The Glenwood post., 1906-11-24
COLORADO NEWS ITEMS

home in Durango few days ago.
David James, postmaster at Love
land. died November 18th after an ILL.,
ness of several months from Bright's
disease
The two-year-old son of John Hanna
OF Durango fell and struck on his head
so hard IS to cause his death a day or
two later.
The new 1,0OO-ton sugar beet factory
at Swink was opened November goth.
,ue formal celebration and barbecue
being set for Thanksgiving day.
The Santa Fe Railroad Company will
spend 100000 on the yards of the com
paEy in Trinidad The freight depot
VIII be moved up near the passenger
depot and enlarged.
sugar beet recently brought to
the Greeley factory by Gordie McMil
Ian of La Sale weighed twenty-one
pounds when trimmed and ready for
grinding.
reduction of twenty-five per cent
on telephone charges will become eff
fective at Florence December 1st, and
the rate on Canon City conversations
VIII De reduced.
The Grand Junction sugar factory
recently turned out 1929 bags OF
sugar in one day and the seasons pro-
duction is expected to exceed 1000
bags, as against $4,000 last year
Paymaster U. G. Amman, retired,
United States navy, has been ordered
to duty as pay officer, purchasing pay
officer and general storekeeper at the
naval hospital at New Fort Lyon
Colorado.
Six thousand eight hundred and
sixty seven books have been added to
the library of the University of Colo.
rado during the last year. Two wings
are to be added to the present library
building.
Chancellor Buchtel, governor-elect,
made the principal address at the dedi.
cation of the new Methodist church at
Greeley on Sunday, the 18th inst. The
building is fine one and will seat a
thousand people.
The Denver Fire and Police Board
has passed resolution that there shall
be no increase of the number of sa.
looms in the city. New licenses will be
granted only as old ones are reln.
Quished or revoked
DR.. Duren j. Ward, anthropologist in
the State University of Iowa, will move
to Boulder next winter, to continue his
Investigations of the American Indian.
He will be affiliated with the Unitarian
movement near Boulder.
The Durango alleged horse and cat.
tie thieves, Red Satrlano and Edward
Dusgan, who We're trailed by the Du.
rargo sheriff into New Mexico, went to
Gallup. The sheriff at Gallup captured
the horses and camping outfit, but the
mon got away.
Most of the apparatus for the new
Trojan powaer works at Overton,
eight miles north of Pueblo, has ar.
rived. The buildings are almost com.
pleted and it is thought the manufac-
ture of powder will be started before
December Isl.
David Matthias. OF the freshman
class of the State Agricultural College
at Fort Collins, lost all the fingers of
his left hand at the second joint on
The 14th inst, while at work with a
buzz-saw in the college shops. Ma.
thias is from Monte Vista
The applications of B. n. Freeman
cf Durango, W. c. Chapman, Frank
Eldredge, e. NJ. Hampton, B. G. Hamp.
ton and A T. Sullenberger to organ
i2e the First National Bank of Pagosa
Springs, with a capital of s25,OO0, has
been approved by the comptroller OF
the currency.
Charles Irvine. sixty years old and
an employe Of the Greeley sugar fac.
tory, who had been arrested on the
Charge of assaulting an eight-year.old
EUl, committed suicide on the 18th
inst. by shooting himself through the
Lead few minutes before the prelim-
mary hearing was to have begun.
Governor Mcdonald has appointed
Hon. III. c. Stimson on the board of
control Of the State Industrial School
for Girls, to succeed Attorney Freder
iCli S. Ellsworth. resigned. Mr. Tits.
worth was a Democratic appointee
and his successor, Judge Stimson, was
candidate for governor on the Demo.
cratic ticket several years ago,
The funeral of the late Gen. George
at Golden on the 18th inst, and was
largely attended, not only by the peo.
Plc OF Golden, but by pioneers. Civil
War veterans. members of the Ma.
tcnal Guard and newspaper men from
other towns.
A peculiar accident occurred on the
18th inst, ten miles north of Central
CIty. The fourteen-year-old son of Mr.
and Mrs. Tom Tregay, while out hunt.
iDg rabbits. leaned his shotgun against
Il stump and his dog knocked 1t down,
Cyusing its discharge The shot struck
the boys right arm above the wrist in
hicting very bad wound
There seems to be no room for doubt
that Judge James NJ. Ellis of Denver
was burned to death in the recent hotel
fsc at Goldfield, Nevada Judge Ellis
came to Denver in 1856 as receiver of
the land office and afterward served as
city attorney and as police magistrate,
lie was born in Mississippi and served
In the Confederate army during the