The Glenwood post., 1906-11-10
COLORADO NEWS ITEMS

after several months suffering from
cancer
Stephen Frazier was killed by fall
Ing rock in a stone quarry near VIII
liamsbuEg, in Fremont county, on the
Both ult.
On the night of November 1st rob-
bers dynamited the safe of the Ber-
hens Grocery Company at Pueblo aud
escaped with $500 In money.
The Denver branch of the Needle
work Guild of America will distribute
G,60O garments among unfortunate and
needy families in Denver this year.
Work is progressing on the founda
tions of the new Carnegie Library
building in Denver The site is be-
house
The Jewish Free Loan Society at
Denver organized to lend money with
out interest to needy and worthy per-
sons, has loaned over $4,000 during
tire past three years without losing Il
cent
The Presbytery of Denver at a re-
cent meeting adopted resolutions in
honor of the late Prof Thomas Nelson
Haskell, the founder of Cutler Acad-
emy and Colorado College at Colorado
Springs.
The recent big storm closed the
Pixies Peak cog road for week. In
clearing the road from timber line to
the summit, the men had to shovel
through snow from FIVE to twenty-five
feet deep.
Suffering from 1ocomotor ataxia,
which he believed to be incurable, Pc
ter Cuaz, a miner at Aspen. deliber-
ately blew Off his head with a stick of
giant powder, which also blew off both
his hands and mangled his body.
More than $500 people who came to
Colorado last summer with return
tickets, and left them at the Union
depot in Denver to be validated before
starting back. failed to call for the
tickets, having concluded to remain in
the state.
Frank Job, night boss at the Hast
ings mine of the Victor Fuel Company
near Trinidad, was killed on the Sd
inst. by lump of coal crushing his
breast He was standing fifty feet
from the explosion of a shot, which
has always been regarded Il safe dis.
tarce. He was thirty-eight years old
and leaves widow and two children.
Every Coloradan away from home
in the state will be offered an oppor.
tunity to go home for the Christmas
holidays, through the action of the
Colorado Passenger Association,
which has arranged for holiday rates
varying from one fare for the round
trip on the mountain roads to a fare
and a third for the round trip on the
prairie roads.
Thomas Freel of Eaton died at The
Greeley hospital on the 4th inst. OF
stomach trouble. He had resided in
Weld county for thirty years and
twenty years ago he was one of the
most daring cowboy riders of the
range. During the last ten years OF
his life he has been in the stock
business and owned a string of valu-
able running horses.
The October receipts of the Denver
postoffice We're SSS,342.69, being the
largest in the history of the Office for
any one month, and thirty-eight per
cent above those of September. The
Dostotiice sold during the thirty-one
days, 95O,0O0 1-cent stamps, 100000
2-cent stamps and 25O,000 miscellan-
eous stamps. There were 100000 en-
velopes and 100000 postal cards sold.
Rev James Stanton, one of the old.
est settlers in the vicinity of Platte
vile, died October 3lst of consump-
tion, aged fifty nine. Mr.. Stanton
came to Platteville in the early seven
ties and was one of the incorporators
of the town, where he lived for over
thirty years, with the exception of
few years spent in Eaton as pastor of
the Congregational Church there. He
is survived by a widow, two sons and
two daughters.
According to estimates made by the
traffic department of the Colorado G.
Southern and the Union Pacific, the
potato crop of northern Colorado this
year will amount to about 10000 carss
which will equal the big crop of last
year Over the lines of the Colorado e
Southern 1900 cars have already been
shipped, which is more than had been
loaded by the 1st of November last
year. anu is the record breaker for this
early in the season
AS soon as Adjutant Albert NJ.
Southworth OF the Denver division of
the Salvation Army is able to collect
$500 he will establish in this city the
only Salvation Army industrial home
b''"tth hdhodS WY anu tIt / dtllC
coast. The officer has had 500 turned
over to him and he is using this in the
collection of literature to be placed in
the proposed home. This money was
given him by the Rev. George B. Vos-
burgh. pastor of the First Baptist
Church, and was contributed by the
congregation.
Precinct 5 in the First ward of Pu-
eblo has probably established a record
for old age voters at today's election.
Three Dersons-twc women and one
man, whose ages aggregate 2S2 years,
appeared at the polls at that place
Tuesday and cast their votes. "Auntie"
Bliss. 102 years old, cast her first bal
lot. She has lived in the state for
number of years, coming here from
Connecticut. She says she voted for
the preacher" chancellor BuchteD
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