The Glenwood post. (Glenwood Springs, Colo.) 1897-current, 1906-05-12
COLORADO NEWS ITEMS


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tage of the unique conditions TO ar
range a spectacle that will appeal TO
all.
In addition to tho military displays,
parades, war dances, cowboy sports,
etc, there will be golf and automobile
tournaments. The program has been
arranged to present an allegorical pic
ture of the state from the advent of
General Pike to the present day. 1t
will be of peculiar interest to the peo-
pie of the East, many of whom yet
entertain the idea that Colorado is the
home of only the buffalo and savage
Indian tribes. The celebration will
serve to demonstrate to The entire
country that Colorado, although one of
the youngest states, is one of the
greatest in the Union.
There are eighty divorce cases on
the District Court docket at Pueblo
The State Land Board has appointed
w. 7. Fairfax of Pueblo as timber com
missioner
The Helen Hunt school in Colorado
Springs won prize of S25 for the best
showing of any school in the city on
Arbor Day.
iic Will ptblblt tAlhh my
see good prospects of the building of
an electric line from Leadville to the
lakes.
j. j. Harbeck, now at Nice, France,
recently cabled a subscription of $1,000
to the fund being raised for a tirst-class
hotel at Boulder.
Delta is making a determined effort
to secure the new Presbyterian Col
lege that is to be located somewhere
on the western slope.
Mrs. Laura A. Lane of Florence, who
was thought to have persisted in the
San Francisco earthquake and fire,
writes that she had narrow escape
from death and lost all her household
effects.
The commissioners of Fremont
county have decided to make a re-
quest on Werden Cleghorn OF the State
Penitentiary to furnish fifty more con-
victs to work on the county roads this
summer.
Fire caused by spontaneous combus-
ton destroyed the plant of the West
ern Glass Company at Denver on the
4th. The plant is total wreck, at a
loss of S150,000. The loss is two-thirds
insured. About 200 are thrown out of
employment by the fire.
Unofficial returns from the school
census show an increase in Cripple
Creek of twenty pupils over last year.
Victor has lost 200. The outlying
towns have gained practically all that
Victor has lost. Total decrease from
the district, 166. Total number OF
children of school age, 3,344.
Plans for the entertainment of the
Missouri Pacific immigration Bureau
in Denver in June provide for a state
dinner to be given by the Colorado
State Commercial Association on June
18th, trip over the Moffat road on the
following day and an automobile trip
through the city of Denver itself on
the morning of June 18th.
Perry Beeney, George w. Ball, sher-
If of Washington county, and Ezra
Stone appeared before Judge Robert e.
Lewis of the federal court at Denver,
May I'd, to answer to an indictment re-
turned by the federal grand jury
charging the two first with gross land
frauds, and the last with cutting tim
Der from government reserves.
Counterfeit silver dollars bearing
the mark 20" OF the New Orleans
ihiAl, anu oIuihpSo WIN Tic ohtto 1000,
1896 or 1901, are being circulated in
Denver, and large number OF the
coins have been passed on tramway
conductors in the last week. The
coins are underweight. have scarcely
any ring to them. and most of them
have been merely washed in silver.
1t is reported at Boulder that the
Colorado & Southern company will
al ntrif ite hot
Boulder and perhaps further north, and
will secure power from the Westing-
house company, which is backing the
Henry deal in the purchase of the Boul-
der Electric Light & Power Company's
plant, and which is to put up $1,000
900 electric plant at or near Lafayette.
The following new patents have
been issued to Colorado inventors: Al
fred E. Johnson, Denver, assgnor to
Johnson Furnace & Engineering Com
pany, Colorado Springs, furnace; Pc
ter A. Mortensen, Sanford whistle:
Edwin A. Sperry, assignor one-third to
w. G. Wilson, Denver, ore operator;
Jean F. Webb and c. N. Frederickson,
Denver, electric signaling system.
Durango is to have another tele-
phone line to Denver, an improvement
which is much needed, as the present
line is overcrowded with business
much of the time. The link necessary
to complete the short line lies between
Bayfield,, twenty miles east of Durango,
and Del Norte. The line will run
through Pagosa Springs. The survey
will begin as soon as it is possible to
cross the range and the line will be
constructed this summer.
Professor Cajori, dean of the engin-
eering school of Colorado College. has
recently been elected member of the
Italian Mathematical Society, known
as the Circolo Mathematical di Pa
lermo. This society Is composed of
mathematician of Italy and ether
countries. and has membership of
36G, OF whom nearly one-half reside
outside of Italy. Professor Cajori is
one of the very few Americans who
have been elected to membership.