The Glenwood post., 1905-11-25
COLORADO NEWS ITEMS


The Beta Theta Pi college fraternity
will hold its national convention at
Denver next August.
More than 5000 tons of beets are
piled up at Delta awaiting transporta-
ton to the sugar factory.
An attempt will be made to pass an
ordinance in Denver requiring the use
of wide tires on freight wagons.
All of the old directors of the Colo
RADIO & Southern railroad were re-
elected at the annual meeting held In
Denver.
Women are to be allowed to take
part in the shooting tournament OF the
Canon City Gun Club on Thanksgiv-
ing day.
Montrose has become city of the
second class by action of Governor Nc.
Donald, recent census showing a
population of 2,30S.
Arthur ]. Ventress, who was injured
by being thrown from trolley car In
the Newhouse tunnel at Idaho Springs,
died on the 18th inst.
s. l.. Brooks, a former employe OF
the State Agricultural College, dropped
dead from heart failure on the streets
of Fort Collins, November goth.
1t is estimated that ten months will
be required to build the Moffat road
through Gore canon after the grade
reaches the entrance, which will be in
week or two.
Bishop Cranston of the NJ. E.
Church, formerly of Denver, was mar
ried to Miss Lucia NJ. Parker at Gin
cinnati, Ohio, on the 18th inst, Bishop
Moore officiating.
James p True, pioneer of Colorado
and one of the first settlers of Poncha
Springs, was found dead in his room
at Denver November Goth. He was
seventy years of age.
Eliza Thomas, convicted at Golden OF
criminal assault on his wife's fourteen
year-old sister, was sentenced by Judge
France to three years in the State Pen
itentiary at Canon City.
Charles Reardon, Rio Grande Sec
ton foreman near Buena Vista, was
struck by passenger train and killed
November 18th. He had been a section
foreman on the road for sixteen years.
Montrose has voted to give o. NJ.
Clay and II. H. Washburn a twenty
five-year license for the construction
VI ii ShS pant. II 10 piopooCu " SA-
pend $4,000 on the plant during the
next year.
Percy Ellis, the three-year-old son of
Normal Ellis, was instantly killed near
Berthoud on the 10th inst, by falling
under the wheels of a loaded beet
wagon, which passed over the child's
head.
The residents and ditch companies
of Chaffee and Fremont counties are
preparing to contest the use of the wa
ter rights from the Arkansas river,
near Buena VISTA which We're recently
acquired by the Otero district.
William Jennings Bryan is the
grandfather of young Coloradan,
whoss mother is Mrs. w. H. Leavitt,
Mr.. Bryans daughter. The youthful
statesman was born at the Lafayette
hote! in Denver on the 10th inst.
Out of the frying pan into the fire,
was the experience of o. H. Stevens,
in the District Court at Pueblo. After
being released from the insane asylum
he was sentenced to from two to three
years in the State Penitentiary for
perjury.
The new building which is to be
used for offices of the United States
reclamation service and the Uncom
pahgre Valley Water Users Associa-
ton at Montrose has been completed
and the government officers have
moved in.
A special election will be held In
Greeley, Tuesday, December 26th, for
the purpose of voting on the question
of issuing 100000 bonds to supple
ment the $250,000 bond issue voted last
spring to be used in increasing the
city's water supply.
Governor Mcdonald of Colorado and
Governor Brooks of Wyoming ex
changed greetings on the completion
of the wireless telegraph station at
Cheyenne last week. Their messages
were not so weighty as to overtax the
light air of Colorado and Wyoming.
The body of Raymond Minister, the
Canon City boy who, on June 4th
while catching wood floating down the
Arkansas river. fell into the water
was found near Portland November
18th by j. w. Thompson while hunting
wood. The father identified the re,
mains.
The special inspector sent by the
Postoffice Department to investigate
the federal building at Denver will re-
port that the business of the Denver
postoffice has entirely outgrown the
accommodation and that a new build
ing ought to be provided for as soon
as possible.
The Douglas County Ditch and Res
ervoir Company has received a TWEEN
ty-tive-horse power engine built espe-
cially for plowing and ditch work. The
engine weighs 5000 pounds and will be
used by the company to plow, disk and
seed at one operation the 1000 acres
of land owned by it in the vicinity of
Castle Rock.
The Santa Fe Railway Company Is
erecting 100000 building at La Junta
for an employees club. 1t will be AK
100 feet in size, three stories and base
ment, and will have such conveniences
Tor railroad men as bath rooms, read
ing room, bowling alley, billiard hall