The Glenwood post., 1905-06-17
COLORADO NEWS ITEMS

organization that has been organized
! to boost Pueblo.
! An unusual number of tourists have
| visited the top of Pixies Peak in May
and June this year.
Thomas Millard, formerly a Pueblo
policeman, has fallen heir to $50, 900
estate in Scotland.
BY the action of the Salt Lake con
vention permanent headquarters of the
Western Federation of Miners will be
continued at Denver.
A complete school census for the
county of Pueblo shows 1904 children
of school age. This is an increase OF
200 over last year.
The annual convention OF the Colo
RADIO State Realty Association will be
held at Colorado Springs June goth
to 23d. The programme includes ad-
dresses by many prominent men.
The Denver baseball team has
reached second place in the Western
league and has an eye on the cham
pionship. Colorado Springs will "haye
to hurry" to escape the BOBBY prize.
Money is being raised for the con
struction of a woman's pavilion at the
| National Jewish Home for Consump-
tives. The sum of $4,000 is wanted,
over $4,000 of which has already been
! subscribed.
Edward Carberry, one of the most
noted detectives on the Denver police
| force. died on the 10th inst. O. heart
disease. Mr.. Carberry was night mar
shal of Cripple Creek in 1896 and
1897.
Pueblo cackles as follows in a tele-
graphic dispatch: r. G. Welch of East
| Second street has a hen which yester-
day produced an egg measuring nine
and three-fourths inches at its greatest
, circumference and eight inches around
/ the center.
At conference between Director OF
the Mint Roberts and Superintendent
| Downer of Denver, the appointment Of
Fred II. Chaffin as cashier of the Den
yer mint was decided upon and his
| commission was made out to take eff
feet July 1st.
Charles Swaney, who was sentenced
to a siXtydays term in the county
jail at Grand Junction for assaulting
Judge w. A. Marsh in the office of the
latter. has been pardoned by Governor
Mcdonald. He had served one-half OF
his sentence.
The Philippine veterans of Colorado
will hold their annual reunion at Colo
RADIO Springs July 22d and 23d. There
are large number of the boys in the
state who belonged to the First Colo.
rado, Thirty-fourth volunteers an
other organizations.
During the last sixty days twenty
two cases of violent deaths have been
| IA nI1oJ bo of I Ari,
county and this number does not in.
clude the numerous persons killed in
the mines. Murder, suicide and the
railroads contribute to the list.
Forest Supervisor ]. H. Clark is IN
Colorado Springs preparatory to in
auguarating the work of planting SO.
900 Nebraska seedlings in the Pike
Peak forest reserve. Approximately
100000 feet of dead timber will be
sold off the south reserve this year.
The Board of County Commissioners
of Pueblo county has formally ac-
cepted the offer of Orman & Crook.
bondsmen, to pay to the county treas
urer the sum of s3,312.90, which is the
amount Pueblo county actually lost by
the failure of the Bank of Pueblo in
! 1893.
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In Colorado will appear before the
State Board of Examiners June 23d-
oath. The examinations are usually
held at the capitol, in one of the egis-
lative chambers. There are indications
that there will be large class this
year.
The II Paso County Horticultural
! Society is completing plans for the
/ ca ont Ia ,nl ch A
feature this year will be the prescnta-
ton of blue ribbon diplomas for the
highest awards. The show will be
| given in Colorado Springs August 23d,
Gath and 25th.
John Cameron, as trustee for the
city of Pueblo, has filed in the Office
| of the state engineer plats of the
| Greenhorn reservoir twenty-nine miles
west of Pueblo. The site was pre-
sented to the city by former State En-
gineer ]. S. Green and is designed to
be used at some time to supply Pueblo
with mountain water.
A contribution of $500 has been
made Jointly by the Denver & Rio
Grande, the Colorado & Southern and
the Colorado Midland railroads to the
Grand Army general executive COM
mittee for the fund to be used in the
entertainment of the delegates to the
National G. A R encampment at Den
yer next September.
The board of control has decided
that any measures. no matter how
stringent, necessary to prevent the
repetition OF an outbreak similar to
that which recently occurred at the
State Industrial School fog Girls, will
be adopted in the future. The damage
done during the late outbreak is now
said to be only about s300-hardly
tenth OF what was first reported
Carl Chamberlain, one of the execu-
tors of the Stratton estate. was se-
verely but not dangerously injured in
an automobile accident two miles north
of Sedalia. He was on his way home
from Denver when bolt of lightning
stunned him and before he could stop
the machine it went off bridge and
landed upon its side in the creek nine
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