The Grit-advocate., 1905-08-18
JULESBURG. COLORADO FRIDAY, AUGUST 1s,
COLORADO NEWS ITEMS

| oee S1oWlcys lOuTtecil-ye6T-Olu SOA
of David Crowley of Golden. was killed
by lightning August 1lth at the
Churches ranch four miles north of
Golden.
The Las Animas County Good
Roads Association has been formed
at Trinidad. with s. w. Busk as presi-
dent. and Mayor C. H. Nichols vice
president.
John Barbee a well known pioneer
OF the Cripple Creek district. died at
Cripple Greek on the 10th inst, of
miners consumption, at the age Of
sixty years.
| Examinations for state teachers
diplomas will be conducted by the
state superintendent Of public instruc-
tion at the capitol building in Denver
August oath to 26th.
Engineer G. w. Thompson was killed
on the 18th inst. by the overturning of
his engine between Red Mountain and
Silverton. The train remained on the
track and no one else was hurt.
Governor Mcdonald on the recon-
mendation of Surgeon General NJ. H.
Root has appointed DR.. Morris Kahn
of Leadville TO be a captain and as
sistant surgeon in the state militia.
One hundred and sixty people at
Boulder have subscribed an aggregate
OF $l4 300 toward the erection of Y.
N. c. ., building, and there are 200
more people for the committee to see.
Governor Mcdonald has appointed
Clayton C. Williams and l.. F. Twitch-
ell as delegates from Colorado to the
National Irrigation Congress which
meets in Portland, Oregon, August
Path.
James P. Arthur, former state sena-
tor from Larimer county, and twice
mayor of Fort Collins. died at Fort
Collins on the 18th inst. of neuralgia
of the heart. He was seventy-two years
of age.
Col. w. w. Ferguson, assistant quar-
termaster general Of the G. A. r. at
Denver and custodian of the war mu-
a siege of typhoid fever from which he
now seems to be recovering.
The Fremont County Good Roads
| Association has requested the county
commissioners to make requisition on
Warden Cleghorn of the penitentiary
for at least $50 convicts to be en-
ployed in macadamizing roads in Flor
ence and Canon City.
Sixty tons of hay, valued at 5000. was
totally destroyed by fire at the STRAIT,
tor ranch, south Of Colorado Springs,
on the 14th inst, as result of the
raFelessness of some small boys who
t:sa'cw the lighted stubs of their cigar
cites on the haystack.
| The delegates appointed by Cover.
nor Mcdonald to represent Colorado
at the Transmississippi Commercial
| Congress, to be held at Portland. Ore
gon, August 10th, are Arthur Francis
| Of Cripple Creek. F. NJ. Bisbee of La
Junta and H. P. Spencer of Denver.
! Frank Mueller who died at Foun,
tain on the Sth inst, at the age Of
eighty years, was one of the pioneer
ranchmen of El Paso county. During
! the Civil War he served in the Third
| Colorado Cavalry and was present and
took part in the historic battle of Sand
Creek in 1864.
, The contract has been let for new
city hall at Greeley. 1t will be Of
pressed brick, two stories high, To-
Gated on Seventh street, and have ac-
rommodatons for a fire department
/
The second story to be used as a coun-
ell chamber. The cost will be 100000.
The first message to be received at
the Denver stock yards by wireless
telegraph came on the Sth inst. to one
of the commission firms. The dispatch
was sent from Pueblo, and was taken
from the receiver recently erected
on the top of the big smokestack of
the Grant smelter, near the yards.
d. Malando, Mexican sheephcrder,
was instantly killed by lightning at
Troy, small settlement in the south
eastern part of Bent county, on the
18th inst, while sitting in his tent dur
lag severe rain and electrical storm.
About month ago another sheep
herder vas killed near the same place
in like manner.
A Rawlins, Wyoming. dispatch OF
August 11th says: Guy Cooper OF
Denver was brought here to-day from
Craig. Colorado where he has been
locating coal lands. to receive surgical
attention to a shattered ankle: the re-
suit of his horse falling on him. He
uttered greatly during the rough over,
land trip of 100 miles.
George Godfrey committed suicide at
the hotel where he was staying in Du.
rango on the 18th inst, by taking car
bOlic acid. He was to have started
that day for Salt Lake city in COM
pany with his fancee Godfrey was
the son of w. J. Godfrey, former
member of the Durango City Council
and owner of the Vulcan iron foundry
Of Durango.
According to the decision of District
Judge Mullins at Denver. George +.
smith and Frank Anderson. former
county commission of old Arapa-
hoe county, who were legislated out
of Gfice by the Rush amendment. are
sjIl entitled to serve. He bases his
decision on the recent decision of the