The Glenwood post., 1906-05-05
COLORADO NEWS ITEMS

A meeting OF the TranScontinentAl
Passenger Association Will be held at
Colorado Springs in July.
The Chinese in Denver raised $203 so
to be sent to the aid of their suffering
countrymen in San Francisco.
The United Presbyterian church ded-
lcated handsome new church build
ing at Loveland Sunday, April Goth.
All the principal stations on the
transcontinental railroad lines in Col
orado have done good work in feeding
San Francisco refugees
The Colorado Chautauqua assembly
at Boulder will open July 4th and con-
tinue for five weeks A handsome cat.
alogue is sent free on application.
Congressman Brooks wires that the
Postoffice Department has allowed
Alamosa. free delivery route running
south into the country fifteen miles.
r. B. Hurst of the naval hospital
corps announces that May 1st Il perna-
nent recruiting station will he estab-
lished by the Navy Department at Pu-
eblo.
The works of the American Prcduc-
ton Company at Buena Vista are busy
turning out rubber from the rubber
plant on successful commercial
scale.
The San Francisco relief committee
at Cripple Creek sent $4,4SO in five
dollar gold pieces to the stricken city
in one installment by eXpress-and
then went on raising more money.
The Union Pacific gasoline motor
car between Denver and Greeley has
been taken off. 1t is stated that il was
only placed on the line for trial pur-
poses ami that the experiment was un.
successful.
John A. Fielder, an old resident of
Colorado Springs, was found dead in
his bed on the morning of April 23d.
Mr.. Fielder was one of the best-known
stage drivers on the road in the early
days of Cripple Creek.
Fred Orr, miner, aged thirty, mar
ried, was killed, and James Tai
bot, forty-ive years old, single,
was mortaly injured by an explosion
in the Moffat shaft on Rock hill, Cali
fornia sulch, at Leadville, April Gath.
Mr.. Clifford Pinchot, head of the
government forestry department, has
sent out notices that ranger eXamina-
tions will be held at Durango. Salda,
May 14th. Supervisors examinations
May 18th, all large cities.
The county commissioners of Ere
mont county are working twCuty five
convicts on the new wagon road TO
the coal camps from Brewster. This is
the first public work done by convicts
since the new law was passed. These
convicts will be employed all suinmer
by the county.
Deaths in Colorado for March num-
bered 96S. OF this number twenty
nine were from diphtheria, typhoid
and scarlet fever. AS compared with
the previous month there was a de
crease of diphtheria and scarlet fever
cases and an increase of smallpox and
typhoid.
w. b Hough, one of the pioneer
members of the Boulder lodge of Ma
| sons, pioneer school teacher of Boul-
der county, and one of the oldest mem
bers of the Delta Phi Delta, died at
Boulder, April 10Th, aged seventy
years. He had been a resident of the
county for over twenty years.
The following rural free delivery
routes have been ordered established in
Colorado, to commence service June l;
Lafayette, Boulder county, route No. !,
population served 430, number OF
houses on route, 1l2; Rifle, Garfield
county. route No. /, population served
4O9, number of houses on route III.
Col. f. T. Davis, U. S. A., adjutant
of the Department of the Colorado, fin
ished his inspection of the Colorado
state troops April 23d at Battery A
armory, in Denver. The work has prac-
tically taken three weeks. All things
considered, he states that he finds the
state troops in excellent condition.
In a report just completed by State
Engineer T. w. Jaycox the contentious
Of the county commissioners of Ouray
county as to the boundary line be-
tween Ouray and San Juan counties
are upheld. This will settle the dis
pute unless the San Juan county com.
missioners take the matter into court.
The bridge than spans the Arkansas
river at Salida will be replayed by
$4,000 structure. The contract has
been let to Pueblo firm and requires
that the work be completed by Novem-
Der list. The bridge will be 125 feet
in length and fifty feet in width. 1t
connects the city with the railroad sta
tion and shops.
Patents have been granted to Colo
RADIO investors as follows: William
Cooper, Denver, automatic exhaust;
James S. Harris and j. r. Hoskin. Cen
tral City, rock drill chuck; Isaac p.
Lambing, Denver, gold saving appa-
ratus; Willis f. Phillips. CJllbran,
camera attachment; Michael A. Sal
mon, Denver. nail receptacle; Solomon
Schwayder, Denver. receptacle II stor
ing alcoholic liquors.
The members OF The Colorado divis