The Glenwood post., 1905-04-01
COLORADO NEWS ITEMS

idl Se amount OF advertising 10 attract
tourist travel next summer.
1t is estimated that about 1900 peo-
pie Will be entitled to vote at the
coming city election in Pueblo.
The annual convention of the Ma
tional Federation of Musical Clubs will
be held in Denver the week beginning
June 5th.
st. Luke's Hospital in Leadville has
been purchased by syndicate OF Lead
vile physicians. who will rebuild and
enlarge it.
Active preparations are being made
for the annual convention of the
! American Stockgrowers' Association,
which meets at Denver May 9th.
According to the report of the horti-
cultural inspector cold weather mas
destroyed nearly all of the peach and
apricot buds in Garfield county.
Ex-Governor John l.. Routt is re-
ported to be very i'll in Denver of an
affection of the heart. He will be sew
enty-nine years old in few weeks.
l. w. Larimore. physical instructor
Of the Y. NJ. C. A. at Denver will have
charge of the physical culture depart
ment of the Boulder Chautauqua this
summer.
Herman Lesche, a barber, commit
ed suicide at Cripple Creek a few
days ago by shooting himself through
The body. He had barber shop in the
Masonic building.
Hugh Stewart. charged with assault
with intent to kill Editor G. A. Walker
at Salida, has been held for trial at
the July term of the District Court
his bond being fixed at $1,000.
On March oath William Wood a
miner, was precipitated 500 feet down
shaft in the Ajax mine at Victor by
the breaking of one of the rounds of
a ladder. Death was instantaneous.
The State Land Board has decided
to give the Denver Park Commission
a twenty-years' leave on forty acres OF
ground adjoining ;he City park on the
west side at yearly .ental of $4,000.
James Ward. a Colorado pioneer,
who died at Golden March 22d at the
age of seventy-five years, was a stage
driver between Denver and the Mis-
souri, river before the advent of rail
roads.
The Douglas County Ditch and Res
eryoir Company, capitalized at $780,
300, has been formed to construct Two
large reservoirs, one being in Stone
canon and one just south of the Santa
Fe bridge at Larlspur.
After the hearing in Denver March
22d Commissioner Richardson of the
United States Supreme Court commits
sion in the Kansas Colorado water suit
adjourned the sessions to April 10, to
reconvene again in Denver.
Mrs. Lille Barnes has been ap-
pointed substitute mail carrier for
rural route No. l, and Mrs. Lucy Nc
Donald substitute for route No. 2. at
Greeley. The husbands of these women
are the carriers on the routes.
Complaint having been made to
State Engineer Carpenter that the
dam at Lake Jackson, near Fort Nor
gan, appeared to be in danger. orders
were issued for its repair and work
was Immediately commenced on a re-
lieving bank.
Little three-year-old Earl Francis
Purcell, son of Mr.. and Mrs. William
Francis Purcell of Denver, awolke
March 23rd, after sleep that had
lasted seven days and nights. When
the sleep began he had been exhausted
by epileptic commissions.
dim 3, Il WIN lives
nine miles northeast of Berthoud, had
heavy team of draft horses stolen
during the night of Mar>h 22d. He
traced then. to Denver and recovered
the horses at livery stable, where tho
L4.ief had sold them for $500.
Miss Katharine l.. Craig, state super
Intendent of public instruction, visited
Summit county the week ending March
REth Shn rode from rid tn
Dillon in sleigh owe snow reported
10 be nearly ten feet deep and returned
the same way to address the meeting
1T Breckenridge.
Game and Fish Commissioner Nood-
ard, at Denver, recently received word
from Eagle county that his chief war
den, Thomas A. Putinton, had arrested
D. j. Rouse for killing deer out of sea
son, on the Rio Grande near Sheep
Horn, and that the defendant was tried
by Justice of the Peace j. NJ. Mugrge
Of Eagle county and fined $25 and costs
amounting to $3S
Owing to the death of the late Sen
ator E. o. Wolcott the visit of Lord and
Lady Lennox, who were to have spent
some time at Wolhurst this summer,
will be postponed indefinitely. They
are now in the South spending the win
Ter months. Henry r. Wolcott will ar
rive in Denver about the middle of
April, when the will Of the Senator will
be filed for probate.
The safe in the Goldfeld postoffice,
In the Cripple Creek district, was
blown open by an explosion of dyna-
mite at o'clock on the morning of
March 9th. Several hundred dollars
worth of stamps were left untouched
and as there was no money in the safe
the burglars secured nothing. They
left when an alarm was raised and
made their escape safely.
Immediately after the adjournment
of the State Legislature, Representa-
tibe C. p. Dodge, president of the Colo
RADIO Springs Young Mems Christian
Association, will leave for Paris, where
he will represent the local organiza-
ton at the triennial meeting of the
worlds Young Mems Christian Associ-
alton. Mr. Dodge also will go as del
eg,..e from the International commit