The Glenwood post., 1906-02-10
COLORADO NEWS ITEMS

| sunday, feDruary 4th. Its cost was
$1,000.
One of the sights at Greeley in the
beginning of February was buds swell
ing on the maple trees and about ready
| to bloom
The second monthly dinner of the
Colorado State Commercial Associa-
ton will be given at Colorado Springs
February 17th.
The manager of the School of Mines
football eleven at Golden is trying to
arrange trip through the Northwest
| for his team next fall.
At the close of the big cattle show
in Denver the Denver Chamber of
Commerce gave a complimentary din
ner to the visiting livestock men.
The State Land Boards receipts for
last month show an increase over Jan
uary, 1905. The figures are: January
1906, $3i,225.73; January, 1905, s3l,-
295.77.
The carpenters employed by the in
dependent mill owners of Denver have
been granted an eight-hour work day.
beginning May /, 1906, and continuing
one year.
The Rev. Asa B. Whitten, former
| publisher of the Rocky Mountain Bap-
list, died at Boulder on the End inst,
| of consumption. He leaves a wife and
| two children.
Sheriff Florence of Weld county
| turned over to the county clerk
sl,O02.S6 surplus earnings of the Office
| after all expenses had been deducted
| for 1905.
G. l. Oaks. aged rs years a
| pioneer ranchman of Fountain val
ley, died of heart failure while enter
ing the City drug store at Fountain
on the 3rd instant
Mrs. Sarah Graham, one of the oldest
original unionist colonists' pioneers,
died at Greeley on the 5th inst, at the
age of eighty years. She was for "a
long time proprietor of the Exchange
hotel at Greeley.
a. S. Boynton, member of the
Manitou Town Council. has received
word that his son, Charles A. Boynton
of Waco, Texas, has been appointed
United States district attorney for the
western district of that state.
The Cripple Creek Short Line ran
winter excursion from Colorado
Springs to Cripple Creek on the LIST
inst. Next thing they will be adver-
tising Cripple Creek as winter re-
sort.
Mrs. +. Pearl Ebert, convicted of
voluntary manslaughter in connection
with the death of Mrs. Sarah Ault,
December 24th, was sentenced by
Judge Seeds at Cripple Creek to seven
to eight years in the penitentary.
The executive committee of the
Pixies Peak Centennial Association at
Colorado Springs has arranged the pro
gram for the celebration of the diScov-
cry of Pixies Peak by Lieutenant Zebu-
Ion Pike, to be held September 9th to
18th.
Little five-year-old Mary Zenola was
burned to death on the 3rd inst, at the
home of her parents on the John Lee
ranch six miles east of Golden Her
clothing caught fire from bonfire of
weeds and brush made by her little
brother, aged nine years.
As result of the preliminary exam
ination of Jesse Stansel, the police
man charged with the murder of Sher-
in w. j. Thompson at Durango, Janu-
ary 9th, the accused was held for trial
in the District Court, but he was ad-
mitted to bail in the sum of $4,000.
In answer to query from an eastern
newspaper, Governor MClJOnald mas
placed himself on record as favoring
a proposition to call a constitutional
convention to provide for an amend
ment by which United States senators
shall he elected by vote of the peo-
pie.
A complimentary trip to Cripple
Creek over the Short Line is offered by
d. c. MacWatters of that line to the
delegates to the convention of the In.
ternational League of Press Clubs,
who will visit Colorado Springs August
18th in connection with their conven-
tion at Denver.
A novel feature of the convention |
of the International Typographical |
union to be held at Colorado Springs |
next August will be il reunion of the |
printer Rough Riders who served |
through the Cuban campaign with that |
famous cavalry regiment. There We're
approximately forty printers enlisted
In the regiment, several being killed
Business at the Pueblo Land Office
has been greater during the past Six
months than at an< p.evious time dur.
ing its history The average of home
stead entries has run seventy-six
per month since last July. This bust
ness will be considerably increased
with the consolidation of the Lamar
district with the Pueblo office, which
takes place February 2Sth.
Work is progressing satisfactorily
and rapidly on the Gunnison tunnel.
he driving is being done from four
different headings and the total
length Is now over 5000 feet. At the
river portal. from which the tunnel is
2,400 feet, the water has been bother
ing, necessitating installing of large
pumps, which are now handling 400,-
900 gallons per day. There are 500
men employed directly on the tunnel
and like number on the south canal.
State Oil Inspector John l.. Russell
has submitted his first official report
to Governor Mcdonald. 1t shows that
since July 18th last, when Mr.. Russell
took Office. up to January 31st of this
vpar OIL 511 pnllpus pf oil wara In |