The Grit-advocate., 1905-09-08
COLORADO NEWS ITEMS

Great crowds of excursionists are
visiting Cripple Creek.
September 18th will be Denver Day
at the State Fair at Pueblo.
The new Christian Science church
at Florence has been completed.
Irrigation of land by artesian wells
promises to prove successful in FIRE.
mont county.
A special train will carry Denver
business men to the State Fair at
Pueblo, September 18th.
Twenty men enlisted In the United
States army at the recruiting station
In Pueblo during the month Of August.
Governor Mcdonald has made an
order that the state house ohices may
be closed at noon every Saturday dur
Ing the year.
Gilbert McClurg has been employed
by Denver business men to give
twenty lectures on Colorado at the
Portland exposition.
Judge Lindsey Of the Denver County
Court has decided that the ordinance
prohibiting brickyards inside the city
limits Of Denver is unconstitutional.
Prizes have been awarded to chill
dren, schools and organizations for
successful competition in raising fow-
ers and vegetables the past summer.
John Walker of Columbus, Nebraska,
who is seventy-nine years of age, re-
Gently walked from Manitou Springs
to the summit of Pixies Peak and back.
Burglars blew open the safe in the
postoffice at Falcon in Ell Paso county
on the night of August 29th and Sc
cuerd about 5000 in stamps and money.
The Convention Amusement Com.
pany has been organized in Denver to
give entertainments and exhibitions
during the conventions held in the
city
Forest Inspector Smith Riley. who
has been temporarily placed In charge
of the Holy Cross forest reserve In Col
orado, has established headquarters at
Glenwood Springs.
Mrs. Emma Herey-Meyer has retired
from the Office OF county superintend-
ent of schools in Denver. Judge Palmer
having decided that Miss Lillian Field
is the lawful incumbent.
Major F. F. Foote, a G. A. r. veteran
and pioneer resident of Ell Paso county,
fell down an elevator shaft at Colorado
Springs on the I'd inst. and suffered a
fracture of the left thigh.
The harvest festival parade at Gree
ley on the 30th ult was twenty-four
blocks long and consisted Of decorated
automobiles. carriages. bicycles and
floats. The festival drew an immense
crowd.
A party of hunters from Iowa few
days ago paid the game warden at
Denver 1925 for hunting licenses. They
proposed to enter the mountains from
Buford, Routt county, for thirty
days hunt.
Miss Ruby L. Carstens Of Longmont
graduate of the University Of Colo
rado last June, has received an ap
pointment of fellowship in the de
partment Of mathematics in the State
University.
The Denver & Rio Grande railroad
will build a new machine shop. 63x297
feet in size, at its shops in Denver. to-
gether with large addition to the
blacksmith shop. The whole is to cost
about $4,000.
The general committee of the Boul
der Commercial Association has de
cided to make a safer passageway to
Boulder falls, one of the scenic at
fractions in the foothills above the city
up Boulder canon.
Attorney General Miller has an
nounced an opinion to the effect that
the exemption of 5000 Of personal prop
erty from taxation under the law
passed last winter does not apply to
non-residents.
At Pueblo, on the 3lst ult., Mrs
Maud Finch Haver. wife of E. B.
Haver, real estate dealer, drowned
herself and five-year-old son in the Bes
semer ditch. The act is attributed to
i'll health and despondency.
Owing to the threatened epidemic
of scarlet fever at Leadville, the State
Board of Health has notified the local
authorities that the city must be thor.
oughly cleaned. Otherwise the State
Board will take the matter in hand.
The comptroller of the currency has
authorized the Commercial National
Bank Of Salida, Colorado. to begin bus
mess with capital Of $50.000. J. W.
Calhoun is president, S. w. Sandusky
vice president, and c. w. Erdlen, cash
| ier.
There will be an examination for
| stenographers and typewriters in the
federal building at Denver October
10th. For departmental stenographers
the salaries range from $500 to $1,000
year, but for the Philippine service
they run from $1,000 to $1,000.
The seventh annual reunion of the
survivors of the fight at Beecher Is
land, near Wray, will be held Septem-
| Der 10th to 18th. 1t will be the occa-
sion of the erection of $1,000 monu-
ment, paid for by money appropriated
by the Legislatures OF Colorado and
Kansas.
The officials in charge of the fair
to be held at Aztec New Mexico, from
September 10th to 21st, have arranged
to set aside one day to be known as
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