The Glenwood post., 1905-02-18
COLORADO NEWS lTEMS

charter members.
The Rio Grande railroad paid over
$4,000 to its employees at Pueblo on
Its last monthly pay day, February
18th.
A large organization has been
formed at Montrose to build up Mont
rose county and advertise it's re-
| sources.
The Pixies peak climbing contest for
automobiles next August is attracting
a good deal of attention all over the
country.
The annual exhibition of the Colo
radQ Kennel Club will be held at
Denver March I'd to 4th. Some ia
nous dogs will be shown.
The Moffat road proposes to estab-
llsh daily milk train service early
next spring between Denver and the
big ranches in Middle Park.
Captain Winfield Scott Grove, for
merly with the First Colorado and well
known in this state. has recently been
appointed senior inspector at Leyte
Philippine islands.
The Colorado Fuel and Iron Com
| pany is contemplating installing cleo,
tricity instead of steam power for the
operation of Its COAL mines in Ere
| mont county.
An eastern company is said to be in
! vestigating deposits of salt said TO eX
| list east and north of Pueblo with a
view to building refinery if results
appear to justify it.
Judge Charles Southland of the
County Court of Weld county recently
started East for New York and Wash
| ington. He expects to witness the in
auguration ceremonies.
The comptroller of the currency has
authorized the Union National Bank of
| Greeley to begin business with $50,
600 capital. B. D. Harper is president
and e. j. Decker cashier.
]. C. Boosnger, the Pueblo engin.
Ger who was injured in a Denver Il
Rio Grande collision near Portland,
in Fremont county, some months since,
died in the Salde hospital on the 18th
inst.
Thirteen members of the Gallaudet
! College Alumni Association banqueted
at the Albany hotel in Denver on the
10th inst. Some very eloquent
! speeches are said to have been banded
out.
The Denver Chamber of Commerce
has reduced its initiation fee from SIS
to $40 and removed all limitations as
TO membership. An effort will be
made to increase the membership to
5000.
Engineer Sullivan of the Colorado &
Southern, in charge of engine 425, was
badly scalded at Loveland on the 18th
inst. by the loosening of a rivet in the
boiler. He was taken to the LOyeland
| hospital.
Captain John Brodie Brooks, vet
eran of the Civil War, died at Aspen
February 7th at the age of seventy
seven years. Captain Brooks came
to Colorado in 1880 and was builder of
the first smelter at Ashcroft.
Raymond d. Plank. we'll known
machinist of Denver, was killed on the
| 18th inst. by the explosion of the water
heating box in a kitchen stove. He
was trying to thaw it out after the
! water in it had been frozen.
The Amo Oil, Gas and Development
Company, comprised OF Ell Paso
county capitalists, has struck oil at
depth of 40 feet. seventeen miles east
of Colorado Springs. The extent of the
| flow has not been determined.
] flly CdTlOduS, OF l-soOu Htdu, vi
lambs. the greatest shipment of the
season. left Greeley February 9th for
market. The lambs were from Greeley
and Lucerne, Eaton and Fort Collins,
and were destined for the Chicago
market
The application of Morton Jones of
Denver, j. NJ. Herbert, a. c. Foster,
NJ, Y. Osborn, J. ]. Meade and E. +.
/ hn i,.C, National
Bank of Loveland Colorado, with $780,
900 capital, has been approved by the
comptroller of the currency.
Miss Katherine Craig. state superin-
tendent of schools. and her assistants.
| have just completed the compilation of
book for the use OF the public
| schools of the state in arranging
Lincoln and Washington birthday cele-
brations.
The Iittleton postofIice was burglar
lied on the night of February 9th and
an unsuccessful attempt made'to blow
open the safe, but the robbers were
| frightened away after boring hole IN
the side of the safe and filling 1t up
with black powder.
The State Land Board at its meeting
| February Sth sold 100 acres OF land in
! ProWerS county 10 sylvester ->eeunah
| ut an average price of 50 per acre. Inc
| Warren Live Stock Company leased
10000 ares of state land in Weld
county at cents per acre for ten
years.
The Chaffee County Horse Growers
Association held its annual meeting at
| Buena Vista February 18th. The Or
ganization last year purchased and i'm
ported from Germany fine coach stall
lion, for which 1t paid $1,000. Reports
of various departments show the asso
citation to be strong financially and
| prosperous.
Judge Moses Hallett of the United
| States District Court refused to review
the evidence in the Pueblo case of the
seven French girls alleged to have
been brought from France to the
United States for immoral purposes,
and the lnree men charged with entic-