Denver
June 5th for a short visit to California.
He will be away week or ten days.
Gov. Joseph Folk of Missouri is ex-
pected to visit Colorado this summer
on his way home from the Portland
Exposition.
The five Grand Army posts of Den
yer will unite in holding a great June
Fair and Festival" at Denver June 2lst
to July list.
Many men are going from Trinidad
to work on the construction of the new
railroad from Durango to Pennington,
New Mexico.
Gilpin county has thirteen school
districts and 1,677 children of school
age, a decrease of eighty as compared
with last year.
Many thousands acres of peat
lands have been discovered near Tol-
land on the Moffat road, and plans are
being formulated for the manufacture
of fuel from it.
The Tivoli- Union brewery in Denver
was set on fire by a stroke of lightning
June I'd and burned to the ground The
loss of building and contents is esti-
mated at about 100000.
In the Western Baseball League the
Denevr team manages to hold pretty
steadily to third place, while Colorado
Springs seems to be safely anchored
at the bottom of the list.
Miss Nellie Donahue, ex-city treas
urer of Victor, was acquitted by jury
of the charge of misappropriating the
sum of s1,446, city funds, during the
ftnn CHI in nnta 10
1902.
The six-year-old daughter of Mr..
and Mrs. John Ryan of Pryor, Huer-
fano county, set her dress on fire while
working at the kitchen stove on the
29th ult., and was so badly burned that
she died next day.
Stephen and Charles Imprey, con
victed of a statutory crime against
Gertrude Miller at Leadville, have
been pardoned. The girl last winter
made an affidavit that she swore
falsely against the men.
J. NJ. Hollands big ranch, twenty
nine miles northeast of Pueblo has
been sold to ]. J. Rose of Colorado
Springs for $G5,OOO. The ranch COM
prises many acres AID several thou
sand head of cattle.
May receipts with the State Land
Board show that the business of the
Office is growing gradually. The re-
ceipts last month were $25,502.25. In
May, 1903. the receipts We're $50, ,T23.11.
and in 1904 they were $23,152.34.
Colorado is entitled to twenty dele
gates to the eleventh International
Sunday School convention, which will
be held in Toronto, Canada, June 23d-
9th, and it is expected that many be-
sides the delegates will take the trip.
The United Brotherhood of Railway
Trainmen, the Eagles, the letter car
riers' union and the carpenters union
are considering the building of homes
and sanitariums in Colorado for the
benefit of their members throughout
the country.
Authority for the expenditure of S45,-
900 for the improvement of the road
bed between Boulder and Fort Col
Inns on the Colorado & Southern has
been signed by President Frank Trum-
bull. The track will be slagged for the
entire distance.
The congressional irrigation party
which left Kansas City June list. has
changed its schedule to arrive in
Cheyenne June 30th, arrive in Denver
July 1st, Salida and Grand Junction
July I'd, Colorado Springs July 5th, and
dIsband in Denver July 9Th and 9th.
Attorney Lyman |. Henry, law part
ner of Congressman H. NJ. Hogg, was
purged of contempt by answers he filed
in the District Court at Pueblo to for
ty-nine interrogatories submitted by
District Attorney f. H. White. AS soon
nc bnl bpon I,,rt ho
court MIR. Henry was discharged.
Mike Hanak, the four-year-old son of
Mr.. and Mrs. Clyde Hanak of Marshall,
in Boulder county, while picking flow
ers for the commencement exercises
on hill near Marshall, was fatally bit
ten by a rattlesnake. He was bitten
about 12 O'Clock Saturday morning,
June Sd, and died at o'clock the same
evening.
Chief Game Warden F. A. Gordon, To-
Gated at Glenwood Springs. has writ
ten to Commissioner Woodard that he
has caused the arrest of A. F. koehler
on charge of polluting the Frying
Pan river by dumping lime into it at
his lime kilns. Koehler was taken be-
fore justice at Meredith and fined $25
and costs, amounting to $3G.75.
The following Colorado postmasters
have been appointed: Richard 7.
Shockley, Haswell, Kiowa county. vice
J. C. Allen, resigned; James F. Jones,
Howbert, Pitkin county, vice A. B.
Hale, removed; Ira B. Kutch, Sanborn,
Lincoln county, vice G. Harrison. re-
moved; Matte Mott, Watkins, Adams
county, vice M. A. O'Reilly, resigned.
trade beet sugar company has
agreed to put in factory at Durango
II guarantee can be obtained that s.
900 acres of beets will be planted. The
beet sugar committee of the board of
trade claims that guarantee of 10000
acres can be given and will at once
start to make a Canvass among the