The Grit-advocate., 1905-10-06
COLORADO NEWS ITEMS

Were shipped from Las AnlmaS tnla
season
The approximate assessed valuation
for the city and county OF Denver for
the year 1905, is $ll6,212,94S,
Ground was broken on the Goth ul
timo for the new Central high school
building in district 20, Pueblo.
W. Z. Porter of Loveand lost two
fingers OF his right hand few days
ago while helping to move heavy
safe.
Scarcity of milk in Greeley has oc-
casioned raise in price, dairymen
who formerly charged cents Il quart
now charging I.
William II. Henry has been ap-
pointed regular, and d. f. Henry, sub
stitute rural free delivery carrier OF
route No. !, at Colbran
Gen. William J. Palmer has contrib
uted $1,000 to the prosecution of the
Colorado Springs druggists who have
violated the liquor ordinances.
In the District Court at Cripple
Creek, James Warford and Walter Ken
ley were found guilty of assault with
intent to kill Sheriff Edward Bell.
The orders of the district judges
seem to have put at least temporary
quietus on gambling in Denver. 1t is
claimed that even the policy shops are
closed
There are six black walnut trees on
the state capitol grounds at Denver
that were raised from walnuts grown
on the farm on which Abraham Lin
coin was born.
The abandonment of Holyole as a
Burlington freight division was COM
pleted last week when the carpenter
shop and machinists' tools We're
moved to Curtis, Nebraska
Colorado farmers are at work dig
ging the greatest crop of sugar beels
ever grown In the West, The factories
are all commencing work and things
! will be lively for the next two months.
The body of Clarence Y. Clay, for
merly of Denver. was found on Straub
mountain near Victor September 21th
with a bullet wound over the heart. IT.
is supposed to have been a case of sui
/ eide.
I4ongmonts pumpkin pie festival
Thursday, September 2Sth, was great
success. Four thousand pies were cut.
Fifty floats appeared in the parade,
along with many other interesting fea-
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| Senator Thomas NJ Patterson ar
| rived in Denver on the night of Sep
| tember 30th on his return from his
rip to the Philippines as member OF
secretary Taft's party. The senator
returned in excellent health
Sarah Jean Taylor, Colorado
| Springs nurse. has brought suit to re-
cover 100000 damages from the Rock
Island road for personal injuries al
| legged to have been received in the Ii
mon Junction wreck on June 26th.
On September 27th r. S. Capps was
killed by Il fall of earth in the Deer
horn claim of the Stratton estate on
Globe hill in the Cripple Creek dis
tricr. Mr.. Capps was forty years of
age. unmarried, and formerly lived at
| Coaldale. near Canon City.
Ora Haley, a cattleman of Wyoming.
has engaged cars on the Moffat road
for the shipment of 1.50O head Of fat
cattle from Sulphur Springs to Den
yer. He has started his drives. which
will come in lunches of 500 or COO
cattle.
Corporate property in Colorado has
had a valuation placed upon it by the
State Board of Equalization of $o1,-
49i. .lO4 for the year 1905. Last year
the valuation on corporate property
was s52,SG4,71S. The valuation this
year is less than that of last year by
Sl.370,6l4.
At meeting of members of the
chambe.. of commerce. the Denver Con
ventiOn League, the real estate eX-
change and the Festival of Mountain
and Plain committee, resolutions We're
passed favoring the issue of $4Oo.oOo
| bonds for the purpose of building an
| auditorium in Denver.
Following its Improvement of its
station grounds AT Colorado Springs.
the Denver & Rio Grande Railroad
Company will expend several thousand
| dollars in enlarginz and improving the
! building. The baggage room, now at
the south end of the depot, will be re-
| moved to the north. and the present
| building will be occupied by the eX-
fprcss companies.
I Henry Light, former resident OF
| MOntrose. was killed at Dragon, utah.
on he 29th ultimo. by failing OFF the
| wagon bridge near the hotel. HIS
death was Instantaneous. Light was
about seventy years of age and had
| been resident of MontrOse for the
| last thirteen years, most. of the time
being in the employ of the Denver q
Rio Grande Express Company.
, Brooks Irione and the other mem-
bers of the home committee of the Ma
tioual Letter Carriers Association Will
ask Congress for an appropriation OF
from $50 900 to 100000 to aid them in
/ erecting the National Letter Carriers
| Home in Colorado Springs Should
! they get it, the building plans will be
| expanded and provision made for Il
S25H.O0O home.
Al the recent examination for en-
| baluers and undertakers held in the