The Grit-advocate., 1905-05-05
COLORADO NEWS ITEMS


18th.
A Leadville real estate firm is Offer
ing prizes for the beautifying OF
homes and gardens.
A corporation has been formed to
build large block in Longmont. in
which there will be plenty OF room for
an enlarged postoffice.
A movement is on foot in Denver
to build gymnasium, bath house and
free reading room for boys. adjoining
Rev. Thos. H. Uzzels Peoples Taber-
nackle.
Governor Jesse F. Mcdonald has
bought a handsome fourteen-room
house at 1151 Logan avenue. Denver.
for $4,000 and will occupy it as the
executive mansion.
Mrs. Dan Grant OF Trinidad was
burned to death April 25th by an ex-
plosion of coal oil. which she was u.s.
ing from a five-gallon can to start up
the kitchen fire.
1t is stated that as result Of a
favorable showing of the probable re-
ceipts of the Leadville land Office Com
missioner Richards has decided not to
have it discontinued as was proposed.
Ex.-Gov. John l.. Routt celebrated
his seventy-ninth birthday at his
rooms in the Metropole hotel. Denver,
April 25th. Owing to his feeble health
callers were restricted to members OF
his family.
For the third time since the first
of the year Donado Fata, a prominent
Italian storekeeper at Trinidad, has
been taken to the State Insane Asylum.
He became violent and attempted to
hurt his family.
The following postoffice appoint
ments have been made: Box Elder,
Larimer county, Andrew G. Webster,
vice W. Webster, dead Dunton, Do
lores county, Jennie A. Matthews. vice
S. A. Rogers, resigned.
One hundred thousand young fish
were placed in the Platte river April
9th by the state fish commissioner
The fish are from one to two and a
half inches long and were distributed
between the stations of Cliff and Cas-
sells.
The great religious revival at Canon
City closed on the night of April gath
There were 934 conversions reported
and $4,000 in money was contributed.
The Rev. Mr.. Sunday was given a free
will offering of $2100 before leaving
for Chicago.
w. r. Armstrong. secretary of the
Durango Board of Trade, has had a
rubber expert investigating the coun-
try around Durango, anC finds that
the rubber plant grows extensively
there. In one place there is more than
10000 acres of it.
President Roosevelt. who has &C.
cepted an invitation to attend a ban
quet given by the Denver Chamber
of Commerce on the night Of May 18th.
will spend only six and one-half hours
in Denver, arriving at $50 pm. and
leaving at midnight.
The Peoples Mission Poor Relief
Depot, at lis South Cascade avenue,
Colorado Springs, gathered and re-
paired 5000 garments during the last
year, the first in its history. These
garments were given away or sold to
the worthy poor at nominal prices.
Leicester Williams-Foote, six-year-
old son OF Captain Williams-Foote, and
grandson of General Baldwin, died at
the University hospital in Boulder,
May 1St, after an unsuccessful opera
ton for appendicitis. Captain Will
liams-Foote is now on duty in the Phil
ippines.
p. G. Anderson, superintendent and
one of the lessees on the Wheeler
mine at the head of the Platte above
Alma. was carried down the mountain
side distance of 400 feet and landed
on the ice of Wheeler lake, unhurt.
His escape from death is considered
marvellous.
The commencement address at
Colorado College, Colorado Springs,
will be delivered by Frederick ]. V.
Skiff on June It'll. Mr.. Skiff is a direc-
tor of the Field Columbian Museum OF
Chicago and formerly was manager of
the Denver Tribune in the days of
Rothaker and Eugene Field.
Forest Supervisor James Fl. Clark
has received notice that an eXamina
ton for forest rangers and other for
est officers will be held in Denver in
May. the exact date to be announced
later. Examinations also will be held
in other parts of Colorado. the whole
service now being under civil service
rules.
Mrs. Hattie Humphreys, tried in the
District Court at COrteZ on the cnarge
of being an accessory to the murder
OF Frank Ingles and his mother last
May, has been acquitted. The trial Of
the woman's husband, who was ac
cused of being the principal. took
place in November and he was found
guilty.
Francisco and Rafaela. Espor, Mex
leans. observed their sixtieth wedding
anniversary at Pueblo April 2Sth.
They live near Mineral Palace park
in a small adobe house. Both are 80
years old and in good health. They
had but one child, a daughter. who
died two years ago. when she was 40
years old.
The Rev. E. G. Lane, having cor
| pleted the tenth year of his pastorate
with the Baptist church at Boulder on