The Glenwood post., 1905-03-11
COLORADO NEWS ITEMS

'N4't hui StS were graduated dl lne
nurses training school of the Mercy
hospital in Denver on the 9th inst.
The Mesa county fair will be held
at Grand Junction September 18th to
I'd the first day being entry day.
Thomas 0Iiara trammer, fell 300
feet in the working shaft of the Dillon
mine at Victor February 2Sth and was
instantly killed.
Azel ID. Galbraith was executed at
Canon City on the same day that the
Supreme Court gave decision sustain
ing the capital punishment act.
There are SS,446 volumes in the Den
yer city library. BY reading a book
day person could finish them all in
little more than 242 years-if he
lived that long.
Fitzpatrick Brothers & Collins of
Beatrice, Nebraska haze been granted
contract by the Denver & Rio Grande
railroad to build the new branch line
from Durango to Pennington, New
Mexico
The smokestack of the Grant smell
ter in Denver, which is 353 feet high
and one of the tallest chimneys in the
world, will be used as receiving mast
by the DeForest Wireless Telegraph
Company.
The Denver chapters of the Sons and
Daughters of the American Revolution
have given their hearty Endorsement
to the bill now before the Legislature
granting 12O acres of land at Beecher
island and $4,000 to the Beecher Island
Memorial Association.
The Supreme Court of Colorado has
denied the petition for a rehearing in
the case of Newton Andrews, one of
the three young men convicted of the
murder of Mrs. Amanda Youngblood in
Denver. This decision sustains the
capital punishment law.
Receiver Malone of the Fidelity Saw
ings Association at Denver has re
ceived an order In the district court
authorizing him to borrow $135,OOO
with which to pay the vendors lien on
the Concordia lands. the largest asset
of the defunct association.
The advertising department of the
Colorado Midland railway has received
letter from President Roosevelt stat
| ing that he cannot give permission for
| the use of photographs of himself
while on his hunting trip in the state
in the advertisements of the route.
1t was decided py the HiDernian So
ciety of Denver not to hold celebra-
| ton on the anniversary of the birthday
| of Robert Emmet, the great Irish ma
| tionalist, but join in celebrating st.
Patricll's Day, March 18th, in which
honor shall be done to both of lreland's
heroes.
The Denver Press Club was organ
ized at luncheon held at the Albany
hotel in Denver March 5th. The Of
ficers are: Edward Keating of the
| Times, president; Raymond A. Eaton
! of the Post, vice president; Harry Rob
inson of the News, secretary, and w.
| Clyde Spencer Of the Republican,
| treasurer.
| Mr. Culbertson has been appointed
! by the federal court at Pueblo as re-
receiver for the Lyon Cattle Company,
whose headquarters are at Ordway,
Colorado. The company has 5000 head
OF cattle in Colorado and about $4,000
head at Silver City, New Mexico. The
! company is incorporated under the
laws of New Jersey.
The contract for the construction of
the new sugar factory at Holly has
been lie. to C.,Leonard Of Los Angeles,
| California, work to begin at once. The
| building will cost about 100000. The
company which will construct the
| plant is known as the Holly Beet Su-
| gar Company and it has G,O00 acres of
beets contracted for next season.
ne Colorado National Life 1nsur-
ance Company has been organized at
! Denver and received its charter March
1et. The directors of the company are:
| Spencer Penrose, Harry X. Brown Da-
vid H. Dougan, Tyson s. Dimes, A. NJ.
| Stevenson, C. F. Bishop, James NJ. Her
| bert, Thomas B. Stearns. C. c. Hamlin,
| Charles NJ. MacNeill and John S. Cary.
| Elder R. H. Wight of the Latter Day
| Saints church in Delta, because of his
| persistency in teaching his congrega-
| tiou that it was subservient to Joseph
| Smith, president of the church, was eX-
communicated by the conference of
! the Reorganized Church of Jesus
| Christ of Latter Day Saints for the
| eastern Colorado district at its recent
session in Denver.
! c. ]. Gavin of Ration, New Mexico,
gave talk on Convict Built Roads"
| before the Denver Chamber of Com
merce. Mr.. Gavin said that his plan
would be of immense benefit to the
| state, which would secure fine high
ways at practically no cost. Insanity
H IN prisons WOulu also De leSSeneu. lie
favored a road from Denver to connect
with the New Mexican road at Las
| Vegas.
Richard McWilliams, an employe of
| the Bloom Cattle Company near
Hoehne, in Las Animas county, com
mitted suicide a little after midnight
| on the night Of March 5th by shooting
| himself twice in the left breast The
deed was committed at the Mccarthy
ranch, where the young man had been
staying several days. He was young
man with many friends, who can not
account for the act.
On March 1st the interests of the
| Greeley, Eaton, Windsor, Loveland,
Fort Collins and Longmont sugar com
panies were merged under the name
! of the Great Western Sugar Company.
The six different factories will carry
| on business in exactly the same way
as since their organization and will re-
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