The Grit-advocate., 1906-01-12
COLORADO NEWS ITEMS

pox IN Denver last year, every one of
whom recovered. and eighty-one cases
of erysipelas resulted in no deaths.
The Boulder oil refinery has been
leased for long term of years to
Harry Casaday, the agent of the
Standard Oil Company in Boulder.
| The Second Infantry, now stationed
at Fort Logan. has been ordered to the
Philippines. The troops must be at
San Francisco. ready to embark, be.
fore January 9th.
The Colorado Springs Humane So
ciety has affiliated with the State
Bureau of Child and Animal Protec-
tion. DR.. W. F.. Slocum is president
and w. F. Richards, secretary.
DR.. U. d. Mcdowell, a well known
physician of Longmont, died January
Sd OF consumption. He was brother
of Bishop w. F. Mcdowell. formerly
chancellor of the University of Den
ver
The First National Bank of Ber-
thOud has been authorized to begin
business with s25,0OO. Thomas II.
Robertson. president: John A. Cross,
vice president Guy L. Loomis,
cashier.
Benz. F. Harrington, formerly county
Judge Of Arapahoe county, died at Den
yer. January 5th. He came to Colorado
in 1871 and was well known and popu-
lar holding at various times many i'm
| portant Offices.
The weather bureau at Denver re-
ports that during the sixty-eight days
intervening between October 30th anG
January 9th, there was no precipita.
! ton, and only four days during that
period when bright Colorado sunshine
| did not prevail.
Charles w. Martin. a former well
known Colorado hotel man, having
! been manager of the Denver Club, as
| sistant manager Of the Antlers at Colo.
RADIO Springs, and manager of Hotel
Colorado at Glenwood, died at Canton,
Ohio, January 9th.
The farmers in the Arkansas valley,
north and west of Lamar, and north of
Las Animas, are rejoicing in the pros.
pect of new railroad. which will be
commenced this spring and pass
through the northern part of Prowers,
Bent and Otero counties.
Judge Moses Hallett, executor OF
the Clayton estate in Denver, has au'
thorized the announcement that early
in the spring he will begin the erec.
tion of the Clayton Memorial college
on the eighty-acre tract belonging tC
the estate near the City Park.
! While skating on Haydens lake near
Boulder on the night of the 5th inst.
Irvine Finney, aged seventeen, broke
through the ice and was drowned.
Young Finney's father was killed by
an explosion of giant powder at Neder'
land only about two weeks before.
The application of w. E. Combe
Lewis Linebarger, M. l.. Linebarger,
H. N. Linbarger. Mark Burke and
First National Bank of Julesburg
with $25,OOO capital, has been ap
proved by the comptroller Of the cur.
rency.
Henry T. Rogers, of the firm OF
Rogers, Cuthbert & Ellis Of Denver,
has been appointed general solicitor
for the Atchison. Topeka & Santa Fe
Railway Company for Colorado to sue.
coed Charles E. Cast of Pueblo. Mr.
Rogers entered upon his duties Janu
ary 1st.
An active effort to collect the inheri
tance tax now due the state of Colo
RADIO is about to be made by State Au
ditor Bent The amount of unpaid
taxes is close to half q million dollars
rs shown by an investigation Of five
counties, which is said to justify this
estimate.
Alderman J. j. Coughlin of Chicago
Illinois, will spend approximately
$50 900 in transforming his Cheyenne
Springs ranch at Broadmoor, south OF
Colorado Springs, into a zoo and
recreation grounds. Work has beer
started and the improvements will be
completed about July list.
The new Burlington five-stall brick
roundhouse at Sterling will soon be
commenced, the stone and concrete
for the foundation being now on the
ground. The Union Pacific will begir
construction on sevenstall similar
structure in the spring. The Burling
ton also is to erect repair machine
shops at Sterling.
The Cambrian Society of Pueblo
composed of Welsh singers, is arranS
ing to bring together all of the leading
church choirs of the state in a grand
chorus at Pueblo some time neM
autumn. This idea was evolved by the
members of the society in connection
with the arrangements for the Eistedi
fod, for which arrangements are BENG
| made.
Authoritative information that viii
liam H. Howard. superintendent of the
Pueblo plant of the American Smelt
ing and Refining Company will soon
leave his position has created consid.
cradle surprise. Mr.. Howard, it is un
derstood, will take charge Of smeltcr
! near San Francisco belonging to the
same company. He has been in charge
of the work at Pueblo for several years
and has been successful in the man,
agement of the business and the install.
lation of large number Of new i'm
provementS.
At Denver on the night Of the 9TH
inst, one hundred guests, including pa.
tients, sat down to the first meal
served at the new santarium of the
Jewish Consump,ives' Relief society
on West Colfax avenue. The guest OF
honor was Isidore Hurwitz, chief pat.
ron and benefactor of the institution,
who came all the way from New York
city to be present. The sanitarium is
| a completely equipped, modern institu-
ton, with a glass sun parlor in which
| the patients pleasantly pass the time
during Indictment weather. and sys.
TEN of tents for outdoor sleeping.
The State Conference Of Charities
and Corrections will be held in Pueblo
January 21st. 22d and 23d, beginning