The Grit-advocate., 1906-03-23
COLORADO NEWS ITEMS


the purpose of advertising the Springs
business center.
The secretary of the interior has
withdrawn from public entry section
10, township IA south, range SO west.
in connection with the UncOmpahgre
valley project in Colorado.
The people of Lovelaud have ap-
pointed committee to confer with the
officials of the Denver, Yellowstone l.
Pacific Railway Company for the pur-
pose of trying to induce them to build
through LOveland.
The $1,000 monument to the late w.
S. Stratton, designed by Miss Nellie
Walker of Chicago, is completed and
will probably be placed at the grave in
Evergreen cemetery, Colorado Springs,
on Memorial Day.
The Denver Real Estate Exchange
and Colorado Manufacturers Associa-
ton are very much troubled over the
closing of the Rocky Mountain paper
tee to consider some plan for retaining
the plant.
The executive committee Of the Citi-
Zen's alliance at Cripple Creek has
decided to establish an employment bu-
.eau for its members. The club rooms
will be reopened The president will
appoint large advisory committee to
consist of employees of the mines.
Beneath cave-in OF hundreds OF
tons of coal In the Williamsville mine,
north of Colorado Springs, William
Needs, a Papetown miner, was in
stantly klIied on the 18th inst. His
brother Ernest, who was working only
few feet distant from the victim at
the time of the cave-in, escaped unhurt.
The Colorado Springs Telegraph. to-
gether with its Associated Press fran
chise. has been purchased from c. P.
Dodge by c. F. Yeager, f. F. Mckay
and c. E. Perry, all of whom have been
identified with the paper in the past.
The consideration is not made public.
but is understood to approximate 500,
900.
Leonard Imboden and James A. Hill,
under sentence of from nine to ten
years for wrecking the Denver Saw
ings bank, were committed to the state
penitentiary at Canon City March 18th.
They were received by Warden Cleg.
horn and enrolled on the prison rec
ords. Imboden will be known as No.
$3.50 and Hill as No. 6,54O.
AT meeting of the county com
missioners of Delta county and
Gunnison county, at Delta, an
agreement was reached for the set
tlement of the county line dispute.
They will have the line surveyed by
the surveyors of both counties. work
ing jointly, and their starting point is
to be the northeast corner of Montrose
county, along the 10th parallel.
The State Land Board has awarded
G5,3Sl acres of indemnity school land,
all the indemnity land to which the
state at the present time is entitled.
The property lies in thirteen different
counties. The land in question is
taken in exchange for that upon gov
ernment reserves and the board re-
reived application for 100000 acres.
The county commissioners of Ere
mont have decided to use the convicts
from the State Penitentiary in build
ink a wagon road. In short time a
large force will be employed between
Florence, Coal Creek and Rockvale.
The great amount of heavy coal haul
ing keeps these roads In bad shape and
an excellent macadamized thorough
fare will be constructed.
Adolph Berrich, an old German scout
and trapper, who lad been wandering
about in the cold near Edgerton. north
of Colorado Springs, was finally located
by County Physician Richardson, Sher-
iff Grimes and Deputy Scofield in a
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unconscious, both feet and legs were
frozen and death would have ensued
had he lain exposed many hours.
George N. Marden, who twenty-five
years ago came to Colorado College as
professor of history, and is now treas
urer of the institution, was presented
few days ago with handsome silver
loving cup and luxurious chair by the
trustees, faculty and many of the older
pupils of the college. The occasion was
the SEVENTEEN birthday of the reel
pient, and the twenty-fifth anniversary
of his arrival at Colorado College.
Col. F. T. Davis, adjutant of the de-
2artment Of the Colorado, has re-
ceived orders from General Baldwin to
inspect the state militia companies OF
Colorado. 1t is General Baldwin's S
preference that field officer do this
work and the colonel will personally
conduct it during April. These inspec'
tions are made by the army. in all
states that are working under the Dick
law and receiving support from the
government.
An enthusiastic meeting was held at
Agullar on the 18th inst. to push the
| proposed formation of a new county
out of the northern part of Las Animas
| county and in which Agu1lar is to be
| the county seat. Among the enthusias
tic advocates of the new county, who
made speeches were Senator Cashmere
Barela and J. r. Aguiar. The petition
to the Legislature is expected to be
ready for submission to that body at
the next session.
The Colorado Manufacturers Asso
citation is preparing cards to be mailed
to teachers with request that they be
put up in their school rooms. The
cards will contain data concerning the
manufactured products of Colorado
giving the articles of popular use, sta
tistics, about the number of factories
capital invested, which exceeds S3G,
OOO, 900 by members of the association
alone the number of employees. the
money spent annually for materials
and the wages paid.
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