The Glenwood post., 1906-02-17
COLORADO NEWS ITEMS

Industrial School, near Golden.
l. Golden will make a bid for the loca.
don of the Colorado & Southern's new
car shops.
A national golf tournament is being
planned for the Pixies Peak centen.
nial celebration at Colorado Springs.
Gen. William ]. Palmer of Colorado
Springs has donated three valuable
lots in Durango to the Durango Pub
lie Library.
Maj. Aaron Cove of Denver has been
before the Senate committee on the
Philippines in opposition to the pro-
posed reduction in the sugar tariff.
Wallace Elliott of La Junta was
kill at Guanajuato, Mexico. by con
tact with live electric wire. His re-
mains were brought home for inter
ment.
| T. a. Gunnell. father of Judge A. T.
Gunnell of Colorado Springs, died at
his home in Colorado Springs on the
/ 18th instant at the age OF eighty five
years.
The framework has been erected for
the new shops of the Florence 4 Grip
pie Creek railroad at Canon City and
work is progressing rapidly. The cost
| will be about $4,000.
A company of Durango men being
organized to build a $4,000 hotel is
| headed by Giles r. Vandergrift, Tom
Lofts and Charles E. Herr. Thirty
thousand dollars has been pledged.
A collision between a Santa Fe train
and Pueblo fire apparatus resulted in
the smashing OF Pueblo's neweA and
best steam fire engine, which cost So
900. In running to a fire the driver
got in front of a freight tram.
| Articles of incorporation have been
filed for the laying out Of a townsite at
Dacono, six miles northeast of Erie.
The new town came into existence
| when the Consolidated Coal & Coke
| Company began mining last fall.
| Charles c. Welch, an employe of the
Globe smelter in Denver, committed
suicide on the 18th instant by swal-
lowing strychnine and laudanum. III
health, by reason of inhaling gas
fumes, is supposed to be the cause.
John Clay & Co. of Chicago and
Clay, Robinson & Co. of Omaha, have
organized the First National Bank of
Ault, with a capital stock OF $4,000.
Temporary quarters will be estab-
lished until new $1,000 building can
be erected.
Register Mark G. Woodruff OF the
State Land Board has sent out about
$50 notices to various parts Of the state
announcing that February 21st has
been set aside as the date for the
consideration by the board of the ap-
plications for the selection of indem-
nifty school lands.
Morrison ic Janorcnp couptv'r lot.
est incorporated town. The following
officials will serve for the first year,
having been elected on Citizens
ticket: Mayor, T. C. Morrison; trus-
tees, DR.. +. l.. Luce, Jacob Schneider,
Charles Dixie, John W. Mclean, Ed
ward LeGrow and P. Olsen.
Otto Fehringer, who. as proprietor
of four drug stores in Colorado
Springs, has during the past year
been arrested every few days for vio-
lating the liquor ordinance. has sold all
his four stores and announced his de-
termination to retire permanently
from the business.
A Navajo Indian blanket made from
the clothing of dead soldiers and
known to be over 1875 years old is
owned by Alderman J. H. Kahn of
Trinidad. Mr.. Kahn recently refused
$3.50 for the blanket. 1t was purchased
by Mr.. Kahn from an Indian twenty
five years ago. near durango.
The owner is being sought for a
I ring worth $3.50 found near Valmont
in Boulder county beside the railroad
track last fall. The finder, AL Teeck,
says there are six diamonds in the
ring and initials which the owner can
describe. He will not give it up until
a full description is given but is anx-
ious to find the owner.
The yacht Anemone, which C. l..
Tut OF Colorado Springs has entered
for the New York Yacht Clubs race
from San Francisco to Honolulu, has a
Denver registry. Mr.. Tut wanted to
give the boat Colorado Springs reg
istry, but that city not being a port of
entry, he was compelled to register the
yacht at Denver, or go outside of Col
orado, which he would not do
Notice has been received in the Of
flee of the state game and fish com
missioner of shipment of 0,000
eastern brook trout eggs from Ply
mouth, Massachusetts. The eggs will
be sent to the Denver hatchery and
later will be distributed in various
streams in the state. A total Of about
100000 eggs will be purchased by the
state from the Plymouth hatchery.
Because seuas caa bad real or fan
cied grievance against Candido Barela,
Republican member of the last Legis-
lature, an attempt was made to blow
| his saloon and another building ad-
joining off the face of the earth with
dynamite, at Weston, sixteen miles
| west of Trinidad on the night of the
18th instant. The principal damage
done was shattering the windows.
Patents have been issued to the fol.
lowing Colorado people: John A. Fer.
Suson, Denver, press for concrete
building blocks; James F. Ferry, Lead.
vile, cooking utensils Eli Forester