The Grit-advocate., 1906-02-23
COLORADO NEWS ITEMS

| The HoOsers of Trinidad have or.
sanized fiourishing society.
Two companies of cadets have been
organized at the University OF Denver.
| Golden will make bid for the loca-
ton of the Colorado Southern's new
car shops.
| Maj. Aaron Cove of Denver has been
before the Senate committee on the
Philippines in opposition to the pro-
posed reduction in the sugar tariff.
Wallace Elliott of La Junta was
killed at Guanajuato. Mexico, by con-
tact with live electric wire. His re-
mains were brought home for inter-
ment.
T. A. Gunnell, father Of Judge A. T.
Gunnell of Colorado Springs. died at
his home in Colorado Springs on the
18th instant at the age OF eighty five
years.
Jack Hitler and ]. c. Kerns were
sentenced by Judge Lewis at Colorado
Springs to seven to eight years each
in the penitentiary. They were con-
victed of working confidence games.
A company of Durango men being
organized to build $4,000 hotel is
headed by Giles T. Vandergrift. Tom
Lofts and Charles e. Herr. Thirty
thousand dollars has been pledged.
George F. Doane, the man who To-
Gated Aspen, and who later located the
Roane-Rambler mine near Battle Lake,
Wyoming, which he sold for $4,000,
900, died at Denver ON the 14th in.
stant of heart failure.
A collision between a Santa Fe train
and Pueblo fire apparatus resulted In
the smashing of Pueblo's newest and
best steam fire engine, which cost So
600. In running to fire the driver
got in front of freight tra:l.
| Charles c. Welch, an employe OF the
Globe. smelter in Denver, committed
suicide on the 18th instant by swal-
lowing strychnine and laudanum. III
health, by reason of inhaling gas
fumes, is supposed to be the cause.
The city and the Rio Grande rail
road will Jointly build new bridge
across the Arkansas at Salida, which
will cost $4,000. 1t will be modern
structure OF concrete, sixty feet wide
and 120 feet long, with center pier
George Marshmann, who held up a
ranchman at Henderson in broad day
light three weeks ago, pleaded guilty
| to highway robbery and was sentenced
in the District Court at Brighton to
from eight to ten years in the peniten
! tiary.
J. U. Vigil, Democratic candidate fo.
county clerk of Las Animas county,
and whose Office was contested for by
Eugene Garcia Republican candidate,
the latter having been given the Office
| by the Supreme Court, has filed a mo
| tiOn for rehearing.
Governor Mcdonald has received .
handsome diploma from the manage
ment of the Lewis and Clark EXposi
ton for distinguished services The
| governor helped in making the Colo
RADIO exhibit success and made q
| speech on Colorado Day.
To test the constitutionality Of the
law and decide the question whether q
horse with docked tail can be i'm
ported to Colorado the cases against
zell in the District Court at Denver
| will be appealed to the Supreme Court
Business men from all over the state
attended the dollar dinner given by
| the Colorado State Commercial Asso
citation at the Antlers hotel at Colo
raod Springs. The feature of the af
fair was the launching of movement
! to secure million population for Col
| orado.
Morrison is Jefferson county's lat
| est incorporated town. The following
| officials will serve for the first year
| having been elected on Citizens
ticket: Mayor, T. C. Morrison; trus
| tees, DR.. F. l.. Luce, Jacob Schneider
Charles Dixie, John w. Mclean. Ed
ward IIeGrow and P. Olsen.
Herman Panzer, a grading crew
foreman in the employ of the Moffa
road, was murdered either late Friday
night or early Saturday morning in /
lonely spot one mile west of Leyder
| near Denver and within 500 yards o
| the Denver, Northwestern & Pacific
railroad. The body was found Satur
| day morning and was identified by f
]. Carroll, a Moffat road contractor.
J The yacht Anemone, which c. l.
Tut of Colorado Springs has entered
for the New York Yacht Clubs race
from San Francisco to Honolulu, has 6
Denver registry. Mr.. Tut wanted tt
give the boat Colorado Springs reg
istry, but that city not being a port OF
entry, he was compelled to register the
! yacht at Denver, or go outside Of Col
! orado, which he would not do.
Because some one had real or fan
cied grievance against Candido Barela
Republican member of the last Legis
lature, an attempt was made to blow
his saloon and another building ad
joining off the face of the earth with
dynamite, at Weston. sixteen miles
west of Trinidad, on the night of the
18th instant. The principal damage
done was shattering the windows.
Patents have been issued to the fol
lowing Colorado people: John A. Fer
guson, Denver, press for concrete
building blocks; James F. Ferry. Lead
vile, cooking utensils: Eli Forester
Denver, railway rail joint; Frank w
Jacques, Victor, ore sorting belt; D. C
Mosher, Manitou, barrel filter: James
E. Pitman. Gold Hill, trap; Paul H
Widman, Denver. acetylene gas appar
| atus.
The fact that F. j. Sachs was, inten
tionally or otherwise. a very bad
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